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    South and North Korea were historically one nation that was divided after World War II along the 38th parallel. The division split families and established South Korea as aligned with the US and its capitalist system, while North Korea aligned with the Soviet Union and adopted communism. The Korean language and ethnic identity are shared between the two countries, though their governments and societies have diverged significantly since the division and Korean War in the 1950s.

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    South and North Korea were historically one nation that was divided after World War II along the 38th parallel. The division split families and established South Korea as aligned with the US and its capitalist system, while North Korea aligned with the Soviet Union and adopted communism. The Korean language and ethnic identity are shared between the two countries, though their governments and societies have diverged significantly since the division and Korean War in the 1950s.

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    Korea

    South Korea North Korea


    Hankuk Chosun


    The land of the morning calm
    Geopolitical Location

    Manchuria

    Appendage to China
    Dagger pointed at the heart of Japan
    Geography
    Overall Shape?
    What do you see?
    Size:
    Roughly equal to Utah
    Population: in 06
    South Korea: 48,846,823
    North Korea: 23,113,019
    Climate:
    Temperate:
    Cold winters
    Hot, wet summers
    Topography:
    Mountainous
    Divided Nation
    Japanese Occupation 1910
    Divided in 1945
    Carrot used by US to lure USSR into the Pacific
    phase of WWII
    38th Parallel
    North: Soviet realm ergo Communist
    South: US realm ergo Capitalist
    Korean War: 1950-53
    Enemies
    Divided Families
    No mail, no trade, no visits, no phone calls
    Ethnic Homogeneity
    Racially pure, Unique Race

    East Asian or Mongoloid


    racial group
    Strong sense of racial
    identity
    Self-identification as
    distinct from other Asian
    nations
    Korean Language

    Altaic Language Group
    Structurally identical to Japanese
    60% of vocabulary borrowed from Chinese
    Distinct from both

    Not a tonal language


    Regional dialects Just like U.S.
    Korean Language

    Early Literacy: Chinese
    Early Writing: Chinese Characters

    1400s Hangul commissioned by King Sejong


    Phonetic system
    Simple enough for women & servants
    Writing System
    Mixed Writing system
    Chinese root words written in Chinese
    characters
    900 characters to pass middle school
    1800 characters to pass high school
    Korean Native words written in Hangul
    Typical until 1945
    North Korea dropped Chinese about 1950
    Hangul only newspapers in South Korea first
    published in 1988
    National Creation Myth:
    Tangun 2333 BC
    Hwan-ung (god figure)
    Tiger and Bear want to be
    human
    Live in cave 100 days eating
    mugwort and garlic
    Bear endures and becomes a woman
    She prays for a husband
    Hwan-ung takes her as wife and they bear a
    son, Tangun who governs over the people of
    Korea
    See http://www.lifeinkorea.com/information/tangun.cfm
    for a simple but solid version of this story on the web.
    Native Religious Traditions
    Animistic religious beliefs
    Shamanism
    Mudang:
    Korean Shaman
    Always Female
    Kut:
    Korean exorcism
    Ecstatic dance
    Native Spiritual /
    Cultural Concepts
    Han
    Collective burden of historic pain
    Centuries of oppression
    Eons of suffering

    Creates a sorrow, sense of blues that is


    unique to Koreans and pervades their art,
    music and culture
    Native
    Spiritual
    Concepts
    Nature of the
    Human Soul

    Similar to China spirit resides in the environment of


    its life/death.
    Burial practices similar to China
    Native Spiritual Concepts
    Ancestor Veneration:
    Chesa
    Enhanced & formalized by Confucianism
    Major part of civil responsibility in later
    Korean history
    Borrowed Religious Concepts
    Daoism
    Focus on nature
    Fengshui
    Confucianism
    Buddhism

    Christianity arrives late


    Daoist ideas:
    Symbolism of the
    South Korean Flag
    Center is the Korean version of the Yin-Yang
    symbol
    The four trigrams are:
    ; geon (; ) = heaven
    ; gon (; ) = earth
    ; ri (; ) = sun
    ; gam (; ) = moon
    Fengshui (Chinese)
    Pungsu (Korean)
    Geomancy
    Wind and Water
    Used in:
    Interior decorating
    Architecture
    City planning, etc.
    5 Frog Brothers Folk tale
    Confucianism
    Borrowed from China
    Dominant Governing Ideology
    in later dynasties
    Major impact on Korean Culture
    Hierarchy
    Ritualism and formality
    Male dominance
    Buddhism
    Borrowed from
    China
    About 50 CE
    Becomes
    important
    about 500 CE

    Adopted by early dynasties


    Political dominance early on
    Coexists with Confucianism, Daoism and native
    traditions -- usually
    Christianity
    Catholics enter 1774
    Protestants enter 1884

    Myongdong
    Cathedral: Seoul

    Both become politically and socially very


    important
    Protestants 1900 to the present
    Catholics briefly about 1800 and again since 1970
    (much more to come in later history discussion)

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