If I say that Korea is on of the worst countries for vegetarians/vegans, would Koreans be offended?

If you said it just like that, one would find it blunt, but who cares?

Also which 'Koreans' would be offended? Who is you audience? If you are talking with a bunch of people your familiar with and have shared things with, then have to be rather childish to be *offended* by that. If you're talking with weird strangers or nationalists, then that's different. You can't really generalise here as Andrew did. Know your audience and go from there.

South Korea is indeed one of the worst places for vegetarians. But in all fairness, Koreans don't make it a habit to make special arrangements for anyone. Koreans also take offense whenever anyone makes an observation that is in any way critical of their society so there's really no point attempting to sugarcoat anything. People who wish to maintain a special kind of diet such as vegan, vegetarian or pescatarian would undoubtedly have a very difficult time in this country. But to answer your question ore definitively, yes, Koreans would be offended, but as I said, it really doesn't matter because they'd take offense to any remark that they interpret as being even slightly critical of their country.

You've already got answers so I just wanted to say, although no one would care, that this is what I was telling my vegetarian friend about. She brags about being vegetarian but she is Korea-obsessed and says, "One day, I'll go to Korea! I can't wait to eat all the food there!" and I told her, "Good luck with that." and she wouldn't believe me after I told her that she'd have somewhat of a difficult time.

Yeah they will be offended.

You have to find vegeterian restaurant. I agree with you. Korea is worst place for vegeterian.

Still you can find vegeterian restaurant. There are lot. But people don't go there.

It depends on the person if they will be offended....If you are trying to find vegan/veg. food in Seoul, there are tradtional but veg./vegan available (try a buddist temple) and also other ethinic foods in Itaewon.

The Huff Post is not accurate on many things and there are many vegetarians there. you can buy many things that are strictly vegetarian and lots of soy products in restaurants. they eat lots of noodles and rice without meat.