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Relationship Culture (May 13th, 2020)

안녕  everybody~ Welcome to the fourth blog post of this semester! This week we will be covering Korea's Relationship Culture. This includes relationships between friends, families and even lovers. In this week's subject, we were more focused on the unique couple culture in Korea which is very open compared to other countries. A lot of cringes from the members because of the matching culture found between couples. Before we jumped into the lovey-dovey relationships, we talked a bit about the formal and informal speaking habits in the Korean language as it depicts one's relationships, especially in friendships. To further understand how relationships work in Korea, Yoorim saw how the military plays a huge role in affecting relationships. As there is a visible wall between Korean males and females since military time is not compulsory for females, unlike males. Other than that, we saw that Koreans in general refrain from 반말 (informal speech) due to seeming like a rude person to