What is it with Koreans and forehead flicking? They seem to love to use it as a form of punishment in games too. They actually seem to love punishing people more than Australians do. When we were at my parents’ house and were good friends with the Korean guys next door (my parents’ rent out a house to Koreans on working holiday visas) I taught them lots of pool games. Korea doesn’t have a big swimming culture like Australia does, they had never played pool games, so I taught them how to play games like Marco Polo. They weren’t satisfied when someone failed in the game, like didn’t manage to catch anyone, was “fish out of water” or was caught early so they would punish them – like hardcore splashing or dunking them. I was always like, “You don’t need to violently punish someone like that!” and they’d say, “Yes we do!”

So yes, I’ve seen the forehead flicking used a lot as punishment as well. My husband wasn’t doing it hard this time, he was just doing it to be annoying.