South Korea: food & place

Tteokbokki

Colour: red and yellow

Repetition: rice cake and spicy sauce

Texture: sweet and distinctively chewy

Mood/Vibe: Happy

Proportion: medium size and cylinder shape

Gimbap

Colour: white and dark green

Repetition: ingredient- carrot, egg, cucumber, rice, seaweed and the arrangement of the ingredient
from the middle layer is the vegan or not vegan ingredient, the second layer is the rice and for the
last layer is the seaweed roll.

Texture: smooth and nutty flavour

Mood/Vibe: Fun

Proportion: Circle shape and medium size

Bibimbap

Colour: red and green

Repetition: The arrangement of the ingredient surrounding the circle bowl

with the ingredient and separate food toppings regularly.

Texture: Crunchy and luscious

Mood/Vibe: Lively

Proportion: -

Geunjeongjeon palace

Colour: Orange and blue

Repetition: stone floor is irregular rectangle shape and puffy cloud

Texture: The clouds look fluffy and smooth texture

Mood/Vibe: Calm

Proportion: The scenery from the back of the building there is mountain makes it more
balance and harmonious part of each other
Magical: the sounds of music instrument
Piano

Colour: black and white

Repetition: Piano key layout with two black keys surrounded by three white keys
then three black keys surrounded by four white keys.

Texture: hard plastic keyboard and smooth key texture when you play the piano

Mood/Vibe: Happy

Proportion: The piano layout key is rectangle shape and large size

Guitar

Colour: light brown and black

Repetition: Guitar strings and tuner peg

Texture: woods and hard texture

Mood/Vibe: Energetic

Proportion: Pear shape and the body length of the guitar is long
Harp

Colour: light brown and golden colour

Repetition: harp strings and tuning pin

Texture: woods texture and metal strings texture

Mood/Vibe: Calming

Proportion: triangular curved shape and large size

Drum

Colour: red and black

Repetition: Repetition of circle shape and the arrangement of the drums

Texture: plastic texture on drum heads and metal drum shells

Mood/Vibe: Excited

Proportion: cylinder shape and big size

Tteokbokki
Tteokbokki , or simmered rice cake, is a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white,
cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon "rice cake noodles" or commonly tteokbokki-tteok ("tteokbokki
rice cakes"). Eomuk (fish cakes), boiled eggs, and scallions are some common ingredients paired with
tteokbokki in dishes. It can be seasoned with either spicy gochujang (chili paste) or non-spicy ganjang (soy
sauce)-based sauce; the former is the most common form,[3] while the latter is less common and sometimes
called gungjung-tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki). Today, variations also include curry-tteokbokki, cream
sauce-tteokbokki, jajang-tteokbokki, seafood-tteokbokki, rose-tteokbokki, galbi-tteokbokki and so on.
Tteokbokki is commonly purchased and eaten at bunsikjip (snack bars) as well as pojangmacha (street stalls).
There are also dedicated restaurants for tteokbokki, where it is referred to as jeukseok tteokbokki (impromptu
tteokbokki). It is also a popular home dish, as the rice cakes (garae-tteok) can be purchased in pre-packaged,
semi-dehydrated form.

Gimbap
One theory posits that kimbap was born out of the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the
20th century when Koreans adapted the Japanese roll and made it their own. For example, Koreans opted for
sesame oil to season the rice for kimbap while the Japanese used rice vinegar. Or perhaps kimbap was a natural
evolution of eating rice wrapped in seaweed with side dishes, a practice stemming from the Joseon era (1392-
1910). Whatever the real origins are, kimbap has become a beloved snack, picnic and on-the-go food in Korean
culture. Nowadays, people have gotten creative with kimbap fillings: cheese, tuna, fried pork cutlet (donkatsu),
fish eggs and kimchi are just a few potential options. Triangle (sam-gak) kimbap is a popular on-the-go option,
similar to Japanese onigiri with a singular filling inside. Because kimbap is so time-consuming to make, most
people opt to buy it from stores or restaurants whenever the occasion arises. No matter where you get it
though, the satisfaction factor is still there.

