Cleaning Out Your Ears Korean Style

[MissTwilight17]

this is actually better for your ears than q-tips...q-tips push some wax further into your ear whereas this technique pulls it out (as long as you make sure you don't stab it into your inner ear)

[silveradofilms]

Skip to 0:28 cute voice

[myhome123ful]

Lol I tase it by acident before it bitter

[vivachilegringito]

@nicobar100 He was totally not into it. But based on the thumbs down I have gotten for this video I can only assume people have found it disgusting. It's every day stuff, actually.

[jeremy0203]

damn you have your own personal in house asian ear cleaner

[vivachilegringito]

@jeremy0203 Well, in much the same way that I am my wife's personal 'trash-taker-outer' she gets to be my ear cleaner. Heh. My wife really likes to do this and it scares me. I prefer to pop pimples, honestly.

[ElCanalDelMysterio]

@jeremy0203 is her korean slave

[SoKindOne]

this isn't just a Korean thing......you can find this tool through out Asia. You must have found the tool in a Korean store.



[vivachilegringito]

@SoKindOne You are right that it is not just Korean. My wife is Korean and this is how it was done when I lived in Seoul, South Korea for two years. I know that Asians have different ear wax than Caucasians so this is better for their type of ear wax (dry, flaky) as opposed to wet/moist/sticky. Amazing, eh?

[illbayneye]

0:04 o dam that is a sexy Q tip

[newmania]

GROSS!!!!

... oh dear, check out the related videos! ... yeuck

dang, now my ears feel dirty

[Aizura77]

It's stupid to remove wax just for the sake of it. It protects your ears from all sorts of evilness. Removing wax makes you prone to ear infections, virusses, etc. Only remove wax when your ears are overproducing it and are clogged.

[vivachilegringito]

@bxxder2008 Such wise words! They are also really funny too.

[MasterTra]

So Americans doing this shit wrong? You need that device not a cue tip?

[vivachilegringito]

@MasterTra I don't think we're doing it wrong. We actually have a different kind of ear wax. Caucasians are generally going to have wet ear wax but Asians mostly have dry. It's really interesting if you read about it, seriously. I was so surprised when I found out.

[MasterTra]

@vivachilegringito I'm going to look into this, it does seem interesting.

[ctn04132]

the guy talking sounds cute. damn why didn't his face show up on the camera

[vivachilegringito]

@ctn04132 His face is in this picture beside my name, but he's married to the girl doing who is operating the ear cleaner. :)

Some people think I sound like a girl! Haha

[ctn04132]

@vivachilegringito awww that's sweet! :) no you don't sound like a girl LOL!

[ctn04132]

@vivachilegringito but yr voice does sound very young! never would have guessed that you were married 0.0

[ctn04132]

@ctn04132 clarification: teenager young

[jmg1358]

lol we do that in china too

[vivachilegringito]

@jmg1358 I think almost all of Asia does! It's because Asian ear wax is different from Caucasian/European. It's really fascinating, isn't it?

[BubbleMonsterGum]

i have one of those, wood doesn't hurt but metal does. it make ur ear bleed if u go too hard

[vivachilegringito]

@BubbleMonsterGum You've got to be very careful when you're poking around in your ears, it's dangerous. Bleeding does not sound very good at all. I was talking to a doctor that my wife and I know and he highly recommended that no one do it for you. You need to do it yourself.

[Crysis482]

I think that's Japanese, not Koean.

[vivachilegringito]

@Crysis482 It's so hard to know if it is really Japanese or Korean or Chinese. There is so much overlap! Honestly it's very hard to know, but maybe we could find out who patented it first and we'd be much closer... But then again, patents are probably from the first person with lots of money and smarts... Inventions and patents, oh joy.

Your guess is as good as mine, but I'd say they all do it this way in Asia.

[my2littlemonsters]

I want that!

[TwizEastwood]

hahaha thats funny... " and the other side has a hook/cup shaped thing used for EAR EXPLORATION" ahahah

[athews1976]

Oh for Christ sake just get a little water squirt gun toy and squirt ya ears out clean. Poking around with in ya ear with stuff like that isn't a good idea.

[DreamCore2011]

I use those kind too. Q-tips clog up my ears 9 out of 10 times, but if I use a scoop it feels like I just got my ear renewed or something, haha.

