Friends

I found out what I deem to be the most interesting and perplexing thing that I have yet to encounter in the Korean culture. Koreans can not and will not be friends with people that are not the same age as them. This is why, when Koreans meet new people they will automatically ask them their age, to determine whether or not they can be friends with them.

Doesn't that blow your mind slightly? And they are very blunt and real about this fact.

Which means - Trina, Carina, Tanya, InField girls ...if we were Korean ....we wouldn't be friends. Sooooooo strange to think about it.

Aaaannndddd ...for the record Andrew - they do not consider siblings friends. Younger siblings are below them. (So technically - you should start bowing to me!)

Makes me thankful that our culture is very different in this regard.

As a sidenote: Koreans are actually a year (or potentially 2 depending on when your birthday falls) older than us because when they are born they are automatically one, and then they age every new year. Which would make me 30 already, without a 30th birthday party ...which does not sit very well at all.