[randomkorean]

Hand holding is (or was) acceptable by boys in Korea; and so was non-sexual physical touching, even well into the college age by young men.

So it was a shock when I first befriended some Koreans in the US on student visas back in the 1980s.

That angl-saxon coldness was a learning experience for both parties. Being raised in the US by an emotionally distant Korean mother (Asperger’s?) I just thought that the US standard was normal.