Everybody welcome back to flag fan Friday, Our last one of 2017, before we close off this year
All right, first off, DAMAGE CONTROL At the end off the episode I accidentally said that Kyrgyzstan is coming up next
It's not, Kuwait is coming up next, not Kyrgyzstan!
when I made the video, I was just so fixated and focused on South Korea that I didn't even think about the alphabet, so I'm sorry Kuwait will be the first episode of 2018
Anyway!
As you know this episode kind of meant a lot to me because as you know I'm half Korean, my mom was in the episode...
I lived in Korea for a short period of time and if you caught that last little clip at the end of the episode...
I dedicated the video to my father who passed away.
So anyway, yeah..
I'm excited to do this last episode before the year is over and...
We got to cover the flag and emblem and stuff like that so, without further ado!
[INTRO]
You know it's funny. I don't really have a lot of South Korean subscribers off of YouTube...
I mean they have YouTube in South Korea,
But most South Koreans like to watch their online media off of Daum or Bada
One thing really wanted to talk about, but I just didn't have enough time in the episode
There's a tribe in Indonesia called the Jia Jia
They actually adopted the Korean script hunger for their native language
But it was kind of discontinued in 2012...
So, for a short period of time they were the only people group outside...
of Korea that used the Korean script for their language
oh and also I forgot to mention the largest cities and Airports
Weird! Like, I almost never forget that!
So, outside of the capital city, Seoul, The next largest cities are Busan and Daegu...
and the busiest airports are Seoul Incheon International Airport
Jeju International and Busan Gimhae International
Yeah! Can't believe, I forgot to mention those in the episode.
Anyway the flag!
The flag of South Korea, known as the Taeguki, is made up of...
three parts, the white banner, the taeguk or the yin-yang circle in the center and black...
trigrams flanked on the four corners just off the central taeguk symbol.
White is a traditional color in Korea as it was used in daily attire for most people in the 19th century...
symbolizing peace and purity.
A circle in the middle is a teguk symbol, derived from the Chinese yin-yang philosophy...
which is meant to portray the balance of the universe red being the positive...
cosmic forces and blue being the negative ones.
The trigrams in each of the corners...
represent a multitude of different elements relating to harmony.
You have Geon, Ri, Gam and Gon...
which can...
respectively stand for things...
like, the celestial bodies of heaven, Sun, Moon and Earth.
the seasons of spring, autumn, winter, and summer.
East, South, North and West.
Humanity, Justice, Intelligence and courtesy.
Father, Daughter, Son and Mother.
Air, Fire, Water, and Earth...
and Justice, Tuition, Wisdom and Vitality.
Whoo! That's actually kind of cool. Especially, like the trigram...
things like, they they each mean things that harmonize.
Keep in mind this flag was actually really only adopted in the 1880s
as they kind of needed some kind of banner to distinguish themselves apart from the Japanese,
which brings us to the national emblem.
The Emblem is pretty simple,
It's just the same taeguk symbol imposed on the national flower, the Rose of Sharon...
surrounded by a ribbon with the title [Something is Korean]...
Which means the Republic of Korea.
Prior to this, they had an emblem which was basically just the taeguk symbol with the trigram...
smashed into a circular format pattern...
which, it actually looked kind of cool!
and prior to that, they used this seal which was used for the
Provisional government of Korea back when the Japanese kind of occupied them so in a nutshell as you can see Korea's flag and emblem kind
Of followed this deep-rooted system of traditional imagery that tells a story of harmony all right so that tops it off
Which means you know what time it is John. We're fan mail time. All right. Let's just jump into it
Let's start opening them Adi. Thank you for sending this cool postcard from Kyoto Japan Thomas. Thank you for sending this from Liverpool
I think your name is young thank you for sending this from Lyon
He says ladoo Zee emplous convey the false mouth saying the compa really what's wrong with them?
I say ok, KY who is a Vietnamese trainee of an agriculture exchange program sends this from South Dakota?
