Intercultural Life
You know the drill, winners are picked randomly by my husband.
First prize (all the socks) goes to:
Congratulations to MirOppa!
Second prize (the folder sleeve) goes to:
Congratulations Neyteri Sully!
Could you the winners please send me an email at [email protected] to claim your prizes.
For the next giveaway I may give away….. Beast socks? Anyone interested?
It’s sweet that he asks me if I have seen new photos of GD (though 90% of the time I’ve already seen them), but I’m only allowed to look at them for a short amount of time! Yeah… we all know about his jealously of GD.
I’m doing an extra post today! Wow!
Mara asks:
I just wanted to know what Koreans do (if anything) for Halloween.
I’ve seen this question quite a few times on Twitter and Youtube so I’m assuming there are quite a few people who want to know the answer to this.
Basically Koreans don’t really do anything for Halloween. I’m sorry I don’t have a comic for this one because there isn’t much I can draw, besides from my husband laying in his underwear on the floor saying “We don’t care” to my question about Halloween.
Now of course in places like Itaewon in Korea where there are many foreigners there are probably Halloween parties but it’s just not celebrated the way it is in North America. Actually it’s not celebrated as much in Australia either. In recent years there have been more parties and nightclubs catering to it, but trick or treating is not something that everyone does here.
There are possibly some elements of Halloween Koreans would find offensive, and I don’t mean the whole scary thing, I mean people being almost naked but calling it a costume.
At my husband’s work last night there was a Halloween party for a magazine. My husband was shocked at what constituted a costume. For example: only duct tape over the nipples. I’m just speculating here, but in Korea where a lot of women barely show their shoulders there might be moral outrage at Korea adopting those elements of Halloween.
JMK who is living in Korea right now adds:
In Korea right now Halloween seems to be mostly for foreigners and kids. Many, many English hagwons/private academies (kindergartens and after-school programs) hold Halloween parties. The first one I worked at had one only for the kindergarten kids, but my current one also had parties for the elementary kids.
However, did you celebrate Halloween? Did you have a costume? What was the best costume you saw?
Question from Ally:
I’ve had some Korean friends say they’re quite neutral towards tattoos and a few that seem to be put off by the very idea of tattoos so I’m quite curious with how your husband feels about them.
I think the simplest answer is that Korea is still very conservative about tattoos. I remember one reaction my husband had.
I laughed a lot at this because the reaction seemed so strong to me as a Western person living in a country where tattoos are quite normal.
Sometimes I challenge him and ask about one of his good (Korean) friends who has a very large tattoo on his arm and shoulder. My husband says, “That’s different, he’s my friend.” He has some other Korean friends with tattoos too and he doesn’t judge them, also he sometimes admires nice tattoos on cool buff guys, but still his view is quite judgmental of Koreans in general getting tattoos. I think this is quite representative of Korean culture where people are loyal to their friends and family but very judgmental of those outside their circles.
My husband is by no means very conservative either. He married a foreign woman, he has traveled a lot, he hasn’t conformed exactly to Korean society, he has his ear pierced, but even to him tattoos are somewhat undesirable.
So while some Kpop stars have many tattoos that does not mean the average Korean has them or is accepting of them. If they have one it’s likely they’d have to make sure it’s always hidden at work and hidden from parents. Though, the same way views about tattoos in Western society gradually changed, views in Korean society will probably gradually change too. My husband is 30, his view may be different to Koreans who are 20.
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