Hanja Essays

Tet: Vietnamese Lunar New Year The time comes and goes by fast as people grow old. Every year, many people around the world celebrate New Year's to say goodbye to the past year and welcome a new one passing by. Like any other culture around the world which celebrate their New Year, in Asia, Lunar New Year is the traditional holiday that people celebrate according to the moon’s calendar. Viet Nam is also one of the countries that celebrate Lunar New Year. However, before Vietnamese people left their

Donghak was a religion that emerged in the 1860’s as one of the first new religions in modern Korean history. It combined various aspects from many different Korean religious traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, and Shamanism. Its founder Choe Je-U founded Donghak out of resentment of foreign influence and oppression in Korea, the yangban class and opposition to Christianity, among many other things. In addition to being a religion, Donghak was also a political ideology

Introduction South Korea is a very cultural and historical place which has 51 million inhabitants. Their country is in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and they own many thousands of islands, however not all are habitable. They have very extreme weathers and a very varying terrain. Above all, these the Koreans are very proud people that value education, culture and history very much. Geography South Korea is a country in East Asia which covers the southern part of the Korean Peninsula