Week Three of the K-pop academy

I'm doing this in the wrong order but... here we go.
Week three was the Hanbok day! I'm going to keep this short so, basically we got a lecture on the Hanbok by Professor Lee Jung Taek which was very interesting and then he asked if some one would help him show hoe to tie this knot that's on the over coat. I said i'd do it and because of that when he said only 15 of us could try the hanbok on I felt like it wasn't right for me to take that away from someone else. so me and two others didn't get to try it one with everyone else (we felt quite left out...sigh).
Everyone who got to try one on, did a catwalk (sort of thing) and as I wasn't in one I filmed it instead here is the video:

It was filmed on my phone so excuse the funny screen shape and turn at the end.
Had lots of fun even if I only got to try the Hanbok on at the end!

Week five Homework

This week assignment is to choose one of the following.

-Watch Korean historical film or drama and summarize it in 1 minute.
(make video, take photo, drawing, writing)
-Research a Korean historical event or issue and Present your opinion on this topic.
-Draw the Korean Peninsula and make your own Korean information map.

I chose to do the last option: Draw the Korean peninsula and make your own Korean information map.

When I was the option I immediately thought of the Busan Film festival, But then i didn't know what else to put on it so, I decided to do festivals. After that I had to research about the subject because apart from the Busan film festival and the Boryeong mud festival I didn't know any. I found quite a few festivals but then decided that to make it all fit and look nice I should do only one for each county. So festivals like the Muju Firefly festival in Jeollabuk-do and other had to be left out... Next was that some of the county's didn't seem to have any! like ChungChongBuk-Do for example I could only find one (Later I also found a grape festival but...) But the actual festival in question didn't have much info on it on the internet so I'm not 100% sure if it's still doing or not.... 

Anyhow I had fun drawing, researching, cutting, sticking and everything else and I really learnt a lot from doing it too! Hope you like it and my be learn about the different festivals in South Korea from it.

Here it is:

Original

cropped lighter version.

The Festivals are: 

The Seoul Lantern Festival (http://www.llf.or.kr/eng/index.asp) , 

ChunCheon International Mime Festival (http://www.mimefestival.com/eng/main.asp),

Boryeong Mud Festival http://www.mudfestival.or.kr/english/festival/festival1.php),

Yeongdong Nan-Gye Korean Traditional Music festival (http://www.nanmf.org/), 

Jeonju International  Film Festival(http://eng.jiff.or.kr/) 

Andong International Mask dance festival(http://www.maskdance.com/eng/main.asp),

Gwangyang International maehwa festival (http://www.gwangyang.go.kr/gymaehwa/), 

Busan International Film Festival (http://www.biff.kr/structure/eng/default.asp)

and Jeju Orange Festival (http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_2_1.jsp?cid=293146).

Week four homework

For this weeks homework I did: 2. Make your own fusion Korean Food.

My fusion dish was, Cheese and green onion Hotteok!

I followed this recipe: www.maangchi.com/recipe/hoddeok.

Then I changed the filling to grated cheddar cheese, green onions and seasoning.

Here are the photos: 

They where seriously yummy too! I brought them in to the living room when they where done and my family ate them so quickly I nearly didn't get any myself!! I wish i could give you guys some samples.... anyway they where super yummy!!   

Week Three Homework

I chose option 1 from our homework this week which was: Compare the traditional clothes of Korea, China and Japan.

There is so much I could talk about on this topic! I mean really there is soooooo much to talk about and I literally have no time! TT^TT if only so i did a drawing of each outfit and I'll give more details in this post.

so firstly there are two different traditional Chinese clothes. The Qipao and the Hanfu.

The Qipao is what most people think is the traditional dress from china. But this particular dress only started to be worn in the 1920's so I don't really  think that it really counts, i mean we don't think that this:

is our traditional dress do we?  
Anyhow, for now I'm going to discard the Qipao and concentrate on the Hanfu.

