Baby Party

If right now someone would ask who I think are the richest one-year-olds in the world, I would strongly think of South-Korean ones...

Why? Well, reaching your first anniversary date is a whole achieval according to Koreans. Therefore, the first birthday of a baby has to be celebrated not like any other birthday but as something big. How big? Well, let's say it looks nearly as big as a wedding ceremony!

My friend's brother's son, Jinho, just turned one (or actually two in Korea coz they start counting as soon as you are conceived...) . As we were invited to his birthday party, I expected to go to their home. Yet I was a little surprised when arriving at the district Conference & Wedding Centre. The 1st floor was destined for engaged couples while the 2nd floor was fully dedicated to babies. It had a rich central buffet and 4 big rooms for 4 different baby parties. Each of the rooms was cheesely decorated with tons of pink and soft-blue balloons and had an altar with the birthday king/queen's portraits - in truly expensive framed pictures, albums, posters,... - all that done specially for that day. Korean babes are actually real fashion models!

The ceremony starts when everybody had a bite and a drink, but maybe more when the parents estimate the room is full enough. A professional entertainer opens the show with loud music - happy birthday to you, happy birth~~~~~ - and other funny things - or at least so it seemed. Then the baby is presented a basket full of objects, like a microphone, a ball, a pen, a paper bill, a toothbrush, a calculator, etc. With a big drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - just imagine a drum sound - he/she has to pick up one the items that will tell the baby's future.... And what will Jinho become later? A DENTIST!!!

Now all this might not give you a clue on why I would think that day Jinho might also have been one of the reachest babes in the world, does it? The thing is he gets many, many, many 10.000 W bills and, most important, GOLDEN RINGS. Real cute small baby 21 k golden rings! So he really ends up like a king on a throne with hands full of gold...

Pitty those pictures are taken in a studio on a later stage @_@