At the Crossroads of Connection

As a girl that had spent each year of her life in the state of Karnataka, India, until I was twenty, I was always under the impression that the norms followed in maintaining social relationships are globally one. My ignorance caught up to me as soon as I stepped into a new world of social constructs, South Korea. Oh boy was I caught in a lukewarm surprise. While there are dissimilarities between our cultures, somehow there are none. The cultural values that have been instilled in me and the ones that are held by Koreans are like the two ends of  a bridge, they meet and depart at the same time.  I stayed in the city of Wonju and visited Seoul a couple of times during the one month that I stayed in Korea and it opened my eyes to a society that has their cultural values deeply woven into their language. I mostly realized this when I saw how “unsaid” all their cultural practices are and that is exactly what I shall be diving into in this blog.  We were taught by a certain pro...