Wow!!!! Thank you guys so much for welcoming and cheering comments, and many opinions! I think this video got somehow viral in Finland! I'm so happy and honored to be loved by many of you guys, and happy to meet you guys ❤️ You guys are also always welcome to my channel💕🙏 + Pls follow me on Instagram to communicate with! It's @dyoreee ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This video was amazing! I always love seeing and hearing different perspectives of different cultures (especially if it's your own lol) and since I've heard koreans/japanese have some similar customs and cultural "habits" it was nice to hear how they connected with the Finnish ones :) Welcome to Finland, hope you enjoy your time here ❤️
to prove that im more intellect than you. i have to be precise with the types of stones they use and have a proper grammar also. god i love high IQ dudes.
teh_ ompperei .why complain about it. I'm Yakut Woman in Tennessee Southern United States where I live there one week sunny ☀ and next week it is snowing ❄ and next week is Raining ☔ the whole week and next week is Hailing hard Ice ❄ raining down and it fucks up your car and house.
Abeba Bua do you have -15 to -35 C and loads of snow and dark most of the day every winter for months and months? Are the summers cold and raining almost every day? Is it possible to snow sometimes in summer time? Because we have all that and we still need to do the daily routines like going to school and work and stuff. We might be complaining but we are tough. 💪
Best thing to do to avoid stabbage when it comes to the Finns is integrity...Say what you mean and mean what you say, and Finns will consider you a person of honor and worthy of trust. Them beloved cousins saved your Scandinavian civilization from Stalinism while you were hiding behind mommy's apron of neutrality (i.e., Swedes being the chickens as they have been for centuries) or collapse in a matter of few days/weeks against the Nazis (Norway and Denmark). Among the people of fennoscandia, Finns were the only ones with the balls, the integrity, and the courage to fight for their freedom regardless of cost.
Rossy Mossy niihän se on melkeempä että jos afrikan / lähi-idän ja suomen kulttuuriero on noin kilometri niin japanin ja korean kulttuuriero suomeen on noin millimetri vaikkakin ihan havaittavissa oleva niin voi lähes sanoa olevansa sukulaiskansaa esimerkiksi japanilaisten kanssa, ahkeraa ja hiljaista porukkaa jossa keskimäärin ollaan keskenään saman-arvoisia, luotettavuus ja kunnia ovat korkeassa asemassa ja arvostetaan omaa rauhaa vaikkakin siellä väenpaljoudessa se on hyvin etäinen käsite. Ihan toista se meno on siellä kun jossain ugandassa tai afganistanissa jossa tilanne on päinvastainen ainakin suurpiirteisesti. Huomautan että en ole rasisti tai äärioikeistolainen vaan tietoinen totuudesta.
When you said "Did you know Sauna is Finnish" I had to laugh a bit, because thats the one thing they are world famous for. It´s like saying "Did you know Kimchi is Korean?" :D
Yes, but that's a simplification. We tend to stereotype countries. Sauna culture is also in Sweden (just not as intense or spread as in Finland -- and of course, Sweden and Finland are just two split halves of previously one country, so not exactly a great surprise). After all, Finnish-speaking people, alongside linguistically related Sami-speaking people, are traditionally the largest minority in the part of what remains as Sweden after the Russia-forced country-split in 1809.
@@syntaxerror8955 No, sauna culture is not in Sweden so much. It's in Russia much more than Sweden. But Finland outdoes everyone and created many of its traditions. If the word sauna is famous worldwide, it is usually a bastardized version of it that includes anything from infrared rooms to sex party clubs and even those stupid little suits people wrap around one half of their bodies. Finland is where true sauna is practiced, and the fact is that it's where the word comes from.
@@syntaxerror8955 I'm not sure who you think you're trying to educate, but "the existence of Finland" does not mean anything in terms of whether something Finnish existed or not, as these are the traditions and practices of the nomadic Finno-Ugric tribes going back thousands of years. The Finns, Estonians, Izhorians etc all share a similar root and traditions. Finns have been in Karelia though for probably 2000 years and that is how they got caught up in war between the Swedish and Russian kingdoms, many times over. So when we say something is Finnish, we say that as a symbol of who we are, not some piece of land or political entity. I said "from Finland" purely to simplify for foreigners.
@@syntaxerror8955 your information about Finland is also just simply flat out wrong. The Finns were always looking for independence from both Sweden and Russia. Do you think this was always one big happy family? lmao. The kingdom of Sweden tried their best to convert the Finns to their own language, religion, traditions and ways of thinking. With some success, but the roots of Finnishness have stood the test of time. Sauna was originally a very spiritual practice. Many of us still consider it so.
@@syntaxerror8955 it's not about borders, it's about using the term Finland to reference the Finns and their ways. I am well aware that Sami, Mansi, etc exist in other areas. Is it a simplification? Yes. But it is also because Finland is where most of the development of sauna has since continued into the 20th and 21st centuries, so there's that. Trust me, I live in Sweden and am well aware that Swedes, while a small percentage practice sauna do not regard it in anywhere near the same way overall as it is in Finland, even if they appear to do the same thing. It just isn't in the culture. I know, because I have tried to educate many Swedes on it and they know next to nothing. Most do not care.
This was very interesting to watch as a Finnish person. Especially when I'm used to watching videos the other way around, about foreigners in Korea. You seem to be very observative. And yeah, there is a reason we have such alcohol laws...
@@PongoXBongo Oh yes, provided that the stores are open. There used to be a law that limited opening times in sundays (Anything between 9 a.m 10 a.m- 6 p.m and from noon - 9 p.m) but it saw relaxations in 2009 before the laws were completly overturned in 2016. Now even hypermarkets that were normally closed in sundays are open till 10 p.m. Idea of releasing opening times was to increase jobs....but that didn't work out since stores just offered sunday jobs to their regulars who were more than happy to work sundays.
I’m a Finn and I’ve had similar feelings about making friends in Finland and Korea vs. making friends in USA. I lived in the states for a year and found it also hard to understand if someone was my friend or just nice to me. On the other hand I have many Korean friends and it has been quite easy to become friends due to the fact that the “process” of making friends is quite similar in our countries. It’s quite amazing how different our cultures are, but at the same time there are huge similarities. I definitely had a bigger culture shock in US than in Korea.
Im from Finland and here are few things I noticed when travelling in Korea for 1 month: 1.Most people are super fashionable 2.Everyone has very expensive hiking gear even when walking in small mountains (even the elderly). The nature is amazing btw, mountains, rivers, ocean, caves, Jeju island. 3. Lots of different types of foods and everything is super tasty. 4. Korean entertainment is light years ahead. They have so many unique variety show concepts, really high quality movies and tons of dramas, esports, and of course kpop. 5. Old ladies are bad ass and everyone respects them (or fears them).
What's even more dumb is the fact that you spelled 'Question' wrong. Anyway, my question wasn't dumb, because BlackPink has visited Jeju island this moth for their holiday. So check your facts before you come at me :)
The pronunciation was pretty much perfect? Same with sauna. SoulofSol might have obvious Korean accent whilst speaking English but she did not have any problems pronouncing those individual Finnish words.
Noting differences is not racist at all. American culture has this tendency to call "racism" at every inkling of differences pointed out. Me pointing that out about Americans will be viewed as 'racist' by Americans....maybe. Anyhow, your observations are spot on. I really am more amazed you only found 5 noteworthy. ;-)
I'm American, and I found nothing she said racist in any way, shape or form. Just because there's differences in cultures, doesn't mean something is racist. Not all Americans call things racist; that's a stereotype that needs to die. Besides, we're all the same race: Human. The word you're looking for that people often mistake for racist is Ethnicity. For example: having a fear of Islamic terrorism doesn't mean someone is racist for not liking or feeling safe around Islamic people; Islam isn't a race, but an ideology. Anyway, you didn't say anything racist, either.
