“Excuse me, would you like to play a game with me?“ He suddenly said, once he saw you were now paying attention and not sleeping anymore.

Right, let’s start from the beginning, you were just on your way back home from your minimum wage job, waiting for your subway to arrive, when you started to feel sleepy and closed your eyes and then this man proceeded to wake you up. Right, who was he?

You stared at him for a while with narrowed eyes, not understanding what exactly he wanted. Play a game with him? What were you, children in primary school?

“What?” You asked, confused.

“Would you like to play a game with me?“ He repeats again the same question, maybe thinking you didn’t hear him the first time, not inquiring further what he meant by that.

There was silence for quite a while, neither of you saying anything, this silence being terribly awkward and uncomfortable. He decides to speak like he only realized now that you expected him to talk more about what this game actually consisted of.

“Simple, really. I just want to play a game of Ddakji with you. If I win, you give me 100,000 ₩, if you win, I give you 100,000 ₩. Simple as that.“ He repeats the word simple two times, he says it once at the start and once at the end, like to reassure you that you can win some money with just this simple game, like he just wanted you to accept his offer.