Hey, if the locals eat it it won't hurt you. It may not agree with you all that much,but "Try it You'll like it"

When ever I went to S. Korea I loved going to the street vendors and getting fried shrimp they would wrap up in old news papers and just munching until they were all gone. There were other foods too, but the shrimp were my fav. They would batter them up and drop in the hot oil right in front of you. Oh and they were of course WHOLE shrimp.