The Ewheehon Ewheehon   Nabcheh   Nabpheh   Chinyoung    It is a formality that the bridegroom-side and the bride-side discuss about nuptial. In the korean traditional wedding ceremony they value  family and  customs of a family above everything else. A matchmaker from both families look into family, scholarship,  personality and a material harmony of the bridegroom and bride as predicted by a fortuneteller. Then they determine whether they will permit this nuptial or not. In general the Ewheehon is determined when the bridegroom-side sends a proposal letter of marriage and the bride-side sends a reply letter which permits this marriage. In this process only the parents of both families could see the bridegroom and bride.   The matchmaking  First each of the families send a person who look into a man, scholarship, family member, personality and so on to the other side. Then they determine if they will permit this marriage or not. It is called the Ewheehon. They should look into a personality of son-in-law or daughter-in-law and a customs of a family  when they talk over the marriage. If a person who will be their son-in-law is able to do,  he will be rich in the future even though he is not rich now. Because a daughter-in-law can affect a rise and fall of the family, if a man marries for the wealth of the bride, she will look down upon her husband and will not be polite to her parents-in-law. Even though they can be rich with the wealth of the bride and be noble with the power of the daughter-in-law' house, if he is a man of good disposition, he doesn't envy that.