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9 Responses to “Korean Culture Class #21 - Our Son Will Be the Best Doctor in Korea…Someday!”
Friday at 6:30 pm
여러분 나라에도 비슷한 의식이 있어요?
(Do you have similar ceremonies in your country?)
Saturday at 1:59 pm
Technically Korea still is at war…
Saturday at 6:34 pm
what!!!!!korea at war!!!!!!how and why !!!whith north korea!!oooh my god
i praye for a peace of korea
Sunday at 4:59 pm
I don’t think there’s anything very similar in Canada, or in the Jewish religion… In Judaism, there’s a ceremony at the 8 day mark. For girls, it’s nice and painless: a “baby naming” (you don’t give a Jewish child a name before the 8 day mark). For boys, though… well, as Mel Brooks put it, they “snip the tip.” I’m glad I don’t remember my eight-day ceremony… :S
I wonder if the reason we wait 8 days before naming the baby has to do with infant mortality, and waiting a certain amount of time to ensure the child doesn’t, um, die. 8 days is a far cry from 100 days!
I don’t remember much from my really young birthdays. What I do remember is that there were always TONS of adults around… often outnumbering the child guests!
Monday at 4:54 pm
well i dont think i remeber my first birthday haha but i can tell you about a similar ceremony in my country algeria and it’s the first time we bathe the baby ,so everybody would sit in a cercle and children too in the same room and they all watch the small baby having his first bath and during that the grand mather would serve candies and boiled eggs for everybody but this tradition is kind of disappearing these days ..
everybody thanks for sharing !!
Thursday at 7:46 am
I don’t think we have anything like that in The Netherlands. We have some ‘ceremonies’ surrounding birth though. I don’t really think that word is appropriate as I think we don’t have ceremonies for anything but well.. whenever a baby is born people tend to eat this stuff with their friends:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschuit_met_muisjes
Pink ones for if it’s a girl, blue ones if it’s a boy. I eat it every week though so it’s not that special. Except I usually just put it on a normal slice of bread.
Thursday at 5:50 am
I liked this one!
Sunday at 9:43 am
I have a question about the korean age. So when korean people age, do they age twice in one year for every year?
Monday at 10:52 am
Hello Valerie,

No, it’s not…
Just simply think like this…
everyone gets one year old on the first day of New Year (cultural aging).
and they celebrate their own birthday (personal aging)…
I know it’s complicated…
cheers,
Tim
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