If you are aiming to visit Korea You must be ready for these 4 cultural things of great country Korea. Here we start.

Korea is crowded

A little over 50 million people live in South Korea, a country about the same size as Portugal or the state of Indiana, and most of it is covered in mountains. As a result, even the smallest town in South Korea (save those set aside by law as “slow” cities) is forced to build upward and the capital, Seoul, has a population density twice that of New York.

Korea will be lost in translation

Korean and English are very different languages: structurally, phonetically, rhythmically, there’s almost no similarity between them at all. Additionally, there are sounds in English that Korean simply doesn’t have (“v”, “f”, “th”: basically all the fricatives) and has to approximate. This makes English a very difficult language for Koreans to learn (and Korean only slightly less hard for English speakers) so, despite the long, long hours that most Korean kids (and adults) will spend studying English, and despite the millions of dollars the government has spent bringing native English teachers over to Korea, very few Koreans actually speak English with any degree of fluency.

Korea is caught between the old and the new

One of the downsides of Korea’s rapid modernization is that the older generation are people born before the Korean war, raised in a strictly patriarchal, Confucian society. They lived through a massively popular dictatorship and accompanying industrial expansion to the relative wealth and ease of recent years. In short, it has changed too quickly and is now caught between a rapidly liberalizing youth and a staunchly conservative older generation. Things are changing though, however slowly, as can be seen in the election of Korea’s first female president, Park Geun Hye (박근혜), in early 2013.

Korea is proud

The Korean people have a history going back millennia. They have lived on the same peninsula since at least 2000BC, suffering wars, invasions, occupations, dictators, and revolutions. Squashed between their boisterous neighbors, China and Japan, they are often overlooked and dismissed despite a wealth of culture as deep as either. source: click here to visit source of article ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdd5XR6WYHxZtVEcRfPbVdQ7giuxvM8sG69xVae9qT18E/image.png) source:source of picture I hope if you visit Korea ever in your life, you will feel the difference between modern and real traditional country.