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Korean Culture

By Kevin Smith

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Dance

As with music, there is a distinction between court dance and folk dance. Common court dances are jeongjaemu performed at banquets, and ilmu, performed at Korean Confucian rituals.

Jeongjaemu is divided into native dances (hyangak jeongjae) and forms imported from Central Asia and China (dangak jeongjae). Ilmu are divided into civil dance (munmu) and military dance (mumu). Many mask dramas and mask dances are performed in many regional areas of Korea. The traditional clothing is the genja, it is a special kind of dress that women wear on festivals.

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Painting

-The earliest paintings found on the Korean peninsula are petroglyphs of prehistoric times. With the arrival of Buddhism from India via China, different techniques were introduced. These techniques quickly established themselves as the mainstream techniques, but indigenous techniques still survived.-There is a tendency towards naturalism with subjects such as realistic landscapes, flowers and birds being particularly popular. Ink is the most common material used, and it is painted on mulberry paper or silk.

-In the 18th century indigenous techniques were advanced, particularly in calligraphy and seal engraving.

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Music-Traditional Korean music includes both the folk, vocal, religious and ritual music styles of the Korean people. Korean music, along with arts, painting, and sculpture has been practiced since prehistoric times.-Two distinct musical cultures exist in Korea today: traditional music (Gugak) and Western music (yangak).-Korean music history is divided into three eras, ancient, medieval, and modern:-Korean folk music is varied and complex, but all forms maintain a set of rhythms (called 장단 Changdan) and a loosely defined set of melodic modes.-Pansori is a long vocal and percussive music played by one singer and one drummer. -Pungmul is a Korean folk music tradition that is a form of percussion music includes drumming, dancing, and singing.-Sanjois played without a pause in faster tempos. It shifts rhythms and melodic modes during the song. -Chongak means literally "right (or correct) music", and its tradition includes both instrumental and vocal music, which wre cultivated mainly by the upper-class ilterati of the Joseon society.-Nongak, means "farmers' music" and represents an important musical genre which has been developed mainly by peasants in the agricultural society of Korea.-Shinawi, means in broadest sense, the shamanistic music of Korea which is preformed during a Korean shaman's ritual dance performance to console and to entertain deities.-Salpuri is a dance for soul cleansing and literally means : "to wash away bad ghosts". Salpuri’s modern movements represent the shown human hopes and aspirations.

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Sources

Wikipedia: Culture of Koreahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_KoreaWikipedia: Culture of Korea Dancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Korea#DanceWikipedia: Culture of Korea Paintinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Korea#PaintingWikipedia: Korean Musichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_music