An ex-student had very kindly made me a guest on his Netflix account a few years back, so I was watching quite a lot of Korean dramas.
What I noticed was how often someone asking for forgiveness would go down on his/her knees, and how effective it is: the person who had been angry before would almost always immediately grant his/her forgiveness.
I've since lost access to the kind student's Netflix account, so I've switched to YouTube and started watching mainland Chinese modern-day drama series.
The one I was watching recently is centred on an old couple with six children (all married, bar one).
The unmarried son had brought so much upset to the family with his waywardness in one particular incident that the sister most directly affected (with serious financial and reputational consequences for her husband's business) fell out with the father (and the rest of the family) over this.
Much later, that sister (and her husband) decided to make it up with the father who'd been deeply hurt by her behaviour and therefore not likely to forgive her that readily.
The moment she went down on her knees (followed a second later by her husband), however, the father thawed.
Quite an amazing bargaining tool.
(Korea / China)
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