Cultural Aspects of Korean Boshintang :: Papers

Does Korean plan to overlay Boshintang soup for the visitors to Seoul during the World Cup tournament?This is one challenge from an American to Korean English newspaper last month, condemning Koreans for eat dog as cruel abuse to animal. Some of the Western media treat Koreans as savages for eating dog meat and put it on the striving as a just about intriguing piece of news. As well, legion(predicate) international people who in employment something of Korea or visit to Korea always use up about this dog-eating. And then, how should we react to this issue? Should we scold them back for lacking of perceptiveness others? Or should we really feel embarrassed about this old case of our culture and throw away like old shoes? Boshintang is obviously our traditional food habit, which can be irrational and not flabby to understand for foreigners. But whenever Koreans were heard criticism or asked about it, most of them could not defend themselves or answer the question logically . We have to know that it is our responsibility to inform them the right view of calculateing. I am here(predicate) now to give some interesting informations about our eating habit to look at it in a new light. What we eat or not is patterned by culture. Some eating habits may come a keen-sighted disgusting to others who dont sh ar the same culture. A sense of cultural transcendency is wrong because e precise culture is a additionalized adaptation of environment. Korea is very cold during the winter, so it was difficult to raise cattle a long time ago. Besides, bullocks were the essential farming animals that pull plows and carts. As a result, more often than not eating beef in Korea was very uncommon to people. So Korean started to raise dogs which grew well correct in the cold weather and without special food or care to obtain insufficient nutrition. Many westerlyers think that dogs have been bred for centuries to be mans best friends or even family, and not to be livesto ck. But Korean concept of dog is very different. There are distinct differences between human and animal in Korea. Many Koreans even dont like living with any animal under the same jacket of the house and get them their own home outside. As well, the family relationship has been very strong in Korea, so they dont treat dogs as pets in the western way. Thats why Koreans do not have much affection for dogs, which is usually given to eat leftovers and manure traditionally.