I believe you. But we mostly see America in the media....that is a different America I'm sure. There we see the sensitivity for political correctness. Just like you just did in your reply when you use the word ethnicity. Me using the word "racist" (note the parentheses) made you reply. That is exactly what I meant. It isn't a gripe I have but it is a response I expect....and get. But basically we agree.
Yea as an American anything she said can't even be labeled racist bc America is a cultural melting pot.. So that doesn't make sense. The far left and the ignorant label everything racist. They are called LIBTARDS
If you want to get labled racist, just post it in Sweden. No matter WHAT you say, a whole bunch will be offended and you have trod on their rights, and possibly assumed their genders, age, species and universe. The horror!
Hello and welcome to Finland! This was a great video and you really nailed it! I also like it that you kept it very respectful. :) And yes, honesty is so true! I have often issues with my foreign friends because in some countries using superlatives ("We will be friends forever" "You are the coolest person I have met") is just a normal way of being polite. But for me, if someone says something, I expect that they mean it. And I very often hear "It took me so long to realize how honest you are and if you say something you actually mean it." Haha! :D
We use sand/calcium in Poland as well, gravel is just used for the country roads, or generally other places that are off the beaten track. It's not used on the highways etc. to my knowledge pretty much at all. I guess maybe it depends on the climate to some extent.
the point about the snow was really interesting, ive never really thought about it and its really funny to me as a finnish person that someone would pay attention to that. lol i think most finnish people arent necessarily shy, and can be very sociable and talkative, but its seen as common courtesy to not break silences or distract someone unless we're invited to, or have something meaningful to express. its because theres really no "small talk" culture (it exists somewhat but is generally seen as a nuisance and "fake"/suspicious) in finland, and instead of thinking that silence is "awkward", we generally appreciate silence equally as much as we do conversation, often say "silence is golden", and avoid being rude/invasive by disturbing another person's peace, so its very different from america. (i havent been there but ive heard from finnish tourists how e.g. the shop clerks try to chit-chat and smile widely to strangers/customers despite being tired from standing around working all day, and most of us just find that creepy and sad instead of "good manners". lol) sometimes i see tourists (i only know theyre tourists because they are speaking in foreign languages and are looking around) that give that "im not sure where im going" vibe and i wanna go and ask them if they need help, but since i usually dont know their culture or if theyre actually looking for help, i dont wanna risk bothering them (even though they might be thinking the same thing about us) haha... so i just try to kind of look a little more approachable... in case they wanna ask something.... also ahh that sauna's identical to the little one we had in our apartment when i was growing up, how nostalgic :0 i miss having a sauna... there's no communal sauna in my current apartment building and only the big apartments have their own saunas..... fml sorry for the rant lol, finnish ppl get really excited when someone talks about finland
actually, i was a little wrong about the small talk thing - its generally acceptable and normal to do small talk in saunas, of course. i think it could be because even finns might find sweating together naked in complete silence a teeny tiny bit awkward.
Hahahaha wow thanks for the amazing comment! I thought small rocks so interesting! didn't think it can be surprise to you that foreigners are surprised lol
Some Finns also tend to joke that silence is "a traditional Finnish group game" and that you should talk about something every once in a while to avoid having too much fun in the game
Haha, Finns are a unique bread. We don't talk to strangers unless absolutely necessary. We're very anti-social, but I think we like to think of it as "efficient", even if Finns are some of the nicest people I have ever met. I've lived in the US, Canada, and Sweden so I'm not a 100% Finn, and the one thing all Finns hate about westerners is how they are unnecessarily kind. Now, it's alright to be kind to people, but only if you mean it. How often do Americans actually care when they ask somebody "how are you?"? Or, in a work environment it is extremely rude to say for example, "this was really good, but...", to sugar-coat something so it doesn't sound mean. That's really difficult for westerners to wrap their heads around. The idea is basically that "why would you lie and say that it'd really good if it's not?" It's also worth thinking about how Finns don't think Finland is a great country, they think it's a bad country because they always know they can do better. I was once talking to some kids in a small town south of Turku, and they asked me "why are you in the shittiest place on earth?", because I've lived most of my life in the US. Anyways, really interesting how Finland is similar to Korea! Just found your channel, I really like it! Hello from Helsinki :) P.S., don't worry, Finns LOVE alcohol. It's a common stereotype, but it's partly true. And yes, we are VERY proud of our saunas. It's amazing and very good for you. Get some long drink in a piping hot sauna, then jump in the snow naked and run back inside. Trust me, it's amazing
Cool video :) keep up the good work! We've visited Korea twice 2016 and 2017, one thing we found funny was that when we were checking out restaurant review there were always English comments "bad/rude service, waiter not polite" etc. but when we visited we found the level of service really nice and good :D Similarities to Finnish service: waiter possibly say hi/choose your seat, takes your order, brings your order, charges you. No need for small talk or "how was your food" or being nice just for the tips. We felt very much at home ;)
i hope you like it in Finland!! it’s really cool to hear a korean sight of what finland is like :D as a person who is really interested in asian culture and especially korean :)
True. Im finnish and we ussually do have sauna's and were shy and dont really speak to strangers in bus for example. And i speak english ok, but only when in with my friends, if i need to speak english to a random person my english sounds weird.
No, Finnish people are not shy. This is one of the biggest misconceptions I've ever heard and I don't understand where this comes from. Actually Finnish people are quite the opposite of being shy. Finnish people just don't talk nonsense constantly if they don't have anything to actually say. It's a cultural thing, which respects other people by not bothering them unnecessarily so much. But Finnish people can also talk a lot. And particularly people from Eastern Savo area who just can't stop talking quite often, although that is also actually quite over-generalized. If you think being silent is being shy, then you don't understand what the word and concept of shy and being shy means at all. However while it is indeed pretty common, that actual shy people don't talk a lot, at least in public and to strangers, people who don't often talk a lot are not commonly shy.
HopohoEZ "Anime (jap. アニメ) on vakiintunut länsimaissa tarkoittamaan nimenomaan japanilaista animaatiota" älä rupee pätee ilman infoo niin vältät noloja tilanteita...
"I thought koreans were the best at drinking alcohol" Ohh my sweet summer child you have no idea, we Nords love to drink and have a good time. Like you said that's why we have our laws.
You got a new subscriber, And as I Finn I can say you are correct in all of them ㅋㅋㅋ. I'm actually really interested In Korean culture so it's nice to hear a Korean's opinion about something that is normal for me in every day. It also may help me of I ever get a chance to visit Korea. Much love♥
I recommend to visit Korea but remember that at wintertime it feels much colder than in Finland because of high humidity. It was big surprise for me. The food there is just great. Don't go McDonald but all local places. I enjoyed the food a lot. Every place it was really tasty even those small street kitchen food. I travel a lot and Korea is one of the best country I have visited if thinking about food. Very interesting culture.
Max Nurminen I can bet you ten euros to go ask something in English from the next stranger you see and they will be able to respond to you. Pronounciation is not a mark of good English. Understandability is.
