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S06E09 #7

- What would be the best pairing 청국장 with wine vs cake with 소주

- Have you ever celebrated a foreign holiday? What was your experience like?

- If you could design your own coffee shop, what would it look like?

Soft lighting, soft jazz or blues music, wooden wall, comfortable bench or chairs and geometric paintings.

 

- What will be the most important thing to manage a cafe?

The first thing is taste of coffee and the second is atmosphere of the café. And the smile and clear diction of worker are very important too. Their clean suit or uniform is the basis.

 

- How do you usually spend the winter season?

When I was a child, we played 팽이치기, 목자치기, 자치기, 딱지치기 and with fire. 쥐불놀이 is very popular in the season of Lunar New Year’s Day from the full moon day of lunar January. In the evening of full moon day, we prepare an empty can, and make many holes with nail, and make a string by cable at the yard of rice paddy. We make a campfire to get some charcoal. We put charcoal in the holed can and spin it with arm. Then the fire circle is made in the dark yard.

 

- Do you prefer flowers, chocolates, or something else as a gift?

As for me, something that she need is the first choice. But, if I didn’t know what she need then I would choose flowers. And I like to choose a calla or freesia, those are white or yellow, what my wife loves. But if she is not my wife, the red roses is popular. A red roses on the rainy Wednesday was very popular song in 1990’s, was released in 1985, sung by five fingers.    

 

- What’s the hardest part about keeping a resolution?

At the first day of New-year, I made some resolutions. The one is to squat every day and the second is studying English. After two months from then, I don’t make the routine them. The main reason is that there are too many things to attract my attention. For example, Instagram and threads are those things. The day before yesterday, I use Instagram over two hours, watching busking videos. When a person is playing the public piano, another person request to play his favorite song and he played that song then the third person or persons played together. It was so beautiful.