Comments on: Christmas in Korea and Honeymoon

By: Connielicious88

Connielicious88 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:33:00 +0000

Christmas is for “Christ Mass”… so it’s for Jesus love in each everyone of us, and attending the mass with the family so we can fully understand the true meaning of Christmas is “Joy, Peace, and Love” 😉

By: Nic (MyKoreanHusband)

Nic (MyKoreanHusband) — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:19:00 +0000

In reply to Victoria Yakovleva 維奇. Hmmm, I would say it's different here because there is such a large population of Christians, so there are all types.

By: Victoria Yakovleva 維奇

Victoria Yakovleva 維奇 — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:53:00 +0000

Are Korean Christians significantly different from those who are non-Christian?

For example, in Hong Kong, Chinese Christians tend to be more educated, speak better English and appear to not bother about their Confucian roots as much as those who do not associate themselves with the Christian faith.

By: Magdalena Kastelik

Magdalena Kastelik — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:14:00 +0000

In reply to Nica. awww this way of celebrating Christmas is so lovely.....! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas time with your kids :))

By: Nic (MyKoreanHusband)

Nic (MyKoreanHusband) — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:23:00 +0000

In reply to Hannah Moren. Ah okay. Yeah many churches advertise their Christmas services for everyone to come to and expect visitors.

By: Hannah Moren

Hannah Moren — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:09:00 +0000

In reply to Nic (MyKoreanHusband). Makes sense, that's what I figured. I guess I find it weird to just show up at a Church too, my family is Jewish anyway, but showing up at a synagogue we didn't belong to would be weird to me too. I guess that's just me though, I know some folks out there do it.

By: Nic (MyKoreanHusband)

Nic (MyKoreanHusband) — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:39:00 +0000

In reply to Hannah Moren.

Yeah why would anyone who is not a pre-existing member of a church go, was what he meant. Whereas in Australia you have people traveling and going to a church that is not their regular church. You also have people who identify as Christian but don’t go to church regularly but always go at Christmas.

However, there’s even non-Christians who are simply going because their family is going together, or non-Christians who enjoy the spiritual aspect and the sense of tradition at Christmas.

By: Hannah Moren

Hannah Moren — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:42:00 +0000

When you wrote, “why would anyone else go to church on Christmas??” did he/you mean that only devout Christians/pre-existing members of a congregation would go? So like, why would people who don’t usually go, go? Or like, why would non-Christians go? Because I guess obviously non-Christians would not go…

By: Miau

Miau — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 19:04:00 +0000

Here in Spain, going to church on Christmas is not a tradition. We stay with our family and eat delicious food (seashell) and sweets (turrón, polvorones…) Even though Spain is historically Catholic, atheism is growing, so religious symbolism like nativity scenes are slowly disappearing and every year Christmas Day is becoming more a family holiday with typical Christmas decorations.

By: Nica

Nica — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:12:00 +0000

Aww.. that makes me a little sad. Jesus is the reason for the season. In my family we put more focus in the birth of Christ than Santa and gift giving.
We take the kids to elderly homes to sing carols and pass out hot coacoa and candy. We make a birthday cake for Jesus and read the story of the birth if Christ to the kids before they open presents. Then we ask them what Christmas means to them… they always say “Presents!” Haha..

I am a single parent so Christmas would be so depressing if it was a couple’s holiday here.

Thank you for sharing Korea with me and my kids. Someday we will make it out there to experience Korea ourselves 🙂