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FLAG OF SOUTH KOREA

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FLAG OF
NORTH KOREA
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LEE
MIN
HO
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BTS
Descendants of the sun

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 ACTIVITY
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1. The capital and the largest 3. Korean descent and small
city in South Korea. communities of ethnic Chinese
a. Seoul and Japanese are also found in?
b. Jeju Island a. North Korea
c. Mount Seorak b. South Korea
d. Gyeongbokgung palace. c. Korea
2. This is the official language d. None of the above
of both North and South Korea. 4. Pyongyang is the capital city
a. English of?
b. Korean a. North Korea
c. Chinese b. South Korea
d. None of the above c. Korea
d. None of the above
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TRUE OR FALSE
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6. Korea was divided into two distinct
sovereign states: North and South Korea.
7. Korean is written almost exclusively in the script of
the Korean alphabet.
8. Korean literature written before the end of the Joseon
Dynasty is called "Classical" or "Traditional“.
9. South Korea is famous with their products like
Samsung etc. and cosmetic products popularized by the
Korean stars/actress.
10. There are lots of famous writers in South Korea.
 KOREA
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 Located in EAST ASIA.
 Located between China
and Japan.
 Called the “Land of the
morning calm”.
 Modern spelling of
“COREA” a name
attested in English as
early as 1614, “KOREA”
19th century.
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DIVIDED INTO TWO DISTINCT
SOVEREIGN STATES:
 SOUTH KOREA or NORTH KOREA or
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF KOREA PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

