Our lecturer; Professor Shon, is very cute =). Though he mumbles sometime thru lecture but we can still understand and follow the flow. Topic for today is The Foundation of Korean's Myth. We learnt about Korea's 3 most important figure; Hwan-In (Heavenly God), Hwan-Woong (HIS son), and Tan-Gun (Son
to Hwan-Woong and also Korea's 1st King). We also learned the birth of Tan-Gun; his mother is known as Bear Woman. It started with one tiger and one bear prayed really hard to become human beings and thus, Hwan-In asked them to stay-in the cave for 100 days and eat only 20 garlic cloves and mugwort.
*Mugwort Leaves*
Hence they started to do so. As the days goes by, the tiger soon gave up whilst the bear still continued this journey. After 100 days, the bear turned into a beautiful woman and she was lonely. Thus, she asked God for a companion and God sent his son; Hwan-Woong to be a temporary human and married her. Hence, the birth of Tan-Gun; the 1st King of the Korea Peninsular.
This is interesting as v don't have such story or myth in Malaysia; well at least how Malaysia was founded. Ours are more logic in a way; no room for mythical or magical stuffs. The foundation of Malaysia started from Parameswara; who 1st settled in Singapore then only moved to Malacca. AHahhaha... Of course we have our share of mythical stories; like Puteri Gunung Ledang.
Oooo, then v also met three Koreans; newly established friendship! So happy, our network with Korean is expanding and hopefully it continues =) We sat and chatted for about 1 and a half hour. We talked bout travelling; Watermelon Unni traveled to Malaysia 2 months back and Soo, traveled to Singapore too... Then v also talked bout Korean Military Service a bit. Awe, they are all so nice to the extend that they offered to teach us Korean and bring us around places in Korea. Oh, so nice people =) I hope my experience with Koreans keeps getting better!
*From left: K, Watermelon Unni,
me, Aliza and Soo*
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