It was enough, about 15 years ago when we relocated from another state. My girlfriend earned 22k/yr back then and we lived in a small attic apartment of 770sqft in New Brunswick, paying about 16k/yr for housing.

Yes, it's enough to survive. But it's not sustainable without a plan to begin at a low-expense level, and to increase your earnings.

Hanbok day is a recent cultural holiday in NJ, first observed last year (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/tenafly/2021/10/22/hanbok-day-south-korea-celebration-tenafly-nj/8537783002/). It’s been a holiday in SK for almost three decades. Nowadays the hanbok doesn’t really come out except for special events like wedding couples attire or places where it’s incentivized/encouraged — there are historical sites like the royal palaces in Seoul where visitors can enter without paying admission if they show up wearing the hanbok.

As a both a New Jerseyan and a Korean-American, I would like to invite everyone to partake in Korean culture, cuisine, and fashion, year-round in NJ, whether in palisades or Edison or wherever.

As everyone has already pointed out, this wasn’t appropriation when it happened. And since I just gave a yearlong blanket invite, that should give us a break from further trolling k-posts by OP until next October.

Edit: wtf -> https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/y6lq0y/cultural_appropriation_of_korean_traditional/ just stop and appreciate 🇰🇷