It has been almost 3 months since we moved to Korea. We made many new Korean friends. I noticed a difference of Japanese and Korean friendship. The difference is how we call eachother after we're friends. In Japan, after you become friends, you call eachother,"○○San, ○×Kun, ××Chan". But in Korea, that's different! Since Korea is a Confucianism nation, the way one calls the other differs with one's age and married status. So on the first encounter, one is usually asked about one's age and married status. If one is the same age as the other and one is also married than it means that married one is automatically considered older. Because we live on KNU campus, we naturally befriend Koreans who are either younger in age than us or if the same age, he/she is single. So that makes us automatically older than them. They call us, "hiroro heong("big brother" from younger ♂friend)" or "hiroro opa("big brother" from younger ♀friend)" and "tenne nuna("big sister" from younger ♂friend)" or "tenne eonni("big sister" from younger ♀friend)". We call them,"○○namdongsaeng("little brother")" or "○×yeodongsaeng("little sister"). Because once we made friends, age difference didn't bother us, so at first this custom was a bit awkward for us to get used to. Now we are used to this custom. We wonder how many more "namdongsaeng(little brother)" and "yeodongsaeng(little sister)" , we will befriend before we leave Korea. But we hope to make many more friends!
It has nothing to do with today's diary.But today,I found a newspaper article in朝鮮日報 (Japanese Chosun Newspaper) about my favorite Korean actor,Jung-Woo Sung and his new upcoming movie. I'm just happy~☆