How did Bluff become a shopping festival day
It really is November. It's already been eleven months since 2021. Everyone who has run up until now has had a lot of trouble. What kind of days do you think of in November?
SAT? Pepero Day? Autumn leaves season? or with corona? 😅 Since we live in an age of consumption, Black Friday (Black Friday) is the first thing that comes to mind.
So how did Black Friday become a global shopping day?
Three origins of Black Friday
Black Friday originated in the US. There are many origin theories, but in this post, I'll pick only three typical keywords and talk about them.
There is a theory that the first one <추수감사절> was influenced by In the US, due to the influence of religion, the tradition of shopping from one day after Thanksgiving has naturally arisen. When President Roosevelt proclaimed Thanksgiving Day as the fourth Thursday in November in December 1941, Black Friday's reputation was further strengthened as a shopping day. Since then, Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving Day) has been celebrated by people as the largest shopping day of the year in the US, and if you look at the etymological origin, there is a theory that the expression “black” in Black Friday comes from the day when a black ink (black ink) is recorded in the accounting books for the first time in the year. In the US, there is a custom where the deficit is written in red and the surplus is written in black when recording books. (I don't know if that practice still works today. If you know, please let me know in the comments ^^)
Second, there is <미국의 노예제도> a theory that it was influenced by Of course, currently, the fact that the term Black Friday originated from slavery has already been made false, but if you go back in history, Black Friday bought slaves when slavery existed in the past (?) There is a myth that it is a day to do it, so it is said that it originated here, and this myth continued as the social and cultural practices of vested interests at the time led to the rise and fall into the cube of many people. There is a theory that it was named Black Fry to refer to the day when the slave trade was most active at the time, or “slave trade,” but the reason this origin is false is that the term Black Friday appeared about 100 years after slavery was abolished in the United States.
There is <미국 군인들의 풋볼대회의 영향> a theory that the third one received. Among several origin theories, the New York Times also cited the football tournament as the most likely origin of Black Friday. The US Army and Navy football teams have a tradition of playing against each other on the last Sunday in November every year. Football in the United States is known to be more popular than soccer, basketball, and volleyball combined in Korea, but it is said that this tradition, which began in 1890, naturally attracted people to Philadelphia, where games were held, and as a result, while enjoying shopping and sightseeing, problems such as traffic paralysis and security problems caused by large crowds.
That's why they called this day Black Friday.
Since then, with the rapid development of the Internet and the breaking of many language/cultural barriers between countries, businesses and consumers around the world have shared Black Friday as a shopping day.
In this process, online direct sales, inventory processing with large corporate discount rates, etc. (?) between consumers and companies After that, machine translation technology required for global trade also developed day by day, and it can be seen that Black Friday acted as a catalyst to promote consumption in the global market.
This year's Black Friday is November 26th, but many companies are already running promotions. November 11 is China's Black Friday (= Gwanggun Festival), and the day after Christmas on December 26 is Black Friday (= Boxing Day) in the UK. Black Friday has long been recognized by businesses and consumers as a shopping festival day, but I think there are many problems stemming from it.
In the future, I think it would be interesting to look at comments from Amazon, Taobao, etc. about how consumers feel about the products sold on Black Friday.
See you in the next post~
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