A country like an attack epilleptischer
I may be back for almost two weeks from Korea, but I would like you a little about the land of my fathers. For, as the nation's favorite daughter Ida Daussy said one day, Koreans need to recruit more for their country. In Europe, it would eventually still many people who hold the Korea for a district of Tokyo. Well, Mme Daussy, à vos ordres! Even though we will never develop the self-Korean marketing talent of the Japanese, I will bring you in several parts of the Far East a little closer.
The Land of the Morning Calm - Some data
Korea, the country is commonly called the morning calm. And to some extent this is true also. Because Koreans are generally nocturnal and so - so it is very surprising many Europeans - late risers (but also little sleeper). And if it ever is a moment of silence in South Korea, then in the early morning. But even against 10 Clock in the morning because it is again incredibly loud (not that it would ever really silent, we are talking only of relative silence), bright, colorful and generally one is exposed to an almost sensory overload. I always need 2 - 3 weeks until I got used to some extent it did. At least, so in the greater Seoul.
South Korea has a national area of 99.000km ² (Iceland: 105.000km ², Bavaria: 70.000km ²). On this surface to squeeze about 48 million people. Thus, South Korea to Bangladesh and the Netherlands before the most densely populated country in the world. However, only about 1 / 3 of the country is habitable, that is an area of North Rhine-Westphalia meets.
Of the 48 million lives half in the greater Seoul.
My parents live in Bucheon, a city of 850,000 inhabitants and 50 km ² area (See: Hamburg: 50 km ²) in the sandwich between the cities of Incheon (2.8 million) and Seoul (10.5 million) is you. around one of many small satellite cities of Seoul tag around Seoul and Incheon, which form a nearly continuous urban area. Seoul itself has an area of 650km ² (Hamburg: 750 km ²) and placed 5th in the worldwide skyscraper index, although it is not there in a high-rise world-class. The city is just continuous and very evenly interspersed with skyscrapers.
4500 years and still going strong / way
Korea - Koryo or - as a state is something 4,500 years old, even if my ancestors after their exodus from Africa via Mongolia since 15,000 - 22,000 to settle the peninsula. Since then the country
had a number of names and desöfteren was sometimes divided into several countries, which has become a rather annoying habit. The oldest of Choson.
South Korea called Dae Han Mingook (Hence the U.S. American epithet "gook" from the days of the Korean War (then not yet a real curse word), which was extended in the Vietnam War on all slit eyes.) Han, this is the name for our ethnicity. Min Gook and people say (even Gug Kook or transcribed) means land (Chinese: Guo, Japanese: Kok (u), Vietnamese Quoc). So nation of Han people, or shortly: Hankook. And because the Korean from a "syllable language" is to reduce Koreans like syllables. Nam-Han of South Korea, and Buk-Han to North Korea.
In North Korea, however, to use the name of Choson, Buk-Choson and Nam Choson.
Because in Japan the neutral word "Korea" does not exist, you just say Chosen to North Korea and Kankok (u) to the south. So you can still remain pretty neutral.
names are smoke and mirrors
I kept watching with fascination, what a lot of Tammtamm Europeans - and I mean not only the Iberians - to make their names. In my time at MDS Pharma Services, a U.S. company based in Lincoln, Nebraska, I repeatedly had to do with the standard operating procedures of the company's headquarters in the center of the United States. One of these relates to the entry of names in the U.S. computer system in 1979 (yes damn! 1979!). According to the U.S. practice works as follows to enter: First name acc. to ID, middle name acc. to ID, complete last name acc. to ID. And what do you think of how much the theater is to press German names in such a scheme? Not all take it as loose as a certain Marc, who would rather be called André.
In Korea, all a bit different. First, many Koreans trace their lineage for thousands of years, at least I can do that and secondly is there a thousands of years old, strict System: A syllable surname, two syllables, proper names. Sometimes it is just one syllable. I had as a child to have a friend whose name was Kim Yong. Very rarely are two-syllable last name, eg Namgung, which are mostly Chinese names. Or Daussy, although Mme Ida Daussy has changed its name in Do as I know, a name that already exists in Korea. As we Koreans this system for thousands of years (do not think German meticulousness? Haha, I so dangerous!) With Asian meticulously followed, there were a few years ago in Korea just 300 different last names for 80 million people (and North Korean refugees included). Kim
which are the most common (21%), Lee / Rhee / Yi (19%), park / Bak and Choi, who - surprise! - One day the families were of the highest nobility. Kim was especially Lee and the King (= royal) family, at Park and Choi I do not know what the two have made a king. A time has certainly made a king.
There are 348 clans in Korea, who have the name of Kim. One is the Clan of the Kims from Kimhae / Gimhae, which includes my clan. Kimhae is Gyeongsang and is from the perspective of people from Honam enemy territory. I am from Honam. And my Mother. And they will disown me if I tow her a daughter of Gyeongsang. My family lives father's side for the past ten generations in Honam. About half of the Kims are part of the Kimhae clan, a total of nearly 5 million people in South Korea alone. Again about 1 / 4 of all Kim's part of the Gyeongju Kim clan. The remaining quarter is among the 346 other clans. The Kimhae clan is one of the few clans that belong to the two names: Kim and Heo (Huh). The Kimhae lead back to King Kim Suro, the Indian and his wife, Queen Heo Hwangok, 2000 years ago ruled the southeastern part of Korea, where most of the other Kim-clan originate. The Gyeongju Kim formed the Silla dynasty, which ruled later also the southeastern part of Korea, but a politically and historically were far more important family.
The most important kings of Korea, however, someone descended from the Lee Dynasty.
Even place names have two syllables in Korea in the rule name. Through immigration, the number of Korean family names in the last 20 years has increased again slightly.
be continued.
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