Korean culture

Culture and Concerns South Korea is a country with a very rich culture and is very different from our own culture here in the United States. One of the aspects of South Korean culture that stand out the most is its hierarchical structure. This section will explain how the different cultural frameworks and concepts apply to South Korean culture. The first is the sociology framework. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck described culture as having 6 different dimensions: time, space, activity, relationships among people, relations to nature, and basic human nature. We will discuss four of the dimensions that we found to be most important and relevant to South Korean culture. We will also explore Hofstede’s psychology frameworks of power distance,…

values, beliefs, and practices of Korean Americans can affect healthcare, as well as, any biological factors that can influence healthcare provided to Korean Americans. Korean Americans will usually use their traditional medicine alongside of Western medicine (Kim, Kim, & Duong, 2002). Hanbang, is the traditional Korean medicine; it is very much an integral part of their culture, whether they…

Los Angeles’s Koreatown is the symbolic heart of Korean American. The Korean cultures have been integrated in American society in different aspects, such as cuisines, beliefs, social services, and cultural events. However, because of language, cultural, and psychological barriers, Korean Americans still struggle with issue and challenges especially in employment and public health. Many cannot surpass the hardships of the glass ceiling, while others have limited access to public health services…

Korea was influenced by the Confucian culture. Korea was a male-dominated society. There was huge gender discrimination and had patriarchal property which is a social system that males hold primary power and role of leadership of whole family. Therefore, the men tend to go to work and many women stay home and take care for their children. Due to Confucian’s idea, we have to respect elder people so that we have to use different words for elder in order to represent the respect. Furthermore, we…

Culture is what sets a society or civilization apart from others and gives it a unique identity based upon that society’s shared ideas, beliefs, morals, customs, and behaviors. Despite the many differences between cultures around the globe, five major characteristics normally define any society’s culture. The first being that culture is learned, or passed down through knowledge, rather than inherited. A culture is also integrated with many different aspects that often tie in to each other and…

The Korean Wave refers to the cultural phenomenon in which people in the world are willing to adopt and consume Korean popular culture (Jung, 2006). The Korean Wave is the term coined by the Chinese media for the first time to describe the sudden surge in the popularity of Korean culture in China in 2002 (Hogarth, 2013). The Korean Wave usually includes Korean music, dramas, films and games and is a hot cultural change and trend especially in Asian nations today. Korean television drama has been…

2.Weakness 2.1 Missing of the traditional Korean culture one reason of the successful K-movement was because of the globalization of creativity which is built on a remarkable outsourcing system. The producer, composer or choreographer of a K-pop singer does not have to be a Korean. Despite the songs had been produced in Korean language and performed by Korean people, there always is a western shadow over it. It is hard to connect a Korean song written by foreigners with the Korean culture…

The author examines the results of a study conducted on 40 second-generation Korean American university students living in the United States. The main topics of this article are the role of cultural identity and heritage language maintenance. She argues that in the United States, immigrant children's proficiency in English improves while their heritage language declines. The focus of this study is to determine the proficiency level and use of heritage language among second-generation…

My popular culture “obsession” would be Korean popular culture. K-pop is and abbreviation of Korean pop, which is a music genre, originated from South Korea. K-pop can be a phenomenon, however, it can also be a subculture, where Asian pop would be the phenomenon and k-pop is the subculture. My interest began when I first heard K-pop songs while I was buying milk tea. Korean music is different from the music in America. In my opinion, the Korean artists have unique musical and performances…

Since the late 1990's, South Korean popular culture entered the global market via its television series better known as K-drama. The export of Korean dramas sparked off a palpable craze for Korean cultural commodities in early 2000. This popular cultural phenomenon known as the Korean Wave or Hallyu has seen a surge in interest in Korean culture especially through the study of the Korean language and understanding of the culture through travel. In this essay I would like to shed light on how…