I’m from Finland and I felt really good after watching your video:) Sometimes finnish people describe themselves as socially awkward people but after hearing that you think we were and sounded respecful is super heart warming. I mean as a local it’s really hard to tell what foreigners think about us:) You were soo cute and polite which I looove and also I subscribed!! I would love to travel to South Korea some day! 😄
I think your bf bought so much alcohol because in Finland it's quite expensive. I've not been to South Korea(sadly), but I've heard that a bottle of soju cost like maybe five euros for a big bottle and that is _super_ cheap for a Finn (E.g. the cheapest bottle of wine you can find from a liquor store costs maybe 6€ for a 0,75l bottle with 12% alcohol.). Please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway I liked your video a lot and will def check out your other videos too :--) Have a nice time in our small country!
Our country is actually bigger than Korea, South and North combined. Quite a lot bigger since Korean peninsula is less than 2/3 of Finland's area. However population is much larger in Korea, about 9,4 times more in South and about 4,6 times more in North and about 14 times more in the whole Korea.
I'm Finnish and I was an exchange student in Korea 2 years ago. Funny, I felt the same about Korean people as you did about Finnish people there! Koreans are pretty shy at first, especially if they aren't confident in their English skills, but they are really reliable once you get to know them. I felt pretty comfortable living there because Koreans and Finns match quite well personality wise :)
This is really interesting to me as a Dane. My dad has been to Finland and other Scandinavian countries, and from what i have heard from him, this is apparently how Scandinavians generally are, the Faroese people too (i have a friend from there). And even though it might not be my county, it always makes me happy to see someone so happy and enthusiastic about Scandinavia and the different cultures with the north. Great video, you got a new subscriber :)
I'm Finnish and this video kinda made me look at the Finnish behavior in a bit better light. Living here makes it kinda easy to gloss over the good parts (honesty, respecting personal space, letting people be who they are - mostly [some douchebags always exist I suppose]) and just get too fixated on how .. unapproachable and cold people in general can feel. It's kinda easy to feel lonely and make friends in my opinion since everyone have their own "bubble" and.. yeah, you're at risk of being seen as a total weirdo if you just randomly approach people. Not easy for someone like me who has had a falling out of all friendships due to friends having moved to different cities and increased social anxiety. So.. kinda without friends and at a loss on how to make friends. How did you make friends here? Anyway, thanks for the insight from a foreigner :)
You know I really like to hear what people from different cultural backround think about finland. And I like the way you talked about dealing with snow :)
First of all, what a great video, subscribed! :^) I have noticed as a Finn that often like on TH-cam or other places in the internet you find Finns talking to each other in English even when they know they are Finnish. I know, I do that too, a lot! That seems to be just a common way to talk, maybe it is because we want the possible English speakers to understand what we talked. I felt like contributing a cultural thing so there you go :) Hyvää päivänjatkoa, pidä kivaa!
I’m going to use this video to help my high school students understand me better - I’m Canadian, but was raised in a very Finnish household, so much so that I have my Finnish citizenship. Thanks for the great ( honest ) video!
it is nice video :) I also lived finland around 3 years and loved that country. I lived in espoo... and miss Finland sometimes... :) I am korean. nice to meet you sol
Ok, first I just want to say you are the cutest person I've ever seen in my life. But my main comment is that I really enjoyed seeing your interpretation of the culture shock! I moved from America to Norway, and norwegian culture is very similar to finnish culture, and I really struggled with adjusting. I was extremely shocked by how people weren't generally friendly and talkative to strangers. I had no idea how to interacte socially or make friends and I felt really lonely. Weirdly, seeing your point of view on it and hearing you exlpain how it made you feel kind of gave me a deeper understanding of it? I don't know if I'm making any sense. But seeing how positively you reacted to the culture shock and your effort to really understand the culture gives me more motivation to work harder on overcoming my own. You're like a little ray of sunshine it made my day. Imma go subscribe and I hope you have a great day!
I'm from sweden and went over to America for a month. I was shocked at how people just came up and started talking to you at completely random occasions. :p
Gotta look at the positive side; if a Scandinavian makes eye contact and smile at you, you KNOW you've made a bff. Joking aside, I hope your Norwegians warm up to you soon! I can't really speak for them since I'm Swedish but generally we're all kinda like stray cats. Casual food offerings and light socialisation with clear escape possibilities is the way to win us over, slowly but surely.
I too appreciate food and light socialization with clear escape possibilities. Now is my chance to go out into the world and make friends one chicken nugget at a time!
In addition to moving the snow away and putting down gravel to the ground, some roads and areas also get "salted". A specific type of salt is thrown to the ground by machines that actually melt the snow and ice from that particular area. This is very heavily used in big cities atleast. I hope you enjoy your stay :)
As a Finn I loved how you forgot all the stereotypics (although some of them are true) and really thought about us as our own individuals and appreciated it. You also speak very good english! I love Korea and I would love to visit there some day... ♡
Finnish people do talk to strangers when they have something to say. Like sometimes people stop me when they see me on walk with my dog and ask what breed she is (Danish-Swedish farmdog, and yes that's a real breed). When we ask how someone is doing, we actually mean it and expect you to tell us how you're doing (I went to a shop in US and someone instead of saying hi, asked how I was doing and I was like "..fine, thanks?" o_O.) Usually a lot of old people like to talk to strangers but that is mostly because they're either lonely or just don't care anymore. I'm actually into Korean stuff. I like the language, trot, dramas and kpop (I first enjoyed the dramas and the language and then came the music) so it's nice seeing how you've reacted to Finland ^^
Nice video! I feel like korean people are similar to finnish when it comes to how they treat other people. I have visited korea 5 times because I have friends there and feel like you do in Finland, it's familiar but unfamiliar at the same time :D sometimes I still get culture shocks in some things.
Yeah, you got to the point very well. I am from Germany, but both have been to finland and also know a couple finnish people (and I really like them a lot). The "honest" feature seems to be very scandinavian... found it in finland as well as in the other nordic countries. As for the sauna culture - I love it. I am relly looking forward on your video on that. It is so typical... and it was marvelous when in Rovaniemi, I just came out of the sauna into the snow and saw aurora borealis in the sky... Have fun in finland, it is a very nice country!
Ozzymandyas the Russians think Finns are stupid for being honest but our society works because of trust and honesty and their’s doesn’t because of untrust and dishonesty.
I liked this a lot! So nice to hear your thoughts about this lovely home country. Finnish people are modest and don't think much of themselves, but deep inside everybody knows that Finland is THE best place to live in. Did you know that Finland is ranked the most happy nation year after year? I often think that our saunaculture is a big factor in it. Sauna is huge!
Nice work with this video and great grass root observations of the Finnish culture - I can definitely recognize myself and my country. I don't know why it has become like that but I'm suspecting it's the dark and cold climate that has something to do with it.
Finnish society is based not on trust, but distrust of everyone else. It is like being in the same small boat that is going to a huge stream. You do not trust the person that has directed the boat to the stream, but being in the boat is still much safer than jumping into the stream itself. I don't like drinking alcohol, because it makes me friendly and social and then when I am sober, people start expecting that I am friendly and social.
You are a treasure when making videos about Finland + Korea. Very rare to see these 2 countries mentioned together, and with such a high quality videos as you have. You are very intelligent and wonderful woman. Thank you for your videos. :)
I really liked this "shock treatment " of yours . In my opinion there are something similar in our cultures. And you pointed out the one thing what i know of. To get slowly closer and to be friends. And by experience , i know Korean people (like Finnish) get little loose and comfortable by 1 , 2 , 3...beers. All the best for you ! And your opinions , i say , are spot on.
Yeah, as someone from the US I can say that we are friends with everyone and we are nice with everyone (almost all of us lol) if you're not like that then you're considered super rude.
