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Kisaeng ( Korean : 기생; Hanja : 妓生; RR : Gisaeng ), also called ginyeo ( 기녀; 妓女 ), were enslaved women from outcast or enslaved families who were trained to be courtesans, providing artistic entertainment and conversation to men of upper class.
Hanja ( Korean : 한자; Hanja : 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha (ː)ntɕ͈a] ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters ( Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: hànzì ). [1] used to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period under the first Korean kingdom. Hanja-eo ( 한자어, 漢字 語) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be ...
The Four Ceremonial Occasions ( Korean : 관혼상제; Hanja : 冠婚喪祭; RR : Gwanhonsangje ). [1] The four rites of passage celebrated in this tradition are the coming of age ( Gwallye; 관례), marriage ( Hollye; 혼례), death, or the funeral rites ( Sangrye; 상례), and rites venerating the ancestors ( Jerye; 제례). The word ...
Chuseok (Korean: 추석; Hanja: 秋夕; [tɕʰu.sʌk̚], lit. ' autumn evening '), also known as Hangawi (한가위; [han.ɡa.ɥi]; from Old Korean, "the great middle [of autumn]"), is a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon.
The yangban ( Korean : 양반; Hanja : 兩班) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were mainly composed of highly educated civil servants and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a "scholarly official".
Korean honorifics. The Korean language has a system of honorifics that recognizes and reflects the hierarchical social status of participants with respect to the subject and/or the object and/or the audience. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age ...
Irworobongdo. Irworobongdo ( Korean : 일월오봉도; Hanja : 日月五峯圖) is a Korean folding screen with a highly stylized landscape painting of a sun and moon, five peaks which always was set behind Eojwa, the king’s royal throne during the Joseon Dynasty. [1] [2] It literally means "Painting of the Sun, Moon and the Five Peaks" and ...
Origin. The first historical document that records the surname dates to 636 and references it as the surname of Korean King Jinheung of Silla (526–576). In the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 935 CE)—which variously battled and allied with other states on the Korean peninsula and ultimately unified most of the country in 668—Kim was the name of a family that rose to prominence and became the ...