Today November 26, 2009 is Thanksgiving day in US and it is similar to Choosuk in Korea.
As an usuall big holiday like Choosuk, most of the events are similar to Choosuk, people prepare delicious traditional food, and join with their family to celebrate it. Some people buy gifts for their families before visit their family.
One big different event is Blackfriday shopping. From the midnight on Thanksgiving day to next morning or noon, Almost shopping stores open for big sale. Even some stores open at 5 A.M. next thanksgiving day.
Actual meaning of "Black firday" are various. According to definitions,
Definition 1
September 24, 1869, the day the markets crashed following a failed attempt by some financiers to corner the gold market. Led to a depression.
Definition 2
In a more general sense, any Friday in which a public calamity occurred.
Definition 3
More recently, the term Black Friday has been applied to the day after Thanksgiving in which retailers make enough sales to put themselves "into the black ink."
( source by http://www.investorwords.com/482/Black_Friday.html)
On Blackfriday sale, many items are pretty cheaper than any other sale season so that most people postpone to buy expensive items and wait for the Blackfriday. Some stores offer door buster shopping which is a kind of sales marketing for early bird shopper, giving them special discounts when the shoppers enter the store at the opening time. For that reason, huge amount of people go shopping that midnight and it is called " Madness Blackfriday shopping". The Blackfriday sale is the biggest sale in the US.
This morning I got a bunch of specail ads for Blackfriday. Usually most Ads are sent on Saturday morning, but today is special.
There are 49 stores' fliers. 
We can also print out the discount coupon through computers or add the ciscount code when we buy something on online store.
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