Describe a custom from your country that
you would like people from other countries to adopt. Explain your choice, using
specific reasons and examples.
Today, all around the world, there are many
customs that exist. All customs have different characteristics that are
developed from different ethnic backgrounds. Since, every country has their own
custom whether that custom is considered good or bad, it is important to share
good customs that can be enormously beneficial to others. For this reason, I
want to introduce a good customs that Korea have. My country, South Korea, have
many customs. Such as customs that developed by Koreans, and also customs that
came across the East sea from China, such as, Confucianism. Between these
customs there are good ones that other countries should definitely adopt. For
instance, respecting parents, bowing to elder people. Because of this our
country needs to learn other good customs from different countries, and if I
could have a chance to inform good customs of my nation, I would definitely
introduce Korean food custom.
When we think about Korean food custom we
usually think about environment-friendly food. These environmental food
includes eating vegetables, herbs, and most importantly fermented food. Korea
had been developing many fermented food like kimchi, and doenjang which are
very helpful to our health. Our food custom, eating fermented food for
everyday, has lead Koreans to have more environment-friendly and healthier
eating habit. However, in 21 century, many people love to eat instant food that
are considered unhealthy, and disease provoking food. Fermented food might not
be tasty to people from other countries but as the importance of these food is
significantly increasing, it is necessary. Thus, it is important to us to have
environment-friendly food and this is the reason that I want other countries to
adopt this food custom.
The next food custom that I want to talk
about is Korean table manners. Since, Korea puts significant importance on
respecting others, from the past Koreans have been developing its own table
manners. Specifically, one example of table manner is 'young people should not
eat before elder person, and they should not leave the seats before the adults
finish their meal'. They consider this as disrespectful thing. This is also
connected with Confucianism which came from China, increasing the importance of
respecting others. When I was young, my parents always taught me it is
disrespectful thing to take a spoon and eat before my parents eat. I still
follow this when I get to eat meal with my parents. Also, this kind of table
manner should be adopted in other countries to show respect to others and by setting
these table manners in different countries, they will know how to react when
they are eating with others. I think Korea custom has huge positive aspect on
respecting others.
Many countries share different customs from
various backgrounds, and Korea has its own custom on food. To sum up, the
custom that I'd like other countries to adopt is Korea's food custom. This food
custom can be divided into two categories, eating environment-friendly food,
and our table manners.
