Thursday, December 16, 2010

Is my country a civilization?

I have learned 7 important civilization. Stable food supply, religion, social structure, art, government, technology and writing that is written language. I am going to investigate to see my country has these characteristics.
Stable Food Supply
In Korea, my cultural stable food supply is a soy jar. Ancient people put Kimchi in it because it taste more better to put in refrigerator. They dug a soil and put soy jar in it. Then it will taste like more cultural. Now days many people use Kimchi refrigerator that could taste also good but not really much. Today some grand parents or who lives in country uses still!!!

Religion
We Korean has two religion. One is Christian and another one is Buddhism.There are lots of people believing god but some are not. I am Christian. I went to the church with my family and cousins. Every Sunday we go to church. There are two floors. First floor is for children like prep senior to 6th grade. Second floor is for the adults only. These were seperate because children doesn't know what the adults are saying and it is boring for them so they will be loud when everyone is praying. This is my church that used to go on Sunday.




Art
Korean arts are about the nature. For example they drew mountains and trees. This was because our country is full of mountains and trees about 70% of it. Many artist drew about the nature. Now days everyone drew with a color but ours are drew with a Chinese ink. When they drew if they got any mistakes they throw away the paper and drew another paper. The paper was so thin that it could rip easily.


Government
Korea governments were now Lee Myeong Park. He is now the president. But many people doesn't like him because he doesn't seems like to help other people. So many children swear him. They think that another person will be the president. 





Writing
Korea writing has developed a lot. There once was a Se Jong De Wang. In past we needed to use Chinese characters s it was hard to use it. But he just found it so we could use our language easily. Because of him it is more comfortable. He kept try to invent in our own writing. He could not see his left eye but he kept try but unlucky he passed away.


Technology
Korea technology also improved technology. In the past they needed to walk or ride a horse to inform king, but this was hard because it gets lots of time.But now we could go by a car, airplane and train. Also it invented more faster car that is cost more money. They also could use cellphone that is small so it could go in the pocket. This helps to call someone to meet, work or something. This helps us to become life more comfortable. Maybe on future it could be developed a lot.

 Social Structure
We have 3 classes. that is common class, upper class and slaves. Upper class we had king, priest, government owners. Sometimes if the priest doesn't follow the rules then they will stay in jail. Common class we have fisherman, farmers, sellers. They sell lots of things. For example mirror or candle. Slaves doesn't have any money. If they ran their owners will be very angry. If they found them they will hit them as hard as they could. Most of the slaves died because the owners hit them so hard.