Have you heard of any of these Asian superstitions?

[alexanderifinae]

I'm not Korean but my family holds the same superstition with wallets and purses. If there's nothing in it when it's gifted it'll lead you to ending up broke 😅

[ooooooo]

Korean superstitions sound like an english teacher lol

[immaecho]

Same here in Poland! Also it's looked down upon to give someone spiky/sharp things (from literally cacti trough knifes to actual guns) because that's indicating that you wish hurt to them

[syched]

Oh- not me getting him all 3 for Christmas already 😭

[crunchybobaasmr]

In Asia. We never give clocks bells and shoes. Shoes resembles “sigh “in cantonese language

[BeLovedSadClique]

Same with watches and wallets in Russia. How amazing that people have same traditions all around the world 😊

[SanaMin-hghm]

Imagine ur boyfy gave u shoes as a gift and hes a Korean but u r not. So u didn't get his intentions😂

[merlinzimmerman]

Thanks for the cultural info!
Now the fancy silver shoes gifted to a couple of girls in Boys Over Flowers make a lot more symbolic sense!!

[crazybabe]

In Appalachian culture you don't gift scissors as it is seen as cutting ties with the person.

[QueenTaterTot]

I used to study Mandarin, and there’s a similar superstition in China that if you give someone an umbrella it means you’re saying goodbye forever. This is because the words for umbrella (yǔsǎn) and break up (sàn) sound very similar. Thought this was interesting and wondered if it applied in Korea as well, since the shoe thing is a Chinese superstition too 🤔

[FireGriffon]

That’s very interesting! 😁 In Serbia it’s a custom to give newlyweds household items, but never knives because that means that there’ll be fighting in the home. Also, you never gift an even amount of flowers, you only bring those to the cemetery, even amount of flowers is for the dead so it’s a bad omen to give to living people. There is also the belief that it’s bad luck to gift baby items while the women is pregnant, or at least not give them until she is close to the due date. I’m pretty sure there are more, I just can’t think of them right now. 😅

[lucyk.]

Interesting. Now I know who to blame for my financial woes😂😂😂😂😂

[Enhypenmeencanta]

With that mentality it’s like saying every gift has a horrible meaning…

[divishhhha]

I am not korean nor do my family follow these traditions but god they make so much sense!😅😢

[Smeowglass]

Giving out shoes, empty wallets and watches this to everyone this Christmas 😂

[kayjo]

That is not just Korean superstitions. My family follows the superstitions also.

[lifeis.butadream]

I love hearing these kinds of little tidbits, I like the idea of being able to secretly be petty w certain people in my life while looking like I'm being generous with a gift lol

[DDeim]

We got same suprestitions in Lithuania😂 ofc we got more, but these are main ones🤣🤣🤣

[Vai_Editzz.ৎ]

Guess who's gonna give someone an empty wallet?

[SindhuPr-cbrf]

The last one hit too hard on me as a kdrama fan😐😑😶