Tour Guide, Seoul, South Korea
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Why should Korea be the primary tourist destination on your bucket list?
1) Korea is a country where the past and the present are breathing together.
Needless to say, South Korea is known worldwide not only for its rapid modern technological advances but also for its urbanization. Korea is full of modern facilities. Korea is recognized as the country that developed the fastest way out of the scrapped economy of war.
Korea is a country where the craze for modern pop culture is swirling. Korean wave became a global phenomenon. In the pop music arena, BTS and Black Pink are Korean world pop singers. In drama, Squid Game and Parasite and Surinam etc., are world-hit Korean dramas. Korea has been one of the major world pop cultures since the 1990s.
Today, Seoul is full of modern facilities connected by dozens of subway lines, such as shopping malls, grand and splendid buildings and apartments building, and artistically gorgeous architecture. However, Seoul still contains traditional Korean palaces and historical sites and historical villages filled with traditional houses. Thus, Seoul is considered the city where the past and present coexist.
2) In the Confucian cultural sphere, Korea is the only country, where Confucian culture is alive and breathing.
In the Confucian cultural sphere, Korea is the only country where Confucianism was applied to reality beyond national ideology. Such political and cultural, and social systems and even architecture reflect Confucianism.
The Confucian culture is still alive and breathing. Korea is the only country where a royal ancestral shrine is perfectly preserved and original memorial ritual continuously has been conducted in the authentic manner without interruption. In addition to Jongmyo Shrine, memorial ritual held there and the music and dance performed for the rite were also proclaimed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Of Humanity. In China, they also have an imperial ancestral temple in Beijing, but it was remodelled during the Chinese communist government, and in Japan, their shrine is different from Confucian tradition.
Differences in Cultural Art between China and Japan, and Korea
Korean fine arts as “crafting without crafting” and “unadorned simplicity”
Chinese Art: more technically-oriented
Japanese Art: more decorative
3) Seoul is full of modern architecture.
New Seoul City Hall
Jongno Tower
Arario Museum
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Gangnam-style building
Starfield Library
Dior and LV buildings
Lotte World Tower
Book Museum
Samsung Leeum Gallery
Seoul National Museum
Korean War Memorial
Amorepacific Museum
Seoullo 7017 - Highway turned into a sky park
Cheonggyecheon Park
Namdaemun Market
Jogyesa Temple
Hyundai Tower
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