Monthly Goal: Mine the ‘ㄷ’ section of the dictionary and continue to read daily.
Today’s Study: Vocabulary mining from the dictionary and reading from ‘K-IFRS 회계원리’ (K-IFRS Accounting Principles).
Today is the Lunar (Chinese) New Year, which is a big deal in Korea. I’m not sure what kind of festivities they are having over there, but over here I received my first new year money. In order to get it you need to bow down in front of an older relative and wish them a happy new year. Guys bow down and put their hands on the floor and then their head to the back of their hands. Girls are presumably wearing a han-bok (which has a skirt), so they just kneel down and don’t put their heads all the way to the floor.
The Korean New Year Greeting
Apparantly this makes the older person feel pretty good, so they will give you some words of advice and then a little money as a gift. I think the money-giving part is not typically done into one’s late twenties, but since I hadn’t done the greeting before I think they wanted to make it special for me!
Who did you bow to?