PDA
Who taught: Office
PDA (source: http://metropolitician.blogs.com/)
Back in Korea, my parents used to say to Jessy and me, “We have never seen a couple like you guys. You guys are so happy together and show love to each other well. It is great to see.” The reason why they said like that was because we did not hesitate to show our affection in front of them. We hugged and kissed a lot even when they were present. It sounds very normal in America, right? But, it is not in Korea. I am not sure how much things have been changed in Korea ever since we left but, when we were there, people did not like seeing other couples’ hugging and kissing in public places.
It was kind of socially and culturally prohibited. Sometimes, old people say some harsh words to young couple who are showing their affection in public places. For example, Jessy always wanted me to show my love in public places. Whenever we are in a subway train or a park, she was asking me to kiss her. Then, I was like, “Hey, this is not our home. Don’t you see other people here? We cannot kiss here.” Then, she became sullen till I really kissed her. To save her and me from that unhappy situation, I had to kiss her. So, I looked around and around and around to find a proper time, then, if no one was looking at us, I kissed her very quickly. Well, then, Jessy became happy again. As this happens again and again, Jessy asked me more. She wanted to me get bolder to kiss her even people were looking at us. I was so embarrassed to do it. So, what I said to her was, “OK, here is the deal. Since we know we are gonna move to America, I will kiss you in public places in America because people there would not care about it and all of them do kiss in public places, I think.” She accepted the deal.
So, when we got here, she wanted me to kiss her in Time Square of New York City. Well, I did it and Jessy was happy. Most of all, nobody cared as far as I remember.
A few days ago, there was an episode of Office TV show about this behavior. Do you know what American people call this kind of behavior? It is called, PDA. Let me guess! Now, you would be saying, “What? PDA? That is like a small mobile device, Personal Digital Assistant.” That is right. But, at the same time, PDA means “Public Displays of Affection.” Based on the episode I saw, it looks like American people do care about PDA and they are not really fine with seeing PDA. So, the question is how much is fine and how much is not fine? Maybe it was because PDA happened in the office? So, if it is in subway or park, it is fine? I need to know the answer because Jessy will ask me to kiss again in the central park of NYC. Somebody please tell me!!!
In NYC, anything goes. You typically aren’t allowed to do it in high schools. In Pittsburgh? Meh, not a real big deal, but people will probably stare at you if it’s a prolonged make-out session.
OK… Let me try a prolonged make-out session to see people’s reaction. Where should I test? First of all, I need to find my lady to have the session.
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Terry, wait until you go to Spain or even worse, anywhere in Latin America, there even I am surprised to see so much PDA floating in the air!
Cannot wait to be there in the near future. I want to see what is happening. Wait! Andrew was in Latin America in the past! Andrew! How was it? Did you notice any difference while you were there?
Buenos Aires is “The Paris of South America”, so it’s a little different from other Latin American cities 😉
There was definitely some PDA going on, but even more surprising to me was 2 teenage boys kissing each other goodbye. It wouldn’t surprise me as much if it was the older generation – but to see high school kids doing it was unusual to me.
That is surprising. Nobody says anything? That would be something people look and even talk about in Korea if that happend on street.
By the way, Seoul is “The New York City of Asia.” 🙂
showed affection in front of your parents? what’s wrong with you, dude!
I should’ve noticed you were an alien who could speak Korean.
You know what? I did not even imagine that you were Korean when i first met you 20years ago. You know why! 😀
Haha.. man.. I know I do not look like Korean, right? Neither are you!!! 🙂
mm.. what do i look like?
Back when i was middle and high schooler, I had heard of mixed-blood so many time.
Having had a red hair and white skin, they always told me “Are you a mixed- blood? and which side are you on then? Whicherver you are, you are an alien”. I was so embarrassed me with these things at that time. Now, I look like a native, but you’ve never been in all ages, dude!!! 🙂
Oh, I almost forgot. I’ve bought air-ticket, and the arrival date is 28, April(9pm). We are supposed to be reached to BUFFALO via Detroit.
Call me whenever you can, dude!
Cannot wait to see you in the U.S. Safe trip and see you soon!