I'm Korean

If you have ever met Korean in your life, you know, one of Korea tradion is asking age.

We would like to ask you age. Sometimes it is kind a rude to foreigner.

You never understand why Korean like asking age to stranger.

But there is some reasons.

First of all, We(Korean) have different way to response, whether someone is older than me or not.

If someone is younger than me, I look down on him??

Ofcourse not!!

Since mankind appear in Korea, we follow that tradition for 5 thousand years.

If stranger is older than me, we respect him as much as we can.

If you went Korea or Japan, you could see that young people compromise to senior in public.

However, Ofcourse other country people do that, especially in Korean that's a kind of like essential.

Secondly, We have different way to say. We have 4 kind of languege. It's devided to kid, young, Junior and senior.

So we should ask him, in order to choose a languege in 4.

These reason are made us to ask your age.

I think that it's similar with that when you meet someone, you ask their habby.

There are some other reasons, but i'm gonna stop here.

Anyway, I love Korea tradition and i have lot's of pride in my country.

Especially, languege.

If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask me please.

Thanks.