If you haven’t seen the TV show ‘The Amazing Race’, it’s a reality TV show where teams have to race around the world, completing challenges on the way. My husband loves travel so he likes watching it. We have been watching the Australian version of it and he can get quite worked up about it, especially when his favourite teams aren’t doing well.

If you have a Korean partner you probably know how patriotic Koreans can be. Of course with The Olympics on at the moment I’m hearing a lot of Korean patriotism right now. Sometimes though, Korean patriotism can pop up at really random strange times.

In this example (which was before The Olympics) my husband was cheering for Australians, because it’s an Australian TV show and because the show can be quite tense, he was getting worked up about it, almost like a sporting match. I think at some point his brain switched over to ‘Korean patriotic mode’ and suddenly the answer to the problem was “Go to Korea! Because Korea is the best!”

Even with it being a TV show where they are going to different countries- it didn’t really make sense when he said it! There are many times where all I can do is laugh at his passionate but sporadic bursts of patriotism.