Cultural Differences

정우성과 문가비
프로 골프 선수가 플레이중에 담배피는 모습
Smoking Charley Hull during the LPGA tour

I captured the above in Thread.

If I translate it, it is

What if it was a Korean player?
I don’t think she looks so wrong with her no-nonsense attitude.
What do you think?

Right. Charley never did wrong while playing golf in LPGA. Never.

However, it seems to be different from Korean culture. Reading the Thread, many Korean people are against smoking while playing golf, especially for the LPGA. I was a little bit shocked. I, myself, have been raised in S. Korea and immigrated to the United States, but I cannot understand the threads. Why my cultural thought is so different from the culture in the S. Korean’s threads.

I don’t think there is a right and wrong view of the world. A view could be different from culture to culture. I believe we should see the view understanding his/her background culture.

It may be that I’m soaked by Western culture already.

정우성과 문가비
Jung Woo-Sung and Moon Ga-Bi

One of the interesting hot potatoes in S. Korea is about the handsome actor Jung Woo-Sung, the biological father of model Moon Ga-bi’s son, born in March. In S. Korea’s culture, it is not used to the biological father without marriage, while it is not an issue in the Western culture.

He said he would fulfill his responsibility for it. However, people in S. Korea do not like that. It seems that what they want is to make him marry her. That’s his responsibility not the money, they claimed in many threads.

That also does not align with my thoughts. I think he is a good man, admitting that he is a biological father and would fulfill his responsibilities. What’s wrong with that? But, as I said, it’s a cultural background issue. No right and no wrong. Nothing is absolute truth.

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