Summary
The coolest nation Japan sales its culture.One western woman wears a Kimono and sits on a Dadami. She is an Australian and an Oxford University doctor. She got through the entire step to become a geisha. She bought the Kimono which was almost a sedan price and paid the 10milion yen per a month for a tuition fee. What kind charm of Japan’s culture attracts her?
The analyzed food magazine,미슐랭 가이드, in France ranked Tokyo as the best city of dainty food. In Europe, Japanese wedding ceremony is hot trend. ‘Zen style(禪)’ is a luxury life style for upper classes in US. Sushi became a high quality dish. We considered that Japanese culture was vulgar and lower than us. However, it has a great culture power right now. Not just making attraction, it also makes profits and becomes a good model for the other nations. Its animations and character goods exportation exceed manufacturing industry.
GNC(gross national cool) is the ratio about power of the nations’ invisible value. Macgray said that GNC is more suitable to describe Japans value than GNP. How it become that strong? “When Japanese had money, we bought cultures by money. Now we don’t have enough, we should become cool ourselves.” One Japanese magazine’s chief of editor said.
Opinion
We are wearing, drinking, and eating Japan. Have you heard about this expression? I was reading this sentence in a magazine when Korea had so much confidence about Han-ryu. The contents was about we exaggerated our culture, while we lose our money by Japan. Japanese culture has been come into our life greater than we thought. Everyone eats Mr. Donut and wears Uniclo. In the subway, each room had at least one person play Nintendo. ‘Nihon style’ is popular among teenagers. Nintendo, Miyasaki hayao’s animation, Manga, Takoyaki, and Ramen: if you make the list, there is probably no end.
My friend visited Japan last winter and told about his great experience. He went to the Hakone Hot spring, and He was surprised. He stayed the traditional accommodation which was exactly same with upper-class classical Japanese house. The payment was slightly different to hotel payment, so he decided to stay the traditional accommodation. That was not about money, only because he wanted to have experience about real Japanese life. He said that it was amazing. A room attendant, who was wearing Yukata served every meal and tea, prepared the bedding with traditional quilt on Dadami. When she opened and closed the door, she downed on her knees. He also wore Yukata and enjoyed hot bath. Each of decoration was fine and dedicate, each of dish was fresh and traditional. He said that he felt like he became real Japanese. And he told me that he wanted to be there again even if he pays more.
I think we have to learn from Japan to empathize the cultural strength. One thing I notice that Korea is a lack of ability to remodel something. We tried to create new, but leave the old thing alone. Japan is able to connect between old and new. Korea has a lot of beautiful tradition things: Hanbok, traditional furniture, Han-ok, Rice cake and so on. Unfortunately, we don’t know how to make it practical. We should find the problem first, and also we have to consider that our culture is valuable.
We are wearing, drinking, and eating Japan. Have you heard about this expression? I was reading this sentence in a magazine when Korea had so much confidence about Han-ryu. The contents was about we exaggerated our culture, while we lose our money by Japan. Japanese culture has been come into our life greater than we thought. Everyone eats Mr. Donut and wears Uniclo. In the subway, each room had at least one person play Nintendo. ‘Nihon style’ is popular among teenagers. Nintendo, Miyasaki hayao’s animation, Manga, Takoyaki, and Ramen: if you make the list, there is probably no end.
My friend visited Japan last winter and told about his great experience. He went to the Hakone Hot spring, and He was surprised. He stayed the traditional accommodation which was exactly same with upper-class classical Japanese house. The payment was slightly different to hotel payment, so he decided to stay the traditional accommodation. That was not about money, only because he wanted to have experience about real Japanese life. He said that it was amazing. A room attendant, who was wearing Yukata served every meal and tea, prepared the bedding with traditional quilt on Dadami. When she opened and closed the door, she downed on her knees. He also wore Yukata and enjoyed hot bath. Each of decoration was fine and dedicate, each of dish was fresh and traditional. He said that he felt like he became real Japanese. And he told me that he wanted to be there again even if he pays more.
I think we have to learn from Japan to empathize the cultural strength. One thing I notice that Korea is a lack of ability to remodel something. We tried to create new, but leave the old thing alone. Japan is able to connect between old and new. Korea has a lot of beautiful tradition things: Hanbok, traditional furniture, Han-ok, Rice cake and so on. Unfortunately, we don’t know how to make it practical. We should find the problem first, and also we have to consider that our culture is valuable.
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