Gift for Korean friend?

[Anonymous]

My Korean friend married a black man during the pandemic earlier this year and I’ll see her for the first time since 2020, on Friday. What is a little gift I can give her/them that is appropriate in her culture? She’s a rich lawyer and I’m … not. It’s more important that it’s symbolic than expensive. I just want her to feel my support, partly because her parents won’t acknowledge him, and partly because they chose to just get married at city hall, no celebration or anything. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

What ethnicity is the new husband?

[Anonymous]

You would give them the same thing you'd give to any other person who got married. What does her being Korean and him being Black have to do with anything.

[Anonymous]

A pair of Korean mandarin duck carvings. They are a very traditional Korean wedding gift and there is a lot of meaning behind them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_ducks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What ethnicity is the new husband?

Did you read the OP? He's Black. I'd just go off her wedding registry. That's what she really wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ethnicity is the new husband?

Did you read the OP? He's Black. I'd just go off her wedding registry. That's what she really wants.

Are you dense? Black is not an ethnicity. Examples of Black ethnicities include African American, Afro Caribbean, British West Indian, and many, many others.

[Anonymous]

A set of soju glasses
Korean dinnerware, chopsticks/spoon sets, banchan bowls
Dolset soup/stew stone bowls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ethnicity is the new husband?

Did you read the OP? He's Black. I'd just go off her wedding registry. That's what she really wants.

Are you dense? Black is not an ethnicity. Examples of Black ethnicities include African American, Afro Caribbean, British West Indian, and many, many others.

Okay, yes technically that is correct. But honestly, as Americans when someone asks about ethnicity they typically mean Black, White, Asian, etc.

[Anonymous]

Give them a gift card. She doesn’t want your fake ethnic gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A set of soju glasses
Korean dinnerware, chopsticks/spoon sets, banchan bowls
Dolset soup/stew stone bowls

Aah please don’t give your Korean friend chopsticks for her wedding gift

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ethnicity is the new husband?

Did you read the OP? He's Black. I'd just go off her wedding registry. That's what she really wants.

They didn’t do a wedding registry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A set of soju glasses
Korean dinnerware, chopsticks/spoon sets, banchan bowls
Dolset soup/stew stone bowls

Aah please don’t give your Korean friend chopsticks for her wedding gift

Lol, I know better. I wouldn’t do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A pair of Korean mandarin duck carvings. They are a very traditional Korean wedding gift and there is a lot of meaning behind them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_ducks

Thanks! This looks great and was along the lines of what I was searching for.

[Anonymous]

I would get a gift certificate to a nice date restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Korean friend married a black man during the pandemic earlier this year and I’ll see her for the first time since 2020, on Friday. What is a little gift I can give her/them that is appropriate in her culture? She’s a rich lawyer and I’m … not. It’s more important that it’s symbolic than expensive. I just want her to feel my support, partly because her parents won’t acknowledge him, and partly because they chose to just get married at city hall, no celebration or anything. Thank you!

Let me assure you, that's not the reason why they don't acknowledge him