Traditions of Seoul

South Korean have many traditional. Their religions has included a lot of religions coming from various religions. They have numerous of traditional clothes, food cuisine, paintings, arts, handicrafts,dance, music and sports. They specify various of traditions of Seoul.

 

RELIGION

Christian(29.2%), Catholics(10.9%), Buddhist(22.8%), and the rest stick to the various new religious that includes Jeungism, Daesunism, Cheondoism, Taoism, Confucianism and Won Buddhism.

A small minority of Koreans are also recognize as Islam. Thus, large metropolitan areas had the highest proportions of people belongs to formal religious groups as such, Seoul(49.9%), Busan(46.1%), and Daegu(45.8%).

South Korea had the third highest percentage of Christians in East Asia or Southeast Asia, followed by the Philippines and East Timor.

DRESS


Korean traditional dress are worn in every families in Korea. These are one of their exclusive traditional dress that signify their traditional customs. They are very pompous wearing their traditional dress as in every occasions or festivals or even in normal days. As nowadays, Korean people wear the Hanbok in their everyday lifestyles. 


Their traditional Korean dress is called Hanbok. Hanbok is worn by women and it is called Chimajeogori and it consists of a wrap-around skirt called Chima and the jacket called Jeogori.
Men too wears the traditional dress, Hanbok as they consists of the Jeogori jacket and pants as it identified as Baji. A hat is known as Gwanmo and a long coat called Durumagi.

CUISINE 
In Korea, they have their very own significant cuisines that many people are interested as some people wanted to learn how to make them. They have varieties of dishes, royal court, grilled, steamed and raw. 


Korean also sought the balance of yin and yang as the negative and positive cosmic forces. Vegetables dishes have also been essential to everyday meals, not because Koreans are vegetarians but because these were major sources of important nutrients in their meals.


Thus, most Koreans menus include meals made from rice, barley, beans, fish and other seafood. 
 Apart from everyday cuisine, they have prepared ceremonial occasions and ritual for temple, for ancestral worship and at funerals. 


Two of their significant cuisine are Kimchi commonly fermented (cabbage, white radish, or cucumber)as that is their everyday food at every cuisine and Bulgogi (marinated meat).


Kimchi is recognized by people worldwide. As today, cargo ships deliver Kimchi to the shores of five continents and foreign visitors to Korea to show how a growing interest in tasting and learning how to make Kimchi.

They also provide people who want to learn into their cuisine and they have set up a Tteok Museum of culinary and Kim Chi school because that is one of their main cuisine that will attract more people to learn.

DANCES

Korean traditional dances are very unique and memorable because the way they dance with their instruments and the teamwork they showcase their dance to let people watch it. The traditional Korean dances include Court dances and Folk dances. 

The two court dances are the Jeongjaemu is divided into two further dance as they are the types of the native dances known as Hyangak, Jeongjae also enthused by the Chines dances, Dangak. Lastly, Ilmu are divided into civil dance (munmu) and military dance (mumu).

The folk dances include dances that are mainly performed during the Shamanistics rites and the Secular dances which are performed individually and in groups too. 

MUSIC 

Korean traditional music is based on the human voice and their traditional music are very admirable to watch and hear with various types;

 of wind instruments include piri(cylindrical oboe), taepyeongso(metal-bell shawn), daegum(transverse flute), danso(end-blown flute), saenghwang(mouth orgam) and hun(ocarina). 

Percussion instruments include kwaenggari(hand-held gong), jing(hanging gong), buk(barrel drum), pyeongyeong(stones chimes), eo(tiger-shaped scraper) adn chuk(wooden box).

 They are divided it into two categories:

Jeongak for the nobility as it is elaborate and stately and lastly, the Sogak main for the commoners for emotive and vibrant.

They have made their music in a special way where people will get amazed by their dance, costumes and instruments.  As the most notable characteristic of Korean music is its leisurely tempo. Korea too have the modern music where nowadays, bands have been grouped as they have attract more youths.

  SPORTS

Korea traditional sports are also very popular among the Korean people and they are

Baduk (like Go), Janggi (like Chess), Gyeokku (a ball game), Guenetagi (swing), Jeopo (stick throwing), Tuho (arrow pitching), Chajeon Nori (jousting) and Ssireum (wrestling). These are all their popular sports in Korea.

ART OF TEA

Tea in Korea dates back over 2,000 tears. Originally, tea in Korea was used for special purposes such as ceremonial offerings or medicine. However, Korean tea was served as an offertory drink in worship rites from an ancient times, progressively it became a widespread beverage for everyone from royalty to commoners and reached its heyday in the 12th century.

The literati drank tea for wisdom and a resposeful mind in the ritual of the tea ceremony is called Dado. Thus, besides green tea, Koreans have take pleasure in teas that are made of various fruits, leaves, seeds or roots including jujube, ginseng, arrowroot, ginger, fruit of matrimony vine, quince, citron, fruit of maximowiczia typical, cinnamon, persimmon leaf and adlay.

Premium tea are called Jakseolcha or sparrow-tongue tea because its leaf is similar in shape to a sparrow's tongue and Jakseolcha is gathered in early spring.