How Do Koreans Celebrate a Wedding?

        How Do Koreans Celebrate a Wedding?

 The writer who search about the wedding in Korea shows which one are the steps to get married. It's important emphasize that the couple usuallly didn't meet each other. He or she tells us that in the past the parents in Korea arranged marriages. First, they search for help at the matchmaker who usuallly was a woman in the village and she tryed to help them but at the present the couples can get married by two ways: when two people meet in fall in love or with the help of the fortune-teller who uses the "four pillars" (month, year, day and hour), in the case that choose the fortune-teller and he or she considers that before get married the "four pillars" are bad for the couple the family returns to the matchmaker and try again, if it doesn't happen the couple can get engaged. Then, in the engagement ceremony the two families can get together, meet the girl's house but never the boy's house, set the date of the wedding, exchange gifs, the girl gives to her husbans a expensive document and there he has to write the four pillars. Then, the girl keeps the document all her life. Before the marriage ceremomy, the groom's family (the family's boy) sends a box of gifs (called a hahm) for the bride (the girl) and the box is deliever the box at night. In the day of the weadding the groom gifs a goose of wood to his new mother-in-law. After the exchange of gifs, they have a ceremony at the table, the wife offers dried fruits and the in-laws offers tea, it's a exchange. And the last step is the wedding banquet (called the "noodle banquet") and the parents usually move in with the wife of the eldest son of the family.