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  2. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Until the Joseon dynasty era, unlike today, on the Korean Peninsula, age was not considered as severe, so it was a culture of making friends within a small age gap. [dubious – discuss] The current Korean custom of deciding whether to use honorifics based on age in Korea was influenced by Japanese colonial occupation era.

  3. Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng - Wikipedia

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    The Memoir of 1802 was designed to secure reinstated honor for Sado and the Pungsan Hong family. The text focuses on Jeongjo's reaction to Sado's death and his subsequent attempts to restore honor to his name. Lady Hyegyong described Jeongjo as "peerless in benevolence," and throughout her memoir she gives various examples of Jeongjo's filiality.

  4. Marriage in Korea - Wikipedia

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    Marriage in South Korea is currently restricted to unions between individuals of the opposite sex as same-sex marriages remain unrecognized. [9] People over 18 years old may marry with their parents' or guardians' consent. [10] Otherwise South Korea's age of consent to marriage is 20 in Korean age (19 in international age).

  5. Yeolnyeo - Wikipedia

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    Yeolnyeo and its requirements are frequently a major plot component of K-drama historical romances.. The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (South Korean film, 1962); Knight Flower (South Korean TV series, 2024) Here, a noble widow - the leading lady - is forced to be a recluse, while another widow's mother-in-law attempts to enforce her daughter-in-law's suicide, in order to win prestige and ...

  6. Avoidance speech - Wikipedia

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    All relations are classificatory – more people may fall into the "mother-in-law" category than just a man's wife's mother. [6] Avoidance speech styles used with taboo relatives are often called mother-in-law languages, although they are not actually separate languages but separate lexical sets with the same grammar and phonology. Typically ...

  7. Childbirth in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    In fact, the reasons for using postpartum care centers in Korea were 'easy for postnatal care' (36.5%) and 'to get help from an infant specialist' (18.7%) respectively. [24] In South America and the Muslim, there is a postnatal care culture, and in recent years, Korea's unique postnatal care culture is spreading to Japan and China.

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  9. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...