"Do you know what day it is today?"

[samedi]

I made a new friend while on the subway a couple of weeks ago and we've been exchanging quite a few text messages recently. Monday was no exception, and as I was preparing to go home from work she sent me a message that read "오늘 무슨날인줄 아세요?" -- "Do you know what day it is today?" The obvious answer was clearly not what she was looking for but I

Comments

[emma2403]

There are so many special days over there, it's impressive!

[samedi]

And there were even more that I didn't write about! It does seem like May is an especially busy month for special events here.

[brighidn]

So glad that Korean youths still do this. I hope they don't take it for granted! Chinese kids are starting to pick this up again. 冠禮／禮quite the thing, one of the rituals now popular by the 漢服運動.

Here's a coming of age in a modern setting:
http://hanfu.goodinfocopy.com/JiLi_Series.htm

[brighidn]

Hrg, ought to say 冠禮／笄禮 above.

[samedi]

The majority of my coworkers (women in their late 20s) didn't do anything special for 성년의 날 when they turned 21 and when I asked a few classes about it last year nobody was familiar with the date. I hope this doesn't mean that the event is fading into obscurity.

Thank you for providing that link. It's very interesting to see the Chinese version of the ceremony.