Not Feeling Comfortable Being Spoken to in Formal Korean

So it’s weird right? I don’t have a problem speaking in formal Korean to my elders or speaking to someone in that way if they are speaking to me in the same way. But I don’t really like it when younger people speak it to me. Maybe it’s because while I had older Koreans around me when I was growing up I didn’t have many younger Koreans around me later on in life. And if they were around, they were likely like me, Korean-American and we spoke in English to each other, not in Korean. I’m thinking about all this because I just came back from hanging out with five Korean guys in their 20s who all train at a soccer academy here in Spain. And most of them were super formal with me. All the bowing and using two hands and stuff. They were also super quiet once I entered. I ain’t no authority figure. One of the guys even went and closed the door to his room. When I pointed it out he told me it was because it was messy. “Don’t stress, I’m not your dad,” I told him. And I know that’s like cultural and it’s what you’re supposed to do. And maybe that’s where the whole American part of me being Korean-American comes in. There’s no formal formal way of speaking to elders in American English. Maybe it exists in the South? Of course there’s all that please, thank you, sir and ma’am stuff but it’s not formally formal. So I don’t really want them to do it. It makes me feel uncomfortable. I…