Oh, really? I didn't know that it can be considered super rude tho.😮At first it was hard for me to be 'nice'(smiling, and saying how are you? etc..) but after 4 month being there, I could be, naturally. Human adapt to environment very well ! but well, still it's really hard to tell if I became friends with Americans(from US), but I got some American friends in Korea, and now I think I'm sort of getting it :)
Americans are quite friendly. Very true. 🍁Canadians were very friendly in the 80's. After that less and less. Today they're still good at most places. Better than in many other countries.
This is so true. A lot of times in the states (some parts anyway) if someone is shy people mistake them for being ‘stuck-up’ or basically thinking they’re better than everyone else and also if you’re quiet people can sometimes assume you are smart and mysterious lol
this was so interesting! having looked into korean culture a little bit (since its been in the news bc of the olympics and the skincare and the music lately) i thought it had some similarities to finnish culture. love how you were impressed with the snow situation haha!
Thank you for making such a lovely video, it was really interesting to see how you experience culture shocks in Finland! :) As a Finn who stayed in Korea for 1 year, I must say I also noticed how easy it is to "blend in" with the locals in public transportation - no talking to strangers, no smiling, personal space (although during rush hours the actual space was reduced to zero, haha). Anyways, I hope you're enjoying your time here in Tampere and I hope to see more videos like this from you! ^-^
So are you and your boyfriend still together? This reminds me of my life a lot. My girlfriend is Korean and she stayed here for 8 months. Now Im going to visit her at Seoul next summer. We also met in Tampere. I would really like to see some Korean teaching videos!
As a Swedish person living close to the border to finland where most people in my city speak or have roots from Finland it was pretty entertaining seeing someone from a very differing culture talk about how Finland is.
U r so pretty😍 Yes finnish alcohol culture is quite interesting... Drinking in finland, doesn't only mean enjoying it but [[heavy]] hangover. Do a boyfriend tag!
Terve! Pretty accurate observations, so no need for disclaimers (in order not to possibly upset sensitive millennials, LOL). Keep doing videos and keep being spontaneous (without too much scripting), that suits you best :-)
i also really like finnish people. As a german i feel so close to them, i don't know why. maybe because the culture is so close to each other? or maybe it has something to do with the fact, that my hometown has a ferry to skandinavian places. xD and they are really good in english. I'm always so shooked. i can totally relate to your love to finland.
a_doro_ble Germany has helped us twice (the civil war and the WW2) when no one else would. It’s highly appreciated (although we weren’t much into that nazi stuff).
a_doro_ble It could be the same values. Here tidiness, hard work, engineering skills etc. are appreciated and even the religion is Lutheran from Germany.
Oot yhtä kaunis kui viehättävä. Mahoton olla tykkäämättä ja mahoton epätykätä. You are as much as pretty as you're charming. Impossible to not like and impossible to dislike. Liked!
That's not racist at all haha, I don't expect anyone to know anything about finland honestly bc finnish shows/music/movies etc. are really not popular anywhere but finland. This was a really interesting video 💙
Wow!!!! Thank you guys so much for welcoming and cheering comments, and many opinions! I think this video got somehow viral in Finland! I'm so happy and honored to be loved by many of you guys, and happy to meet you guys ❤️ You guys are also always welcome to my channel💕🙏
+ Pls follow me on Instagram to communicate with! It's @dyoreee ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Well, whenever someone mentions Finland, we go nuts. Also, i thought my phone's alarm clock was going off at 0:29... :D
You should start streaming on twitch
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SoulofSol 한솔 kiitos!
This video was amazing! I always love seeing and hearing different perspectives of different cultures (especially if it's your own lol) and since I've heard koreans/japanese have some similar customs and cultural "habits" it was nice to hear how they connected with the Finnish ones :) Welcome to Finland, hope you enjoy your time here ❤️
**cries happy tears, finally a foreigner pronounces sauna right**
Koreans pronounce things quite the same way as we do :D
SONAH
No.
They pronounce it as it's supposed to be, not "So-na-h" they pronounce most of the alphabets the same way as finns do.
German-speaking people say it correctly, too, I think. But English pronunciation of non-English words makes me cringe all the time, too.
WTF= Welcome To Finland
it took me over 36 years to learn how to pronounce that correctly .... NOW I KNOW :D WTF
this is a great joke！
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"Tiny little rocks on the road" That is the cutest way to describe gravel :)
To be precise, it is crushed and sieved stone. That gives better friction than natural stones that are too round.
Ulf dropping the knowledge bomb on us all ; 0
to prove that im more intellect than you. i have to be precise with the types of stones they use and have a proper grammar also. god i love high IQ dudes.
Yes, because using proper grammar is sooooo pretentious.
We use just lots of salt on the road to melt ice :o
Also we finnish people complain about the weather , whatever the season is.
teh_ ompperei
.why complain about it.
I'm Yakut Woman
in Tennessee Southern United States
where I live there one week sunny ☀ and next week it is snowing ❄ and next week is Raining ☔ the whole week and next week is Hailing hard Ice ❄ raining down and it fucks up your car and house.
Abeba Bua do you have -15 to -35 C and loads of snow and dark most of the day every winter for months and months? Are the summers cold and raining almost every day? Is it possible to snow sometimes in summer time? Because we have all that and we still need to do the daily routines like going to school and work and stuff. We might be complaining but we are tough. 💪
Finnish small talk. We are slowly becoming British!
Swedish people are the same except in summer, we fucken LOVE summer ☀️
@@celinnejansson5679 What's Summer I have never heard about that.
Finnish people aren't shy or quiet if they have taken even a little bit of alcohol.
Ville Leinonen oh my god soo true
Most people aren't...
oh my god, are you sure ? LOL
Kaljaa
tai sitte ne vaa kommunikoi murahdellen sen juomisen jälkee
SUOMI MAINITTU TORILLA TAVATAAN
En jaksa
Ehkä joskus
Hyvä nimi
Kiva nimi
Näin on
Welcome to Finland, again! I hope you'll have a great time here! :-)
Best thing to do to avoid stabbage when it comes to the Finns is integrity...Say what you mean and mean what you say, and Finns will consider you a person of honor and worthy of trust.
Them beloved cousins saved your Scandinavian civilization from Stalinism while you were hiding behind mommy's apron of neutrality (i.e., Swedes being the chickens as they have been for centuries) or collapse in a matter of few days/weeks against the Nazis (Norway and Denmark). Among the people of fennoscandia, Finns were the only ones with the balls, the integrity, and the courage to fight for their freedom regardless of cost.
Executive Sonda isint finland a winter wasteland
Rossy Mossy niihän se on melkeempä että jos afrikan / lähi-idän ja suomen kulttuuriero on noin kilometri niin japanin ja korean kulttuuriero suomeen on noin millimetri vaikkakin ihan havaittavissa oleva niin voi lähes sanoa olevansa sukulaiskansaa esimerkiksi japanilaisten kanssa, ahkeraa ja hiljaista porukkaa jossa keskimäärin ollaan keskenään saman-arvoisia, luotettavuus ja kunnia ovat korkeassa asemassa ja arvostetaan omaa rauhaa vaikkakin siellä väenpaljoudessa se on hyvin etäinen käsite. Ihan toista se meno on siellä kun jossain ugandassa tai afganistanissa jossa tilanne on päinvastainen ainakin suurpiirteisesti.
Huomautan että en ole rasisti tai äärioikeistolainen vaan tietoinen totuudesta.
Rossy Mossy nää ihmiset saa olla tääl mut eivät ne toiset
ukkomies100 olet realisti
Im a Finn, and I have lived in Korea for almost 2 years now. And I could just say that I totally agree😁
as a finnish man i have nothing to add to this you got it perfectly
Stfu
Because Finnish men don't speak up, we just give a thumbs up.
