Oh race...

Thanking my lucky star, which turned out to be the ‘Indian and International Foreign Goods Market Store’, I emerged victoriously deodorant in hand and wasted no time in application. Deodorant is not readily available in Korea because East Asians apparently do not smell, thanks, so I’ve read, to having markedly fewer apocrine sweat glands than the rest of us. Verily, after many a crowded train ride, despite dutiful morning ablutions, I can attest that the only foul odor I’ve sensed has without fail been my own, marking me once again as completely ‘barbarian’.