Japanese Potty Training For Koreans

Above, a modern Japanese hotel toilet. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

RocketNews24 has an interesting, and somewhat humorous, article on a message one Japanese hotel leaves for their Korean guests.

They wrote:

The rules at hotels tend to be the kinds of things you can’t do, like swimming in the pool after seven or running naked down the hallways. But that’s not always the case–sometimes the rules tell you what you should be doing. Case in point: One Osaka hotel’s sign instructing Korean patrons to flush their toilet paper down the toilet. 

Wait, what?? 

Apparently much of the plumbing in South Korean buildings is quite old, which means flushing toilet paper can lead to clogged or broken pipes. Which is something that no one wants to deal with, of course. As such, many bathrooms will have a special trash can for used toilet paper–an unfortunately aromatic but effective fix.

To read more, go here.