Hangul

I was born in South Korea and grew up in America. As a person who has dual-citizenship, it is nice to know that I have another home. When I become legal, I will have to choose which country I would like to have citizenship in and that would be a bit challenging. The United States is a place where I would want to continue my education while Korea is where I would like to reside in without having to have a work visa or get married to a native. Korea, my first home, is a country that I always look…

In this interview I have found out about an individual’s point of view about family, ethnic experiences and education in South Korea. Seung Joo Lee, 17 years old, a very close friend of mine. She is from South Korea and have been living in the United States since April, 2010. She has two siblings, one older sister who is in college and one younger brother who is in middle school. Seung Joo and her family are like the traditional Koreans you basically know. They are the ones who bow their head…

how many languages are spoken in the world? More than 6500 languages are spoken by people. My country, South Korea, we speak Korean which is called “Hangul”. Hangul is the Korean own alphabet, and King Sejong the Great created it. Today, I am telling you King Sejong who is one of the most important figures in Korea history and Korean alphabet, Hangul. First, I am explain King Sejong’s life shortly. He was born 1397, Sejong succeeded to the throne at the age 22 as the fourth king of the…

vulgarization of written language” as the writing system at the time were simply Chinese characters that were extremely complex and was exclusive for the yangban (the hereditary aristocratic bureaucracy). Though King Sejong kept this creation of Hangul a secret, he worked on it and finally revealed it to his government…

South Korean Holiday’s South Korea has a very rich culture full of many different traditions. These traditions date back thousands of years. A major part of their tradition are holidays like Seollal and Chuseok. Soellal and Chuseok. This essay will discuss different holidays of the Korean Calendar. The first holiday of the year is Seollal. Seollal is the Korean name for Lunar New Years and also the first day of the Lunar Calendar. () The holiday usually falls between January 27th to January…

People have always worked and lived in groups since we have been in this world. Many things have evolved over the past ten thousand years. The early years of mankind people grouped themselves in tribes and that has evolved into what we have today, entire countries. Other than geographical locations, one thing that has distinguished a group of people is the culture. Culture is the customary beliefs and practices and the typical norms of a social group. Cultural practices and norms can be…

Here the swallowed cries can be seen. Just from these words, the body of this outcast can be pictured in the reader's mind. These lines stand as the only instance of Hangul(Korean Alphabet) in the entire. The Korean language itself is a underground language(Ling,450). It lingered throughout the book, similar to that of the presence of a ghost. This is similar to the “cry of exile” which was never given a voice(Park,…

Adding more additional information, making sure my audience haves a more developed and informative background to assure that there is an understatement of each topic addressed without any loophole or misunderstanding of the contempt used to give enough knowledge for the reader to at least be vaguely educated adequately for them to get a full understanding. Then when it comes to improving my vocabulary for it not to sound informal or favorited I choose to be more subjective, using more indirect…

Before the 19th century, Korea was a Hermit Kingdom – unknown and isolated from the rest of the world. However, in the mid 1800s, many countries came knocking on Korea’s door to open up the country for international trade. Although Korea was determined not to submit to external pressures, after the Japanese threat in Incheon Port in 1875, the Chosun government decided to sign the Kanghwa Treaty in 1876. The treaty not only allowed Korea to finally form commercial and diplomatic relations with…

Korea has a long history that dates back thousands of years, much of it has been dominated by foreign powers. China and Japan had a huge role in shaping the current Korean history, which has been met with much controversy. The constant clash of historical narratives continue to cause conflict today. With all the different interpretations, it is hard to tell which history is correct. This paper will discuss the three different interpretations of Korean history from Japan, China, and South Korea.…