Friday the 15th is Teachers' Day in Korea.
Parents and kids are meant to thank their teachers for hard work and dedication to them.
This was often done by giving them gifts and money. However the tradition got so out of hand because of bribery attempts by mothers that the government actual made a law making it illegal to give gifts to parents or it would be treated as an offence.
Luckily for me many of my students are adults and don't really think the law applies to them. Bring on the pressies. I managed to get a box a delicious home made brownies and 2 silk handkerchiefs. Not bad I say. I also got another strange girt which I still haven't figured out what it's for or why I would need it.
Mmmmm a delicious box of 20 homemade brownies.
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I'm sure it will come in handy one day and was great to receive a gift regardless.
Is there a fun surprise in the brownies? And I don't mean like the wee cheap shite toy you used to get in the kinder chocolate eggs
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