The article that I read for a few of my classes on Parasite sparked my interest in the South Korea class discrimination. After some research I found that the wealth gap and the power struggle in South Korea might be more significant that the film hav
Read more…I am also taking a course on Japanese Colonialism this semester that talks about Japanese colonial control over Korea from 1910 to the end of the second world war, and I want to talk about the influence of Japan over Korea in this culture post.
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Read more…This week we looked at another new news event in Korea which shook the international community, the nth room. More than 2million people have petitioned to the Korean government to fully disclose the Nth room (n번방) suspects and put them on a press pho
Read more…Tteokbokki (떡볶이)
One constant component between any culture is food! Everybody no matter where they come from or what culture(s) they are a part of need to eat food. Each culture develops its own traditional plates that become a staple of their cu
Read more…In this week’s korean lesson, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2. We started off with this article in order to get some context for words we are going to learn and use in normal every
Read more…For this cultural post, I thought I would focus and talk about the “evil eye” which is the nazar boncugu. Nazar is a word that is derived from Arabic. Nazar means sight. The nazar is an eye-shaped amulet or bead which is believed to protect an indivi
Read more…Street foods exists all over the world from China to New York. As a result, it’s not a surprise that street foods play an essential role in Vietnamese culture, especially in the southern area. Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City), more commonly r
Read more…This two weeks of learning we looked at another article that talked about the unfolding corona virus in South Korea. This article described the key incident that greatly exacerbated the pandemic in South Korea, which is the 신건지 신도a cult based in Daeg
Read more…In today’s class we looked at the 2020 new Korean slangs:
얼죽코 (얼어죽어도 코트)
Doesn’t matter when it is, I want cold [Ice Coffee]
This slang is a reference to one slang we learnt last year 얼죽아: 얼어죽어도 아이스 아메리카노, which means doesn’t matter when I want Ice A
Read more…In this week’s learning we watched the first foreign film to win the academy award for Best Pictures, Parasite 기생충. The film is a black comedy social thriller that illustrated greed and class discrimination in South Korea. The Kim family live in a se
Read more…One reasons why I joined this program was to improve my writing skills, so I have delved into writing since the beginning. Typing is quite difficult in Vietnamese because of all the tone markings and diacritics and the combination of the
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about what I did to compensate for no Korean lessons for two weeks due to a cancelled lesson and spring break. In order to keep with tradition, I watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the tit
Read more…Hi everyone!
In my presentation I discuss hierarchy and honorifics in Korea. I also included a PDF of my powerpoint I use in the video if anyone wants to look at it. Thank you so much!
Final cultural presentation: https://youtu.be/PNYTlnsJaCY
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Read more…Brazilian music styles range greatly like in many cultures. Before the Portuguese settled in Brazil, there was not much information recorded about the styles of music in Brazil. Once the Portuguese settled in Brazil, they brought with them music of t
Read more…During the last couple of weeks of Korean, our little group (Jannette, Mallory, and I) joined in on a Zoom call together. We discussed how Korean had been going and shared a google document where we organized everything we learned throughout the seme
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish photographs.
Photography was one of the major technological discoveries that contributed to the rise of modernity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the lands of the Ottoman Empire
Read more…For this post, I would like to talk about the art of Turkish tiles and ceramic.
The art of Turkish ceramic tiles and ceramics occupies a pivotal position in the history of Islamic art. Its roots can be traced back to at least
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