동고동락하는 MANNAM International friends

동고동락하는 MANNAM International friends

Do you have friends?

How many friends do you have?

Some might have lots of friends and some might have only a few.

What kind of friend is he/her?

It’s very hard to define what kind of friend is he/she.

There are many different kinds of friends.

Someone who you have met can be a friend.

Someone who have same interest can be a friend.

Someone who have spent time with can be a friend.

Someone who you can frankly talk with can be friend.

Someone who you can ask for your favor can be a friend.

However, among all these friends, today, I will talk about friend who you can share your joy and also sorrow with you.

It is called 동고동락(Dong-go-dong-rak) in four character idiom.

동 means one, 고 means sorrow, suffering, 락 means to enjoy.

Altogether, 동고동락 means to share one’s joy and sorrow together.

How many these kinds of friends do you have?

Even if there are many friends, having these kinds of friends are not easy.

동고동락 friends are like family who can really think of each other.

Sharing joy and also sorrow is not an easy things.

It’s because you have to feel like how they are.

To share feelings, you have to understand them.

If not, even there is a happy thing, you could feel jealousy, and envy them.

Moreover, sharing sorrow? You might not feel sympathy and bring cheer to them.

Saying with just a word can be easy but feeling with true mind is different.

Who can you think of? Not many?

Then, before you think of your friends, why don’t you think of you first?

Were you a 동고동락 friend to others?

If you can say for sure, that is where the problem comes from.

The first step of being 동고동락 friend is you being a 동고동락 friend.

If you start to give others the feeling of 동고동락 friends, they will treat you the same way.

One direction can’t make perfect 동고동락 friends.

By sharing, 동고동락 friends can be achieved.

How about MANNAM International friends?

Are we 동고동락 friend? YES!

If you have joined MANNAM activities least once, you might have felt this.

Then why? It’s because we share our lights, culture, love, dream, sorrow and everything.

As we volunteer, we share each others’ light and that is where 동고동락 friends starts from.

Sharing lights makes us to understand each other and that understanding makes us to think each other with warm true heart.

This is why MANNAM International friends are 동고동락 friends.

Whenever there is a joy, we share and makes bigger.

Also, whenever there is a sorrow, we share and tries to help each other.

I think, having these 동고동락 friends are presents that is precious than any other.

How about you? If you want to feel and learn this 동고동락 friendship, join us and be one of our 동고동락 friend:)

# Korean four character idioms

- 동고동락(Dong-go-dong-rak) : To share one’s joy and sorrow

- 동(Dong) : One

- 고(Go) : Sorrow, trouble, suffering

- 락(rak) : To enjoy

-만남 친구들은 서로 동고동락하는 사이예요

-MANNAM chin-gu-deul-eun seo-ro dong-go-dong-rak-ha-neun sa-i-yae-yo.

-MANNAM friends have 동고동락 friendship.