Children’s Day

By: Chung Su-jin

May in South Korea was “family month”. May 5th was the Children's Day and May 8th was the Parent’s Day. On May 5th, the parents please their children. Whereas on May 8th, children gave a bucket of flowers to their parent as their expression of thankful.

If it compared with United States and Indonesia that only commemorated Mother’s Day, in South Korea, there is a Parent’s Day because the South Korean society thought that if there are children, there should be also parents. During forty years ago in the process of the fast economics development, the worked men often get stress. As a result, they sometimes release their stress to their family.

However, with the better economy improvement of South Korean, they have realized the family value. Although the domestic violence increased, the position of the family members that previously was hierarchical tended to be equal recently. I predict that in the future in South Korea, the atmosphere of other eleven months will become like the atmosphere of May that is the family's month.***