Koreans and SWAG

If you are a Korean person living in the U.S. there is no reason you should ever NEED to buy a calendar, or a towel for that matter.

For as long as I can remember, starting in December my dad would bring home a calendar or planner almost every day.  One from a real estate agent, two from the wholesale company, three from the drycleaners, four from the travel agent, five from the Asian supermarket (because you got one free for every $50 purchased, and then after you spent $199, your mom said "그냥 하나 더 주세요 --just throw in one more" and that makes five).

Korean people just know how much they love free calendars so it makes for a good giveaway to your customers, and then your customers give them to their relatives and they also have a calendar for every room in the house.

The same goes for towels.  You will be hard pressed to find a towel without Korean embroidery on it in my house.  (제 7회 메릴랜드 충청향우회, 창립 기념 예배 어디 어디 장로 교회, KNN-뉴스, 한인회 축구 대회)....Church picnics, Korean Society Golf Tournaments, Business grand openings, alumni meetings... you name it, you probably got a towel.

Now the calendar thing I can understand.  I don't really need a specific kind of calendar (I can live without an 18-month justin bieber spread)... but the towels I have a mini gripe about because most of these free towels are made for little torsos.  I'll give them credit because it's a step up from the tiny towels they use in Korea (mostly because it would take forever to line dry an average sized towel let alone a bath towel), but it's still at that questionable length where you feel you need to choose which part of your body needs to be covered more when it's wrapped around you.

I guess I'll just have to live with it as long as I am back in Maryland because we will never run out. ever.

I just got my 2011 calendar from Wonder Enterprises Inc... can't wait to put it up!