On new years i was supposed to join the supposed 600,000 citizens who crowded Haeundae Beach in Pusan to watch the sunrise. But it was freezing, so i stayed in bed. Apparently, i was not alone.
Because this is a Korean tradition, I wasn't surprised that when i asked my kids on Tuesday how many of them had seen the sunrise, most raised their hand. What did surprise me was that most of them had "seen" the sunrise in a rather insincere manner; by watching it on TV or looking at slide shows on their computer.
huh?
There is a language barrier, and so the most pressing question was to decide whether
A) the kids were watching the sunrise later in the day to avoid waking up at 6am.
B) The kids were watching it on TV because they were too cold/lazy to go outside.
(Un)surprisingly, the answer was evenly split.
I understand people watching the Times Square ball dropping live via television. That is a site-specific event. But the sunrise? Furthermore, i can't really image someone watching a taped 'ball-dropping' the next day because they were too tuckered out the night before.
I have a very hopeful image of my children watching the sunrise on their Samsungs while the actual sun rises, um, like directly outside their house. For added irony, one of the children gets up and pulls down the blinds to keep the glare off the TV.
A boy can dream, can't he?
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aww, 'your' children!
and
kids today...!
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