Today I stepped so far out of my comfort zone I ended up in a situation I swore I would never find myself in while I was in Korea: in a steam room with a bunch of naked women. It's called a jimjabong and they're just like the bath houses of Rome, except it's not Italy it's Korea. And being a foreigner in Korea is always going to be a bit more obvious than being a foreignerin Italy. Such as when we were walking around, buck naked, in Korea and were the only people in the room that did not have ink black hair. And were from a culture that puts personal grooming on a higher level than their own did. But once I got comfortable with the aesthetic, I found it a wholly entertaining, supreme cultural experience. After showering, there are 3 tubs of varying degrees and a really intese steam room. Most locals only spent a few minutes in the tubs then went to a scrubbing station where they sit in front of a mirror and scrub so roughly and for so long that I feel quite certain that Korean's molt. The greatest to watch were the older women-the ones whom gravity had started to pull down, if you know what I mean-and when they couldn't reach certain spots on their backs. Other women would come over, squat behind them-still completely naked-and go to town on those hard to reach spots. Quite humorous. As were the mom's who brought their kids with them and set them all around the tubs with toys to entertain them while mommies bathed and scrubbed.