Random acts of kindness.
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Few weeks ago I was on my way to the gas station to buy some food in the middle of the night, when I noticed a strange guy following two young girls. They were far away, on their way towards me on the other side of the road. The girls came across the road and the guy followed them, when they started to go faster he also sped up. I started to think that something isn't ok with the guy. The girls walked past me, the guy was still following them. Asian guy with a backpack what looks heavy, he seemed more lost than malicious. I stopped him when we got close to each other, and asked whats up. He told me that he came from Korea to work at a factory close to the city. Got dropped off from the bus in the district because his ticket wasn't enough for the inner-city train station, and he has no idea where he is now, and how to get to the factory.
It was very difficult to communicate with him as he barely spoke English. I told him to come with me to the gas station where we buy some food and I will try to explain on the road how to get where he wants. At the station I pulled up my phone and started using google translate. It was like he turned into a different person. He explained to me that he is an low-voltage system engineer, divorced last year and signed a 3 year contract abroad work with Samsung. He fucked up the travel by thinking that it would be interesting to travel half the world on train and busses, and now he is 4 days late. Now has no money, a drained phone, but he is happy because he is in the destination country :D We laughed at the girls who misunderstood his intentions. I explained the easiest way to get to the place where he wanted, bough two sandwiches and some juice, and gave him two bus tickets what I had in my wallet for almost a year :) Meanwhile I became sure that he isn't some conveyor worker who takes advantage of people's kindness. We waited for for the bus almost 45 mins, meanwhile I learned a lot about life in South Korea :)
Forgot one thing though: to exchange contacts.
I hope that everything is fine with him.