So, now that I have had a little time to recover from jet lag and decompress, I've started looking through my pictures (all 2000+ of them). Among many of them, I started to notice that a pattern was emerging. Besides all of the rando-pics of me as the rare, brown, foreign commodity, almost all of the pics I've taken, either with people or of people, have bunny ears in them. Although, for them to be bunny ears, the people in the pictures would have to have their fingers positioned behind people's heads. Therefore, it is likely a peace sign. At first, I was thinking it was just popular with Korean children. Oh no, children, teenagers, adults, elderly folks. Even with American transplants (love you Emily and Jen). EVERYBODY. Do they somehow think that the peace sign is an affirmation of American culture? While a little retro, that could be the case. OR, is it some built-in reflex to their own historical background? Afterall, I did learn that Koreans are taught (in school) how to respond to a bomb explosion and Seoul runs monthly emergency drills, which brings traffic, etc. to a hault for at least 15 minutes (I was a witness). Maybe the idea of reunification or the issues to the north have prompted such a constant and casual sign of peace. I may be "philosophizing" or over-analyzing this too much. It could just be a fun and silly thing to do. I gotta kick out of it. That's all that matters, right? Satisfy me.
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