Talk:Culture of Korea

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Map of Korea This article is within the scope of WikiProject Korea, a project to build and improve articles related to Korea. We invite you to join the project and contribute to the discussion.
B This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.
Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.
Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (January 2007)

Contents

[edit] Expansion Request

For example, Traditional korean food hardly mentions kimchi, although it was the staple diet during winter months for hundreds of years. Someone with first-hand or good academic knowledge of Korea should expand on as many of the subsections as possible, particularly those impacting the life of traditional Koreans.

(BojiDebater 05:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC))]]

[edit] Latest additions

Please read this carefully first. Added small corrections, replaced "residences" with the more specific "houses" as palaces, military barracks, fortresses all in which people lived are not included. Added references to other wiki articles on: Korean ceramics, pottery, gardens, the Korean Tea Ceremony etc. And will add a reference to "post-modern Korean culture" which will take in developments after 1990 in upcoming days. Will add also references to Korean flower arrangements, and Korean opera as well.

aphy of list of famous Koreans. And cultural accomplishments. Article generally sound, although getting large; and rebuilt post-1945 Korean tea house mistakenly identified in photo as "residence"; will replace this with a more accurate photo; also request debate on spinning off Culture of Korea post 1990 to "Post-modern Korean Culture" with refs to wargaming, cellphones, new wave post-Shiri Korean films, the rise of President Roh, new emphasis on Korean history evolving in educational curricula, etc.

Also will correct South Korea and North Korea at some point in this article to at least initially using the official names: Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a matter of procedure to establish accuracy from the start. There is no "South Korea" or "North Korea" properly, although the slang forms have much use in the United States, for some reason.

POofYS Dated 05:05, 21 March 2005.

I've re-added Most people do not take pleasure in listening to this kind of music. because this is a statement. I don't think this statement is against NPOV policy. Kokiri 16:57, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

This article only seems to talk about traditional Korean culture. Surely something interesting cxould be written about modern Korean culture. After all, South Korea is widely considered the most 'wired' society on Earth, and certainly the society in North Korea has a rather unusual structure.--Pharos 21:26, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There are articles about the Contemporary South Korean and North Korean cultures here on Wikipedia. --Ce garcon 08:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rename this page?

Shouldn`t this page be renamed "Traditional Culture of Korea" given that it does not describe Contemporary Korean Culture? --Ce garcon 08:37, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

  • I agree--Pharos 01:26, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

any other thoughts on moving this page to Traditional culture of Korea? Appleby 00:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What no movies?

Im surprised here

To find details on Korean movies, look to contemporary culture of South Korea and contemporary culture of North Korea as the header to this article states, this article is about the traditional culture of Korea. Cinema of Korea also is pretty good for Korean movies. --Zonath 05:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Festivals of the lunar calendar

How come one translation says the Lunar New Year's Day is "gujeong" and another says its "seollal"? Is one of them the day name, and the other one the festival? To a non-Korean, this is confusing. --tess 19:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Basically, "seollal" means "New Year's Day"; "gujeong" means "Old New Year's" (traditional lunar); "sinjeong" means "New New Year's" (Western solar).
"Seol" is the native Korean word for the first day of the year. "Nal" means "day" but is pronounced "lal" following "seol". "Seol" or "seollal" can technically mean the first day of the year of any calendar system, but generally refers to the traditional (lunar) calendar. "Gujeong" and "sinjeong" are hanja, not native Korean words, so modern Korean linguists prefer "seol" over "gujeong", although both are widely used. FieldNorth 01:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I am moving the Traditional Holidays table to the Korean calendar article. The table takes up too much space for this overall culture article, and the calendar article needs this content anyway. FieldNorth 21:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)