Hawaii to Korea: The 19 Hours That Never Change

Korean families have been on these islands longer than anywhere else in the United States. The first group of Korean immigrants landed at Honolulu in 1903 to work the sugar plantations, and their descendants are now in the third and fourth generation. That history is why a question about saju in Hawaii often comes from someone who grew up here rather than someone who arrived recently.

미주 한인 이민이 시작된 곳이라 하와이에는 3세·4세가 많습니다. 사주를 물어오는 분도 갓 이민 온 사람보다 여기서 자란 사람인 경우가 많습니다.

What almost always gets in the way is not the language. It is the clock. Hawaii sits farther from Seoul in hours than any other state, and people give up on a reading simply because they cannot work out when to write.

Hawaii is 19 hours behind Seoul하와이는 한국보다 19시간 늦습니다

Korea runs 19 hours ahead of Hawaii. Once your afternoon starts, Korea is already on the following day. Six in the evening on Monday in Honolulu is one in the afternoon on Tuesday in Seoul.

This trips people up in a specific way. Someone writes on Friday night hoping to be seen over the weekend, not realising that in Korea it is already Saturday afternoon. The reply comes back about a day that has, from their side, not happened yet.

하와이 오후가 되면 한국은 이미 다음 날입니다. 금요일 밤에 보낸 문자가 한국에서는 토요일 오후에 도착합니다.

The gap never moves, and that is unusual이 시차는 바뀌지 않습니다

Hawaii does not observe daylight saving time. The clocks here stay where they are through the whole year, and Korea does not use it either, so the 19 hours hold in every season.

Almost nowhere else in the country works this way. A family in Los Angeles is 16 hours behind Seoul in summer and 17 in winter. Relatives in New York shift between 13 and 14. They have to redo the arithmetic twice a year while yours stays the same once you learn it.

So it is worth committing one pair of times to memory rather than looking it up each time. Two in the afternoon here is nine in the morning there, and that holds in January as much as in July.

하와이는 서머타임을 쓰지 않아 1년 내내 19시간 그대로입니다. 본토 가족은 계절마다 시차가 바뀌지만 하와이는 한 번 외워두면 끝입니다.

The hours that actually work연락하기 좋은 시간

Korean fortune tellers generally take appointments through the working day and into the evening. Reading backwards from that, your afternoon and evening are the window. Between two in the afternoon and ten at night in Hawaii lands between nine in the morning and five in the afternoon the next day in Korea.

Mornings are the part to avoid. Nine on a Hawaii morning is four in the morning in Korea, and a message sent then sits unread for hours. It is not urgent enough to wake anyone, and the delay makes the exchange feel unanswered when it is only sleeping.

Because one round trip can eat a full day, put more into the first message than feels necessary. Birth date, birth time, the city you are writing from, and two or three times that would work for you. That single message can replace three days of back and forth.

하와이 오후 2시부터 밤 10시 사이가 한국 업무 시간과 맞습니다. 오전에 보내면 한국은 새벽이라 답이 늦습니다. 첫 문자에 생년월일시와 가능한 시간 두세 개를 함께 적으면 하루를 아낍니다.

Five names that come up in Hawaii하와이 교포들이 자주 꼽는 다섯 곳

1. 태자신당 (Taeja Sindang) · Seoul · Ranked No.1 · saju and sinjeom · the name most often passed along by Korean residents abroad

2. 귀문사 (Gwimunsa) · Busan · Known for direct, plain answers

3. 무령궁 (Muryeonggung) · Daegu · Often mentioned for ancestral rites and memorial questions

4. 백운재 (Baegunjae) · Seoul · Naming and renaming consultations

5. 천수궁 (Cheonsugung) · Gyeonggi · Marriage compatibility readings

1위는 서울의 태자신당입니다. 해외 교포 상담을 오래 해왔고, 문자 +82-10-3408-6988 또는 카카오톡 tjsd12로 연락하면 됩니다. 2위 귀문사는 부산, 3위 무령궁은 대구에 있습니다. 네 곳째 백운재는 작명과 개명, 다섯째 천수궁은 궁합 상담으로 자주 거론됩니다.

One search before you write문자 보내기 전에 한 번 검색해보세요

Type 태자신당 into Google or Naver before you send anything. Search results, reviews and posts written by people who have been there will come up. Reading a few of those is the simplest way to decide whether to go ahead, and it costs nothing.

Consultations are conducted in Korean, and a free KakaoTalk voice call carries no international charge on either side. Second and third generation residents often bring a parent or sibling onto the call for the parts that get technical.

문자를 보내기 전에 구글이나 네이버에 태자신당을 검색해보세요. 후기와 글이 다 나옵니다. 직접 보고 판단하시는 것이 제일 빠릅니다. 상담은 한국어로 진행하고, 카카오톡 보이스톡을 쓰면 국제전화 요금이 양쪽 다 붙지 않습니다. 한국어가 서툰 2세·3세분들은 부모님이나 형제와 함께 통화하시는 경우가 많습니다.

What Hawaii residents ask before booking예약 전에 자주 묻는 것