Happy White Day
Posted by Kathryn on 14th March and posted in Celebrations, Holidays, Korea, Off time, Web sites
It’s White Day today. The streets of Samsondong were crazy packed with couples being lovey dovey. Oh wait, let me digress a bit.
What is White Day? Another wonderful Korean Hallmark holiday of course. White Day falls on March 14th, a month after Valentines Day. The tradition on Valentines Day is for the women to give candy and gifts to the men. It’s just the opposite on White Day.
So back to Samsondong. I had to go to Kidari today to pick up a workbook for my D1 class . Kidari is right across the street from Lotte Hotel. There are quite a few little restaurants in that area, including the one I went to lunch at. The cab driver almost hit about 12 cars on the drive down to Samsondong. Ugh. I hate cabs in Korea. This one section of Samsondong has a bunch of very narrow streets that aren’t really fit for automobile traffic. So many people. Not just people. Couples in Love. Disgusting. I was glad to get done what I needed to get done so I could get the heck out of that madness. On the plus side, lunch was good. Spicy chicken and rice. I’ll have to find out what it was called because I just can’t remember.
I got a nice little haul of candy from students yesterday. I’ll probably end up giving most of it away to kids who come in and chat with me. I like to reinforce the whole speaking English thing. Korean Hallmark holidays are good for building up stashes of candy and treats for that.
As if “couples in love” wasn’t enough, sometimes they’re kissing in public and stuff like that…
Also, weird that in Korea’s Valentine’s Day, women give stuff to men. Isn’t it opposite in the US? Men give stuff to women, and there is no day for the opposite?