110 Cultural Post #5

[Jimin Yoo]

I focused on the idea of community and "jeong," of Korean people. Jeong can be explained as a heart or love, but there simply isn't an equivalent in English since its part of a culture. Jeong contains affection, compassion, sympathy, community and attachment. Often, this might be the reason why Korean people are very sensitive at trends as they are less likely to be individualistic. It is not hard to find people with the same styles of clothes on in Korea. This idea of following trend might make one as a "cool" person, but I believe that following too much of a trend ruins one's individuality and creativity.