http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/10/09/the-chuseok-holiday/ Searching for reason in an unreasonable world. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/10/09/the-chuseok-holiday/#comment-18503 The One With Aldacron » Blog Archive » Chuseok is Here Again Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:22:18 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/10/09/the-chuseok-holiday/#comment-18503 [...] a celebration of the harvest moon, is on Tuesday, Sep 25 this year on the Gregorian calendar. I wrote a bit about it last year and described how my wife and I visit her parents’ house for the holiday. Because this [...] […] a celebration of the harvest moon, is on Tuesday, Sep 25 this year on the Gregorian calendar. I wrote a bit about it last year and described how my wife and I visit her parents’ house for the holiday. Because this […]

]]> http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/10/09/the-chuseok-holiday/#comment-1776 Long Weekend » The One With Aldacron Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:36:38 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/10/09/the-chuseok-holiday/#comment-1776 [...] In a post last month I mentioned a funeral and a great-uncle in a paragraph about Korean drinking habits: I got hammered at a funeral once. Since many of my wife’s family members in attendance had never met me I found myself drinking a shot of Korean soju with each of them. Soju is nasty, rotgut stuff that I usually avoid. But when an older person asks you to drink a shot with them it is rude to decline. I actually offended one of my wife’s great-uncles at my father-in-law’s 60th birthday party because I refused to drink soju with him. [...] […] In a post last month I mentioned a funeral and a great-uncle in a paragraph about Korean drinking habits: I got hammered at a funeral once. Since many of my wife’s family members in attendance had never met me I found myself drinking a shot of Korean soju with each of them. Soju is nasty, rotgut stuff that I usually avoid. But when an older person asks you to drink a shot with them it is rude to decline. I actually offended one of my wife’s great-uncles at my father-in-law’s 60th birthday party because I refused to drink soju with him. […]

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