NORTH KOREA CULTURE

THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE OF NORTH KOREA IS BASED ON THEIR TRADITIONAL KOREAN WAYS.  REVOLUTIONARY HEROES ACT AS SAINTSFROM PURE MOVIES.

THE NORTH KOREAN POPULATION HAS LITTLE EXPOSURE TO FOREIGN CULTURAL  INFLUENCESS EXCEPT FOR ENTERTAINMENT.  MANY WOMEN WORK COLLECTIVELY IN THE EMBROIDERY FACTORIES.

THEIR CULTURAL EXPRESSION.IS TO TAKE CARE FROM THE PAST AND DISCARD CAPITALISTS ELEMENTS.  ETHNOGRAPGHERS DEVOTE MUCH ENERGY TO REINTRODUCING THEIR CULTURAL ARTS.  THEY LIKE TO KEEP A LIVELY SPIRIT AND ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT  AND ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COLLECTION CONSCIOUSNESS.  THEY LIKE FOLK DANCING AND CHORAL SINGING.  THEY HAVE MANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THAT THEY HAVE PRODUCED.  THE ARCHITECTURE ISBASED ON MODERN DESIGN.  THEY HAVE MANY STATUES IN THEIR TOWN, AS WELL AS CHURCH BTOWERS AND A LARGE MUSEUM.  ANOTHER TYPE OF BUILDING USES TILE ROOF DESIGNS.

NORTH KOREA IS FAMOUS FOR MASS GAMES.  THESE ARE DANCES WITH 1000'S OF KOREANS USING CHOREOGRAPOHED DANCES AND RYTHMS OF MOVEMENTS.  THEY DANCE TO CHANTS.  KOREAN HISTORY BEGAN WITH THE GOJOSEA DYNASTY IN 2233B.C. BASED ON MYTHOLOGY.  THEY HAD MANY CONFLICTS THE CHINESE.  THE GOJOSEAN DISSINTEGRATED AND THAT LED TO 3 KINGDOMS.  THESE KINGDOMS  WERE PEACEFUL AND WERE CONTROLLED BY 676.

THE MONGOLS INVADED  IN THE 13TH CENTURY.  THEY FOUGHT FOR 30 YEARS. AQND RULED KOREA.  EVENTUALLY THE MONGULEMOIRE COLLAPSED AND THE GARYEO FOLKS WERE INDEPENDENT IN 1388.

LATER THEY WERE DEPENDANT ON CHINA FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS.  FROM LATE 19TH CENTURY CENTURY TO THE EARLY  20TH CENTURY THEY WERE CALLED THE HERMIT KINGDOM. 

AFTER JAPAN SURRENDERED IN W W 11 THEY LEFT KOREA.  KOREA HAD 2 ZONES IN 1945.  THE NORTHERN PART WAS EQUIPPED  BY THE SOVIETS AND SOUTHERN  1/2 BY THE U.S.  THEY HAD CONTINUAL CONFLICTS QAFTER 1949.  THE U.S. WITHDREW  IN 1949 AND CHINESE SENT  TROOPS TO NORTH KOREA LEADING TO THE KOREAN WAR. IN 1950 TO 2000.  ON OCTOBER  4 2007 THEY HELD TALKS TO DECLARE THE WAR WAS ENDED .  HOWEVER THERE WERE SKIRMISHES.  TODAY OBAMA HAS KEPT THE U S OUT OF KOREA.  EVENTUALLY THE MONGOL EMPIRE COLLAPSED  AND THE GARYEO FOLKS WERE INDEPENDANT IN 1588.

LATER THEY WERE DEPENDANT ON CHINA FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS.  FROM LATE 19TH CENTURY TO THEY EARLY 20TH CENTURY. THEY WERE CALLED  THE HERMIT KINGDOM.

AFTER JAPAN SURRENDERED IN WW 11 .  THEY LEFT KOREA.  KOREA HAD 2 TWO ZONES IN 1945.  NORTHEAST HAD PART WAS OCCUPIED BY THE SOVIETS AND SOUTHERN 1/2 BY THE U.S.  THEY HAD CONTINUAL CONFLICTS AFTER 1949.  THE US WITHDREW IN 1949 AND CHINESE SENT TROOPS TO NOTH KOREALEADING TO THE KOREAN WAR.  IN 1950 TO 2000.  ON OCTOBER 4TH 200 THEY HELD TALKS TO DECLARE THE WAR WAS ENDED.  HOWEVER THERE WERE STILL SKIRMISHES.

TODAY OBAMA HAS KEPT THE US OUT OF KOREA TO DEFUSE TENSION.  THEY DO NOT WELCOME TOURISTS!NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA MAINTAIN CLOSE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.  THEY STILL HAVE MANY TENSIONS BETWEEN THESE COUNTRIES,

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