My Country,

SOUTH KOREA

By Ga Won
March 10th 2008
 Religion

The picture is about Buddhism.

There are a lot of religion in Korea. Some buildings are from
religion.
The main religions are Buddhism, Christian. Also, there is
religion called Cheon-do-gyo.
Cheon-do-gyo is from nineteenth century.
 Food
Kimchi-Kimchi is a Korean traditional food and it is spicy.
Usually people make this food at late fall or early winter for
whole year.

Kimbap- Kimbab is a Korean sushi. This is also famous in

Korea.

Duk bok i- Duk bok i is a spicy rice cake. Usually people eat
in lunch time.
 

Mi Yeok Guk- Mi Yeok Guk is a Korean traditional soup. We

eat it on our birthday.
 Language
We use Korean but every place, it has different accent except
for Seoul. People who are living in Seoul don't use any
accents.
This is example of some accents in Korea.
Accents Real Word English
1. Meo La Ka No? –Meo La Go Yo? -What did you said?
2. Gang Il -Il Yo Il -Sunday
3. Hon Jeo Op So-Eo Seo Oh Ship Si Oh.- Welcome
 History
The first country was called Go Jo Sun. Later, countries
called Goguryeo, Baekjae and Shilla made. Later, Silla
fought and conquered Goguryeo and Baekjae.

Then Korea divided in 3 country again and country called

Goryeo made in one country. After that Jo seon was built
and Japan started to control us at 1910. Now we are
independent!
 Famous Place

Han River-In Seoul, there is river called Han Gang but Gang
means river. It's really long river.

Kyung Bok Gung-Most popular place for people who came

from other country.

Keunjeong jeon- A lot of kings enthroned here.

 Famous People #1

Yu Gwan Sun- She born in 1902 but she died at 1920. At that
time, Korea was Japan's country. A lot of people wanted
to be independent from Japan so they made a lot of
independent fight. Yu Gwan Sun was very young but she
made independent fight too. She got caught by Japanese
people and at 1920, Yu Gwan Sun died.
 Famous People #2

Yi Sun Shin- He was very brave general. He was born in 1545

and he died at 1598. He born in Korea but he went to
China and he became general. Then, he came back to
Korea. He made a ship called Geo Buk Seon (turtle ship)
and that ship is really famous in Korea. When we had a
war with Japan, he did a great job, but at last war, he died
and he said “ don't tell anyone that I died.” It was famous
saying in Korea.
 Famous People #3

Se Jong King-He born in 1397 and he died at 1450. He was a

king of Joseon. He made Korean which is called Hun Min
Jeong Eum, because he thought it is difficult to read
Chinese characters so I have to make a new and easy
word while he was looking at people. First, people didn't
like our language but now we change some word and now
we are using it.
 Sport

Tae Quan Do: Tae Quan Do is a Korean

traditional sports. There are ribbon for level
and they are in different colours.

Si Leum: People do this in the sand.

 Games

Yut Noli:Yut Noli is a stick game. You need four sticks that
has 4 cross things on it and board. If you look at the
picture you can see white things and black things. It is a
chessman, and you need 4 of them for each person. You
have to throw the stick to go forward.

Kite game: In Seol Nal, you play this for your luck. People
believe that if you play with kite and let it go, you will be
lucky. In Korea, we called this 'Yeon Nal Li Gi'. Usually
children play this kite game.
 Festivals #1

Chuseok: Chuseok is a thanks giving day festival. Also, it is

called Full Moon day festival because every this festival
people always can see full moon. In this day people eat
dumpling and rice cake called Song Pyeon. This festival is
3 days but real day of this festival is just one day. Women
dance Gang Gang Sul Lae (It is kind of game) in night.
 Festival #2

Seol Nal: Seol Nal is a New year day. It is also 3 days. When
they wake up, people go to grave, but if they don't go to
grave, they put some food like fruits, and they bow. Then,
they bow to the older person. Then, they will give you
money. After that, we usually eat breakfast. It is usually at
February.
 Music

Arirang: The song means ' Arirang Arirang Ah Ah Arirang. I'm

walking Arirang mountain. Someone who abandoned me.
He won't go more than 10km and have foot disease.'
National anthem: Korea national anthem is quite activity. We
call our national anthem like this; Ae Guk Ga. It tells us
about our nature like flowers and mountains. Also, they
are talking about god.
 Dance

Tal Chum: Tal Chum means mask dance. We wear masks and
dance and play. Most of the time, people do some play.

Bu Chae Chum: Bu Chae Chum means Fan Dance. Usually

women play and they wore Han Bok as picture. Their fans
looks like half moon and usually the colour of fan is pink
and white.
 Music Instruments #1

Jang gu: It is a Korean traditional drum. It has two sides and

two different sticks. when you don't have this, you can just
hit box with hand instead of special sticks. Middle part is
thin.The stick that you hold in right hand is really thin but
the stick that you hold in left hand is quite thick and the
edge looks like a circle.
 Music Instruments #2

Hae Guem: It is stringed instrument. There are 2 strings. You

should sit down if you want to play this. One hand should
hold stick for making sound and one hand should press
the string to make a different tone. The bottom part should
touch your knee.
 Music Instruments #3

Geo Mun Go: This is also stringed instrument. People sit

down and put Geo Mun Go on their knees(like picture).
One hand should press somewhere to make a different
tone and another hand should flip string to make a
sound.It has 6 strings.
 Symbols #1

Half moon Bear: It is our national animal now. We called it

Ban Dal Sa Seum Gom.

Han Bok: It is our traditional clothing. Today, people wear

Han Bok at the New year and sometimes someone wear
Han Bok at Chu Seok!
 Symbols #2

Rose of Sharon: We call this flower as Mu Gung Hwa. This

flower is our national flower. The most common colour is
pink, red and white. Sometimes it can be purple, too. The
middle part is yellow and it has 5 leaves.

National flag of Korea: We call this Taegeukgi. At the middle

it has red and blue circle and the corner,there are some
black lines.
 Bibliography
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Korea#Religion_in
_South_Korea
 http://www.world66.com/asia/northeastasia/southkorea
 http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/66

And...

 MY HEAD~!