1. Korean people have strong belief in Blood Type 💕
The most common question that you may be asked by Korean people even at the first conversation is “What is your blood type?”. Most Korean people believe that your personality depends on your blood type and that is one of the important reasons to decide should they accompany with you. Since this special belief has spread, there are some unexpected things appear such as it’s an indispensable ritual to ask your partner’s blood type before dating. According to that for years, the man with blood type B tend to most struggle in finding their girl friends or wives because they are depicted as quick-tempered, selfish, and faithful. Also, based on the blood type personality theory, sometimes people blame on their blood type whenever they have trouble in life.
2. Korea has the highest rate of alcohol consumption in Asia 🥂
There are approximately 3.6 bil soju bottles have consumed in Korea in 2017, which means each adult person drank around 8️⃣7️⃣bottles in one year. No matter what gender, just need to be qualified older than 19 years old, Korean people occasionally drink alcohol even on the special day or the normal days after studying or working hours.
3. Gifts style on special day 🎁
- At the first birthday (also called gold birthday): gold ring. The reason is that in the past due to the people lack advanced medical technology and financial ability, the infant mortality rate was high. Therefore, having a baby survived their first year in his/her life became an event which is worth celebrating. Although the infant mortality rate has dropped significantly nowadays, this cultural continues.
- At housewarming party: toilet rolling paper or liquid detergent. It may sound so strange to other countries’ people, right? But the reason is so simple. Rolling a toilet paper is a very easy, so it means guests wish everything from now forward will be smooth in your new house. The liquid detergent bubbles symbolize prosperity because they are full of beautiful color and can be blown bigger.
- Other special days such as Thanksgiving Day or Lunar New Year: Spam (ham). Spam has appeared in Korea since the war many years ago and it was a very expensive food. Spam contains a variety of nutrition and it goes well with kimchi. Hence, it gradually becomes a popular present in most special days in Korea.
P/s: If you know any other interesting things about Korea culture, feel free to share with us 😉
Hello 민지.
Firstly, you've done a good work. It is an inetresting blog. ^^
I have some comments for your blog, hopefully it helps you:
In the first one, I think it was a typing mistake when you wrote "wive" (guys with type B blood are hard to find their girlfriends or wifes).
I think you should consider the order of pictures. Put pictures before write the fact or in the another way. Your blog will look more neat in that way. And put the picture in the middle instead of 1 side.
Those comments are just what I think after reading your blog. You're welcome to keep your idea!
Hi 민지. I‘ve read your blog and it’s very interesting and informative. However I’d like to recommend you sth; firstly if you can make the contents number specific then you might can change the title to “5/6 etc surprise facts about korea”. I think that will make your story more interesting and in the finishing part you’ve entered some information without reference so I think if you want to use this part use it specifically otherwise remove it. Lastly if you add some beautiful photos on the middle that will look beautiful. Overall you did Great. Keep working hard