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Title: Korea South Korea North Korea


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KoreaSouth Korea North
Korea?? ????
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  • The land of the morning calm

2
Geopolitical Location
Manchuria
  • Appendage to China
  • Dagger pointed at the heart of Japan

3
Geography
  • Overall Shape?
  • What do you see?
  • Size
  • Roughly equal to Utah
  • Population in 06
  • South Korea 48,846,823
  • North Korea 23,113,019
  • Climate
  • Temperate
  • Cold winters
  • Hot, wet summers
  • Topography
  • Mountainous

4
Divided Nation
  • Japanese Occupation 1910
  • Divided in 1945
  • Carrot used by US to lure USSR into the Pacific
    phase of WWII
  • 38th Parallel
  • North Soviet realm ergo Communist
  • South US realm ergo Capitalist
  • Korean War 1950-53
  • Enemies
  • Divided Families
  • No mail, no trade, no visits, no phone calls

5
Ethnic Homogeneity
  • Racially pure, Unique Race
  • East Asian or Mongoloid racial group
  • Strong sense of racial identity
  • Self-identification as distinct from other Asian
    nations

6
Korean Language???
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  • Altaic Language Group
  • Structurally identical to Japanese
  • 60 of vocabulary borrowed from Chinese
  • Distinct from both
  • Not a tonal language
  • Regional dialects Just like U.S.

7
Korean Language???
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  • Early Literacy Chinese
  • Early Writing Chinese Characters
  • 1400s Hangul commissioned by King Sejong
  • Phonetic system
  • Simple enough for women servants

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Writing System
  • Mixed Writing system
  • Chinese root words written in Chinese characters

  • 900 characters to pass middle school
  • 1800 characters to pass high school
  • Korean Native words written in Hangul
  • Typical until 1945
  • North Korea dropped Chinese about 1950
  • Hangul only newspapers in South Korea first
    published in 1988

10
National Creation Myth Tangun 2333 BC
  • Hwan-ung (god figure)
  • Tiger and Bear want to be human
  • Live in cave 100 days eating mugwort and garlic
  • Bear endures and becomes a woman
  • She prays for a husband
  • Hwan-ung takes her as wife and they bear a son,
    Tangun who governs over the people of Korea

See http//www.lifeinkorea.com/information/tangun.
cfm for a simple but solid version of this story
on the web.
11
Native Religious Traditions
  • Animistic religious beliefs
  • Shamanism
  • Mudang
  • Korean Shaman
  • Always Female
  • Kut
  • Korean exorcism
  • Ecstatic dance

12
Native Spiritual / Cultural Concepts
  • Han
  • Collective burden of historic pain
  • Centuries of oppression
  • Eons of suffering
  • Creates a sorrow, sense of blues that is unique
    to Koreans and pervades their art, music and
    culture

13
Native Spiritual Concepts
  • Nature of the Human Soul
  • Similar to China spirit resides in the
    environment of its life/death.
  • Burial practices similar to China

14
Native Spiritual Concepts
  • Ancestor Veneration
  • Chesa
  • Enhanced formalized by Confucianism
  • Major part of civil responsibility in later
    Korean history

15
Borrowed Religious Concepts
  • Daoism
  • Focus on nature
  • Fengshui
  • Confucianism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity arrives late

16
Daoist ideasSymbolism of the South Korean Flag
  • Center is the Korean version of the Yin-Yang
    symbol
  • The four trigrams are
  • ? geon (? ?) heaven ?
  • ? gon (? ?) earth ?
  • ? ri (? ?) sun ?
  • ? gam (? ?) moon ?

17
Fengshui (Chinese)Pungsu (Korean)
  • Geomancy
  • Wind and Water
  • Used in
  • Interior decorating
  • Architecture
  • City planning, etc.
  • 5 Frog Brothers Folk tale

18
Confucianism
  • Borrowed from China
  • Dominant Governing Ideology
  • in later dynasties
  • Major impact on Korean Culture
  • Hierarchy
  • Ritualism and formality
  • Male dominance

19
Buddhism
  • Borrowed from China
  • About 50 CE
  • Becomes important about 500 CE
  • Adopted by early dynasties
  • Political dominance early on
  • Coexists with Confucianism, Daoism and native
    traditions -- usually

20
Christianity
  • Catholics enter 1774
  • Protestants enter 1884
  • Both become politically and socially very
    important
  • Protestants 1900 to the present
  • Catholics briefly about 1800 and again since
    1970
  • (much more to come in later history discussion)

Myongdong Cathedral Seoul
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