Curious Things About Korea

This is a special entrie in my blog, because I'm going to talk about curious things in Korea. Let's see (: 

*If you kiss you to boyfrien or girlfrien in public.. It looks like a lack of respect


*Most of the people in Korea where there are a few surnames. So, most of the surnames are Kim that represents the 21% of the Korean population, Yi, Lee or Rhee the 14%, Park of Pak 8%, Choi or Choe, Jeong or Chung, Jang or Chang, Han, Lim, etc.. Surnames just consists of a surname of onhe syllable and the name consists of two syllables. It means that just with the surname is know the person. In Korea, woman doesn't adopt the surname of her husban when she get married but her children take the father's surname 

*Korean people believe that the number 4 and 13 are bad luck. Also in buildings there aren't the number 4 and 13 in the elevators because those numbers hear like "death" in Chinese.

*If you want to walk around the outer wall of Deoksugung Palace in the center of Seoul, opposite the Town Hall and the Plaza of Seoul. Don't do that!!! Because it means that you'll break up with your boyfriend or girl friend. There are a legend about that because after when  someone in the family of the Superior Court of Seoul wanted to obtain a divorce from her partner should take the road together Deoksugung. So they said "we walked the way Deoksugun together" is like saying "we finished".

*Korean people, believe that if you take a shower before you do an exam, you'll forget all the things already you studied... xD

*Another thing about that they believe is if you cut your nail at night.. the mice will eat pieces of nails cut and will be transformed into humans, will take your form and they can even steal your soul. A little fantasy, right? 


*There is a superstition that prohibit whistling at night, also is forbidden to touch the traditional flute called Piri (피리), if you do, this is called the snakes and the ghosts.Or, more probably, the wrath of your neighbours. lol

*Also, you mustn't give shoes and less to your partner because then he or she will flee from you. A tradition that accompanies this superstition is that if you receive shoes as a gift, you have a small amount of money as 10 or 100 won, making sure that it is not a mere gift to be used for escape.


*Korean people say You don't touch people with marks of beauty near the mouth (that says this superstition) because they  believe that they are infidels. People with moles near the mouth is them used to joke saying baramgi ita (바람기 있다) which is basically a form called "flirt" in Korea.



Well.... I didn't find more thing about that curious things... but I hope that you'll get fun with this things... (: <3 I'll see you late..!!