When I was in my teens, I folded exactly 1000 of these miniature paper cranes for my boyfriend. They were much smaller than in the picture above, tiny cranes, in all kinds of different colors. I put them in a big transparent glass bowl and gave them to him. Actually a lot of Korean teenagers do that for their boy- or girlfriend, believing that they are granted one wish, if they fold exactly 1000 of the cranes. My wish was that we would stay together for the rest of our lives. Romantic? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Really stupid.
千羽鶴。They are called so, in case of Japan.
Japanese make them, especially to wish someone who suffer with serious illness will get better.
I think there is a bit difference between her country and my country, Japan.
Anyway, in both cases, there is not different at the point that they mean an earnest desire. It is good custom.
