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[Canuckophile]

Reuters is carrying article on Korean fascination with blood types as indication of personality types. Granted, westerners can do this also with the tiresome "what's your sign" chit-chat, but this is kinda cute. Here's the link - and I know it's not exaggerated cuz last year a girl in middle school actually presented a paper on this subject as part of a speech competition where I worked.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=571&e=10&u=/nm/20050418/hl_nm/korea_blood_dc

Then there's the latest word (in my school's textbook, under "cultural tips") on western punctuation. Seems we're in love with EXCLAMATIONS !!!! Yes, sure we are!!!!

And why? Answer apparently 2-fold: one is that Brits can't stop talking about SK's wonderful weather cuz their own weather is so awful. (No, I am not making this up.) Other reason is that all waegooks coming to the Land of the Morning Yellow Dust Storms are just so entranced by Korea's fine weather (and 4 SEASONS!!!!! There just aren't enuf exclamation points to do it justice, eh?) that we JUST CAN'T STOP OURSELVES FROM INCESSANTLY BABBLING.... "What a beautiful day!!" and the like.

Didn't make that one up either. (Wonder if it explains why Koreans are so in love with exclamations - has anyone on this board ever gotten an email from a Korean that didn't have AT LEAST six exclamation points in it? Starting with Hello!!)

Bet I made you laugh - a little, anyway!

CANUCKOPHILE