I took a bit of artistic license when I made my rendition of the korean flag but deal. I honestly havent seen many flags flying around the city. Michael told me that during a dictatorship 20 years ago the government mandated that every building have a flag on it to promote nationalism. I guess, after being forced to have a flag up they dont want to do it anymore. So what does it stand for? The blue part of the ying-yang stand for the earth and the red stands for the heavens. They are in perfect harmony, the earth and the sky. In the upper left hand corner is a trigram called "geon", it stand for metal. In the lower left hand corner is "ri", which stands for fire. The upper right hand corner stands for "gam", or water and the lower right hand corner, "gon", stands for earth. I think it is pretty true to form, conveying Koreas traditional culture. Every day at five oclock I hear the Korean national anthem as they lower the flag at a military installation near my school. Its pretty cool.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Flag
I took a bit of artistic license when I made my rendition of the korean flag but deal. I honestly havent seen many flags flying around the city. Michael told me that during a dictatorship 20 years ago the government mandated that every building have a flag on it to promote nationalism. I guess, after being forced to have a flag up they dont want to do it anymore. So what does it stand for? The blue part of the ying-yang stand for the earth and the red stands for the heavens. They are in perfect harmony, the earth and the sky. In the upper left hand corner is a trigram called "geon", it stand for metal. In the lower left hand corner is "ri", which stands for fire. The upper right hand corner stands for "gam", or water and the lower right hand corner, "gon", stands for earth. I think it is pretty true to form, conveying Koreas traditional culture. Every day at five oclock I hear the Korean national anthem as they lower the flag at a military installation near my school. Its pretty cool.
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This is what the chinese lunar year celebrates too! I think they celebrate Chinese new year in Korea. I'm the year of the Fire Tiger...so are you! Pretty cool.
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