This week, my language partner and I began preparing for the Cultural Presentation. Alvin helped me finalize the contents of the presentation. I asked about any last things that are important about Korean culture. He helped me pronounce some of the names of famous groups/ people and the not so famous groups/ people such as Hyu-Na. I truly found our discussion regarding plastic surgery to be very interesting. I find the procedure not only scary and potentially health threatening, but the trend and social acceptance of the procedure to be even more scary. Plastic surgery is given to teens as gifts and are greatly accepted. I read that there was a lawsuit concerning how a man had an ugly child with a woman that had plastic surgery. The man was not happy about this deceit and the child and thus sued his wife for being ugly.
Besides this, Alvin and I reviewed words regarding numbers, countries, and colors to help describe differences between western culture and Korean culture. I still do not have the numbers totally down, but it's something I need to learn through application.
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