What are the taboo cultural customs in Korea?

Respect your elders. When you sit with your elders, you should sit up straight.

The traditional etiquette for Koreans to meet is to bow.

Because the Korean dining table is a small table with short legs, when eating on the kang, the host and guests have to sit on the legs.

Don't take back your voice at will when eating, and don't eat with a bowl. You should put your rice bowl on the right and the soup bowl on the left, side by side.

Koreans have a room equipped with a "warm kang" in their lives. You can't enter the room wearing shoes, so it is considered impolite to visit relatives and friends without socks.

Please take off your shoes when entering the family lounge or Korean restaurant.

It is considered impolite to eat tools while walking in the street.

Please bring a small gift when you eat or have dinner.

When giving gifts such as wedding ceremony, be sure to put them in a white gift bag.

Influenced by the civilization circle of Chinese characters, the most unlucky number in Korea is "4", because the pronunciation of "4" is similar to "death".

Koreans don't like writing their names in red ink.

Smoking taboo

When you sit with your parents or women, you should ask their permission before smoking.

Smoking in the street is a move to split public morality.

Although it is outdoors, smoking should be banned in the center without ashtray.

No-smoking areas in public places such as subways and airports must be strictly observed.

Even if it is not a non-smoking area, smoking should be banned in crowded places.

Smoking is forbidden in the office.

You must confirm whether your seat is a non-smoking seat in the restaurant.

Communicative etiquette

In terms of communication etiquette, South Korea generally does not accept shaking hands as a meeting etiquette. Shake hands skillfully, or use your right hand alone. When the younger generation and the boss shake hands with the younger generation and the lower level, after the latter reaches out, the former must shake hands with the right hand first, and then reset himself to the right hand of the latter. In Korea, women and children usually shake hands with each other, shaking their heads or bowing is a rare courtesy. Use honorific words and honorific words in addressing, and seldom address each other by their names indirectly. If the other party has a job title in society, Koreans will definitely use it repeatedly.

dress etiquette

In exchange places, most Koreans can speak English, and they don't like people who can speak Japanese. In Korea, dressing is not too avant-garde, but serious and radical. Women usually wear coats and trousers and are severely punished, while men usually wear short coats and chest-length clothes.

Dining Etiquette

Koreans generally like to eat spicy and sour food. The staple food is rice and ice. Dishes include kimchi, roast beef, roast dog meat, ginseng chicken and so on. Generally speaking, there are not many kinds of Korean food, and most of them are greasy. Generally speaking, Korean women have a good capacity for alcohol. They always welcome shochu, sake and beer, but women don't drink. In the past, most Koreans drank tea and coffee. But Koreans usually don't drink gruel or clear soup. Koreans generally don't like oily, greasy and sweet tools. As for duck, mutton and fat pork, as for bear's paw and tiger's meat. When eating, chopsticks are usually used. For environmental protection, Koreans will provide you with iron tableware. Don't move chopsticks first when eating with the younger generation. Don't point your chopsticks at others. After eating, put chopsticks on the table. When eating, it is not advisable to make a loud noise. When eating tools, the noise in your mouth is too loud, and black and white are often embarrassing. When entertaining guests in Korean homes, the host and guests usually sit around a low square table. Sit cross-legged on the floor. In this case, don't touch your feet, don't curl your legs, and don't spread your legs. This is not allowed.

Custom taboo

Koreans protect white people. The national flower is hibiscus, the pine tree is the national tree, the sparrow is the national bird, and the mountain king is the national animal. The hidden numbers are "4" and "13". Because the pronunciation is opposite to "death", Koreans had better not use similar "private", "teacher" and "thing".

Koreans have a strong national conceit, support the worship of foreign things and flatter foreign countries, and advocate the use of foreign goods. When giving gifts, the best choices are flowers, wine and handicrafts. It's better not to use this product today.

In Korea, men are superior to women. Women can't walk behind men when entering the room. A woman must help a man take off his coat. When sitting down, women should automatically sit in front of women. No, you can't speak loudly in front of women. Korean custom

(full name)

Kim (265,438+0%), Lee (65,438+04%), Park (8%), Cui, Zheng, Zhang, Han and Lin are the most popular surnames in Korea, and most of them are surnames and disyllabic names. Korean women do not take their husbands' surnames after marriage, but their descendants must take their fathers' surnames.

