Valentine`s Day in Korea

Valentine's Day is a day for a man who has a girlfriend in Korea. On that day, women present to their lovers chocolates, cards containing a love message and the other presents.

Women declare their love for their lover on Valentine's Day. Couples go out to eat, drink and dance to celebrate their love.

Chocolate is a symbol of a girl's love for a man on Valentine's Day. So those who have no girlfriend are very blue on that day, like me.

The day after Valentine's Day, those who got some chocolates and presents from their girlfriends tell their friends about their girlfriends so proudly. Like this:

"Did you got some presents or chocolates?"
"My girl is wonderful!!!"
"I got a great present from her!!!"
"What did you do last night?"

One month later, on White Day on March 14th, men must celebrate their love for their girlfriends with candies, cards, red roses and some presents, if they haven't separated from their girls before the White Day yet. hahaha ^^

Two months later, Black Day on April 14th.

The Black Day is just for lonely men who have no girlfriend, such like me.^^ They get together with friends and drink with each other and shout "Why?" hihihi....^^

Editors note:

Cards are often exchanged on Valentine's Day in Britain, the US, etc. The practice dates back to the Roman feast of Lupercalia where women wrote their names on love notes, which were put into a container; the man who drew a note would then seek that woman's favors. The Christian church ended the Lupercalia, transforming it into the Feast of St. Valentine, a martyr who became the patron saint of lovers. In Britain the practice of drawing young women's names from a valentine box persisted and in the 1600's, Samuel Pepys noted that handmade valentine notes were exchanged between between the sexes. The popularity of cards in England and America began in the 1800's with cheap, efficient color printing methods of mass-printed cards.