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Those ladies just can’t get enough Korean ddeok! It’s like they’re ddeok-crazy.

I knew a girl like that in college.

Are you kidding me? It’s Remembrance Day. 50,000 Canadian troops making this peninsula free. 100′s of thousands of Americans, British and the commonwealth. Boys that never went home after WW2, to keep this place in free of Stalinists– and afloat in MacDonald and Starbucks. The only reason they eat rice is because…. trade tariffs…

Somebody on my site raised a good point: why the effort to raise rice consumption when Koreans already eat it three times a day. The blogger Gangwon Notes . . . notes that maybe it’s patriotic in nature, Koreans not wanting to celebrate a day based on a Japanese snack. But, at least as far as I’ve seen, Koreans don’t realize Japanese pocky sticks exist.

Well, I don’t object to Koreans celebrating one of their (many) consumer holidays on November 11th as opposed to “Remembrance Day.” While I think all these manufactured holidays are lame—as is people getting all gung-ho about a holiday younger than us by a company that copied a Japanese product—Koreans have their own days for remembering the war dead. I don’t have a problem with also reminding people it’s Remembrance Day, but I don’t like the idea of criticizing Koreans for not observing it, it being the day a war ended all the way in Europe nearly 100 years ago. More discussion on that here, if you pardon the link.

Well, the link-back didn’t work, but you get the point. Here, if you’re interested:
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/11/creating-new-consumer-holiday-for.html

nice ladies dont eat ddeok that way.

read up on “11.11″
& it’s significance and tie it to how corny in love koreans are. today is basically korea’s version of valentine’s day.

Um, Korea’s version of Valentine’s Day is Valentine’s Day.

Peppero Day is just yet another manufactured “holiday” to line the pockets of the confectioners. I don’t usually participate with any of these such manufactured holidays. They are meaningless.

Valentines Day for girls to gift to boys
White Day, for guys to gift to girls