Not really wanting to write about the wedding.
It went down today, as expected, and I was uncomfortable in a hambok, as expected. My sister-in-law was a beautiful, blushing bride, as expected, and Snickers looked handsome in his suit, as expected.
It was a typical rendition of what Koreans think a modernized wedding should be -- overly-glamorized, overly-priced, very much for the cameras only, and within the hour not only was the ceremony over but so was the meal.
I’m not a fan of such weddings.
My sister-in-law runs a study-room in her apartment so many of the students performed during the ceremony. One of the performances consisted of several girls singing a pop song and randomly popping up signs that wrote “kiss”, “hug” and “clap” in Korean. Snickers frowned at them, insisting it was tacky. I turned to him and told him, “if this ever went down at our wedding, I’d seriously walk down the isle and leave you!”
Harsh, I know… hence why I never had such a wedding, or a wedding at all for that matter.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
1 comment:
I don't understand this. If they didn't ask you, you would've said that they don't include you in family affairs. But they respected you enough to include you in the process and they treated you the same as everybody else. If they had to wear a hambok, why wouldn't you? If they made an exception just for you, then it would have been like saying "you're not Korean, so you're the only one who doesn't get to wear this."
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