Did you ever notice how much romance plays a role in Korean Culture? Tv dramas, tv shows like love letter, movies, songs, and everything having to do with couples, like :trends on compatible blood types, couple outfits, couple rings, couple phone charms, and couple mp3 players. Is there a need for romantic spirit in Korea? Why is it so prevalent. Is this another aspect to what tourists find as so attractive?
I believe that it is. Korea does tend to have a romantic flare and want or more, the need for a fairytale story. Goong, Coffee Prince, My Boyfriend is Type B, all of these popular dramas or movies contain the happy fairytale ending. No, they might not own the world, but the couple pretty much always ends up together.
There is a heavy emphasis on being together in Korea. I know many women in Korea who have only just reached 25 years old and talk about how they need to find someone to marry and fast if they do not have a boyfriend. Is the need for couples based on Confusionism where family plays such a heavy role that people, especially women, find the pressure to start a family of their own?
Maybe I'm totally wrong because I think that America does have a sense of romance as well. Who wouldn't want to live happily ever after? The difference can be seen in the things that are so popular today in Korea like the dramas and game shows where they try to match celebrities up in couples, and the over abundance of couple everythings.
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