Although Korean Thanksgiving Day - Chuseok is just one of the big holidays in Korea, it is by far the biggest and most important. Family members from near and far come together to share food, stories and give thanks to their ancestors for the abundant harvest. This year (2009), Korea’s representative traditional holiday of Chuseok falls on October 3rd of the solar calendar. It will last three days, from October 2nd to October 4th and marks a prime opportunity for foreign visitors to tour Korea’s cities and experience Korea’s culture …

Korean Wedding Anniversary? Korean have their own names and celebrations of wedding anniversary too. The names of wedding anniversary provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other or if there is a party these can be brought by the guests or influence the theme or decoration. In Korea, Koreans called this as 결혼기념일 which means wedding anniversary. Lists of wedding anniversary gifts vary by country. See the Korean names of wedding anniversary and gifts below.
Korean Wedding Anniversary
The tradition originated in medieval Germany where if …

Korean folk medicine is the treatment of illness based on the traditional remedies practiced by common people. Do you know how was folk medicine practiced in old Korea? You may want to know about Korean Oriental Medical Clinic.
Korean folk medicine
In ancient times the sick could not get a doctor’s help, and instead they treated illnesses by using animal parts and medicinal plants which were easily found nearby. While some are merely old wives’ tales, some have withstood the test of time and their effects have been recognized as reliable remedies, …

Since the late 1990s, Korean film industry has made startling progress, and is now Korean movies enjoying unprecedented popularity. While Hollywood movies dominate over 80% of the world movie market, Korea is one of few countries which is capable of both movie production and distribution.
Korean movies
Up to the mid-1990s, the Korean movies industry had barely maintained a minimum share of audiences under the screen-quota system, which required Korean movies theater to show domestic films for a minimum number of days each year. However, beginning with Swiri in the late 1990s, …

Korean Oriental Medical Clinic is just like a normal clinic which practice Oriental medicine. You may see a lot of Oriental Medical Clinic in South Korea area. In 4000 years ago, before the Western medicine was introduce, Korean people take Oriental medicine when they are sick. Due to the development of modern medicine, a lot of Oriental medicine has been replaced. However, this Korean culture is continually practice by Koreans until today. You may want to know about Korean folk medicine.
Korean Oriental Medical Clinic
When you are sick, you go to …

Do you know what foods Koreans eat on special days? Korean cuisines are unique and special. Walking down the street on a humid summer day, you may come upon long lines of Koreans in front of a restaurant. That restaurant is probably 삼계탕 (chicken boiled with ginseng) restaurant.

Ginseng Chicken Soup

When people think of Korean food, mostly they think of very hot food that is red in color. However, not all Korean food is that hot. A typical exception would be Ginseng Chicken Soup (삼계탕). Ginseng Chicken Soup contains ginseng, garlic, …

Today, Emagasia going to introduce the educational System of Korea. The educational System of Korea is view as an important factor in Korean culture. The educational System of Korea consists of six-year elementary schools, three-year middle schools, three-year high schools, and four-year colleges. Children enter elementary school at the age of 7. Elementary and middle school education is compulsory in Korea and there are two types of schools, namely, private schools and public schools.
Educational System of Korea
Most levels of education, not including elementary school, rely on private institutions. Unlike the …

How should you speak to someone you don’t know? Korean normally use family titles to refer to non-family and Koreans rarely use the term you as we have seen in Meeting A Korean For The First Time, so, should you just roughly guess someone’s age and call all older people 할머니 (grandmother) or 할아버지 (grandfather), all middle aged people 아줌마  (aunt/ma’am) or 아저씨 (mister/uncle) and all young people 학생 (student)? The answer is no. This is one of Korean culture to show respect.
How should you speak to a stranger?
If you …

Korean Age Counting System is much complicated and different from Western countries. It makes Korean culture more unique from Westerners. Age is very important to Koreans, because Korean use family titles to refer to non-family, so age partially determines status and shapes the way one interacts with others. Have you been to a Korean birthday party before?
Korean Age Counting System
In Korea, age is counted differently than everywhere else. When a baby is born, Koreans count him as one year old, Koreans consider the gestation period as the first year. This …

There are some words which are so central, yet unique to the ways of thinking of a particular society or culture that they are very hard to translate so as Korean culture. In the United States, for instance, history has endowed words such as liberty and equality with special meaning importance. In Korean, perhaps an even more important and difficult word to understand for the foreigner is the word 정 ( affection, warmth, feeling, sentiment, love ). See the examples below.
Culture of affection
The concept of 정 is an essential part …