In continuation of this previous thread: https://www.goingyourownway.com/mgto...ighting-13391/
Asian countries like Korea, Japan, and China are more romantic and feminized than Western countries and this has to do with the prevalence of the 5-HTTLPR gene among Asians which elevates serotonin, and this in turn elevates cortisol which lowers testosterone and causes a collectivist mindset that induces an intense desire for romantic relationships: feminizing the men and lowering their intelligence, creativity, and individualism by damaging the pre-frontal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, and cerebellum which stunts decision making, concentration, memory, learning, impulse control, creativity, and motor skills, respectively.
In the West, Valentine's Day is the only romantic holiday but in Japan they also celebrate White Day and Tanabata along with Valentine's while the Chinese celebrate the Qixi Festival also in addition to Valentine's Day.
The Koreans are the most romantic because they celebrate Valentine's and the 2 Japanese holidays in addition to celebrating their own local romantic holiday called Chilseok and making every 14th of the month a romantic holiday, giving them 14 romantic holidays in total.
The Korean males are also vain and use plenty of makeup, cosmetics, and plastic surgery, making them the most feminized males in the world.
The Asians are also the ones who introduced romantic holidays because the Qixi Festival in China and Chilseok in Korea has been celebrated since the 200s BCE, while Tanabata has been celebrated in Japan since 755.
While Valentine's Day was originally called the Feast of Saint Valentine's and was originally a religious holiday which was not about romance but was a commemoration of Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr.
Even today, Christian denominations still officially classify Valentine's Day as the Feast of Saint Valentine's and celebrate it as a commemoration of the Saint's Martyrdom as opposed to a romantic holiday.
The Feast of Saint Valentine's was only turned into a romantic holiday in the 1400s because during the Renaissance, increased trade and contact with Asians such as the Persians, Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans caused the originally Eastern notions of courtly love to spread to the West which caused the Westerners to inaccurately convert the Feast of Saint Valentine's into a romantic holiday despite it being a religious holiday.
Interestingly, the 1400s was also the time when religious conservatism started to decline in the West and people started becoming increasingly liberal and romantic, culminating in the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx in 1848.
The Soviet NKVD deputy Yakov Agranov even introduced sexpionage in the 1920s for their spies to use romance as a tool to manipulate their enemies into disclosing state secrets crucial to national security.
Agranov later created a school named the Lenin Technical School to teach sexpionage and the school was opened in 1931 by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, who was the head of the Joint State Political Directorate.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilseok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpio...et_and_Russian
A quote from the article: https://listverse.com/2013/09/06/10-...t-south-korea/
Valentine’s Day is popular across the world, but in South Korea, it has a little twist. Unlike most countries where guys have to worry about flowers, candies, and cards, Valentine’s in Korea is all about the men. This is a day where women show the love by giving chocolates and gifts to their husbands/boyfriends. Of course, everything changes on March 14. Known as White Day, this is the holiday where men buy gifts for the girls, but there’s a catch: A guy is supposed to spend three times the amount of the gift he received on Valentine’s. And, as you might have guessed, the gifts are often in the color white.
However, these aren’t the only lovey-dovey days in South Korea. In fact, the 14th day of every month is a romantically themed holiday, or at least a day for reminding singles how unlucky they are. Some of these, like Kiss Day (June) and Hug Day (December) are pretty self-explanatory. January 14 is Diary Day, when couples and friends give each other blank diaries. The sappiness of Photo Day (September), when couples take photos of each other, is rivaled only by Yellow Day/Rose Day (May), when lovers dress in yellow and give each other, yep, roses. The saddest day of all is April 14, depressingly known as Black Day. This is when singles mourn their lack of love by eating “jajyangmyeon,” which are sticky, black noodles, all the while hoping to meet someone special before the next romantic holiday rolls around.South Korean men are obsessed with cosmetics. It turns out that South Korean men are spending close to $900 million a year on makeup. BB cream foundation is the product of choice, but facial cleansers, anti-ageing moisturizes, and eye creams are also extremely popular. There are even TV shows dedicated to the subject of the manly makeover. Up to 20 percent of the male population, known as the grooming tribe, use makeup regularly, but it’s not so much about fashion as it is business. The South Korean job market is extremely competitive, and wearing makeup is all part of the game. These guys want to make good impressions in their job interviews by hiding their blemishes and looking like celebrities. It looks like in Korea, makeup really does make the man.