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  2. Culture of South Korea - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea which was prevalent in the early Korean nomadic tribes. By maintaining thousands of years of ancient Korean culture, with influence from ancient Chinese culture, South Korea split on its own path of cultural development away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1945.

  3. Culture of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The traditional culture of Korea is the shared cultural and historical heritage of Korea before the division of Korea in 1945. Since the mid-20th century, Korea has been split between the North Korean and South Korean states, resulting in a number of cultural differences that can be observed even today.

  4. History of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The school curriculum was radically modified to eliminate teaching of the Korean language and history. [230] The Korean language was banned, and Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names, [248] [note 5] [249] and newspapers were prohibited from publishing in Korean. Numerous Korean cultural artifacts were destroyed or taken to Japan. [250]

  5. 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea [1] [2] (Korean: 백대 민족문화상징; Hanja: 百大 民族文化象徵; RR: Baekdae Minjongmunhwasangjing; MR: Paektae Minjongmunhwasangjing) were selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (at the time of selection, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) of South Korea on 26 July 2006, judging that the Korean people are representative among ...

  6. Historiography of Korea - Wikipedia

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    Park Eun-sik developed Korean history into modern history by inheriting the history of the Gwangmu Reform period and introducing the methodology of modern history, which was in the 1910s, and Hanguk Tongsa(韓國痛史) and "Korean Independence Movement Jihyeolsa (韓國獨立運動之血史)" [32] are his representative works. In these books ...

  7. Names of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The earliest records of Korean history are written in Chinese characters called hanja. Even after the invention of hangul, Koreans generally recorded native Korean names with hanja, by translation of meaning, transliteration of sound, or even combinations of the two. Furthermore, the pronunciations of the same character are somewhat different ...

  8. Review: A debut novel strives to capture the paradoxes of ...

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    In rough order of appearance: Hunter versus tiger, Korea versus Japan, rich versus poor, parents versus children, man versus woman, sister versus sister, capitalist versus communist, mother versus ...

  9. Kisaeng - Wikipedia

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    Korea Journal 3(11), 33–36. (Link: search author's name in the box in the middle of the page; do not change language or search in the top of the page, which will lead to an external site) Kim, Yung Chung (1976). Women of Korea: A history from ancient times to 1945. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press. ISBN 978-89-7300-116-3. Lee, Younghee (2002).