When you said "Did you know Sauna is Finnish" I had to laugh a bit, because thats the one thing they are world famous for. It´s like saying "Did you know Kimchi is Korean?" :D
Yes, but that's a simplification. We tend to stereotype countries. Sauna culture is also in Sweden (just not as intense or spread as in Finland -- and of course, Sweden and Finland are just two split halves of previously one country, so not exactly a great surprise). After all, Finnish-speaking people, alongside linguistically related Sami-speaking people, are traditionally the largest minority in the part of what remains as Sweden after the Russia-forced country-split in 1809.
@@syntaxerror8955 No, sauna culture is not in Sweden so much. It's in Russia much more than Sweden. But Finland outdoes everyone and created many of its traditions. If the word sauna is famous worldwide, it is usually a bastardized version of it that includes anything from infrared rooms to sex party clubs and even those stupid little suits people wrap around one half of their bodies. Finland is where true sauna is practiced, and the fact is that it's where the word comes from.
@@syntaxerror8955 I'm not sure who you think you're trying to educate, but "the existence of Finland" does not mean anything in terms of whether something Finnish existed or not, as these are the traditions and practices of the nomadic Finno-Ugric tribes going back thousands of years. The Finns, Estonians, Izhorians etc all share a similar root and traditions. Finns have been in Karelia though for probably 2000 years and that is how they got caught up in war between the Swedish and Russian kingdoms, many times over. So when we say something is Finnish, we say that as a symbol of who we are, not some piece of land or political entity. I said "from Finland" purely to simplify for foreigners.
@@syntaxerror8955 your information about Finland is also just simply flat out wrong. The Finns were always looking for independence from both Sweden and Russia. Do you think this was always one big happy family? lmao. The kingdom of Sweden tried their best to convert the Finns to their own language, religion, traditions and ways of thinking. With some success, but the roots of Finnishness have stood the test of time. Sauna was originally a very spiritual practice. Many of us still consider it so.
@@syntaxerror8955 it's not about borders, it's about using the term Finland to reference the Finns and their ways. I am well aware that Sami, Mansi, etc exist in other areas. Is it a simplification? Yes. But it is also because Finland is where most of the development of sauna has since continued into the 20th and 21st centuries, so there's that. Trust me, I live in Sweden and am well aware that Swedes, while a small percentage practice sauna do not regard it in anywhere near the same way overall as it is in Finland, even if they appear to do the same thing. It just isn't in the culture. I know, because I have tried to educate many Swedes on it and they know next to nothing. Most do not care.
This was very interesting to watch as a Finnish person. Especially when I'm used to watching videos the other way around, about foreigners in Korea. You seem to be very observative. And yeah, there is a reason we have such alcohol laws...
Enlighten us. What is the reason then?
To reduce the death rate of drowning drunks. ;)
Please tell me you can at least buy it on Sundays?
@@PongoXBongo Oh yes, provided that the stores are open. There used to be a law that limited opening times in sundays (Anything between 9 a.m 10 a.m- 6 p.m and from noon - 9 p.m) but it saw relaxations in 2009 before the laws were completly overturned in 2016. Now even hypermarkets that were normally closed in sundays are open till 10 p.m. Idea of releasing opening times was to increase jobs....but that didn't work out since stores just offered sunday jobs to their regulars who were more than happy to work sundays.
There's no reason for it other than a Nanny State way of thinking.
I’m a Finn and I’ve had similar feelings about making friends in Finland and Korea vs. making friends in USA. I lived in the states for a year and found it also hard to understand if someone was my friend or just nice to me. On the other hand I have many Korean friends and it has been quite easy to become friends due to the fact that the “process” of making friends is quite similar in our countries. It’s quite amazing how different our cultures are, but at the same time there are huge similarities. I definitely had a bigger culture shock in US than in Korea.
Im from Finland and here are few things I noticed when travelling in Korea for 1 month: 1.Most people are super fashionable 2.Everyone has very expensive hiking gear even when walking in small mountains (even the elderly). The nature is amazing btw, mountains, rivers, ocean, caves, Jeju island. 3. Lots of different types of foods and everything is super tasty. 4. Korean entertainment is light years ahead. They have so many unique variety show concepts, really high quality movies and tons of dramas, esports, and of course kpop. 5. Old ladies are bad ass and everyone respects them (or fears them).
Did you see Blackpink there?
iiTrendyz dumb questiom
Question*
What's even more dumb is the fact that you spelled 'Question' wrong. Anyway, my question wasn't dumb, because BlackPink has visited Jeju island this moth for their holiday. So check your facts before you come at me :)
iiTrendyz stfu
Finland in a nutshell: you wake up, you go to work, you get back home, you call your friends and boom youre drunk
"tjampere" sounds cute
MissäLiirumLaarumPewkele ? TJAMPERE?
-How to fuck up tampere as an korean 101
Huh? I didn't hear a "j" sound in there.
Aika tarkastaa kuulo, siellä ei ollut mitään J. Hyvin lausu Tampere, juuri niin kuin pitikin.
The pronunciation was pretty much perfect? Same with sauna.
SoulofSol might have obvious Korean accent whilst speaking English but she did not have any problems pronouncing those individual Finnish words.
Noting differences is not racist at all. American culture has this tendency to call "racism" at every inkling of differences pointed out. Me pointing that out about Americans will be viewed as 'racist' by Americans....maybe. Anyhow, your observations are spot on. I really am more amazed you only found 5 noteworthy. ;-)
I'm American, and I found nothing she said racist in any way, shape or form. Just because there's differences in cultures, doesn't mean something is racist. Not all Americans call things racist; that's a stereotype that needs to die. Besides, we're all the same race: Human. The word you're looking for that people often mistake for racist is Ethnicity. For example: having a fear of Islamic terrorism doesn't mean someone is racist for not liking or feeling safe around Islamic people; Islam isn't a race, but an ideology. Anyway, you didn't say anything racist, either.
A reductionist, nationalist knobhead making everything about America. Very original.
I believe you. But we mostly see America in the media....that is a different America I'm sure. There we see the sensitivity for political correctness. Just like you just did in your reply when you use the word ethnicity. Me using the word "racist" (note the parentheses) made you reply. That is exactly what I meant. It isn't a gripe I have but it is a response I expect....and get. But basically we agree.
Yea as an American anything she said can't even be labeled racist bc America is a cultural melting pot.. So that doesn't make sense. The far left and the ignorant label everything racist. They are called LIBTARDS
If you want to get labled racist, just post it in Sweden. No matter WHAT you say, a whole bunch will be offended and you have trod on their rights, and possibly assumed their genders, age, species and universe. The horror!
Hello and welcome to Finland! This was a great video and you really nailed it! I also like it that you kept it very respectful. :) And yes, honesty is so true! I have often issues with my foreign friends because in some countries using superlatives ("We will be friends forever" "You are the coolest person I have met") is just a normal way of being polite. But for me, if someone says something, I expect that they mean it. And I very often hear "It took me so long to realize how honest you are and if you say something you actually mean it." Haha! :D
Wait, wait, wait. You don't use gravel on slippery roads in Asia? Woah.
In Korea, we put sand sometimes, or put calcium choloride to make the snow melt. I've never seen gravel before!
Oh, alright then! That's somehow really curious. I thought they did it everywhere.
Grus är cancer
We use sand/calcium in Poland as well, gravel is just used for the country roads, or generally other places that are off the beaten track. It's not used on the highways etc. to my knowledge pretty much at all. I guess maybe it depends on the climate to some extent.
