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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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 Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: Korean wedding! what to bring? |
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Have one of those weddings up coming. What is an appropriate gift?
Is cash and a card ok? How much cash is an appropriate amount? |
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Donkey Beer
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Bring an appetite. It will be a quick 30-40 minute wedding, then everyone will quickly rush to the dining room to pork out. The whole affair will take about 60-90 minutes depending on your appetite and the food. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| 30 or 50k is generally good. Don't give 40 as it's unlucky. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| If you don't know the bride or groom, don't feel the need to bring anything. if you do, bring 50,000 in an envelope. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:57 am Post subject: Re: Korean wedding! what to bring? |
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| Khunopie wrote: |
Have one of those weddings up coming. What is an appropriate gift?
Is cash and a card ok? How much cash is an appropriate amount? |
If s/he is a friend, 50,000 in an envelope is appropriate. Save the card for after or give it a day or two before. It will get lost at the wedding.
If she is just a co-worker and NOT a friend, 20-30k in an envelope.
If she is a VERY good friend, then 100k is not unreasonable.
You will get a Korean style lunch. You can have your meal before or after the wedding. You should get a "meal coupon" from the door guy that is collecting the envelopes.
If you don't get the envelope from him, ask your friend (there is time to chat before the western part of the wedding). They will mention something to the people beside them and you will get one very quickly.
It is NOT a fau pax to ask cause you are the foreign guest. If you didn't ask and could not eat, then they would be VERY embarrassed if you went away hungry.
You didn't say if you were a friend of the bride or groom. Be sure to say hi and give a bow to the parents of your friend. Take your camera.
After the wedding there is a photo time. 1st is the bride and groom, then parents are added, then close family, then distant family, then friends. Make sure you get into the "FRIENDS" photo. Mom will take pride in her offspring having a foreign friend and will show the picture to her friends. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, W30,000 or W50,000 is the standard gift.
The way to tell WHICH amount to give is whether or not you are invited to the private reception after the wedding for close friends. This is the ONLY part of the wedding ceremony worth going to. If you are not invited to it, you may as well save your time and work on your stamp collection.
At the reception for the close friends, the bride and groom play sex games....like his friends string some fruit and a banana on a rope and hang it around his waist and the bride gets to kneel in front of him and peel the banana with her teeth. It's quite a yuck. Other games include her licking melted chocolate off his ear or them exchanging egg yolks without breaking them or him moving an egg down the inside of her blouse with his chin.
As I say, if you don't get invited to these festivities, you may as well stay home and work on knitting your winter longjohns. |
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