We touched on some cultural aspects in week 9, we talked about some major Korean holidays. Korean also celebrates Lunar New Year, I found a lot of similarities between the rituals and practices in China and Korea. Both of Chinese and Korean people have the ceremony to worship ancestors. I am not surprised because I have learned that China and Korea has a lot of cultural interactions in ancient times, so it is reasonable that we share some similarities. There are some differences in the practices too. Koreans usually wear formal hanbok during the practices while Chinese people nowadays do not wear traditional clothing. Because cultural revolution has erased some tradition cultures.
In week 10, we continued to learn about the numbering system. As we have tabled in the previous week, there are two different types of systems used for different purposes and in different scenarios. Sino-Korean, or China Syste and Korea system. China system is inherited from Chinese culture so words sound very like Chinese numbers. People usually use this system for talking about money, times, phone numbers. While Korea system is more modern and complicated. People usually us it when talking about age and counting.
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