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Seoul, South Korea
5 customs and traditions in Seoul — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Twenty-four-hour bathhouse complexes with hot pools, dry kilns, sleeping halls and food. Gender-separated bathing, communal clothed floors.
The two-piece traditional dress, rented by the hour near every palace and worn for photographs.
The communal late-autumn making of a winter's worth of kimchi, listed by UNESCO and still done at family scale.
Pour for others, never yourself; hold the glass with two hands when a senior pours; turn away slightly to drink.
Overnight programmes at working Buddhist temples with pre-dawn chanting, meals in silence and 108 prostrations.
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