Korea - Everything You Have Never Experienced

Ms. Mitharu

Tom Liang

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October 23, 2015

Korea- Everything You Have Never Experienced

The five thousand years magnificent Korean culture is no doubt a very significant part of the world, it has introduced its food, its language, and most importantly its spirit and conventional confucianism social value to the people living on this planet and I would like to share a couple of my own experience about this attractive piece of land.

Before I moved to Canada, I had barely no knowledge about this mysterious country lying beside China. My first experience about this piece of land was through a Korean movie about its ancient history when I was in Grade 9. I was boring watching TV and I suddenly found this channel, the movie was a story about the forbidden love between the honourable prince and a menial girl. The show was dolorous and catastrophic, it had revealed me the ancient Korean bustling streets with people wearing clothes made with vivid silk and gorgeous satin and the dignified palace protected by thousands of soldiers equipped with bows and swords. I was totally fascinated by the dulcet theme music performed by a female artist with piano tinkled gently in the background, the song had drew me into the show and it had guided me to feel the sentiments that the screenwriter wanted to express that nothing could stop the steps of love and love could exceed anything.

Undeniably, the Korean music has dominated part of the mainstream industry. K-pop, this distinguished form of pop music originated in Korea, many music-lovers’ ears are captivated by the enthralling rhythm and lyrics. Several months ago, I had firstly encountered with the Korean music. It was a lunch period in school when I saw one of my friends was watching this video about the Korean K-pop group, EXO, I asked her “ Can I share one of you earphones?” She said “ Of course!”. I put on the earphone and I was fully enraptured by their new album, “Overdose”. The enthusiastic and peerless dance was astonishing, all of the group members were performing with synchronisation like they were dancing as one person. Their singing was even more fascinating, the rhythm was magnetic and seductive like they were pulling the audience into the