Question about Korean superstition/taboo...

[telophase]

I seem to recall that there's a Japanese taboo against wrapping the kimono with the right side over the left, as that's the way it's done on the dead. Is there an equivalent superstition/taboo in Korea?

Because I'd like to know, if a Korean person saw this man, would they twig that something was up by the way he wears the right side over the left, or would it not matter?







And now to figure out what to go out and get for dinner. :P

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, fascinating! :D

Hmmm. It's so hard to say, because we're just starting to get hints of what role Mr Yang is going to play. Spoiler code in case anyone reading this hasn't read the four volumes out now: The Antique Gift Shop of the title is owned by a young woman who is heir to a shaman and has shamanic powers herself,. but who wants nothing to do with that world and denies that it exists. She majored in "Science" at college. XD Her grandmother said that if she could sell all the old antiques they had, that she'd support her granddaughter's choice.

Mr. Yang showed up as the only applicant for the position of shop assistant, and it's shown fairly early on that he can see the spirit-forms of the objects, and occasionally when things get out of control for customers who buy the objects, he steps in and fixes things. He says he hates humans, although he seems to care for the "Science!" granddaughter. In the most recent volume, we go into the granddaughter's childhood, where she was enthralled by the ghost of a small boy at one point, and we see Mr. Yang talking to the grandmother - he appears to be some sort of ancestral deity/spirit/whatever. I think he's bound in service to the family, perhaps? I don't quite remember the details and the manga is in a box in the garage right now. XD

So ... that mostly means I dunno. XD Maybe the ext volume, which is supposed to come out in August, will tell us something more.