AJUMA!
After spending the day at the football stadium, Matt and I donned our walking boots and took a trip round the lake as it started to get dark. Here we thought it best to investigate the Mystery of the Ajuma.
When a Korean woman becomes a certain age ( age depending on the individual) she undergoes a spectacular transformation. An agassi goes whooosh is a ball of flames, and steps out of it with short permed hair, abnormally white face, bright red lipstick and sun-visor to become (drum-roll...) AJUMA!!!!
Ajuma's can be seen everywhere, yet have never been captured on camera, for they only leave a shadow when photographed. However, one of the most popular AJUMA! spots is the track that circles the lake. Here they can be seen marching in regimented fashion (often in pairs) along the track, sporting out-dated shell suits, a mask and sun-visor pulled low over the face. One cannot look them directly in the eye, for the sun visor is pulled too low down over the face, but THEY CAN SEE YOU. However, if one was unfortunate enough to establish eye contact, they slowly suck your soul out of you. Many an unsupsecting husband has left their home in the hands of an agassi, to come back and find it occupied by an AJUMA! whereupon the hapless husband leaves home to find himself another living, breathing agassi.
Yes, the AJUMA! patrols the streets of South Korea, instilling fear into small children and foreigners alike. It is a mystery that has yet to be solved. They are seemingly invincible; if you try to attack one, all AJUMA's within a 5km radius will be upon you for they have a collective conciousness. This proves useful for keeping law and order, but the number of AJUMA! is growing and these regimented zombies are slowly taking over the world.
The agassi to AJUMA! transformation appears to be genetically programmed into the DNA, and as yet we are unable to prevent it before birth. However the AJUMA! does have a weakness: if you make them laugh they become human again. Towards the end of the day's investigation, we were handed smiley plastic inflatable toys for free by a stall owner. Here we realised that these are AJUMA! protectors. It is our mission to wave our AJUMA! protectors at every one that marches by, in the hope that we will eradicate this problem once and for all...
When a Korean woman becomes a certain age ( age depending on the individual) she undergoes a spectacular transformation. An agassi goes whooosh is a ball of flames, and steps out of it with short permed hair, abnormally white face, bright red lipstick and sun-visor to become (drum-roll...) AJUMA!!!!
Ajuma's can be seen everywhere, yet have never been captured on camera, for they only leave a shadow when photographed. However, one of the most popular AJUMA! spots is the track that circles the lake. Here they can be seen marching in regimented fashion (often in pairs) along the track, sporting out-dated shell suits, a mask and sun-visor pulled low over the face. One cannot look them directly in the eye, for the sun visor is pulled too low down over the face, but THEY CAN SEE YOU. However, if one was unfortunate enough to establish eye contact, they slowly suck your soul out of you. Many an unsupsecting husband has left their home in the hands of an agassi, to come back and find it occupied by an AJUMA! whereupon the hapless husband leaves home to find himself another living, breathing agassi.
Yes, the AJUMA! patrols the streets of South Korea, instilling fear into small children and foreigners alike. It is a mystery that has yet to be solved. They are seemingly invincible; if you try to attack one, all AJUMA's within a 5km radius will be upon you for they have a collective conciousness. This proves useful for keeping law and order, but the number of AJUMA! is growing and these regimented zombies are slowly taking over the world.
The agassi to AJUMA! transformation appears to be genetically programmed into the DNA, and as yet we are unable to prevent it before birth. However the AJUMA! does have a weakness: if you make them laugh they become human again. Towards the end of the day's investigation, we were handed smiley plastic inflatable toys for free by a stall owner. Here we realised that these are AJUMA! protectors. It is our mission to wave our AJUMA! protectors at every one that marches by, in the hope that we will eradicate this problem once and for all...
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