Bibimbap
Bibimbap is an extensively customizable food with a variety of ingredients that can be used in its creation. It
has existed in Korea for centuries and even has a place in society today. It came from early rural Koreans taking
leftover vegetables, sometimes having meat, with rice and mixing them in a bowl. This was cheap and did not
require all of the time and space of a traditional meal. Bibimbap was originally written in hanja due to the
ancient use of the Chinese characters in Korea. There are two separate ancient writings that suggest the
original reasoning behind the creation and use of bibimbap. The first one, "People's Unofficial Story of Jeonju" ,
tells of Jeonju bibimbap being used in occasions such as parties that included government officials of provincial
offices. The second being, "Lannokgi" , which told of bibimbap being made by the wives, of farmers, who had
no time to prepare meals the traditional way with many side dishes, and instead they were able to throw most
of the ingredients in a bowl sometimes adding whatever they happened to be cultivating. Although bibimbap
was originally rarely mentioned and mostly only in hanja records, it began to be more frequently referenced
and in Hangul (Korean alphabets) records as well upon the creation of Hangul by the King Sejong the Great to
improve the state's literacy. Division of Korea in the 20th century caused a cultural divide in the creation of
bibimbap with two types related to both North and South Korea. The most famous regions for traditional
bibimbap happen to be Pyongyang for its vegetable bibimbap in the North and Jeonju for its Jeonju bibimbap.
In the late 20th century, bibimbap started to become widespread in many countries in the West, due to its
simplicity, cheap cost, and delicious taste. Many airlines connecting to South Korea via Incheon International
Airport began to serve it, and it was accepted more globally as a popular Korean dish. Bibimbap has also been
described as a symbol of the Korean culture to non-Koreans due to Korea becoming more acceptable to
foreigners and multicultural traditions.
Geunjeongjeon palace
Geunjeongjeon also known as Geunjeongjeon Hall is the throne hall where the king formally granted audiences
to his officials, gave declarations of national importance, and greeted foreign envoys and ambassadors during
the Joseon dynasty. The building was designated as Korea's National Treasure No. 223 on January 8, 1985.
Geunjeongmun aligned and located directly to the south of Geunjeongjeon is the main gate to the courtyard
and to Geunjeongjeon. The gate is divided into three separate aisles, and only the king was allowed to walk
through the centre Geunjeongjeon was originally constructed in 1395 during the reign of King Taejo, but was
burned down in 1592 when the Japanese invaded Korea. The present building was built in 1867 when
Gyeongbokgung was beinreconstructed. The name Geunjeongjeon, created by the minister Jeong Do-jeon,
means "diligent governance hall". Constructed mainly of wood, Geunjeongjeon sits on the centre of a large
rectangular courtyard, on top of a two-tiered stone platform. This two-tiered platform is lined with detailed
balustrades and is decorated with numerous sculptures depicting imaginary and real animals, such as dragons
and phoenixes. The stone-paved courtyard is lined with two rows of rank stones, called pumgyeseok ,
indicating where the court officials are to stand according to their ranks. The whole courtyard is fully enclosed
by wooden cloisters.

Piano
Although the piano can be classified as a string instrument due to the fact that the sounds come from the
vibration of strings, it can also be classified as a percussion instrument because a hammer strikes those strings.
In this way it is similar to a dulcimer. The dulcimer is an instrument that originated in the Middle East and
spread to Europe in the 11th century. It features a simple resonating box with strings stretched on top of it.
Much like a piano, a small hammer is used to hit the strings, which is why the dulcimer is considered to be a
direct ancestor of the piano. The piano is also considered to be a part of the keyboard family. The history of
instruments with keyboards dates far back and originates from the organ, which sends bursts of air through
pipes to make sound. Craftsmen improved upon the organ to develop an instrument that was a step closer to
the piano, the clavichord. The clavichord first appeared in the 14th century and became popular during the
Renaissance Era. Pressing a key would send a brass rod, called a tangent, to strike the string and cause
vibrations that emit sound over a range of four to five octaves.

