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Post by jewel on May 10, 2014 21:05:35 GMT -5
Why do K drama people wet their finger with their tongue and touch their nose when their legs cramp up?
Why do they grab the back of their neck when they get angry?
Why do they drink honey water when they're drunk?
Why do they wear lenseless eyeglasses? (Do they think we're stupid and not notice???)
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Post by jewel on May 11, 2014 10:49:54 GMT -5
Another question:
in "I'm Sorry, I Love You", Eun Chae says in that interview that she had lived in the same house with Yune for 25 years. So it's safe to assume she's 25. The mother states at one time that if her baby were alive he'd be 27 years old. So Moo Hyuk is 27. That means Moo Hyuk and Eun Chae are only 2 years apart. So why in heck does Eun Chae keep calling Moo Hyuk "ajuhssi" all throughout the drama, and not "oppa" like she should??? I mean, don't you call a guy "ajuhssi" when the age difference is like five to ten years apart???
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Post by ginnycat5 on May 17, 2014 19:52:36 GMT -5
Why do K drama people wet their finger with their tongue and touch their nose when their legs cramp up? Why do they grab the back of their neck when they get angry? Why do they drink honey water when they're drunk? Why do they wear lenseless eyeglasses? (Do they think we're stupid and not notice???) About the honey water, it must be to rehydrate after drinking a lot of alcohol.
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Post by jewel on May 19, 2014 12:36:15 GMT -5
But then why not just plain water? Isn't that best for hydration? I guess it's because I hate honey...
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Post by soapygrams on May 21, 2014 13:37:33 GMT -5
T honey water helps to rehydrate the body. Plain water also does so but there are elements in honey that are very beneficial to the body and help replace what the body has lost due to alcohol consumption.
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Post by TheBo on May 28, 2014 12:00:55 GMT -5
Fiona, as you probably have deduced, these are things that Korean people do in Korea and sometimes we just can't figure it all out, but decide to "go with it"--lol. I assume many of the remedies have their roots in folklore or folk medicine.
Sometimes, I have noticed, people use the terms "ajussi" and "ajumma" when they want to distance themselves from someone (such as when a young man calls a young woman who is annoying him ajumma), when they consider their relationship to be very formal or respectful (such as referring to an in-law of your own age), or if they come from a region where people use more old-fashioned terms of address. Finally, sometimes young people use these two terms when they are making fun of another party, in terms of, "Don't think I would ever want to get romantic with YOU because you are a frumpy old ajussi."
However, I can speak to lense-less glasses. It's done in stage costuming. Sometimes fake eyeglasses have plain glass lenses, but a lot of the time they do not because then you don't have reflections and they cannot be scratched. I doubt they think we're stupid, they probably think we can't see it on-screen. Or, possibly, this is a Korean fashion statement that is beyond our ken (like the folk medicine) and we just don't happen to know about that here.
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Post by jewel on May 31, 2014 22:00:49 GMT -5
Regarding "ajussi", I still don't understand why Eun Chae kept calling Moo Hyuk that right till the end of their relationship. I mean they were in a loving, close relationship by the end, wouldn't you agree? Shouldn't she be calling him "oppa" or "Moo Hyuk ssi"? My mom is going to watch "I'm Sorry, I Love You" after she finishes "The Moon That Embraces the Sun (?)" so I'm gonna ask her then.
here's another thing I've been curious about: why are Koreans so into blood types? Everytime I look up some actor their blood type is given along with age and height. What is that? I don't know my own blood type or my husband's...
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Post by ajk on Jun 1, 2014 10:48:20 GMT -5
That is a very good question. I've noticed the blood-type thing and have wondered about it myself.
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Post by TheBo on Jun 3, 2014 9:22:57 GMT -5
There was a big blood-type fad a few years ago, they even had a couple of dramas I think. I never understood it myself. And Fiona, not having watched the drama I can't say for sure, but I know when you see older (drama) couples, they tend to be extremely formal with each other, and so do some younger couples, just because they are more formal people. That may be the case here, as I said. I look forward to hearing your mother's take on it, though. (AJK, I accidentally clicked into your post and finalized a change before I caught it, so I had to go in and take it out, so it looks like I edited you but really did not. D'oh!)
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Post by soapygrams on Jun 3, 2014 11:43:23 GMT -5
some years ago, on the Philly board, there was a big discussion of the blood types; and here in the USA there is a typing of personalities, such as being a type A is an active person, in charge and always under lots of sres. Well, a person can change his/her lifestyle but not his/her blood type . LOL.
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Post by TheBo on Jun 3, 2014 11:50:17 GMT -5
I dunno, soapy... Mrs Go just told Soo-ae that she can't change the gender he got from his parents, but he had... Maybe blood type is next. LOL.
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Post by bird11 on Jun 3, 2014 16:37:40 GMT -5
Now that everyone else has added their ideas about blood types-- here is mine--- Whenever I watch a drama, especially a historical drama, there is almost always talk about bloodlines-- like being of bone something or other, so maybe all this talk about blood types has to with maintaining family lines or maybe it has to do with the fact that so many people in Korea have the same last name, that if you list your blood type it might make it easier to which person you are looking for? Just my two cents worth......
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Post by jewel on Jun 3, 2014 19:00:15 GMT -5
I do remember now on some drama I was watching (I wish I could remember what), a woman said to a man, "You are totally blood type A!" I remember thinking she must've meant "type A personality." But maybe Koreans think blood type signifies your personality...??
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Post by TheBo on Jun 4, 2014 9:56:37 GMT -5
Yah, that's exactly it, fiona! It's funny it tracks the personality type theory, isn't it.
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Post by TheBo on Jun 5, 2014 14:37:17 GMT -5
Hey! Guess what! In Ep.13 of Saving Mrs Go, a character who wears glasses with no lenses (which I honestly had not noticed even though fiona mentioned it LOL), he told someone who criticized his eyesight, "These have no lenses! I'm only wearing them for the fashion!"
So, I take this as confirmation! One question down, fiona, lol...
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