Chuseok for Young Gun's Family
My family is not traditional whatsoever. I'm guessing it's because of a lot of our family members practice Christianity. I was told that the older generation of Christianity believed anything that is not Christian, such as the traditional ways of Korea or Buddhism, a…
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Children’s Day, May 5, 2013
This year, Children’s Day(어린이날)fell on a Sunday, and the weather could not have been better. According to the teacherlink website , children’s fiction writer Bang Jeong-Hwan invented the holiday in 1923. The holiday is meant to “highlight the dignity of children and their need…
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Happy Black Day! 블랙데이!
Oh Korea and your crazy love holidays. Last year I posted about White Day but forgot to mention Black Day! Black day is a day dedicated to all of those single people out there. On April 14 the custom is, if you did not receive gifts from your significant other on White Day …
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Buddha's Birthday Weekend Adventure
What a CRAZY weekend! Not sure where to start so I'm going to just start typing and see where it takes me. Friday night my two best friends (Monica and Deanne) and I went to Atown and got plastered. Monica didn't feel like drinking and Deanne is a super lightweight so…
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Happy White Day!!
Yesterday one of my adult male students who speaks the least English (and is the youngest at 21) asked me if I liked lollipops and said he would bring me one tomorrow. Awww how cut-OhShitThatMeansWhiteDay! ... Well at least I now know someone is getting me something for Wh…
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Seoul Weekend One
Scene depicting the torture of Koreans at the hand of the Japanese. Not sure you could get away with that in the States. Train ride there. I get this look from Benji quite often, actually. Wonderful. Face paint at the festival! Ashley, getting t…
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