[vivachilegringito]

@DreamCore2011 My wife would agree with you 100%. If mine get crazy nasty I use the syringe and shoot hot water in my ear and that's about the best I have ever felt. I always did wonder why they had different ones if everyone had the same ear wax... but obviously I was wrong!

[iAlixe]

Wtf? That looks like a tool for your nails!

[vivachilegringito]

@iAlixe I know, it's scary isn't it? I for one don't really care to have stuff like that put into my ears. It looks like it's going to reach out and cup my ear drum and I'm always nervous when my wife is poking it around in my ear. Besides, our good friend who is a retired doctor recommended not doing it for another person! Only we know when it hurts!

[anabolicking1]

my ear is killing my head is going to expload do u have any easier thing

[vivachilegringito]

@anabolicking1 I would just go to a doctor! This didn't work for me at all. Or, you can use the syringe, that rubber thing that you fill up with hot water and squirt water into your ear a bunch of times. That works well to get out all the junk... I would be careful because your ears are very important!

[anabolicking1]

@vivachilegringito thank you so much i used hot water and big pices of black rubber stuff i figurd out its from my job

thank again am all good

[vivachilegringito]

@anabolicking1 Good news! My Dad always uses the syringe and he's been very happy with it. Healthy ears are good ears. I'm glad to hear you're no longer in pain!

[FadedColorsxD]

my aunt uses this! hahaha she's never done it to me but it works pretty well cause she does it to my cousin all the time

[MrLukedanger]

never remove your earplug i did in china once, but my doctor told me you need the pressure in the ear to hear so hold your nose and breath/strain and pop your ears that is the best way

[vivachilegringito]

@MrLukedanger Are you talking about while you're in an airplane or just taking out the wax? If you're talking about the airplane I always plug my nose and blow and it pops my ears. I have learned so much from this video, I mean, before I did this I didn't even know that Asians and Europeans have different ear wax! Amazing.

[MrLukedanger]

@vivachilegringito yeah lol. umm no just generaly when your walking around if you have an itch or a pain just pop your ears, never remove the plug !

[diorknob]

I am Korean and my mother used these on me as a child :)

I loved it in a sick sense, my ears left really refreshed and clean!

I wouldn't use it for waxy ear wax however, only flaky dry ones. Those are meant for scraping and it could damage if used otherwise! Thanks for sharing.

[impossiblefeel]

Whites dont have stiff ear wax so the only thing that this type of cleaning can cause is ear irritation.

[vivachilegringito]

@impossiblefeel Is putting stuff in your ears ever good for your hearing? I don't think so, honestly. In the US, we generally use Q-tips, which I cannot say is better or worse than this method. Putting stuff in my ear makes me nervous all the time.

I honestly don't think that whites or asians or anybody really has different ear wax. I think we just have differing solutions to the removal. No matter how we do it though we should be careful! Thanks for watching.

[sleazybtd]

@vivachilegringito Actually, there are 2 types of earwax. One is dry and flakey, and the other is moist. The difference is like boogers and snots in your nose. 80% of Asians have the dry type, while 80% of Europeans have the moist type. Scientists in Japan isolated the gene which causes the difference several years ago.

[impossiblefeel]

@vivachilegringito I herd what I said from a doctor, but ey I might be wrong :)

[vivachilegringito]

@impossiblefeel You know, if you want to bet money on it I'll bet you 10 to 1 that you're right and I'm wrong. I was just the camera guy, haha. It looks like I might have to add that to my reading list for the next installment of this video! Thanks for the info.

[kjgmommy]

@vivachilegringito

Actually, people from different parts of the world have different ear wax. People who live in the dessert have a different wax than those who live in the rainforest. Each environment has different things that wax helps with. Dessert people don't get sand in their ears because of their wax.

[impossiblefeel]

This type of ear cleaning is used only by asians because they have ear wax.It isnt meant to be used by whites and black people.

[HattieLovesCattie]

If it was bad for your hearing,all the Asians in the world would be deaf.

[vivachilegringito]

@HattieLovesCattie So, so true. And where would we be with 1/3 of the world's population deaf?

[HattieLovesCattie]

@vivachilegringito I have no idea but rather be deaf than blind.

[x69Crunchyx]

@HattieLovesCattie thats some quantum logic right there.... stupid logic btw.

[ctn04132]

@HattieLovesCattie exactly! LOL