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Parents' Day
Korean children pin a red carnation on the chest of each parent.
What happens
South Korea keeps 8 May as Parents' Day, which grew out of an earlier Mother's Day. The custom is to give each parent a red carnation, often a small corsage that is pinned to the chest and worn all day. Small children make theirs from paper at school. A week later, on 15 May, pupils give carnations to their teachers on Teachers' Day. Flower shops and street stalls sell carnation baskets through the first half of the month.
The flowers
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Parents' Day" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dianthus: Darkone ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Corsage: StretchyBill, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Parents Day Korea: 草花写真館, CC BY-SA 3.0, source