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Korean Mourning Customs and Airport Tent Cities

from Bad Friends | The Tim Dillon Show #425 · #425

4 min

A riff on how Koreans mourn versus other cultures, joking about tent cities set up at the airport for grieving families, lawsuits, and dark humor about compensation and lawyers.

In this bit11 moments
  • Tim asks how Koreans mourn their dead and whether they have wakes like the Irish.
  • He requests a demonstration of a Korean funeral dance.
  • Bobby says Asians have emotions and tear ducts just like white people do.
  • Tim's therapist says he obsesses over how people mourn.
  • Korean families camped at the airport after a plane crash, staying there overnight.
  • Koreans care about the remains more than white people do, according to Tim.
  • First-class passengers don't want to walk through tents of crying people on their way to the plane.
  • Families camping at the airport hoping to find remains like a toe from the crash.
  • Tim watches footage of airline staff naming the deceased while bereaved relatives yelp in the background, repeatedly.
  • Bereaved people in tents yelling at desk agents demanding free drinks on the next flight.
  • All joking aside, this situation is genuinely awful for the families who have to sit in tents.
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