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 SOUTH KOREA
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 Seoul – Capital and the Largest City
 51 million – Population
 Korean pop (Kpop) and Korean series and movies
 Jeju Island, Mount Seorak and Gyeongbokgung
palace.
 Famous with their products like Samsung etc. and
cosmetic products popularized by the Korean
stars/actress.
 EDUCATION SYSTEM
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 Consists of six years in elementary school, three years
in middle school, and three years in high school.
 Students are required to go to elementary and middle
school, and do not have to pay for their education,
except for a small fee called a "School Operation
Support Fee“.
 The Programme for International Student Assessment,
coordinated by the OECD, ranks South Korea's science
education as the third best in the world.
 South Korea ranks second on math and literature and
first in problem solving.
 NORTH KOREA
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 Pyongyang – Capital City
 25 million – Total population
 Korean descent and small communities of
ethnic Chinese and Japanese are also found
in North Korea.
 The world's 4th tallest flagpole flying a
270kg. flag. It's 160m in height, over Kijŏng-
dong "Peace village", near Panmunjom in the
Korean Demilitarized Zone.
 EDUCATION SYSTEM
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 Children go through one year of kindergarten,
four years of primary education, six years of
secondary education, and then on to universities.
 Consists primarily of universal and state funded
schooling by the government.
The most prestigious university is Kim Il-sung
University.
 LANGUAGE
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 Korean is the official language of both North and
South Korea.
 Worldwide, there are up to 80 million speakers of
the Korean language.
 Korean has borrowed much vocabulary from the
Chinese or created vocabulary on Chinese models.
 Korean is written almost exclusively in the script of
the Korean alphabet (known as Hangul in South
Korea and Chosungul in China and North Korea).
 Korean Alphabet: Hangul
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 King Sejong the Great
invented Korean alphabet in
1446.
 Alphabet organizes written
language into syllabic units.
 14 consonants & 10 vowels.
 Korean Alphabet: Hangul
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 Purely phonetic alphabet
 14 consonants
ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ
 10 vowels
아야어여오요우유으이
 Hangul is a scientific system, invented
following the shapes of vocal organs as they
make sounds.
 Traditional Arts: Painting
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 Typically use few color,
leaving background blank.
 Often combined with poem.
 Painters signed their artistic
name and signature stamps.
 MUSIC
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 Traditional Korean music includes
combinations of the folk, vocal, religious and
ritual music styles of the Korean people.
 Korean music falls into two broad categories.
The first, Hyangak, literally means The local
music or Music native to Korea of which
example is Sujecheon, a piece of instrumental
music as old as 1,300 years. The second,
Yangak, represent a more Western style.
TRADITIONAL KOREAN DANCE
JINJU GEOMMU
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 Korean Dress
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 A traditional dress for
a woman is called a
hanbok.
 A hanbok has a short
jacket called a jeogori
and a long skirt called
a chima.
 Korean Dress
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 Men also wore a
jeogori, but much
longer.
 Men wore baggy
pants, which were
comfortable to wear
when farming and
sitting on the floor.
TRADITIONAL HOUSE
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Religions of Korean People
(based on 2004 census report)
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 KOREAN LITERATURE
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 Korean literature written before the end of the
Joseon Dynasty is called "Classical" or "Traditional“.
 Literature written in Chinese characters (hanja),
was established at the same time as the Chinese
script arrived on the peninsula.
 Korean scholars were writing poetry in the classical
Korean style as early as the 2nd century BC,
reflecting Korean thoughts and experiences of that
time.
Early Korean Literature
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 Classical Korean literature has its
roots in traditional folk beliefs
and folk tales of the peninsula,
strongly influenced by
Confucianism Buddhism and
Shamanism.
Early Korean Literature
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 Begin as an oral tradition.
 Good was rewarded and evil was punished.
Values like loyalty to the king, respect for elders,
true friendship and chastity were emphasized.
 Korean poems were called Hyangga.
 A new form of poem developed after the
Goryeo dynasty and was called shijo a three-
line poem written in Hangul and gained wide
acceptance.
Modern Korean Literature
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 The first period of the modern Korean
literature is often called
“Enlightenment”.
 Introduced the Western-style schools
and newspaper emerged.
 Many biographical works were
published, the main character was often
depicted as a hero.
Modern Korean Literature
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 Jayusi is the formation of modern free verse poetry.
 The first printed work of fiction in Korea was John
Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress or Cheonno-yeokjeong
1893.
 The first complete edition of Bible in Korean was
published in 1910.
 Often linked in the development of Hangul which
helped increase working class literacy rate.
 Sinsoseol was a novel that was written in hangul.
 CONTEMPORARY KOREAN
LITERATURE
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 During the Colonial Korea 1910 – 1945 free
speech and press were restricted, thus
influencing the literature.
 Literature focused on self discovery and
increasingly on concrete reality.
 Many novelist experimented with new literacy
style and techniques.
 In 1919, Kim Tong-in and Kim Hyok founded a
literary magazine “Changjo”.
 CONTEMPORARY KOREAN
LITERATURE
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 The literary magazine appeared during 1920’s and
1930’s were the basis for the future development of
Modern Korean Literature.
 Almost all the magazine were ordered to discontinue
publication in the 1940s as the Japanese tightened the
grip with the spread of their aggressive war to the
Pacific.
 Many novels of the 1920s centred around themes of the
suffering of intellectuals.
 The Korean literature was directly affected by the
Japanese government strengthening ideological
coercion during 1930s.
 1. PARK WAN-SUH
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 Born in 1931
 Park Wan-suh experience firsthand the
horrors of the Korean War, which
turned her world upside down as her
university education was interrupted
and her family separated.
 Her first work Namok (The Naked
Tree) was published in 1970. Many of
Park’s works including The Naked
Tree and Who Ate Up All the Shinga
deal with the trauma of war, especially
its tragic effect on family relations.
 2. Ko Un
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 Ko Un was born in 1933. As an
active participant in the democracy
movements of the 1970s, Ko spent
several years in prison for his
political opposition.
 Ko’s poetry, grounded in the
Modernist tradition, is marked by a
sense of vitality and dynamism. In
works like Ten Thousand Lives, Ko
gives voice to the many individuals
who have passed through his life.
3. Hwang Sok-yong
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 Hwang Sok-young was born in 1943
in Japanese-occupied north China,
then known as Manchukuo.
 Hwang came in 1966 as he was sent
to Vietnam to take part in the
American war effort.
 During this time, Hwang witnessed
the horrors of war, which formed the
basis of his first published work The
Pagoda in 1970 as well as The
Shadow of Arms in 1985.
 4. O Chonghui (Oh Jung-hee)
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 Born in Seoul in 1947, Oh has won both
the Yi Sang and the Dong-In Literary
Awards and is at the forefront of
establishing the success of women
writers in Korea.
 Several of Oh’s works have been
translated into English, including River
of Fire which is a collection of short
stories united by a common thread of
the world seen from the perspective of
their alienated, isolated female
protagonists.
 5. Ch'oe Yun
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 Born in 1953, is one of Korea’s most
recognized writers whose works
consider historical and political
events that have shaped the course of
contemporary Korea.
 Works by Yun include There a Petal
Silently Falls, Gray Snowman, and
The Last of Hanako which explores
gender roles and biases in South
Korea’s patriarchal society
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