Korea's culture.

In korea, we use honorific when someone is older than us. Even though someone is one year older than us we have to say in formal way when we first meet them. Also, we have to be polite and respect elderly people.  Therefore, we usually offer our seats to elderly man or woman in the transportation. In the U.S, when i tried to make a room to elderly man in the bus, he  frowned and said “ No thanks.” After, i heard from my friend that some elderly people in the U.S think they are still strong and young so if i yield my seat, some people might think that i underestimate about them. In Korea, we normally don’t smile or say hi to stranger. When i first came here, most Americans said “How are you?” and smile while i was walking on the street. That was so awkward to me but i became familiar in that situation so i’m not surprised anymore. In Korea, most people take time to be close with others. Of course, it depends on person’s personality, but we tend to be a bit wary of strangers. However, once we become close with other, we give a great affection. Also, we  keep our precious traditional things such as Kimchi, Hanbok, Joseon era and so on. We think that education is important so we learn so much during the high school. Students all want to enter the popular university so they get too much pressure and stress. However, i like my country because of people’s affection and korea has so many diverse food. I’m craving to eat all of them. We have four seasons and we can see beautiful ocean because Korea’s three sides are ocean. Also, Korea has a lot of mountains and beautiful places which show Korea’s traditional culture.