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[mindmetoo]

I was in Gangnam the other day, in a Starbucks, with a couple friends. One of my friends was Korean. Anyway, behind us there were two older couples. One of the women just started on a little tear, then the man I presume was her husband started getting loud. His wife started pounding on the table. They all had various papers in front of them.

I asked my Korean friend what they were all fired up about. She listened it. It sounded like the loud couple were upset at what the other couple were providing in terms of appliances. I think they were negotiating the marriage of their children and the loud couple felt the other couple weren't contributing enough in terms of worldly goods.

Anyway, eventually the loud guy got up, grabbed both his umbrella and his wife's umbrella and stormed out. The way he was dressed too was hilarious. A pin striped navy suit with an out of date cut over a multi colored golf shirt with stripes going the other way. Pure ajusshi wear.

Everyone in the starbucks (mostly people studying for those english exams they need to get promotions) were shooting them some dirty looks, insofar as Koreans can shoot old people dirty looks.

The loud guy eventually came back. They lit up a bit more. He started lightly hitting his wife. I got my camera ready to film this but it never came to real blows. And then some how they seemed to quiet down and everyone left as one.

The amazing thing is the other old guy sat back through the whole thing with his eyes barely open. He had this look on his face like "I just got to sit here and it will be over eventually."

[ajgeddes]

Thanks god that'll never happen in my life.

On another note though, my parents met my girlfriends parents and it went really well. The dads even both had shorts on.

[pkang0202]

The gifts that are exchanged during Korean weddings is pretty serious. In fact, its gotten so serious that its become outright ridiculous.

I remember a few months ago, it was in the news that a couple Korean stars got married and the apartment that the bride's family offered the groom's offended the groom's family.

Getting married in Korea is not expensive because of the actual ceremony, its expensive because of all the gifts being exchanged behind the scenes.

Personally, I know a girl who is getting married after just knowing the guy for 2 months. She's a pianist and her parents set her up with a rich older man because she wouldn't be able to support herself with just performing.

From what I've heard from my Korean and Indian friends, the whole gift giving is taken to a whole new level in India.

[RACETRAITOR]

My parents met my inlaws recently too, and they got along great. No Starbucks as far as I know.

[Atavistic]

[the eye]

I wonder if there was any livestock in the agreement. Oh, right. Silly me. This is 2007.

[jdog2050]

[shaunew]

My in-laws are still going crazy because when my wife and I got married we never bought a brand new washing machine. ( ours was 4 months old at the time. A new fridge, ( again 4 months old) tv ( we had a brand new Pavv 42 inches), but they wanted us to give all our old stuff to the brother and buy new, because that is the Korean way. Thank god my wife is not like that and told her parents off. But to be Korean and marry here my wife said it was like 100 million to 200 million won. The only thing I got from my dad on my wedding day was this advice " enjoy the sex now, because after the honeymoon it's all down hill".

[oldfatfarang]

[bassexpander]

hahah...

I told my lady that my family likes to keep gifts small (true) and expects small gifts in return. She was actually relieved.

Her family has married Western before (cousins) so luckily, a lot of this has been dealt with before.