Signs, Signs Everywhere are Signs.

Hey I found a store in Ewha that sells robot toys...so that's one bizarre thing I wanted to find down, oh...120 to go. Additionally I saw the best bad English ever. Some middle school girl was sporting a shirt proclaiming "White Lover." I tried to get a picture of it, but couldn't do so without looking like a total pervert. Anyhow I held a coin, and strange signs and mascots won out over Korean garbage. On with the show!

Korea has a lot of mascots. It seems every town, province, Mom and Pop store, company, and government department has it's own little mascot. Let's check them out shall we?


The Gangwon-do ("do" is like a state) bear? I really have no clue what animal that is suppose to be.


One of the construction warning guys. The real construction workers in Korea look northing like this clown. They are super tan, with huge M.C. Hammer pants, and wife beaters...and beer or soju.


So sometimes shops use real people as their mascot. ELVIS LOOK STYLE!


Shops here also co-opt a lot of American cartoon and comic characters. Here we see Hagar the Horrible getting his drink on. This bar does not sell mead however.


Piggy Piggy. I'm sure the pig in the picture is totally stoked that you are going to enter and consume his or his brothers' flesh.


This Mr. Peanut looking motherfucker is advertising raw fish.


Ok this is a 보신탕 (boshintang) restaurant. What is boshintang you ask? It's dog meat soup. Please don't be like eww...in reality how is eating a dog different than eating a pig? I put this picture here, because unlike the majority of boshintang venues, this one got a little fancy and threw a little cartoon dog on the sign. The dog on the sign looks more like the kind of dogs people keep as pets than the kind they eat. The dogs that are food are bigger dogs. Also please pardon the crappy photo, I took this picture out the window of a bus as it started moving again...stupid bus driver!

And now for my favorite sign...


털보 (tolbo) is the Korean word for a really hairy guy. This is "Tolbo Green Mart," and unlike the places with signs with fish or dogs or pigs on them, this place does not sell hairy man meat. Thank god!