from malaysia to korea with love: Ramadhan and Eid Mubarak in Korea

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Hello and welcome back to all my readers! I hope you guys are doing well. This blog post will be about my experience on celebrating Ramadhan and Eid Mubarak here in Korea. If you guys not quite sure what is Ramadhan and Eid Mubarak means, do not worry I will explain everything here.

Ramadhan

Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and during this month all Muslims worldwide will fasting for a month. The fasting will takes time from dawn until sunset. Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations. Muslims are also instructed to refrain from sinful behavior that may negate the reward of fastings, such as false speech (insulting, cursing, lying, etc.) and fighting except in self-defense.

Eid Mubarak

After completing the month of Ramadhan, we will celebrate our success by having festivals. Eid means "celebration" and Mubarak means "blessed". We will feel blessed if we can manage to fast for a month without any problem. The feel to be able to celebrate Ramadhan and Eid Mubarak are hard to for us to explain.

As we all know South Korea is a country with a really small Muslim population and based on my experience is really hard for us (Muslim) to explain this since there are not many people have information about this month. Luckily our DSU and KGSP student is aware of this and they are so tolerated with us. Ramadhan in Korea takes about 17 hour per day. It is a bit tough for us since summer in Korea is soo hot but we manage to do it. For Iftar (breaking fast) we usually gather around and eat together. We share the food that we cook, so we can taste different kind of food from various country.

Eid Mubarak were held on Friday which we have classes on that day, luckily NIIED give all the Muslim KGSP student permission to go for Eid prayer. We go to the Busan Mosque that located at Dusil stations.

After the Eid prayer we rushed to DSU back since we dont want to miss anything.

So for Eid Mubarak Shera (Malaysia) and Fazreena (Brunei), my KGSP friend from BUFS invited us to celebrate it at their apartment, since in Malaysia we always visit other people house during this festival to celebrate it together. I decided to cook Malaysian traditional food and bring it to their house.

Sate (Chicken Skewers), Sambal Kacang (Spicy nuts gravy), Ayam masak merah (Chicken with tomato-chili gravy), Beef Rendang and Lontong (vegetable cook in coconut broth).

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Its was soo much fun since we gather together and get to know new KGSP friends from BUFS. Shera and Fazreena decorated their house and they even prepare us with snack from Brunei (Keropok Ikan). We ate a lot on that day since its Eid.