"Even though they are smiling for us, every day, 24 hours, is difficult for them," Jeong Jae-hee, 12, said she learned.
Even better if they smile when they see you looking.
Blind people smile like everyone else, even though they've never seen anyone else smile.
I guess a lot of other women were feeling desperate, too, even though they all wear fixed, bright smiles when I see them out and about.
The ones who can't seem to get life right, who can't seem to find their happy place no matter how many gratitude lists they've written, who can't seem to turn off that fake smile even though they abhor it.
Some of the promoted ones were called to Number 10 - even though they didn't need to be - to smile for the cameras.
Seeing a picture of a child holding one of our cards and smiling ear-to-ear, even though they are in a world of pain and suffering, is all the motivation it takes to keep Cards for Hospitalized Kids going and growing.
Even though they have few earthly things, you can see them always smiling.
The tourist pamphlets warned me that the Finns are a sober, silent lot: no Italian hand-waving for them, no chattery small talk, no fake sweet smiles from the locals, even though they are eager to be good hosts and to help foreigners.
"Even though they've got virtually nothing, they've always got smiles on their faces".
