Exploring 3 surprising facts in Korea..

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.

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.

- 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 😉