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Hanson
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: Why don't Koreans celebrate Easter? |
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| Like the title says: Why don't Koreans celebrate Easter? |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Do you mean the Easter Bunny crap or the mystisism crap? |
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Ilsanman
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Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| B/c Korea is not a Christian country. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
| B/c Korea is not a Christian country. |
It isn't? Could've fooled me.
Korean Christians celebrate Easter. But they celebrate it like they celebrate all other religious holidays like Christmas and New Year, by sitting in church, not with easter egg hunts. What's wrong with that? The way we celebrate Easter in the west, it's meaningless. It's a good thing that religious holidays still have some religious content to them over here. We just need to wrest New Year's back from them. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| I could've used a 4-day weekend... |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
| I could've used a 4-day weekend... |
I'll take my week long holidays for Chuseok and Sollal any day over the stupid 3 or 4 day ones we have at home  |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Koreans get a "red day" for Christmas, which is a distinctly Christian holiday. Easter is actually a bigger deal to Christians than Christmas is, am I right? (There isn't a religious bone in my body, so I'm taking that from what my friends have told me...) Yet, Koreans don't celebrate (I guess I mean "observe a holiday for") Easter.
I'm puzzled... |
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rsmm0224
Joined: 06 Feb 2008
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
| I could've used a 4-day weekend... |
I'll take my week long holidays for Chuseok and Sollal any day over the stupid 3 or 4 day ones we have at home |
Yeah, but Chuseok is Fri-Sat-Sun this year so only one extra day off. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
Koreans get a "red day" for Christmas, which is a distinctly Christian holiday. Easter is actually a bigger deal to Christians than Christmas is, am I right? (There isn't a religious bone in my body, so I'm taking that from what my friends have told me...) Yet, Koreans don't celebrate (I guess I mean "observe a holiday for") Easter.
I'm puzzled... |
If that is all the puzzles you about this country, you are way ahead of me Hanson  |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Hanson wrote: |
Koreans get a "red day" for Christmas, which is a distinctly Christian holiday. Easter is actually a bigger deal to Christians than Christmas is, am I right? (There isn't a religious bone in my body, so I'm taking that from what my friends have told me...) Yet, Koreans don't celebrate (I guess I mean "observe a holiday for") Easter.
I'm puzzled... |
If that is all the puzzles you about this country, you are way ahead of me Hanson |
Never said that was all that puzzled me; just one of many. |
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bondjimbond
Joined: 29 Dec 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: |
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I was actually a bit surprised...
I went out Sunday to collect some books I was purchasing, and in Balsan Station, the Christains were out in force. There were nearly two dozen of them, distributing free coffee, Easter eggs, and religious propaganda. I was actually rather happy to accept a couple of Easter eggs... reminder of home... |
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drunkenfud
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| The local church delivered a metric assload of eggs to my school. The staffroom smelled like a dormitory of flatulent fratboys for hours. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
Koreans get a "red day" for Christmas, which is a distinctly Christian holiday. Easter is actually a bigger deal to Christians than Christmas is, am I right? (There isn't a religious bone in my body, so I'm taking that from what my friends have told me...) Yet, Koreans don't celebrate (I guess I mean "observe a holiday for") Easter.
I'm puzzled... |
Ah! Now apparently when they were discussing which national holiday to lose for this year because there was too many. Christmas cropped up as one to get the chop, but the Christians would have gone nuts, literally. So they lumped for chucking Constitution Day (jeheonjeol) instead. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| drunkenfud wrote: |
| The local church delivered a metric assload of eggs to my school. The staffroom smelled like a dormitory of flatulent fratboys for hours. |
Why the hell would chocolate eggs smell like farty teens? |
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Mi Yum mi
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:59 am Post subject: |
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Easter? So Jesus is on the cross and surrounded by his followers.
Don't worry my flock. I'll be back this Sunday but I better not see any goddam eggs. Hide them, paint them, I don't give a shiat. As long as I don't see any fuking eggs.
Thus Easter was born. |
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