Mallory CP #4
Saturday, January 20
8:30pm-9:30pm
I met with Dojun for the second time via Skype. This time, he seemed to have a harder time forming sentences properly and coming up with the correct words he was trying to use, but as always I was still able to understand what he was saying, and I would try to help correct him when he made any major mistakes. Once again, we mainly talked about South Korea and some cultural traditions there, because he wants to help me learn as much as possible before I move there. He told me that a big part of business culture there is to go out drinking with your boss and co-workers after work. This dicussion led to us talking about what the drinking age was there, which he told me is 19. He also explained how age works differently there. Here in the U.S., we consider ourselves to turn 1 year older on the day of our birthday every year. However, in Korea, you turn a year older on January 1st, and essentially you are already considered to be 1 year old as soon as you are born. So, someone born in March 2017 will be considered 2 years old on January 1st, 2018. However, they do still celebrate their birthday on the actual day they were born, they just count based on January 1st. (I think I understood that all correctly, I could be slightly wrong but I think that's how he explained it all). We also talked about some common foods there, and some different places that foreigners like to travel there. We sheduled our next meeting for Tuesday, and hopefully I will be able to come up with a list of some different questions I have for him by then.
8:30pm-9:30pm
I met with Dojun for the second time via Skype. This time, he seemed to have a harder time forming sentences properly and coming up with the correct words he was trying to use, but as always I was still able to understand what he was saying, and I would try to help correct him when he made any major mistakes. Once again, we mainly talked about South Korea and some cultural traditions there, because he wants to help me learn as much as possible before I move there. He told me that a big part of business culture there is to go out drinking with your boss and co-workers after work. This dicussion led to us talking about what the drinking age was there, which he told me is 19. He also explained how age works differently there. Here in the U.S., we consider ourselves to turn 1 year older on the day of our birthday every year. However, in Korea, you turn a year older on January 1st, and essentially you are already considered to be 1 year old as soon as you are born. So, someone born in March 2017 will be considered 2 years old on January 1st, 2018. However, they do still celebrate their birthday on the actual day they were born, they just count based on January 1st. (I think I understood that all correctly, I could be slightly wrong but I think that's how he explained it all). We also talked about some common foods there, and some different places that foreigners like to travel there. We sheduled our next meeting for Tuesday, and hopefully I will be able to come up with a list of some different questions I have for him by then.
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