1, Korean food is characterized by kimchi culture, and three meals a day are inseparable from kimchi. Traditional Korean dishes such as barbecue, kimchi and cold noodles have become world famous dishes. There are all kinds of diets in Korea. Because it used to be an agricultural society, rice has been the staple food since ancient times. The Korean diet consists of all kinds of vegetables, meat and fish.

Hanbok is a traditional costume in Korea. In modern times, it was replaced by foreign clothes, which were generally worn only on festivals and days with special significance. Women's traditional dress is a coat and a wide skirt, which looks very loose; Men use pants, jackets, vests and vests to show their unique style. In special ceremonies such as marriage, ordinary people will also wear gorgeous clothes and jewelry.

The traditional Korean family is usually a big family, with three or four generations living together. In the past, everyone wanted to have more children because of the high infant mortality rate and the fact that a large family was considered a blessing. However, during the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s, South Korea implemented effective family planning, and the number of children in each family was greatly reduced.

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Korea has been a country of folk customs and etiquette since ancient times, and there are many festivals, among which the grand traditional festivals profoundly reflect the importance that the Korean people attach to tradition. In the late 1990s, South Korea put forward the strategy of "building the country through culture", and both the central and local governments attached great importance to the protection, inheritance and revitalization of traditional festival culture.

Influenced by Korean culture, the four traditional festivals in China, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, also spread to the Korean Peninsula very early with the spread of China culture, becoming the four traditional festivals in South Korea and spreading to this day. In the protection of traditional festival culture, South Korea pays attention to legislation first. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Korean government began to pay attention to the collection and arrangement of traditional folk culture.

With the advocacy and participation of a large number of folk culturists, South Korea promulgated the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property in 1962, which included intangible cultural heritage including performing arts, social customs, etiquette, festivals, knowledge and practice related to history and nature. Carry out a survey of folk cultural heritage, determine the holders or maintenance groups of intangible cultural property with important functions, and provide subsidies for its inheritance.

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