Caveat: Not Chuseok, just Suck

I actually made a kind of bilingual pun today, which, based on my students' reactions, actually worked. This may a first time for such a thing, for me.

We are coming on a four-day weekend, for the Korean Harvest Festival called Chuseok, ("Korean Thanksgiving"). It's one of the two most important holidays of the year. Anyway, I asked a student what she was doing for Chuseok. She said she had to go to hagwon and study on Sunday and again on Tuesday – thus reducing the holiday to two days off, not even sequentially. I said, that's not Chuseok – it's just suck. The latter syllable in English has a similar vowel quality to the second syllable in Chuseok. Everyone laughed.

[daily log: walking, 5 km]

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