In Korea, it is common for members of the same sex to put their arms around each other or hold hands as a sign of friendship.
Side dishes are an important part of Korean cuisine. They include boiled rice (bap),
soup (guk or tang) and kimchi. Kimchi is an indispensable part of any Korean meal.
It is unacceptable to blow your nose or belch at the table, and it is regarded as
bad manners to hold the rice bowl in your hand. Also, the rice bowl and the soup
bowl should be arranged side-by-side, with rice on the left and the soup on the right.
Koreans offer glasses of liquor to each other rather than pour their own.
When someone offers you an empty liquor glass, you are expected to receive
it and hold it out to receive a fill-up. Drink the entire contents,
and likewise pour a drink for the person who offered it to you.
This drinking tradition helps promote close ties around the drinking table.
The 3 most popular liquors are Dongdongju, Makkoli and Soju.
Dongdongju contains grains of boiled rice and Makkoli,
with a 6-7% alcohol level is an unrefined rice wine with the
longest history of any Korean liquor. Soju is the best known of traditional distilled Korean liquors.
Koreans traditionally live in homes with heated floors, and it is customary not to wear shoes inside.
Even those who use beds instead of sleeping on the "ondol" (heated) floors never wear shoes indoors.
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