Cultural Post #1

[Christiana Summers]

Over the course of this semester, I would like to study two aspects of Korean culture: celebrations and the presence of religion in society.  For celebrations, I will look into New Year's, Chuseok (their celebration of the 8th full moon), and weddings.  I would like to learn about the different traditions, food, games, decorations, and historical significance for these events.  I suspect there will be heavy emphasis on family and ancestors.  In the religious sector I want to see how much prevalence Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism has in daily activities as well as special festivities and how they have changed over time.  To explore these topics, I will research them online, watch videos of the celebrations, and ask my language partner about each topic.  It would be wonderful if we could take a day to go over vocabulary for the celebrations.