Frank from Ohio sends this from New York and Daniel sends this incredibly
American letter with an incredibly American postcard he says writing you from those boring State, North Carolina
North Carolina is not that boring you guys got a lot of stuff going for you
You got great basketball my buddies rhett and Link are from there by the way
I'm not saying my buddies written link because I'm trying to exploit them for my popularity like I haven't hung out with them a lot
But they do know me like if you ask them who's Paul from geography now
They'll say. Yeah. They know who I am at least. I hope they will threaten link when you're done with your tour
Let's let's hang out sometime. Yeah
Oh, I'll get you some pizza or something, but the pizza will be like made out of bug flour or something
I don't know you guys get a lot of weird stuff anyway moving on Jordan from Montana
Thank you for sending the banknotes from Russia and Mexico, and he really liked the guinea-bissau episodes
He grew drew a flag Benjamin from his he wrote his letter off of a hundred-year-old typewriter Hugo
Who is from the town of reading in the UK and he sends a flat cap I apologize if it's too small or too big?
Seems to fit all right uh Andy who lives in Auckland, New Zealand, but he is originally from the UK
specifically
Westmoreland, which is what this flag is from all right? Well today is just gonna be British overload. He sends
These really cool postcards Kendal mint cake switch
He says Sir Edmund Hillary used to help him while he was climbing up Mount Everest
oh
that sounds great Christoph from
Poland as these really cool postcards and no surprise a Poland flag, and you sent me your workbooks
I guess oh my gosh you put so much work and years of labour into this Christoph. This is really cool. However
I don't read or understand polish
I mean if this was like Korean French or Spanish I'd probably do a lot better, but I'm sorry
I don't understand anything you wrote in here, but thank you for sending them all right
We got will who was originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, but he joined the Navy on submarine
Which is how he visited South Korea Japan and Singapore? We'll just like I do for all the other military geography
I salute you for your service, and he said he was able to visit Nepal and India
Which he fell in love with India snag Nutcracker
India keychain you know at the bottom it says Made in China he's beautiful India and Nepal
Postcards including this beautiful one that opens into a pop-up and finally a big beautiful
India flag the cool thing about this is that it's made out of like nice high quality
Cotton fabrics like you can see the little fibers. It's really high. This is amazing, Wow, Marshall from, Minnesota
He is a very interested in Iceland, Estonia and Panama Matthew from California. He sends an old euro
UEFA sticker book if you follow a soccer player you can collect their stickers guys, I'm gonna have to confess
I'm a little bit of a soccer bandwagon, er. I really only watch it during the World Cup
We know I appreciate the sport
You know it's actually it takes a lot of skill and talent to play Caleb from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
He says he goes to a French immersion school
He says uh vote videos old playboys over that close see on today's young quick homes. Just like wow oh you well Caleb
I'm pretty sure that
Bellerophon same you come one he sends a canada national
Parks tote bag my mom will flip over this she loves tote bags and of course a winnipeg canada
Shirt fun side note winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada last year. I believe they had six murders whoo anyway
Thanks a lot Kaleb Winnipeg, Manitoba woo represent and finally Anthony who is Ukrainian
He says he's been watching since the third grade. It's so crazy. How like young kids and old people watch this show
Yes, he is Uzbek and Ukrainian? Ah that's cool, and I he really liked the palaca thing in the Brazil episode
He sends some really cool Ukrainian currency these fridge magnets a Ukraine wristband
And this thing it looks like some kind of mace Thank You Anthony really appreciate that Ukraine you did them proud alright guys
So that's about it. Uh before we go you know what time it is it is return address contest
I put all of your return addresses in here
And I pick one out and whoever wins I send a little gift to alright, so I'm not gonna look
I'm not gonna look just gonna pick one
Debbie from Baguio City Philippines you just won, Debbie so guys this is so cool once again
I love it when you send all these cool things putting your hometowns and your countries on display
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