National Theater of Korea

On September 17 we met with the Mission President and his wife, at the National Theater of Korea. 

We also met two other Senior Missionaries couples, and a couple from Korea.   

We were going to go see traditional Korean music and dance performance.   

It was a wonderful performance. As I sat watching, it me very aware of how completely different the Korean Culture is from our own.   

I thought about the missionaries telling us when you shake hands with a Korean, you put your left hand by your right elbow or on the back of their hand. This is done so they will know you don’t have a knife to stab them.
I’m sure they don’t think that today, but the tradition had to start somewhere. 

How sad to live with this kind of fear? It makes you wonder about what these people have gone through. If you put the chopsticks in the rice sticking up it is like a stabbing. 

After the performance we went out to dinner. It was so great to get to know our new friends a little better.