In Buddhism, 49-Jae (사십구재) is the most significant funeral ritual, performed exactly 49 days after a person passes away. The fundamental belief is based on the concept of reincarnation. After death, the soul does not immediately transition to the next life. Instead, it enters an intermediate spiritual state called Bardo (중유/간극) for 49 days. During this period, the deceased undergoes judgment every seven days by the kings of the underworld, who evaluate the karma—the accumulated deeds—of their past life to determine their next rebirth. Live carefully. Your actions matter. What you do in this life affects what comes next. This is very Buddhist. Buddhism teaches that life is shaped by karma . Karma means actions and their consequences. Good actions create good results. Harmful actions create suffering. So 49-jae reminds people that death is connected to life, and the afterlife is connected to how we live now. 불교에서 49재 는 고인이 세상을 떠난 지 정확히 49일째 되는 날에 치르는 가장 중요한 ...
There have been many ups and downs in 2021. The year 2021 was the year of the white cow which is an animal that symbolizes honesty faithfulness and patience and 2022 in Korea is the year of the black tiger.
Tigers are nowadays the most endangered animals but five Siberian tigers (=Quintuplet tiger cubs) was born at Yong In Zoo (Inside the Everland amusement park). This is a really rare case, tigers usually produce a litter of 2~3 cubs. In celebration of 2022 New year, they were introduced to the public for the first time after their birth and many people visited the zoo to get feel tiger's spirit or energy.
Symbol of Korea.
The tiger symbolizes bravery and strength and was considered as a mountain guardian for the Korean people from ancient times. Therefore, people would have paintings or talismans of tigers to defeat misfortune or drive evil spirits away.
The tiger of Korea has long been with Koreans from the very beginning. A tiger also appears in the founding myth of Korea. In the legend, a tiger and a bear wanted to become human. Therefore, they asked their wish the son of heaven and he said they could transform human if they could eat only garlic and mugwort during 100 days. However, the tiger gives up after 20 days, while bear made it and turned into a woman. This woman got married Hwanung who is the son of heaven and gives birth to Dangun who is known as the founder of Korea.
In the legend, the main character of the founding myth is a bear rather than a tiger, but there are far more stories of tigers in Korean folklore. There is a reason.
In the past, there used to be a lot of tigers in Korea where there were surrounded by 70% of the mountains but many tigers came down to town and attacked people. Therefore we have been tiger hunters called Chakho Gapsa (착호갑사) in Joseon Dynasty. After that, the number of tigers has declined sharply and is now an endangered species. Nowadays Koreans consider tigers to be fearful but also auspicious creatures and tigers appeared frequently in traditional fairy tales and paintings of Korea, probably because of familiarity with what our ancestors saw often.
Tigers started being a symbol of Korea around the early 20th century, thanks to Choi Nam-son who was the first person to draw a map of the Korean Peninsula in the shape of a tiger.
The map has since sparked a plethora(수많은) of re-creations.(재창조). Since then, tigers have been used as mascots at numerous international events such as the mascot Soodoli in the year 1988 Seoul Olympics and Soohorang is a white tiger the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
The song of a tiger.
Most recently, the Korea Tourism Organization made a promotional video with the story of a tiger in a song, the lyric of the first line 범(tiger) 내려 온다.~ ( is coming.) Tiger is coming not Santa Cross.
This is the song by traditional Korean music-inspired band Leenalchi