kai bai bo!

Rock, paper, and scissors. Or, in Korea, kai bai bo (가위바위보).

By whatever name you choose to call it, it's importance in the land of the morning calm is of no trivial matter. It is the hand that determines the fate of it's people. There is no issue too little, nor too surmounting that it can't be decided with a game of kai ba bo.

So much weight is given to the game, that tensions can rise and special "techniques" are given over to winning the decision you most desire. Girls will, before throwing down a rapid succession of rocks, paper, and scissors, intertwine their arms from their elbows to their palms before kissing the place where their wrists meet.

Then it's an all out war of fates.

And you thought it was only a child's game.