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The Korean language has a system of linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situation. One basic rule of Korean honorifics is ...
The practice of matrilocality in Korea started in the Goguryeo period, continued through the Goryeo period and ended in the early Joseon period. [1] [2] The Korean saying that when a man gets married, he is "entering jangga" (the house of his father-in-law), stems from the Goguryeo period.
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space between ...
husband's death: 5 May 1565 Yi Ho, King Injong: Queen Inseong of the Bannam Park clan: Queen Queen Dowager Gongui (공의왕대비) 7 October 1514 1544 8 August 1545 husband's death: 6 January 1578 Yi Hwan, King Myeongjong: Queen Insun of the Cheongsong Sim clan: Queen Queen Dowager Uiseong (의성왕대비) 27 June 1532 1545 3 August 1567 ...
Lee Eung-tae (Korean: 이응태; Hanja: 李應台) lived from 1555 to 1586. He was a local nobleman of the Goseong Lee clan, and was the second son of father Lee Yo-shin. [1][4] He died at the age of 31 (possibly from an epidemic, based on letters from Lee's father [5][6]), and was survived by a young son (possibly around 5–6 years old [7 ...
Korean clans are groups of people that share the same paternal ancestor. They are indicated by the combination of a bongwan (Korean: 본관; lit. place of origin) and a family name. For example, the Jeonju Yi clan is identified by the city Jeonju and family name Yi, the Gimhae Kim clan is identified by the city Gimhae and family name Kim, and ...
Im Yoon-ah (Korean: 임윤아; born May 30, 1990), known mononymously as Yoona, is a South Korean singer and actress.After training for five years, she debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation (and later its subgroup Girls' Generation-Oh!GG) in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups ...
10. Getbol (Tidal flat) (갯벌) Korea's tidal flat is one of the world's top five tidal flats and is considered the highest peak among Korea's ecological and cultural symbols. 11. Pungsu. (풍수) Pungsu (풍수, 風水) is a traditional Korean environmental idea and natural ecology that condenses the wisdom of ancestors' lives.