Korea become more favored and
many talks about it, especially by teenager, because Korea has turn into
fashion barometer in many aspects, for example movies, songs, even life-style
and fashion style become trend among teenager all over the world today.
The Korean wave, or usually
pronounced as Hallyu, is referring to the Korean popular culture since late
1990’s. This term first introduced in Beijing journalists, surprised by China
growing appetite for Korean culture. They substitute this into “Hanlu”, which
means “Korean stream”. This condition makes Korean culture, interested by many
people and they want to learn more about it. Nevertheless, this article will
give you a little study about Korea cultures, briefly. Importantly, it will help
you to know better about Korea.
Start with Korean traditional
house, they called Hanok, they build it based on geomansi, or study about
topography and believes about that the environment around us is a form of
energy both positive and negative (eum and yang in Korean) that should be
balanced. Geomansi influenced building formation, where is headed to, even
materials to build it. Traditional Korean clothes are Hanbok, it contains two
parts, an upper part is Jeogori, with trousers for man (baji) and skirt
(chima). Korean dressed based on their social status, thus get dressed is very
important. When they wear Hanbok? in special occasion, like First birthday of
first child (doljanchi), wedding, or condolences. Culinary in Korea, influenced
by their farming tradition. Main food is rice. Main productions are, rice,
wheat and nuts. Korean culinary mostly produced from fermentation for a long
time, for example kimchi and doenjang. Fermentation food is very useful,
especially in winter to provide enough vitamins and proteins
Everything about Korea nowadays,
is a trend, including fashion. Talks about Korea is all about music or fashion,
from music there is boyband or girlband, at least is about beauties and
handsome of the artists. Korean songs, are become hits on most billboard songs
all over the world. Korean fashion has become barometer in the world today,
there are so many clothes based on Korean drama or artists, from adult to
children. A female fashion trend with baju
wanita , has been predicted unchanged from last year with has many colors
on it and unique pattern, these could boost wearer performance. It was simple,
unique and casual, easy to combine with accessories. These clothes also give
cheerful influence, and never out-dated. Especially for sporty, and confidence
persons.