The Hanfu seems to come from about 1600. wiki sais 'The hanfu is now worn during some festivals or coming of age/rite of passage ceremonies, by hobbyists or historical re-enactors, by Taoist, Confucian or Buddhist monks and priests during religious ceremonies, or as a cultural exercise. It is often seen in Chinese television serials, films and other forms of media entertainment. There is also a movement in China and some overseas Chinese communities to revive Han Chinese clothing in daily life and incorporate it into Chinese festivals or celebrations.' 

The hanfu is a loose dress with loose upper garment with open lapels. 


The Japanese Traditional dress is the Kimono.

The kimono Changes with the seasons. In spring the patterns are usually of flowers like sakura in summer they would most likely wear a yukata which is a lighter vertion in automn leafy patterns in winter the kimono would have more layers and in darker colours.
The original Komono has to be taken apart to be washed and then resewn together.




The Korean traditional dress is the Hanbok.

The Hanbok is made from the Jeogori or jacket and Chima or skirt so basically two parts which is the most apparent difference between them.



here is my drawing:

I'm sorry i could have explained this a lot better but honestly don't have anytime   so I did my very best!

Week two Homework

Okay so this week we had 4 different home work options to choose from:

and there you can see how much ink I had on my hands (that was the cleanest!) from that little smudge...

Anyway I was going to do no.3, but my mum convinced me me to do no.2 instead.

So I did no.2! When I was thinking about what to do I imagined someones profile drawn with Hangul and I really liked the idea. In the example that the k-pop academy had given us the artists (or fans) had made the pop stars hair from the writing but I didn't like that so instead I only did the outline in writing.

At first I thought that it would take hours to draw all the Hangul but in the end it was actually really fun and didn't take that long either.

I decided to do Kim Lim because she's awesome and I love the lyrics to Rain. 

Here it is:

I made a Black and white version as well because that way you can see the writing better and also writing is most commonly written in black on white paper so it made a sort of book like effect.

The colored version is my favorite though, and I wan't to make that one the official "Homework".

For full effect you really need to look closely but I hope it's still nice like this.
It was so fun that i'm so going to do another one!!
What do you think? black and white or colored? Till next time, see ya.

Week two of the K-pop academy

On the 1st of March I made my long trip to London again. I sat next to a guy who looked drunk...(not because i wanted to!) that was a bit nerve wrecking. And then he kept trying to talk to me!! ahhhh
Anyway I made it! i went around London for a bit  and got some Japanese Face lotion sheets (haha) they're funny. i'll do an other post about them later.
Anyways (yes my favorite word is anyway) at 2 o'clock I was in the Korean Culture Center and as i said in the last post everyone got a prize from last week! It was this:

A Taegikgi! (The Korean flag)
we all gathered in the entrance

(that's after but imagine loads of people in there) isn't it pretty?!



In the fist part Professor Yeon Jae Hoon of SOAS university in London gave us a really really really interesting lecture on Hangul (and the Korean language)
Here are some of the notes I took: There are different theories as to the origin of the Korean language. Altaic theory is the most probable. Korean together with Japanese known as orphan language or isolated language. Hangul has 40 letters but can also be said to have 24. Hangul was invented in December 1443 but as it's according to the Luna calendar it can be said to have been January 1444. From The Hangul they used in 1443 on to the Hangul we know now there are 4 letters that have disappeared. South Korea has taken many English word to make Konglish like hand phone meaning cell phone  but In north Korea they have taken Russian words. Some Korean dialects can't distinguish vowels.

After that we went back into the room that i put a photo of. Inside they had put sheets of paper with each of our names written in Hangul around, we had to find our one. I kind of know Hangul so i was really confident but in the end i had to have help because the letter K was written differently to how i'm used to it and so i didn't recognize it at all! when we'd all found our names we went back into the other room and did calligraphy.

(photos of my friends and my calligraphy)

It was really fun and i got my fingers full of ink (haha)
After the k-pop academy Me and my friends (accompanied by my mum keke)
went to the small shop under Soul bakery!

Thy had some nice k-pop stuff. I got some cute stickers and a box of Choco pie again i'll do an other post on them.
Then we got some bubble tea and got the train home.