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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: White Day? Nice Try Korea. |
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If you think St. Valentine's Day is a scam by the chocolate & flower companies to get you to spend money, Korea and Japan do one better.
They fix it so that women give presents to men first on St. Valentine's Day.
That way, it's almost guarantees that most men will outspend the women when White Day comes and they have to buy presents for women.
Smart guys! Very smart. 
Did you give yesterday? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I was drinking yesterday afternoon with my Korean coworkers, and we discovered I was the only one who had bothered to do anything for White Day. It was hard saying "In my country, we don't celebrate White Day." |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Well if you think thats fixed hows about the 11th of the 11th "gift giving day"? I don't even know if theres a love/sweetherat element to it, just everyone is obliged to pass on the pepero's. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Best new one is 11/8, Bra Day. My coworkers didn't even know about that one. |
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willneverteachagain
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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THIS ISNT NEW, THEY HAVE BLACK DAY TOO
APRIL 14TH I THINK |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| But on black day, it just means that people with no lover eat 짜장면 and hate all people with lovers. No gift giving. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| One of my students wrote up a list of those sort of special gift giving days for every month of the year. There is now apparently a "Green Day" I don't think that most people pay any attention of them though... |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| i thought i was getting candy for being white |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the article Seoulsucker! It's excellent. In fact, I am going to print a copy for myself.
The number of superficial holidays is ridiculous in this country. Who sits around and makes up this nonsense? Incredible. I hope they keep making more because eventually (hopefully) there will be a rebellion against them someday. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| i thought i was getting candy for being white |
LOL
i managed to pass on the excess candy I got from the popular students(?) to the other ones, thus not actually buying anything. A girl had a packet of pringles which was sweet, as i hadn't eaten lunch. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
The number of superficial holidays is ridiculous in this country. Who sits around and makes up this nonsense? Incredible. I hope they keep making more because eventually (hopefully) there will be a rebellion against them someday. |
Who do you think?
Most Koreans really don't seem to care about the majority of these holidays. Actually, recently I've noticed a distinct lack of interest to all holidays, including Christmas and Lunar New Year. |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, you really caught on. the Ministry of Exploitative Holidays is going to have to rename itself and come up with a better, more devious strategy to get past you ! |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
The number of superficial holidays is ridiculous in this country. Who sits around and makes up this nonsense? Incredible. I hope they keep making more because eventually (hopefully) there will be a rebellion against them someday. |
Who do you think?
Most Koreans really don't seem to care about the majority of these holidays. Actually, recently I've noticed a distinct lack of interest to all holidays, including Christmas and Lunar New Year. |
Agreed. My Korean gf says that all of these days are stupid holidays. I have to back her up on this one. I will admit though that when we were out together on Tuesday that she pointed out all of the dudes buying the crap. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| esetters21 wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
The number of superficial holidays is ridiculous in this country. Who sits around and makes up this nonsense? Incredible. I hope they keep making more because eventually (hopefully) there will be a rebellion against them someday. |
Who do you think?
Most Koreans really don't seem to care about the majority of these holidays. Actually, recently I've noticed a distinct lack of interest to all holidays, including Christmas and Lunar New Year. |
Agreed. My Korean gf says that all of these days are stupid holidays. I have to back her up on this one. I will admit though that when we were out together on Tuesday that she pointed out all of the dudes buying the crap. |
They knew if they didn't buy that crap they wouldn't get laid later. So they had to buy it... Like it's been said before, the way to a woman's meow-meow is through gifts. Some K-girls only care about gifts and sometimes only expensive ones. |
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