Korean Cultural Center

[Frederic Vial]

I truly enjoyed visiting the Korean Cultural Center and plan to contact Joy about bringing my class for a field trip. I found the 3rd floor discussion and video presentation about South Korea very interesting, especially the distinctions made between North and South Korean cultures.  Although they share the same language, it was made clear they have their own respective sets of sub-cultural influences, including distinct differences in cuisine, art, pop-culture, music etc.  This is, no doubt, a result of the political ideologican differences in landscape between the two countries.  The K-Beauty aspect is a topci I was not aware of.  It's interesting the concept of beauty crosses gender lines and is not specific to women in nature.  I wonder where this influence originates specifically and if it is tied to contemporary times, specifically western cultural influences.