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Hi I'm Nichola. I'm Sophie and we are from the My Korean Husband blog
and we are going to answer some of your questions. So Corey Marie asks
Definitely food.
That's a really important one. We would really like our children
to understand about Korean food and what
limited Australian food we have. we'd like them to be able to eat
Korean food when they go to Korea and see grandparents, great grandparents
we'd like them to be able to eat well at the table with their family members
that's pretty important to both of us
I'd really like to bring my baby up
a lot of Korean manners. I do know that it's going to be easier
for Alice if she grows up and can fit in well with
Korean society even though she's maybe grown up in Australia
and also I do you think that generally when you meet Korean people
they are really well mannered even amongst even
Australians when they
might not be using the full set of manners, I'd really like Alice to
have good grasp of those so she can get along well with people in either
society and not be particularly offensive. and be
confident. On the side of Australian things
I really like to pass on, and I'm sure you are the same
I really want to read a lot of beautiful
books that I grew up with in my childhood
things like May Gibbs, The Snugglepot and
Cuddlepie stories
there are so many great Australian children stories
and I really want to share a lot of those with Alice
especially growing up here because a lot of those stories are based on
our environment our bushland here and the plants that grow in
our nature in Australia
I think it's a really nice way to encourage a love of that sort of
environment which is another thing I think is a nice
part of Australian culture is that most of us
really do care about the environment
the natural world around us and respecting it, so I'd like to instil that in her
I'd also like.. spend time playing in backyards
bushland and things like that
and I think some of that is not necessarily a part of Korean childhood, because most of them grow up in apartments
heavily populated, small country
I think that my husband would agree with me that he
wishes in his childhood that he had big open spaces to run in, lots of grass between his toes
I'm hoping for my children to have that
and I think one of the best things I'd like to pass on
Australian culture is the traditona of Australian culture is
and again, it's not universal in Australia, but we are a very multicultural society and
generally that means we have to be very open minded to other people
other cultures and that's something I'd really like to make sure I instil in my children is that sense of openmindness, multiculturalism
and excepting all people
yeah that's something that is really important to my husband
as well and it's something that he would really like to promote
as well and show all the positive
aspects of that because our children are going to have 2 cultures
That's right.
Okay let's answer the cutest one first. Positive is always good
okay so many things and you can see
on the blog I make the comics all the time about very cute
things my husband does, so there are just so many
he can be really really silly and very very cute
Han is really really charming when he is interacting with our baby
I really like seeing him as a father I think that's really charming
but you know again he's just a fun person in general
that's one of the reasons that we are married
both of our husbands are very good at being silly. they are very fun to be around
very fun people. but they can be annoying
yeah everybody can be annoying
so with be my husband there are a couple of annoying
things probably if I was limiting it to the most annoying thing
the number one annoying thing that
he does is play League of Legends
which you might have seen I've referred it before
but yes I would like to go to bed a little bit earlier
and he's really happy to stay up
playing video games, it's pretty annoying
I think this goes for both of our husbands
the sulking and the loss of face stubborness
so in Asian culture there is more of a thing of "Loss of face"
which is very very important, so
it can be a little bit difficult when he is being stubborn about things
but there is.... and walking in the back of the set
here he goes now
that's another thing he does when we are trying to film a video
and he is opening the fridge, creeping around but being noisy. and flapping his thongs
Thongs means footwear
in Australia... It's shoes! not...
so when might your
your husband lose face? oh okay so recently on our beach holiday, so we had a christmas beach
holiday
and I was with another friend
and my brother and my husband was being very silly and trying to pick me up and
drop me into the shallow water and I'd already hurt myself so
I snapped at him in front of the others and said
"don't do that! blah blah blah!" and so for him the most important thing was that
he'd lost face. because he'd
looked foolish in front of other people by being told off in public. even though he'd done the silly thing..
so this is what he did..
we were in an inlet where the water was
gradually going out to the sea, so very sandy inlet that went out to the ocean
and we had some boogie boards... body boards, whatever you call them
and so he got on the body board, and he wasn't talking to me anymore
because I had embarrassed him and the water was slowly going out to the coean
so for about 45 mins he
ignored everybody and slowly floated out to the ocean and
he knows that I know that he is not a confident swimmer and
there's waves out there so i think he had a few different ideas of what he wanted to do
so he wanted
me to come apologise for embarrassing him in front of everyone
did that by sulking, so my brother was like "what is he doing?"
he is just sulking. waiting for an apology
i've gotta go apologise to him and my brother was so impressed
"wow he is really doing it" and of course you or I would
be thinking "but come one he did the wrong thing
couldn't he aplogise?" did he apologise? I think maybe like "...im sorry"
so he went all the way out to the ocean
and he was out in the waves until, so like 45 mins later
I finished making the sandcastle I was making with my brother
and went out and had to say "Jagiah I'm sorry that I embarrassed you and I yelled at you
in front of other people, can you please come in from the ocean so you don't get swept out?"
and I saw him grin to himself, so he
tried to have a very straight face but I saw the sneaky grin
that was his plan the whole time ...very look very lonesome and sad as he
floated out on the body board out to the ocean
"oh what a sad"
so here is one important and annoying way that Korean
men really like Korean men in dramas
Yes. sulking. very authentic, yes it's not fun
so Karen Delano asks
okay yes genetically
they have a lot less hair but it doesn't mean they are all
bald...
there is a variation for example your husband
my husband has a six
hairs under his nose and I think he would
love to grow a moustache but it's never going to happen
and I've never seen more one hair on his chin
and his chest. nothing there
and he's actually for a Korean men he's got very thin
hair on his head not thin like balding - not thinning
but most Korean men have very thick hair on their heads
and my husband doesn't really
and on his legs he doesn't have that much hair
sparsely haired legs
but... but my husband
is probably one of the hairier Koreans
so I wouldn't say he is like western man hairy
but for a Korean guy he is a little bit hairer so he's got
some hair on his chest and he's got the hairer legs
he shaves his face regulary, yeah his
face will have a beard in 2 days he can have designer stubble
very very easily. so that's the sort of variation there is, but on a
a whole yes genetically it's different
yes yes I think that largely
Korean do you have less hair
than "white men"
there's a lot of white men though so it's a very big generalisation
yup. okay
okay so we answered some more of your questions
are we doing some more?
i think we've got a few more questions, in another video soon
we'll continue answering your questions. and in the meantime
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yesss... and that's it. Bye!
do you want some more tea? yeah i'm going to have a biscuit
hmmm it's a little bit stale!