Guitar
Guitar, plucked stringed musical instrument that probably originated in Spain early in the 16th century, deriving
from the guitar Latina, a late-medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings. The early guitar was
narrower and deeper than the modern guitar, with a less pronounced waist. It was closely related to the
vihuela, the guitar-shaped instrument played in Spain in place of the lute. The guitar originally had four courses
of strings, three double, the top course single, that ran from a violin-like pegbox to a tension bridge glued to
the soundboard, or belly; the bridge thus sustained the direct pull of the strings. In the belly was a circular
sound hole, often ornamented with a carved wooden rose. The 16th-century guitar was tuned C–F–A–D′, the
tuning of the centre four courses of the lute and of the vihuela.

Harp
Harp, stringed instrument in which the resonator, or belly, is perpendicular, or nearly so, to the plane of the
strings. Each string produces one note, the gradation of string length from short to long corresponding to that
from high to low pitch. The resonator is usually of wood or skin. In arched, or bow-shaped, harps the neck
extends from and forms a curve with the body. In angular harps, body and neck form an angle. In frame harps
(mostly confined to Europe), body and neck are set at an angle and are connected by a column, pillar, or fore
pillar, that braces against the tension of the strings. Harps lacking a fore pillar are strung at relatively low
tension, which results in a lower pitch than frame harps. The modern double-action pedal harp combines the
basic structure and sound of ancient harps with a complex mechanism in order to obtain a full chromatic range.
Harps were widely used in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, although rare in Greece and Rome;
depictions survive from Egypt and Mesopotamia from about 3000 BCE. Many were played in vertical position
and plucked with the fingers of both hands, but Mesopotamia also had horizontal harps. Placed on the player’s
lap, strings toward the player, they were plucked with a plectrum. Horizontal harps are pictured in India as late
as 800 CE but apparently died out in the Middle East about 600 CE. At this same time arched harps fell out of
use in the Middle East, but they survive today in Africa, Myanmar (Burma), and a few isolated areas. Angular
harps survived until the 19th century in Iran.

Drum
The first drums made from natural objects such as alligator skin appeared during 5500 BC. They first came
about in Neolithic cultures originating from China but later spread to all of Asia. This period also saw the
creation of Bronze Dong Son Drums in Vietnam during 3000 BC. Sri Lanka and African people later discovered
drums between 1000 and 500 BC, which they used to communicate. The culture of drums would then spread
to Rome and Greece between 200 and 150 BC. Drumming spread to Europe during 1200 AD via Mediterranean
trading routes. African drums later arrived in America through the slave trade in 1500 AD. The discovery of the
first drum set occurred in the late nineteenth century. At the time, it usually took multiple people to play all the
parts, including the snare, cymbals, bass, and other percussion instruments. Dee Chandler discovered a way to
play all these parts together, thus inventing the first drum kits. Chandler’s innovation came from how he put
together the first drum kits. He discovered a way to play the bass using a stepping pedal while at the same time
using his hands to play the snare. Drum kits became more popular in America during the 1960s due to the
emergence of individualism. Musicians added more cymbals and the bass drum to create modern drum kits.
Since discovering the first drum sets, technological advancements have led to the development of electric
drums in recent years.
South Korea: food & place
Tteokbokki
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Mood/vibe: Delighted orangieness

Gimbap

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Mood/Vibe: Awe Fun

Bibimbap

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Mood/Vibe: Divine savory licious

Geunjeongjeon palace

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Magical: The sounds of music insturments
Piano

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Mood/vibe: Harmony melody

Guitar

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Mood/vibe: Blissful ear

Harp

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Mood/Vibe: Heavenly earth

Drum

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Mood/vibe: Thrilling drum