Korea is totally obsessed with love and couples and relationships. It is completely acceptable and actually expected for a person you've just met to ask you point-blank, right off the bat whether you have a boyfriend/girlfriend. Everywhere you look there are couples. Couples do everything together. There aren't big groups of friends hanging out and doing things together. It appears that the majority of life here after college is lived as a couple. Couples even take pride in wearing identical matching outfits here, from head to toe, glasses to shoelaces. This aspect of life is so different from life in the States.
Korea's love and obsession with love/romantic relationships becomes evident in their holidays this time of year. Obviously, today is Valentine's Day, and we all know what that means in the States. But it's different here. On Valentine's Day, girls buy chocolate for their boyfriends/fiances/husbands. The holiday is completely for women to lavish love and gifts upon their men. On March 14, Korea celebrates White Day. White Day is the opposite of Korea Valentine's Day. On White Day, men give their girlfriends/fiances/wives chocolate and lavish love and gifts upon them. Further into the year on April 14, it is Black Day. Black Day is a special day set aside for all the single people in Korea. On Black Day, all the single people are supposed to go out to Korean style diners and eat black noodles. So if you don't already feel like enough of a loser having to suffer through both Valentine's Day and White Day alone, you get the opportunity to look like a total loner and go out and mourn your singleness over black noodles. Just a little Korean culture info for you to think about. Needless to say after finding all this out, I'm glad we only celebrate Valentine's Day in the States.
Special shout out to an awesome friend, who totally surprised me with a fantastic package today...AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME start to my week. Thank you, Thomas Mathis. You rock!
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KendallCooke
You're welcome. You're doing great things and I know everyone is proud of you! You will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.
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