Oh! I failed my exam again....

It is customary in Korea for a baby's mother to stay in her mother's house after childbirth for a while.
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It is for contort and rest for both the body and mind.
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After childbirth, the baby's mother eats rice and seaweed soup for a couple of weeks.
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Seaweed contains a lot of calcium and iodine which helps stimulate the metabolism.
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It is customary for Korean women to eat seaweed soup for recovery from a childbirth.
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Koreans also eat seaweed soup as their birthday breakfast.
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Maybe they eat it because their mothers ate it when they were born.
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Anyway, in the morning of someone's birthday, Koreans ask, "Did you have some seaweed soup?"
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A funny thing is that no one will eat seaweed soup on an exam day
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,because seaweed is slippery and gives the idea of failing an exam.
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Koreans say when they fail an exam, "I had seaweed soup!"
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