The Korean Legend of Dan Gun The Korean legend of Dan Gun begins with the “Lord of Heaven” who had a son‚ Hwan-ung‚ who yearned to live on Earth. The legend states that the heaven and earth were one‚ and all animals could communicate with humans and gods. Hwan-ung wanted earthly rule‚ so his father sent him to Earth to gain his desire. When he went to Earth he met a tiger and a bear who "prayed" to become human. Hwan-ung proposed a test‚ which if completed would make the contestant a human. The
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Lesson 1: 감사함니다 (gam-sa-ham-ni-da) this is the polite way to say thank you‚ another way could be 고맙습니다 I have also learned the colloquial way to say thank you‚ this is what you normally hear on dramas and movies especially when people of the same age level are speaking with each other 고맙다 (go-map-ta) or 고마워 (go-ma-wa) One of the commonly used phrase too is ‘I am sorry’. The formal polite way to say this in hangul is 미안합니다 (mi-an-ham-ni-da) or 죄송합니다 (jwe-song-ham-ni-da). If you have been watching
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The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II‚ in 1945‚ Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because John Foster Dulles‚ the future Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower‚ said that
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Medium: Korean Writing and Script‚ a comparison. Korean writing and scripts was said to be one of the remarkably unique writing system and language in the world apart from the Chinese and Japanese scripts. The sources of the origin of the script were lost at an early date in Korea and thus resulting to the variety of conflicting theories which had risen among the Korean and Western scholars. It was established during Joseon Dynasty by The Great King Sejong and was completed in December 1443
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the path of learning. Korean language and culture is indeed a treasury of wisdom‚ which combines the principles of Asian ancient philosophy with modern perspective on daily life. I would like to draw my attention on the studies of Korean language and culture in order to convey this knowledge to the speakers of other languages‚ facilitate the globalization of Korean education‚ aim multi-cultural Korean society‚ and to be able to design creative and flexible understanding of Korean culture. Since I started
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listening to Korean musics watching Korean dramas. In statistic‚ since 2009‚ there is a dramatically increased in the d more people are listening to Korean music. College students are not studying foreign languages as much as they were. Starting in 2009‚ there was a decreasing of seven percent of the college students stop taking foreign language classes. However‚ there are more college students are taking Korean. There was an increasing of forty-five percent of college students are taking Korean language
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Positive Effects of Korean Reunification Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify positive effects of Korean reunification. The Korean reunification refers to the hypothetical future reunification of North Korea and South Korea under a single government. The process towards this was initiated by the June 15th North-South Joint Declaration in August 2000‚ where the two nations agreed to make efforts towards a peaceful reunification in the future time. However‚ there are difficulties
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Taekwondo (태권도; 跆拳道; Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛkwʌndo])[a] is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean‚ tae (태‚ 跆) means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon (권‚ 拳) means "to strike or break with fist"; and do (도‚ 道) means "way‚" "method‚" or "art." Thus‚ taekwondo may be loosely translated as "the art of the foot and fist" or "the art of kicking and punching." In 1989‚ taekwondo was the world’s most popular martial art‚ as measured by the number of practitioners.[1]
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Introduction In my Observation Paper‚ I wrote of how I received the assistance of Koreans when I had arrived. The collectivistic assistance of the Koreans was something I was especially amazed‚ as they could approach the people along the street whom they did not know‚ just to make sure I received the help I needed. Given this opportunity‚ I would be discussing about the collectivistic attitude of Koreans in the modern society‚ with an attempt to link the origins. This paper would also discuss on
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------------------------------------------------- KOREAN POETRY ------------------------------------------------- HYANGGA ------------------------------------------------- Hyangga poetry refers to vernacular Korean poetry which transcribed Korean sounds using Chinese characters (similar to the idu system‚ the hyangga style of transcription is called hyangch’al) and is characteristic of the literature of Unified Silla. It is one of the first uniquely Korean forms of poetry. The Koryo period Samguk Yusa
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