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  2. 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 ...

  3. Finger heart - Wikipedia

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    A K-pop idol performing the finger heart gesture in 2015. The Finger heart, (Korean: 손가락 하트) also called Korean finger heart gesture, is a trend that was popularized in South Korea in the 1990s, in which the index finger and thumb come together like a snap to form a tiny heart.

  4. Taegeuk - Wikipedia

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    The taegeuk symbol is most prominently displayed in the center of South Korea's national flag, called the Taegeukgi, literally taegeuk flag (along with four of the eight trigrams used in divination). Because of the Taegeuk's association with the national flag, it is often used as a patriotic symbol, as are the colors red, blue, and black.

  5. Traditional patterns of Korea - Wikipedia

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    dragon pattern in Korea, 'Jangansa' Buddhist temple. Phoenix; Iran means Phoenix up with a rod and the female, the male sulfur. Love gave birth to the head of the department facilitates all animals is a new imagination. Fish; The fish pattern means richness. That human use fish pattern guessed at the Stone Age. These customs come to fishing life.

  6. Korean shamanism - Wikipedia

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    The taegeuk symbol, representing the cosmos, is often displayed on the exterior of guttang, or shrine-buildings in the musok religion.. Korean shamanism, also known as musok (Korean: 무속; Hanja: 巫俗) or Mu-ism (무교; 巫敎; Mugyo), is a religion from Korea.

  7. Emblem of South Korea - Wikipedia

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    ' State emblem '), consists of the taegeuk symbol present on the South Korean national flag surrounded by five stylized petals and a ribbon bearing the inscription of the official Korean name of the country (Daehanminguk), in Korean characters. The Taegeuk represents peace and harmony.

  8. Why is the heart the symbol of love?

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    "In the 15th century, you begin to get to him, identified with love, with the life of a woman, for a man or man for a woman," Kemp said. The first non-medical illustration accompanied the French ...

  9. Korean mythology - Wikipedia

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    Korean mythology (Korean: 한국 신화; Hanja: 韓國神話; MR: Han'guk sinhwa) is the group of myths [a] told by historical and modern Koreans.There are two types: the written, literary mythology in traditional histories, mostly about the founding monarchs of various historical kingdoms, and the much larger and more diverse oral mythology, mostly narratives sung by shamans or priestesses ...