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Last weekend, a colleague invited you to their son’s birthday party in Seoul. You were very excited because you have never been to a birthday party for a child in Korea, but you have heard so much about them! It was beautiful, as you expected. However, these first-time Korean parents may not want to take things so seriously. There, in the middle of the room was a long table with at least a hundred items strewn across. The items ranged from the traditional to some that you could not possibly imagine what they represented. Traditionally, you know what the belief is in Korea if the birthday boy chooses the coin or the computer. But these Korean parents have car parts and a caged animal on the table! And has anyone noticed there is a course set up to lure this poor Korean child to a stethoscope? They do know this is not serious…right?

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This entry was posted on Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Korean Culture Class . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

9 Responses to “Korean Culture Class #21 - Our Son Will Be the Best Doctor in Korea…Someday!”

KoreanClass101.com says:

여러분 나라에도 비슷한 의식이 있어요?
(Do you have similar ceremonies in your country?)

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maxiewawa says:

Technically Korea still is at war… :cry: :cry: :cry:

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naouel says:

what!!!!!korea at war!!!!!!how and why !!!whith north korea!!oooh my god :cry: i praye for a peace of korea

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Daniel K says:

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!

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rabia khodja says:

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 !! :razz:

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Jeroen says:

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.

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colin says:

I liked this one!

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Valerie says:

I have a question about the korean age. So when korean people age, do they age twice in one year for every year?

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timandyou says:

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… :roll: :wink: :razz:
cheers,
Tim :cool:

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