luck – My Korean Husband https://www.mykoreanhusband.com Intercultural Life Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:54:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.mykoreanhusband.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-newkoreanwedding-32x32.jpg luck – My Korean Husband https://www.mykoreanhusband.com 32 32 Lucky Pig https://www.mykoreanhusband.com/lucky-pig/ https://www.mykoreanhusband.com/lucky-pig/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:54:23 +0000 http://www.mykoreanhusband.com/?p=136 Since our engagement my husband’s family believes they have had a lot of luck, as things have been going really well for them. They think I’ve brought the luck into their lives so they have called me a ‘Lucky Pig’.

In Korea pigs mean fortune. However, in western culture calling someone a pig is usually an insult! Meaning they are ugly or eat too much etc. So when I first heard his family are calling me that I was like “What?!” But then thankfully it was explained to me. Let’s hope I can keep the luck coming!

My husband, knowing that in English it sounds very different to in Korean, laughed and said in English, “Yeah you are the lucky pig!….. Oink Oink!”

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