"Crying Women" in the Korean Peninsula 朝鮮半島における”泣き女”

 TedYokohamaTed Yokohama

Many wonder why Korean women keep crying so hard over passing of Kim Jong-il. Those women are professionals, getting paid for crying (Cont.

TedYokohamaTed Yokohama

It is well known that there are professionals in crying at funeral services, etc. in China and Koreas.

widhywidianto

Come on ted !! Is that true ?? Did u have a fact for it ?? RT @TedYokohama: Many wonder why Korean women keep crying so hard over pass

TedYokohamaTed Yokohama @

@widhy Yes, it is true.

 

widhywidianto

Gosh,, that's tottally insane ! Did u have some prove ?? RT @TedYokohama: widhy Yes, it is true. http://myloc.me/nQvm2

 

TedYokohamaTed Yokohama @

@widhy The elderly Japanese well exposed to Korean and Chinese cultures before 1945 know that there are "crying women" as a profession.

widhywidianto

Thanks for the info,,RT @TedYokohama: widhy "Profession of crying" has long existed in China and Korea. Women practice "Crying"

@utumikeiko内海桂子

北朝鮮の総書記が亡くなり沢山の人が泣いている映像が映されてそれが嘘泣きだとか色々。私が十歳位の頃下町三ノ輪で長屋住まいをしていたが一番奥に朝鮮人（分断前）家族がいてお婆さんの葬式があった。突然５，６人のオバサン達がやってきて通夜から出棺まで泣き通した。泣き屋なんだと後で聞いた。

tweets in Japanese as follows:

After death of Kim Jong-il of North Korea, people have talked about many video reports shown on TV, in which a lot of people are crying so hard.  Some say they are just acting and doing  fake-crying while others say they are not. At the age of 10, my family lived in a tenement house at Minowa, downtown Tokyo where a Korean family (before Korea was divided into two states) also was living in the innermost room. At a funeral service of their grandma, 5 or 6 women suddenly came and began crying. They continued to cry from the vigil to the end of funeral service. Later I was told that they were "Crying Women".

 

Edmondkandaエドモンド神田

<北朝鮮の「やらせ集団号泣」整列して身もだえ泣き叫ぶ滑稽> 　http://nico.ms/nw166788 　#niconews

xbpodeka0263110大森 剛 @

@TedYokohama まず泣き女雇うにはお金が必要。いかに多くのなき女を雇うかが、ステイタスを表す。そういう風習です。

tweets in Japanese as follows;

First of all, one has to have money necessary to hire "Crying women". How many "Crying women" one could hire shows social status. That's what it is all about.