Korea By: Nichole Nickelson
Traditions and Rituals
Chuseok Chuseok is a one of the ● biggest Korean holidays Considered the Korean ● Thanksgiving Three day holiday ● Based on the lunar ● calendar This past year it took ● place from September 7 - 10th This year it will fall on ● September 26 - 29th
Rituals ● Charye - ancestor memorial service ● Beolcho- cleaning up around the grave ● Ssireum - Korean wrestling ● Ganggangsullae - Korean circle dance
Traditions
Clothing
● Jeogori - Blouse- like shirt with long sleeves ● Chima - Long skirts ● Paji - Baggy pants
● Clothing usually made from hemp, ramie, cotton muslin, silk, or satin ● Commoners wore white ● Upper class wore bright colors like yellow, red, blue, and black ● Represents traditional elements in Oriental cosmology ● Dyes made from flowers and bark
Language
● Hangul ● Part of the Altaic language family ● Shared between North and South Korea ● Considered one of the easiest and well planned languages in history ● Extremely easy alphabet
Religion
● Mahayana Buddhism ● Confucianism ● Christianity ● Introduced by Jesuits in China ● World’s largest churches
Lifestyle
● Bowing when greeting those above you socially or by age ● When eating, it’s disrespectful to hold bowl of rice in hand ● Disrespectful to stick spoon or chopsticks in bowl of rice
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