This #MythologyMonday entry on brewing is a folk tale from the Southeast of #Korea about a deeply pious son whose mother was very sick. Told that human liver would cure her, he took a knife into the hills where he ran into a scholar reciting poetry and killed the learned man before removing his liver.
The son then came across a shaman climbing the hill and killed her, too, thinking more would be better, and also took the liver. Then he noticed a mad dog hanging around the area and killed it for safety, before remembering someone saying that dog liver was similar to human liver so he took that, too.
He buried all three bodies on the hillside and took the livers home. His mother made a full recovery on eating them, but the son was consumed by guilt for the murders he had committed. He went regularly to the graves to pull weeds and otherwise maintain the burial site.
One day, noticing strange seeds by the graveside, he brought them home and planted them in his home garden, whereupon a plant with pretty fruits came up. He brewed the fruit into a drink and threw a party to congratulate his mother's recovery. But the villagers who drank the beverage acted strangely--first, they drank quietly like learned scholars, then they danced like shamans, and at last they would fight and shout like dogs. It is said that these spirits are the reason drunk people act like scholars, then shamans, then rabid dogs.
Yes, I was there earlier at the Korean Cultural Center. This is proof of it. :P
The mini museum exhibit will run until 2024-06-29, so visit it while it is still there. It's simple but the experience is amazing. It puts to shame the larger museums and and well-funded exhibits. (seriously)
Cheoyong (處容) is an admired figure in the Korean pantheon, and his dance is performed to this day. According to record, he was a son of a sea dragon and appeared before the King of Silla in the 9th century dancing with his brothers.
Cheoyong remained at the capital to serve the King, who gave him a wife. Yeoksin was smitten with her beauty and Cheoyong came home one night to see Yeoksin lying with her. The dragon's son withdrew dancing and singing without confrontation, which shamed the god into swearing not to cross a threshold if he saw Cheoyong's face.
That was how people came to put up paintings of Cheoyong to repel smallpox, and his dance was performed for luck. I have written more about Cheoyong's story here: https://ljwrites.blog/posts/cheoyong-story/
Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Na Hye-sok was born. She was a South Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter and journalist. She was the first female professional painter and the first feminist writer in Korea. In 1919, the authorities jailed her for participating in the March 1st Movement against Japanese rule in Korea. In 1934, she published an essay called “Divorce Testimony.” In that piece, she wrote about the repression of female sexuality. She also said that her ex-husband couldn’t satisfy her sexually and refused to talk about it with her. And she also promoted the idea of "test marriages," where a couple would live together before marrying to see if they really were compatible. These ideas were considered so scandalous and shocking that her career took a tailspin and never recovered.
The PH military alarmed by the "more than 4,600 Chinese nationals have reportedly enrolled in a private university and rented homes in various locations in Tuguegarao [Northern Philippines]."
Who needs spies when you gladly welcome them as 'students'?
If air travel between the #Philippines and #Korea is very affordable, and we can work remotely, people can move temporarily when summer / “heat” season comes.
The heat index in the Philippines is breaking 40℃, but it's windy, cold, and raining in Korea still.
Generalinspekteur warnt vor Einfrieren des Ukraine-Krieges
Die Debatte über das mögliche Einfrieren des Ukraine-Krieges reißt auch nach Tagen nicht ab. Nun hat sich Bundeswehr-Generalinspekteur Breuer dazu geäußert. Der General zeigte sich skeptisch.
@tagesschau Vielleicht schauen die #Militär Menschen mal in die Geschichte. #Korea hatte nach 3 Jahren Stellvertreterkrieg dann endlich Waffenstillstand und dann Verhandlungen (bis heute kein Friedensvertrag). Das Töten (oder doch Morden) wurde also durch Einfrieren beendet! #Bundeswehr#RolfMützenich#SPD - insofern, kommt endlich zum Waffenstillstand Ihr #NATO Hörigen
If #DST (#DaylightSavingsTime) is good, countries like #China (1986–1992), #Japan (1948–1951), and #Korea (South: 1948–1951; 1955–1960; 1987–1988) would've kept on using it. They're doing perfectly fine without it.
My country, the #Philippines, used DST multiple times in its history (1936–1937; 1954; 1978; 1990). The last time was mainly to conserve energy, and abandoned it after the energy crisis was solved.
To countries still using DST, make up your mind. Either stay in Standard Time or permanent Daylight Time. It's good for you and everyone else. ^_~
If you look at it deeper, the fall of the #Khitan Empire / #Liao Dynasty was when #Goryeo won the #GoryeoKhitanWar#고려거란전쟁#遼麗戰爭. It showed to the world that a smaller country can force the tiger on its knees.
This is what I said a few weeks back, no, since last year, regarding the situation in #AsiaPacific#APAC.
The situation is not good at all. China is getting nearer in getting what it wants, for others to make a mistake, or a wrong move, so #China can tell the world, "they started it, we just defended ourselves".
This is also why I disagree with the think-tanks who proposed an India-Japan-Philippines cooperation, India won't be able to help, their India-China issue might accidentally get dragged and turn this into a nuclear world war.
My idea is better, a Japan-Korea-Philippines alliance/sphere (with a potential to turn into a confederation in the future). We can keep it an issue about China's 10-dash line ("South China Sea" + #Taiwan) and "East China Sea".
If you're paying attention in #AsiaPacific#APAC it gets more and more closer to sparking a war, possibly the beginning of #WorldWarIII . Of course, we don't want that to happen. But mainland #China and #NorthKorea are really working in tandem in pushing everyone to a corner.
Here is their game:
Push everyone anti-China and anti-NoKor to make the first move, or to make a mistake.
This way, they can blame them and point fingers.
China is already doing just that. Changing the narrative that it was the #Philippines who first made an aggressive move and they simply reacted similarly.
The worse is, no one is calling anyone to stop escalating the "actions"/"reactions" anymore. It seems that the world powers knew the only way to resolve this is to have another global war.
F&F Entertainment recently announced that #UNIS will debut this coming March 27th.
It will be F&F Entertainment's first #Kpop#idol group and first girl group. F&F Entertainment is a subsidiary of the clothing brand, F&F.
The UNIS line-up is half-foreign, half-Korean: 2x Japanese; 3x Koreans; 1x half-Filipino/Korean; 2x Filipinos. They were from the #UniverseTicket talent search / survival show which concluded back in January.
This will also be the first time, as far as I know, that we will see a medium-to-dark brown member in the K-pop industry, which the judges, like #KimSeJeong, super liked.
The members have a 2½ years contract with the possibility of extending it. Currently, they are more popular abroad (outside #SouthKorea). Thus, it remains to be seen how they will fare in #Korea's K-pop idol scene; as that market is the primary basis for K-pop success (not foreign countries).
F&F Entertainment is also planning debut tours(?) in the #Philippines and #Japan, where 4 of their members (2x respectively) hails from.
I think their success abroad is already a given, thus, F&F Entertainment may want to plan on targeting foreign markets as Plan B if they happen to not get highly ranked in the South Korean market. For one, their planned date is in-between the debut of new groups (March) and the comebacks of powerhouses (April).