Ancestor worship (ancestor worship)

In the traditional belief of Koreans, there is a soul behind people. Therefore, in addition to the anniversary of the death of ancestors, in traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, children and grandchildren call on their ancestors' gods through worship. Koreans believe that through this special ceremony, they can reunite with their deceased relatives and hope to lose the protection of their ancestors in heaven.

Warm kang

The most representative feature of Korean housing planning is the [Ondol] heating kang. At first, the hot air generated by burning firewood in the kitchen or outside the house was used to heat the whole room through the pipes under the airplane. [Andor] type warm kang is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is not conducive to well-being. Therefore, the [Ondol]- type heating kang with heat transfer equipment is still used in the primary apartment areas or buildings in ancient metropolises.

Korean diet

Korea used to be an agricultural country in history, and rice has been its staple food since ancient times. Now, Korean food includes all kinds of vegetables, meat, seafood and so on. And fermented foods such as kimchi (fermented spicy cabbage), seafood sauce (pickled fish) and soy sauce (fermented bean products) have become the most representative and nutritious foods in Korea. The biggest feature of Korean table civilization is that everything is blocked at once. Traditionally, the number of side dishes ranged from the lower three courses to 12 courses for the emperor. The placement and deployment of the dining table are also very different due to the different types of booths. Because Koreans pay attention to manners, table display etiquette has also lost great development. Besides, compared with neighboring countries China and Rizhen, spoons are used more frequently in Korea, especially when soup is served on the table.

pickled vegetables

Gimjang refers to the Korean custom of pickling kimchi in winter, which has been maintained for many years. Because most vegetables are difficult to cultivate for 3~4 months in summer, pickles usually stop in early winter.

Korean traditional clothing

Hanbok is a traditional costume of the Korean nation from modern times to ancient times. The lines of Hanbok are both curvy and straight, especially the tops and long skirts of women's Hanbok, which are thin and thick, dignified and elegant. At present, most people are used to wearing formal dresses, but many people still like to wear traditional national costumes on festivals such as Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival) or weddings. Women's hanbok is a short coat (jeogori) with a flowing long skirt (Chima); The man wears a short robe with trousers, and uses a big nim to tie the trouser legs. The colors of tops and long skirts are colorful, and some even add thorns to gorgeous beauty.

Secondary attractions in Seoul and Pohang

There are modern palaces in Seoul, such as Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeok Palace and Changgyeonggung Palace, so we can know the characteristics of architectural art in advance. There is also a changing ceremony in Deshou Palace, which is held daily according to the changing ceremony of the palace during the Korean period. It is worth seeing. There are shopping and entertainment hell such as Science and Technology City, Rensi Cave, Myeongdong and itaewon.

There is Ulsan Industrial Park in Pohang. The nearby Yuling Island is home to all kinds of rare animals and plants. There are abundant natural resources such as primitive jungles, natural souvenirs and strange rocks all over the island.

Korean custom taboo

Koreans advocate Confucianism and respect their elders. When the elders enter the house, everyone should stand up and ask how old they are. Take off your sunglasses when talking to your elders. Get up at night and greet your parents after dinner; Parents go out and come back, and future generations should welcome them. When you eat, you should serve food to the elderly or the younger generation first. After the old man moves chopsticks, others can eat. When riding, you should make way for the old man.

At social gatherings and banquets, men and women leave and stop social activities, even at home or in restaurants.

Koreans accept gifts with both hands, but they don't open them in front of their owners. It is not appropriate to send domestic cigarettes to Korean friends. Wine is the best gift for Korean men, but you can't send wine to a woman unless you make it clear that the wine is for her husband.

When giving gifts to Koreans, it should be noted that Korean men prefer brand-name textiles, ties, lighters and electric razors. Women like cosmetics, bags, gloves, scarves and spices used in the kitchen. Children like food. If you send money, you should put it in an envelope.

If there is a visit, you must agree afterwards.