What’s this ‘MT’ thing you might be asking?  Why, it’s Membership Training of course!  MTs are an opportunity for a group of people to travel a bit and do fun activities as a group.  Korean university clubs use MTs to let members get to know each other in a comfortable and fun environment.  It usually involves a lot of people in a small place with a lot of alcohol.

To start our MT I went out with out club president, 강혁 (Kang Hyuk), to get food and drinks for the night.  We bought some meat, lettuce, rice, drinks, etc.  Then we met some of the other guys and headed out to the hotel located in 강남 (Kangnam).  Usually groups go at least two hours away from Seoul, but we felt like that wasn’t really necessary so we stayed close to the university.

When we arrived at the hotel, Kang Hyuk went in first to get the keys to the room.  Everyone was worried that the hotel would be suspicious if a group of eight people went in together for a two person room so he told us to go in one by one every couple of minutes.  I went in first since I was the foreigner in the group.  Everyone figured they wouldn’t ask me anything lol.  Here’s a pic of us waiting to go on our ‘mission’:

We were all pretty hungry so we immediately started to cook once we all got in.  While waiting for the food to be done, we played a card game called ‘one card.’  It’s basically UNO with face cards instead of UNO cards.

To get the ball rolling, we started setting up a a drinking game using a monopoly-style board.  In each spot we would write things which denoted who had to drink.  For example, a spot would say you have to do rock, paper, scissors with the person to your right and the loser has to drink.  I was lucky enough to not have to drink a whole lot.  While we were making the board, we watched some TV and just totally randomly saw a closeup of one of our club members on a program talking about SNU lol.  I tried to get out my camera and take a picture but I was too slow.  Here’s us playing the game:

Kang Hyuk also brought some tarot cards.  He could tell our life, love life, and evaluate a choice.  It was really fun seeing what the tarot cards said about everyone.  Some people got good predictions, some bad.  My love life was predicted to have some problems lol.  I also did a choice and one side said I would have a good love life so it seems not all is lost ㅋㅋㅋ.  Here’s one of the card readings:

Afterward some of us were pretty tired so we started to rest and sleep.  The others played worms and a street-fighter like game on the computer (hey, we are the computer club).  I think they also did One Card, but I was totally out of it by that point.  Early the next morning we cleaned up and left in pairs (again, avoiding  suspicion).  I had a really good time and highly suggest those wanting to have the full Korean university experience try going on one.