Pepero Day

Pepero Day

Pepero Day is an observance in South Korea similar to Valentine's Day or Sweetest Day. It is named after the Korean snack Pepero and held on November 11, since the date "11/11" resembles five sticks of Pepero. The holiday is observed mostly by young people and couples, who exchange Pepero sticks, other candies, and romantic gifts.

According to one story, Pepero Day was started in 1994 by students at a girls' middle school in Busan, where they exchanged Pepero sticks as gifts to wish one another to grow "as tall and slender as a Pepero"Fact|date=November 2007 (Pepero means "thin like a stick"). However, it is more likely it was initiated by Lotte, the company which produces Pepero.

In Japan, a similar "Pocky Day" was held on November 11 in 1999, which was the 11th year of the Heisei era. The date, 11/11 of the 11th year, resembled 6 sticks of Pocky. Fact|date=February 2007

ee also

*Pepero
*White Day
*List of Korea-related topics
*Contemporary culture of South Korea
*Armistice Day
*Public holidays in South Korea

External links

* [http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200411/05/200411052210227709900090509051.html JoongAng Daily Newspaper article about Pepero day]
* [http://www.pepero.co.kr/ Official Pepero Site] (Korean)
* [http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=42&newssetid=495&articleid=2005111103103886485/ Pepero, poppies claim today`s date] (English)


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