There's a strange man who's goal is to visit every Starbucks in the world. Unfortunately, with recent downsizing, it's become challenging for him to "catch up" to all the different locations before they close. It's a moving target, as locations open and close much faster than he can get through the list. He hasn't even tried South Korea, yet even in my time here I've seen both openings and closings of numerous Starbucks just within my small range of famaliar haunts.
Well, anyway… I can kind of empathasize with his monomania, in some ways. I've flirted with various monomanias of my own, but in general I've been too lazy to really fall into them. I remember once I wanted to try to visit every single subway station in Mexico City, when I lived there. And I think, at one point, I had done it… but then they've added 3 or 4 new lines since I lived there, so I would have to go back and visit more. Once, I was thinking I could go visit subway stations in Seoul. But I really haven't had the singelmindedness to do that. My explorations tend to be less goal oriented, and more just a sort of drifting across the landscape.
Like a ghost.