The document provides an overview of various aspects of Korean culture, with a focus on family dynamics. It notes that family is the most important part of Korean life and that fathers are traditionally the head of the household. The eldest son has special duties to care for parents and younger siblings first. Family welfare takes precedence over individual needs, and actions of each family member reflect on the whole family, as some family registers can trace ancestry back over 500 years. The document also briefly mentions dance, music, food, manners, traditional clothing, education, housing, religion, holidays, architecture, and weddings as other elements of Korean culture.
8. FAMILY DYNAMICS
• The family is the most important part of Korean life.
• In Confucian tradition, the father is the head of the family
and it is his responsibility to provide food, clothing and
shelter, and to approve the marriages of family members.
• The eldest son has special duties: first to his parents, then to
his brothers from older to younger, then to his sons, then to
his wife, and lastly to his daughters.
• Family welfare is much more important than the needs of
the individual.
• Members of the family are tied to each other because the
actions of one family member reflect on the rest of the family.
• In many cases the family register can trace a family's history,
through male ancestors, for over 500 years.
They love some KPOP. The music over there isn’t very advanced when it comes to western music. The western music they played was a few years old. They love noribong though. This translates to singing room. Its fun. This is a picture of inside a noribong. This is like a room for personal karaoke. The last pic is from a night club called bubble. Most of the guys danced on the polls. It was like a weird thrusting motion!
Top left: soju (rice liquor), authentic tea at a tea garden (rose of Sharon), Me with all the Korean teachers at dinner. We always sit on the floor to eat, this is the market in most towns in Korea. They sell fish and local veggies every day like this.
Bottom left: both of these photos are from a camping restaurant. We were sitting in camping chairs with fold out tables. This food is called samgyupsal, last pic is a pancake. This one is kimchi pancake.
They dressed like we do. On holidays they dress up in traditional clothes. See the holiday slide.
Top left: they take a lot of field trips (museum), learn through books, drawings, and online resources. The town I lived in was very rural, so they didn’t have a lot of money for tv’s or interactive learning. The last pic at the top is graduation. The bottom picture is their play after they graduated. I had to put on a mini broadway production I feel like for kindergarten kids. It was crazy.
Top left: cheuseok. This is like their thanksgiving. They wear traditional hambok on this day, next is the azalea festival, next is at the bamboo festival, the last pic on the top is what a typical birthday looks like in class. They don’t turn a year older until the Chinese new year, but they always have a party on their bday. They also have a party on their 100th day alive.
Bottom left: this is Jun on Halloween, this is my class after going through the Halloween haunted house (they don’t celebrate Halloween btw!), this is joey and eric wearing santa wigs during Christmas time. They don’t get a lot of presents on Christmas like we do. They get maybe one present. This time is spent with family. Every store and restaurant is open also. The last pic is from seoul. This is called the changing of the guards. They do this ceremony twice a day when they change guards outside the temple.
Top left: ruins of ankor wat in Cambodia, middle pic is china, top right is another view from cambidoa.
Bottom left is what the town I lived in looked like (this was my walk from school), next is a pic of a very old village in Seoul, next is what almost every temple looked like, next is what the temple in Cambodia looked like, and the last is what it was like on the beach.