Finland uses gravel because of how much ice and cold they have. Salt does nothing to ice when it's -20 degrees outside.
One of the most finnish thing to do is to wait inside your apartment until the hallway is clear of neighbors before you go out :)
😂 True
You sum up finnish people quite nicely :) Nice video
"how to deal with snow"
me: ignore it and stay inside
the point about the snow was really interesting, ive never really thought about it and its really funny to me as a finnish person that someone would pay attention to that. lol
i think most finnish people arent necessarily shy, and can be very sociable and talkative, but its seen as common courtesy to not break silences or distract someone unless we're invited to, or have something meaningful to express. its because theres really no "small talk" culture (it exists somewhat but is generally seen as a nuisance and "fake"/suspicious) in finland, and instead of thinking that silence is "awkward", we generally appreciate silence equally as much as we do conversation, often say "silence is golden", and avoid being rude/invasive by disturbing another person's peace, so its very different from america. (i havent been there but ive heard from finnish tourists how e.g. the shop clerks try to chit-chat and smile widely to strangers/customers despite being tired from standing around working all day, and most of us just find that creepy and sad instead of "good manners". lol)
sometimes i see tourists (i only know theyre tourists because they are speaking in foreign languages and are looking around) that give that "im not sure where im going" vibe and i wanna go and ask them if they need help, but since i usually dont know their culture or if theyre actually looking for help, i dont wanna risk bothering them (even though they might be thinking the same thing about us) haha... so i just try to kind of look a little more approachable... in case they wanna ask something....
also ahh that sauna's identical to the little one we had in our apartment when i was growing up, how nostalgic :0 i miss having a sauna... there's no communal sauna in my current apartment building and only the big apartments have their own saunas..... fml
sorry for the rant lol, finnish ppl get really excited when someone talks about finland
actually, i was a little wrong about the small talk thing - its generally acceptable and normal to do small talk in saunas, of course. i think it could be because even finns might find sweating together naked in complete silence a teeny tiny bit awkward.
Hahahaha wow thanks for the amazing comment! I thought small rocks so interesting! didn't think it can be surprise to you that foreigners are surprised lol
It is not rant, just a wall of text. No worries, tho.
Thanks for all that nice explanation:-)
Some Finns also tend to joke that silence is "a traditional Finnish group game" and that you should talk about something every once in a while to avoid having too much fun in the game
Somebody can actually pronounce 'sauna' properly, i was expecting the regular ''sooona''
Aww crud now I’m gonna have to find another way to help ppl pronounce my name.
i say sawna
od b 🤣🤣😁
me too
Haha, Finns are a unique bread. We don't talk to strangers unless absolutely necessary. We're very anti-social, but I think we like to think of it as "efficient", even if Finns are some of the nicest people I have ever met. I've lived in the US, Canada, and Sweden so I'm not a 100% Finn, and the one thing all Finns hate about westerners is how they are unnecessarily kind. Now, it's alright to be kind to people, but only if you mean it. How often do Americans actually care when they ask somebody "how are you?"? Or, in a work environment it is extremely rude to say for example, "this was really good, but...", to sugar-coat something so it doesn't sound mean. That's really difficult for westerners to wrap their heads around. The idea is basically that "why would you lie and say that it'd really good if it's not?" It's also worth thinking about how Finns don't think Finland is a great country, they think it's a bad country because they always know they can do better. I was once talking to some kids in a small town south of Turku, and they asked me "why are you in the shittiest place on earth?", because I've lived most of my life in the US. Anyways, really interesting how Finland is similar to Korea! Just found your channel, I really like it! Hello from Helsinki :)
P.S., don't worry, Finns LOVE alcohol. It's a common stereotype, but it's partly true. And yes, we are VERY proud of our saunas. It's amazing and very good for you. Get some long drink in a piping hot sauna, then jump in the snow naked and run back inside. Trust me, it's amazing
Juu, leipää ollaan ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kristian Ure very talkative i dont like
BREAD
Cool video :) keep up the good work! We've visited Korea twice 2016 and 2017, one thing we found funny was that when we were checking out restaurant review there were always English comments "bad/rude service, waiter not polite" etc. but when we visited we found the level of service really nice and good :D Similarities to Finnish service: waiter possibly say hi/choose your seat, takes your order, brings your order, charges you. No need for small talk or "how was your food" or being nice just for the tips. We felt very much at home ;)
i hope you like it in Finland!! it’s really cool to hear a korean sight of what finland is like :D as a person who is really interested in asian culture and especially korean :)
True. Im finnish and we ussually do have sauna's and were shy and dont really speak to strangers in bus for example. And i speak english ok, but only when in with my friends, if i need to speak english to a random person my english sounds weird.
No, Finnish people are not shy. This is one of the biggest misconceptions I've ever heard and I don't understand where this comes from. Actually Finnish people are quite the opposite of being shy. Finnish people just don't talk nonsense constantly if they don't have anything to actually say. It's a cultural thing, which respects other people by not bothering them unnecessarily so much. But Finnish people can also talk a lot. And particularly people from Eastern Savo area who just can't stop talking quite often, although that is also actually quite over-generalized. If you think being silent is being shy, then you don't understand what the word and concept of shy and being shy means at all. However while it is indeed pretty common, that actual shy people don't talk a lot, at least in public and to strangers, people who don't often talk a lot are not commonly shy.
I live in Finland and yesterday a stranger talked to me in bus 😂👌👌
No se ei varmana ollu täysin suomalaine.. *ei varmana* jos oli nii jösses
Kaisa se oli varmaan vanha mummo kosk ne puhuu väillä
Dani Banani no totta joo
Dani Banani vahnu sarii kutii! Yxe visii runa! Sry..
se kyl tosiaan on aika harvinaista et joku puhuis tääl suomes ihmisille :D
You viewed us quite nice way, Thank you
Nice to hear you're liking Finland!
Great video, and you were easy on the eyes too ; )
I am finnish and i think that EVERYTHING in that video is true. Also... I wan't to travel to Korea.
Ps. You are very cute😘
Karoliina Koskensalo i agree
You want to come Finland and i want to go korea
Same armyyyyyy❤️❤️❤️
HopohoEZ vittukun anime on japanilaista pälli
HopohoEZ "Anime (jap. アニメ) on vakiintunut länsimaissa tarkoittamaan nimenomaan japanilaista animaatiota" älä rupee pätee ilman infoo niin vältät noloja tilanteita...
HopohoEZ ja sanoit tyyppiä anime homoksi koska se haluaa käydä etelä koreassa ja sitten väität että anime on kiinalaista... Naurut xD
En kestä enää xddd anime on japanilaista eikä kiinalaista/korealaista haha
"I thought koreans were the best at drinking alcohol"
Ohh my sweet summer child you have no idea, we Nords love to drink and have a good time. Like you said that's why we have our laws.
Also sorry for this, but the matching is called a frontloader and it's gravel mixed with a tiny bit of salt they put on the roads.
You got a new subscriber, And as I Finn I can say you are correct in all of them ㅋㅋㅋ. I'm actually really interested In Korean culture so it's nice to hear a Korean's opinion about something that is normal for me in every day. It also may help me of I ever get a chance to visit Korea. Much love♥
SaraPabo en nyt tiedä osaako muka suurin osa suomalaisista osaa hyvin enkkuu
I recommend to visit Korea but remember that at wintertime it feels much colder than in Finland because of high humidity. It was big surprise for me.
