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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| asams wrote: |
| It is NOT Thanksgiving without American football. So all you Canadians and Koreans calling your harvest festival 'Thanksgiving' can get bent. |
oh S.N.A.P. |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
pkang0202,
A: Happy Chuseok
B: What's Chuseok?
A: Its a Korean holiday like an autumn harvest festival[.] It[']s a 3 day holiday where people go back home to their families and eat a big meal.
B: You mean like Christmas?
A: ..... exactly. |
I get the punctuation corrections, but what state do you come from where Christmas is a three-day holiday? |
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Pikkle
Joined: 17 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| and since when is Christmas an autumn harvest festival? |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| Pikkle wrote: |
| and since when is Christmas an autumn harvest festival? |
What's an autumn harvest festival? We just have a harvest. Are your farmers 'special'? Do they need encouragement to do their job in autumn?
| Gibberish wrote: |
| I get the punctuation corrections, but what state do you come from where Christmas is a three-day holiday? |
A Christmas requiring three days' recovery is a state of inebriation and over-eating. As usual. What other kind of 'state' is there? |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| asams wrote: |
| It is NOT Thanksgiving without American football. So all you Canadians and Koreans calling your harvest festival 'Thanksgiving' can get bent. |
oh S.N.A.P. |
Well there IS 씨름.. |
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benji
Joined: 21 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| shinramyun wrote: |
| There was no indians here. That's for sure. |
Koreans were the Indians and general Macarthur was John Wayne. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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We have a harvest festival in England. It's called 'Harvest Festival'.
If anyone turned around and started calling it 'British Thanksgiving' - as if there were any resemblance to the American holiday! - I think I'd be tempted to punch them in the mouth... |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Jane wrote: |
It's like on Korean Air, when they are coming around with the meal and they tell me they have "chicken or Korean style spicy rice with assorted vegetables." They are talking about bibimbap.
One day i want to ask a flight attendant if they like 'seasoned ground beef charbroiled patties with assorted vegetables and enrobed in bread." It's called a HAMBURGER!!! |
Good one! |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| 추석 is a Chinese festival... the direct translation of this holiday from Chinese is the Mid-autumn Moon Festival.. and it IS a harvest festival in China, which is the same as *Thanksgiving* in the western sense. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Don't call it Korean Thanksgiving |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/117_52817.html
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| The use of the term "Korean Thanksgiving" has been impressed on most foreigners and natives, but there are still many who do now know the full meaning or origins behind the holiday. |
This article touches on one of my most recent pet peeves. I don't understand why people can't just call it Chuseok, the holiday's proper name. Are non-Koreans living here thought to be that ignorant? I find it a bit patronizing whenever I hear a Korean spouting off the term "Korean Thanksgiving." Just the other week one of my Korean co-workers was explaining to me about what days we were going to have off, because it was "Korean Thanksgiving." She didn't even mention the name Chuseok, so I was confused for a second, thinking "What the heck is Korean Thanksgiving?" She was shocked when I said, "Oh, you mean Chuseok?"
My next point is that I find that there seems to be all these pre-programmed explanations that seemed to be recited whenever possible. They're usually phrased the same way, in English no less. I'm sure everyone is familiar...
referring to Chuseok-Korean Thanksgiving
referring to Kimchi- One of the healthiest foods in the world
referring to geography- Korea is 70% mountains
referring to ddeok- It is Korean traditional rice cake
I could go on....
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Either you've been in Korea too long, or not long enough. You certainly have not been here "the right amount" of time.
It's a celebration for the harvest in Korea.  |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| OP, you REALLY need to get laid. Chill out. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:32 am Post subject: |
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I think all things Korean should be given American names and all Korean names should be erased because they are redundant
Hyundai - Korean Chevy
Samsung - Korean HP
Seoul - Korean New York
Peppero Day - Korean Halloween |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
I think all things Korean should be given American names and all Korean names should be erased because they are redundant
Hyundai - Korean Chevy
Samsung - Korean HP
Seoul - Korean New York
Peppero Day - Korean Halloween |
I find Peppero Day to be more like Korean Valentine's Day. An overly commercialized holiday with no real point to it, revolving around crappy chocolate. |
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Bearach
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I call it Chuseok when speaking to Koreans, 'Harvest Festival' otherwise. |
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gakduki
Joined: 16 Jul 2009
Location: Passed out on line 2 going in circles
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Chuseok Smuseok
"Hi mom, It's the Chuseok long weekend."
"Don't get too drunk."
She didn't know, didn't care |
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