Don't sit next to me

Anyone who's ever taken a ride on a Korean bus will have experienced a curious phenomenon: defensive sitting. Lone Koreans will inevitably sit in the row seat (11/12 in this picture), and not the window seat, so that no one can sit next to them without a lot of pissed-off eye-rolling and harumphing. I like my window seat, but thankfully, as a white devil, no one sits next to me as a rule. This was fun to witness on crowded Seoul subways. Me sitting there with an empty seat to either side, as dozens of Koreans choose to stand for an hour to avoid sitting next to a drug-addicted, perverted, diseased criminal, with hooks for hands.
Back to defensive bus sitting. I suppose Koreans do this to prevent having a leering, spread-legged, tooth-sucking, red-faced, garlic and soju stench-emitting middle-aged Korean man (ajosshi) sitting all up in their grills. It's bad enough having one sit behind you, sending whistling gusts of rancid halitosis through the headrests and past your face every few seconds.