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    Posted: 07-Nov-2009 at 09:40
o.O definitely not Italians.  Koreans tend to get very loud when they speak :D not that I am offended by it, but I say Italians never get that loud when talking to each other, so yeah.  And in reality Japanese actually talk softer, and I would compare them to Italians, actually that is a great comparison
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Please note, this isn't about Japanese or talking loud.
believe me, I've seen plenty of loud Italian or Japanese people before.
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If you add Irish, Italian, Jewish all three ethnic people together what would you have??? Korean. In national character Koreans share Irish trait, Italian trait, and Jewish trait.
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Earth people are the ancestors of the Korean　　舌头
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I'd have thought the Japanese were closer to the Italians: an advanced empire that copied an older civilisation (Greece/China) and conquered less "civilised" tribes (Celts/Koreans)
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No,  

It's often too easy to compare different culture to try find similarities but I have always depended on Wiki, they are quite good. Korean Culture has evolved very differently than Europeans. I would like to put an emphasis on isolation and what that entails: Sometimes it can be good, South Korea; sometimes it can be bad, North Korea.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Korea
 

Latest show that I am enjoying right now is "That Winter, The Wind Blows"

his show is too good to miss.

http://www.viki.com/channels/10519-that-winter-the-wind-blows
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Fair enough.
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Nick, the Koreans hardly compare to a lesser civilized people than the Japanese. I would recommend you read Stephen Turnbull's "Samurai Invasion" and note that the Koreans, when treated by the Samurai as were ordinary Japanese people of the 16th Century, were appalled. The Koreans were recognized masters of the Confucian classics, several rising very high in Chinese service, and Korean celadon potters equaled and in some techniques surpassed the very best Chinese celadon potters. During the Chinese Ming era, Korean porcelains were highly valued, and in the wake the Imjin wars entire pottery villages were forcibly removed to Japan, where their descendants made significant contributions to Japanese pottery, a fact that many Japanese pottery firms freely acknowledge.

It is not a popular subject among Koreans, but the people who became the Japanese and the modern Koreans sprang from a Steppe warrior people who crossed the Peninsula to Japan several millennium ago. 

Japan's colonization of Korea arose from the 19th century weakness of the Choseon dynasty. During the colonial period, the Japanese themselves viewed the Koreans as sharing a common civilization, and indeed were among the founders of Korean archaeology, which was not taken seriously in Confucian times.

In short, while the Celts too produced some very fine crafts, like gold working, and possessed obvious artistic skills, The Koreans had a far higher and more complex level of civilization.   

Better yet, when you've saved up some vacation, take three weeks off some October (the best time) and visit Kyoto, Japan, Seoul, Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan hitting the museums. I say Taiwan because it has the National Palace Museum, which still is, perhaps for only a few years more, the pre-eminent Chinese museum in the world. I think you'll come away with a far greater appreciation of East Asian culture. Each is unique, and all share many things in common.


Edited by lirelou - 16-Mar-2013 at 23:06
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There's been a lot of research done about "Japanese" origin in recent years, much of it done by Japanese themselves. One issue in particular that the Japanese seems to have hard time dealing with has to do with the origin of the "Emperor of Japan."  The latest evidence seems to indicate that the Emperor of Japan may have originated in Korea.  It's a touchy issue that the Japanese scholars generally tend to sidestep. However, the imperial family have acknowledged that they may have originated from Korea.  
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Wow, discriminations fly! For me, the most impressing thing about Korea is their pride. After the boat-sink accident, the vice chief of the high school suicided , and the public event urged the captain to kill himself. Korean athlete Kim Yu-na's failure to win the champion in Sochi Olympics, was called a national humiliation, and the UK girl who defeated  Kim Yu-na was besieged by korean on twitter!

Any Korean here? Could you tell where this unbelievable pride comes from? Mordern korean culture or history?
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Originally posted by wholesomebody

Wow, discriminations fly! For me, the most impressing thing about Korea is their pride. After the boat-sink accident, the vice chief of the high school suicided , and the public event urged the captain to kill himself. Korean athlete Kim Yu-na's failure to win the champion in Sochi Olympics, was called a national humiliation, and the UK girl who defeated  Kim Yu-na was besieged by korean on twitter!

Any Korean here? Could you tell where this unbelievable pride comes from? Mordern korean culture or history?


this high lvl of pride is also symbol of Japanese, isn't it?
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Originally posted by Ollios

Originally posted by wholesomebody

Wow, discriminations fly! For me, the most impressing thing about Korea is their pride. After the boat-sink accident, the vice chief of the high school suicided , and the public event urged the captain to kill himself. Korean athlete Kim Yu-na's failure to win the champion in Sochi Olympics, was called a national humiliation, and the UK girl who defeated  Kim Yu-na was besieged by korean on twitter!

Any Korean here? Could you tell where this unbelievable pride comes from? Mordern korean culture or history?


this high lvl of pride is also symbol of Japanese, isn't it?

Unbelievable pride? Ummm... I wouldn't necessarily say that's the nature of society but nationalism is very popular in Far East Asia just as nationalism was critically important in Europe back then... I'd say more so as the Far East Asian powers now can afford to look outside of their domestic playground and project their influence outwards. Unlike in the past, they have the time, resource and money to afford playing the geopolitical game. 

It puzzles the western people because their culture heavily emphasize the ideas and values of individuality whereas in many parts of Asia, social community is the counterpart in our culture. That's how they were raised and cultured. (With growing number of Asian diaspora coming back to live/visit, they are becoming less xenophobic about foreign cultures).

I'd say let the westerners make analogy that best fits their mindsets. Really understanding a country is not something that can be summarized by a simple analogy... mostly.  
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