Here in Korea the 14th of every month is reserved as an affectionate holiday.  Since is the US we typically think of only February being a ‘love holiday’ I thought this was a good time to tell you how much love is spread all over Korea.  And the Korean are so affectionate, I guess when there are so many holidays to show your appreciation how could there not be.

January 14th is Diary Day where couples should give each other a diary or planner with all the love-holidays circled in red; along with Birthdays, anniversary’s, weddings, couples vacations… ya know ‘special days’

This month is obviously Valentines Day but here it is only for women to give gifts, usually chocolates, to their loved ones.  A month later there is White Day when the men return the generosity and give gifts to women.  Then on April 14th there is Black day for people who are celebrating being single, it’s traditional to eating ja jang-myun, a black noodle soup or other black foods.

May 14th is Rose Day/Yellow Day where couples exchange roses and the single peeps hangout with friends, eat curry, and dress in yellow.  If you met someone on Black Day while all the singles ‘were out’ you would exchange yellow roses as well.  I’m excited to see if people actually dress in these colors.  Kiss Day in June is pretty lame is my book, it’s just a day where lovers confess their feelings and “kiss passionately”

Silver day is at the top of my list… couples can ask their friends/family to give
them money to pay for a date :) They exchange gifts made of silver and announce their relationship to their friends.  As if the matching couples clothes didn’t already give it away ;)  Another chance to dress the same is Green Day- August 14th, where people are supposed to wear green and have an outdoorsy day.

Getting sick of all the love?  By the time September 14th rolls around the fake holiday makers were getting lazy, Photo & Music Day.  Couples take photographs together in matching outfits and then in go out with friends to noraebangs and night clubs. Ha Ha.  Apple Day is pretty cool, it’s actually October 24th and it’s a where friends, family and couples give apples to each other to apologize for past mistakes.  :)  How Sweet right?  The reason behind this is because the Korean word for apple, sa-kwa, which also is the formal way to say “I’m sorry”

Pepero Day, Nov 11th is the first affectionate holiday I was here for It is basically a day for everyone, from teachers -to the post man -to your girlfriend to give chocolate bread sticks.  Pepero Day is a very commercial holiday but there is another on the 14th- Movie and Orange Day which doesn’t get much attention because of Pepero Day.  No surprise, you eat oranges and watch movies on this day ;)

Lastly, December 14th- Hug Day, to give hugs and cuddle.  That was a bit exhausting! As much as I’d like to celebrate all this affection it might just be too much.  Where There is Love There is No Darkness

It looks like it’s laundry day on this key. he he.

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This is Wage, he started out as a drawing at the bottom of “I miss you letters” that David Horvath would send to his girlfriend Sun-Min Kim after she had to return to Korea.  As a surprise gift Sun-Min sewed Wage into a plush ugly toy and sent it to David.  How sweet is that?  David fancied his new doll so much he asked Sun-Min to sew a couple more and they turned into a whole Uglyverse, a universe where UGLY meant unique and special :)

I probably have 7 ugly dolls but this one is special to me.  The Big Guy got him for me over a year ago solely based on this story.  Since I’m in Korea I thought it would be nice if Wage did the asking for me, he wants to know if you’ll be my Valentine?

True story… I heard about it over here in Seoul

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Today Nadine and I watched our first episode of LOST.  I know I know, I think we are the last people we know to have not seen an episode of this show but now we’re on the bandwagon.  Big time.

Earlier today we were laughing with our friend who said he watched 13 episodes in one sitting and with all the excitement over the new season we figured we’d try out.  We put our jammies on and cozied up to watch the Pilot, about half way through I think we both knew it… we needed to watch this show.

Two episodes later I headed home only to watch three more.  I can’t even handle it, it’s amazing so far.  The characters are starting to develop, their back stories are getting more interesting and I love the ‘destiny’ theme that has begun to evolve.  However I do think it’s going to give me nightmares since I still don’t know know what the creepy thing in the jungle is and now they’re finding weird dolls and skeletons.  I’m excited to watch more but right now I’m a little panicked about addiction setting in. ;)

“I swear when I grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose.
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields” -Fun

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L is for so many things