Saturday night I went near Itaewon to drink few biers with two colleagues, Holger and Koen. On the way back, as usual, we took one of these very cheap taxi that you can get here. But this time it was different. As soon as we got in the car, we found ourselves in a sort of disco: psychedelic lights on the car back, vinyl discs glued to the interior of the roof, photos of singers and writings glued on the car doors and everywhere around. Furthermore two quite large screens were placed one on the dashboard and the other one just in front of the backsits. The taxi left immediately. The driver looked different from the korean stereotype. Large mouth, thick lips, curled air. He asked us where we wanted to go and he showed us some compact streams, the ones used in a video camera. He asked us to choose one. On them there were the names of many rock bands. ACDC. Bryan Adams. We choose the ACDC.
The taxi was running faster than the speed limit, as usual in Seoul, and we had no belt. The driver put the stream into a recorder set between the front sits and immediately the screens lit up. The concert started, the volume was huge. Obviously he had installed specially powerful speakers in front and on the back of the car. Seoul was flowing behing the car windows while the ACDC were dancing like fools. It was a great open air concert, on a huge field. When we arrived closer to our destination, the driver changed the tape and put "Bryan Adams". It was not the same, but it was great anyway. The driver could not speak english very much. Sometimes, while he was driving, he looked above and laughed. Before arriving he opened the dashboard and showed us some plasticised copies of news articles telling about him. On one of them he had put the head of the "Herald Tribune", but it was not true. I found the original, it is at the bottom of this page, but it does not matter. In fact I think that the New York Times should really write an article about him. When we arrived we had to pay the usual price of Seoul. He gave us a little piece of paper with his telephone number, he let go a great laugh and left for another adventure.
If you come to visit me, we will call him together!
Taxi drivers in all city work at their different opinion but the taxi company has some rules which is required to follow by the driver.
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