The food there is just great. Don't go McDonald but all local places. I enjoyed the food a lot. Every place it was really tasty even those small street kitchen food. I travel a lot and Korea is one of the best country I have visited if thinking about food.
Very interesting culture.
Max Nurminen suurin osa niistä jotka on käyny muutakin ku elämämkoulua
Max Nurminen I can bet you ten euros to go ask something in English from the next stranger you see and they will be able to respond to you. Pronounciation is not a mark of good English. Understandability is.
I’m from Finland and I felt really good after watching your video:) Sometimes finnish people describe themselves as socially awkward people but after hearing that you think we were and sounded respecful is super heart warming. I mean as a local it’s really hard to tell what foreigners think about us:) You were soo cute and polite which I looove and also I subscribed!! I would love to travel to South Korea some day! 😄
I think your bf bought so much alcohol because in Finland it's quite expensive. I've not been to South Korea(sadly), but I've heard that a bottle of soju cost like maybe five euros for a big bottle and that is _super_ cheap for a Finn (E.g. the cheapest bottle of wine you can find from a liquor store costs maybe 6€ for a 0,75l bottle with 12% alcohol.). Please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway I liked your video a lot and will def check out your other videos too :--) Have a nice time in our small country!
Our country is actually bigger than Korea, South and North combined. Quite a lot bigger since Korean peninsula is less than 2/3 of Finland's area. However population is much larger in Korea, about 9,4 times more in South and about 4,6 times more in North and about 14 times more in the whole Korea.
you pronounce Tampere so well and it sounds so finnish !! :'D i love it
I'm Finnish and I was an exchange student in Korea 2 years ago. Funny, I felt the same about Korean people as you did about Finnish people there! Koreans are pretty shy at first, especially if they aren't confident in their English skills, but they are really reliable once you get to know them. I felt pretty comfortable living there because Koreans and Finns match quite well personality wise :)
This is really interesting to me as a Dane. My dad has been to Finland and other Scandinavian countries, and from what i have heard from him, this is apparently how Scandinavians generally are, the Faroese people too (i have a friend from there). And even though it might not be my county, it always makes me happy to see someone so happy and enthusiastic about Scandinavia and the different cultures with the north.
Great video, you got a new subscriber :)
Hahah as a Finn i think you're quite spot on x)
I'm Finnish and this video kinda made me look at the Finnish behavior in a bit better light.
Living here makes it kinda easy to gloss over the good parts (honesty, respecting personal space, letting people be who they are - mostly [some douchebags always exist I suppose]) and just get too fixated on how .. unapproachable and cold people in general can feel.
It's kinda easy to feel lonely and make friends in my opinion since everyone have their own "bubble" and.. yeah, you're at risk of being seen as a total weirdo if you just randomly approach people.
Not easy for someone like me who has had a falling out of all friendships due to friends having moved to different cities and increased social anxiety.
So.. kinda without friends and at a loss on how to make friends.
How did you make friends here?
Anyway, thanks for the insight from a foreigner :)
Great job. Big thumbs up! p.s. When in Finland, buy enough beer for the week so you don't have to rush out at 20:55.
You know I really like to hear what people from different cultural backround think about finland. And I like the way you talked about dealing with snow :)
I appreciate the reference to Joey's "How you doin'?" :D
First of all, what a great video, subscribed! :^)
I have noticed as a Finn that often like on TH-cam or other places in the internet you find Finns talking to each other in English even when they know they are Finnish. I know, I do that too, a lot! That seems to be just a common way to talk, maybe it is because we want the possible English speakers to understand what we talked.
I felt like contributing a cultural thing so there you go :)
Hyvää päivänjatkoa, pidä kivaa!
Aww Sweet comment ❤️❣️ Thank you so much💕
I’m going to use this video to help my high school students understand me better - I’m Canadian, but was raised in a very Finnish household, so much so that I have my Finnish citizenship. Thanks for the great ( honest ) video!
Aww! I'm glad my video is used in good way :)
Enough with the jump cuts already. Im in love.
it is nice video :) I also lived finland around 3 years and loved that country. I lived in espoo... and miss Finland sometimes... :)
I am korean. nice to meet you sol
this was a great video! ❤️💕
Ok, first I just want to say you are the cutest person I've ever seen in my life. But my main comment is that I really enjoyed seeing your interpretation of the culture shock! I moved from America to Norway, and norwegian culture is very similar to finnish culture, and I really struggled with adjusting. I was extremely shocked by how people weren't generally friendly and talkative to strangers. I had no idea how to interacte socially or make friends and I felt really lonely. Weirdly, seeing your point of view on it and hearing you exlpain how it made you feel kind of gave me a deeper understanding of it? I don't know if I'm making any sense. But seeing how positively you reacted to the culture shock and your effort to really understand the culture gives me more motivation to work harder on overcoming my own. You're like a little ray of sunshine it made my day. Imma go subscribe and I hope you have a great day!
Us norwegians are weird, hard to get to know and usually very quiet, you definetely see it at concerts.
I'm from sweden and went over to America for a month. I was shocked at how people just came up and started talking to you at completely random occasions. :p
Gotta look at the positive side; if a Scandinavian makes eye contact and smile at you, you KNOW you've made a bff.
Joking aside, I hope your Norwegians warm up to you soon! I can't really speak for them since I'm Swedish but generally we're all kinda like stray cats. Casual food offerings and light socialisation with clear escape possibilities is the way to win us over, slowly but surely.
Casual food offerings... LOL
I too appreciate food and light socialization with clear escape possibilities. Now is my chance to go out into the world and make friends one chicken nugget at a time!
In addition to moving the snow away and putting down gravel to the ground, some roads and areas also get "salted". A specific type of salt is thrown to the ground by machines that actually melt the snow and ice from that particular area. This is very heavily used in big cities atleast.
I hope you enjoy your stay :)
As someone who lives in Norway, there is similitudes with Finland actually.
I've been in Norway, only Oslo and Bergen, for travel. I've talked with some Norwegian in the train, they were nice to me. I appreciated.
As a Finn I loved how you forgot all the stereotypics (although some of them are true) and really thought about us as our own individuals and appreciated it. You also speak very good english! I love Korea and I would love to visit there some day... ♡
pc bang + hanging out at friends place = LAN party
Finnish people do talk to strangers when they have something to say. Like sometimes people stop me when they see me on walk with my dog and ask what breed she is (Danish-Swedish farmdog, and yes that's a real breed). When we ask how someone is doing, we actually mean it and expect you to tell us how you're doing (I went to a shop in US and someone instead of saying hi, asked how I was doing and I was like "..fine, thanks?" o_O.)
Usually a lot of old people like to talk to strangers but that is mostly because they're either lonely or just don't care anymore.
I'm actually into Korean stuff. I like the language, trot, dramas and kpop (I first enjoyed the dramas and the language and then came the music) so it's nice seeing how you've reacted to Finland ^^
Oh man, we have the same ringtone. I had to pause the video and bolted around the house trying to find my phone.
Lol many people say that😂 I have the same ring tone too
SoulofSol 한솔 haha I must admit I do feel better in knowing I wasn’t the only one.
This was such a lovely video! I’m glad you’ve noticed and enjoyed these things about Finland💕
Nice video! I feel like korean people are similar to finnish when it comes to how they treat other people. I have visited korea 5 times because I have friends there and feel like you do in Finland, it's familiar but unfamiliar at the same time :D sometimes I still get culture shocks in some things.
Yeah, you got to the point very well. I am from Germany, but both have been to finland and also know a couple finnish people (and I really like them a lot). The "honest" feature seems to be very scandinavian... found it in finland as well as in the other nordic countries. As for the sauna culture - I love it. I am relly looking forward on your video on that. It is so typical... and it was marvelous when in Rovaniemi, I just came out of the sauna into the snow and saw aurora borealis in the sky...
Have fun in finland, it is a very nice country!
Ozzymandyas the Russians think Finns are stupid for being honest but our society works because of trust and honesty and their’s doesn’t because of untrust and dishonesty.
You seem sweet😍
I liked this a lot! So nice to hear your thoughts about this lovely home country. Finnish people are modest and don't think much of themselves, but deep inside everybody knows that Finland is THE best place to live in. Did you know that Finland is ranked the most happy nation year after year? I often think that our saunaculture is a big factor in it. Sauna is huge!
Nice work with this video and great grass root observations of the Finnish culture - I can definitely recognize myself and my country. I don't know why it has become like that but I'm suspecting it's the dark and cold climate that has something to do with it.
Thank you for sharing your experience!! It was very interesting to hear your point of view. Also, you are so pretty!!
Finnish society is based not on trust, but distrust of everyone else. It is like being in the same small boat that is going to a huge stream. You do not trust the person that has directed the boat to the stream, but being in the boat is still much safer than jumping into the stream itself.
I don't like drinking alcohol, because it makes me friendly and social and then when I am sober, people start expecting that I am friendly and social.
You are a treasure when making videos about Finland + Korea. Very rare to see these 2 countries mentioned together, and with such a high quality videos as you have. You are very intelligent and wonderful woman. Thank you for your videos. :)
I did taekwondo 25 years ago. Hold my beer, I can do this: Hana dol set net tasot jasut ilgop ahop jol. Wow, I can still count to ten in Korean!
Woooooww!!!!! That's correct ! Awesome that you can remember it 😳😳🤓
I really liked this "shock treatment " of yours . In my opinion there are something similar in our cultures. And you pointed out the one thing what i know of. To get slowly closer and to be friends. And by experience , i know Korean people (like Finnish) get little loose and comfortable by 1 , 2 , 3...beers. All the best for you ! And your opinions , i say , are spot on.
Yeah, as someone from the US I can say that we are friends with everyone and we are nice with everyone (almost all of us lol) if you're not like that then you're considered super rude.
Oh, really? I didn't know that it can be considered super rude tho.😮At first it was hard for me to be 'nice'(smiling, and saying how are you? etc..) but after 4 month being there, I could be, naturally. Human adapt to environment very well !
but well, still it's really hard to tell if I became friends with Americans(from US), but I got some American friends in Korea, and now I think I'm sort of getting it :)
Americans are quite friendly. Very true. 🍁Canadians were very friendly in the 80's. After that less and less. Today they're still good at most places. Better than in many other countries.
This is so true. A lot of times in the states (some parts anyway) if someone is shy people mistake them for being ‘stuck-up’ or basically thinking they’re better than everyone else and also if you’re quiet people can sometimes assume you are smart and mysterious lol
Sä oot oikeesti maailman kaunein 😍😍
We've come a long way since the Finno-Korean Hyperwar
this was so interesting! having looked into korean culture a little bit (since its been in the news bc of the olympics and the skincare and the music lately) i thought it had some similarities to finnish culture. love how you were impressed with the snow situation haha!
Gorgeous ✨ Your english is amazing!! Miss u Hansol 🙌 Come to Brazil 🇧🇷
Thank you so much Jinwoo👍🏻
state controlled liquor stores close at 7pm in Oregon. Beer is sold at grocery stores along with wine. 2am-6am ban on alcohol sales.
That Joey reference though 😁
Thank you for making such a lovely video, it was really interesting to see how you experience culture shocks in Finland! :) As a Finn who stayed in Korea for 1 year, I must say I also noticed how easy it is to "blend in" with the locals in public transportation - no talking to strangers, no smiling, personal space (although during rush hours the actual space was reduced to zero, haha). Anyways, I hope you're enjoying your time here in Tampere and I hope to see more videos like this from you! ^-^
So are you and your boyfriend still together? This reminds me of my life a lot. My girlfriend is Korean and she stayed here for 8 months. Now Im going to visit her at Seoul next summer. We also met in Tampere.
I would really like to see some Korean teaching videos!
This is really accurate! It was interesting to watch, you’re so pretty and funny 😄
Slight mistake in here. They sell alcohol after 21:00. However it is only 2.8%. We call it as ykkösolut.
Hansol! Great Video. Had a great time with you in TOAS city 2016! Hope everything is going great. (Ramona!)
I love your little edits and skits 😂
Wow it's amazing how you got all of them right. Your always welcome back!
Oh I love this video! You're so pretty and funny!!!! More of these please..!
And your pronunciation is REALLY good! If I just heard the words you say in finnish, I would think you are actually from here!
This is very good video!! :) :D Don´t stop making these!
Yeeaaahh...Finland is our "brother" and we, Estonias, are almost the same. :) Have you ever visited Estonia?
Silja P hi, little bro!
Lol Estonia low-key celebrated Suomi 100 more than Finland itself
Estonia for me sounds like drunk werid finnish (no offense)
@@Sane-ix2xp snäkäri-kiska kieli
Yup twice
As a Swedish person living close to the border to finland where most people in my city speak or have roots from Finland it was pretty entertaining seeing someone from a very differing culture talk about how Finland is.
I love your sweater! So cute!
Yes, it was a very pretty sweater and it fits her well.
Holy Smokes! Not only is she really intelligent, and learning the ways of the Northern Europeans, this girl is beautiful!!!
This was very interesting to watch as a Finn. Well done :-D
hey you said sauna right.. you know how many many many people say it wrong... you get a solid thumbs up
U r so pretty😍 Yes finnish alcohol culture is quite interesting... Drinking in finland, doesn't only mean enjoying it but [[heavy]] hangover. Do a boyfriend tag!
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This is the first video I've seen from you
And I love you already
Terve! Pretty accurate observations, so no need for disclaimers (in order not to possibly upset sensitive millennials, LOL). Keep doing videos and keep being spontaneous (without too much scripting), that suits you best :-)
This chick is very entertaining and makes videos to keep your attention. Bravo. Very good.
i also really like finnish people. As a german i feel so close to them, i don't know why. maybe because the culture is so close to each other? or maybe it has something to do with the fact, that my hometown has a ferry to skandinavian places. xD and they are really good in english. I'm always so shooked. i can totally relate to your love to finland.
a_doro_ble Germany has helped us twice (the civil war and the WW2) when no one else would. It’s highly appreciated (although we weren’t much into that nazi stuff).
a_doro_ble It could be the same values. Here tidiness, hard work, engineering skills etc. are appreciated and even the religion is Lutheran from Germany.
Oot yhtä kaunis kui viehättävä. Mahoton olla tykkäämättä ja mahoton epätykätä.
You are as much as pretty as you're charming. Impossible to not like and impossible to dislike. Liked!
That's not racist at all haha, I don't expect anyone to know anything about finland honestly bc finnish shows/music/movies etc. are really not popular anywhere but finland.
This was a really interesting video 💙
You are so pretty! It's fun to see that you have a good time here!
It's -30°C at my place im from Finland hope you're enjoying it here :)
Edit: moi xD
Asutko lapissa?
siis niinpä, tääl suomes on nyt jotenki suoraan sanottuna aivan hiton kylmä, yöllä menee aivan helposti yli -30°C
Close the window!
Epicci en vaan joroisissa
Thank you for this video, it's very interesting to hear your experiences in Finland as a Korean person 😊 I hope you enjoy your time here! 💕