Life and Biology stories with Sooyoung and Others
ironic living toward death, continue learning visible and invisible big big world around and inside us. Share your stories and poems here!!!
다른 사람을 이해할 수 없을 땐
다른 사람이 된 것처럼 생각해 봐요
그래도 완전히 그 사람을
그 사람의 상황을 안다고 여기지 마세요
내 자신에 대해서도 완전히 파악하는 것은 힘든 일이어요
When you can’t understand another
Pretend you’re someone else
Still don’t assume you know his/her situation and him/her completely
It’s even hard for you to fully understand yourself
It’s even hard for me to fully understand myself
죽음은 많은 걸 포함한다.
죽음은 한 사람의 삶과 살아온 역사를 품는다.
죽음은 신화와, 종교와, 철학과 과학도 품는다.
죽음은누군가가가벼이넘기려한다해도결국경건하고경이롭다.
Death embraces many things:
A person’s life and history,
mythology, religion, philosophy and science.
Death is ultimately godly, honoring, glorious and wonder even if some try to take it lightly.
An embolus is any foreign materials that move with blood flow. The material of an embolus may be: air, fat, blood clot and any others.
A thrombus is a blood clot.
Both can block blood flow and increase the risk of a hear attack, pulmonary embolism and/or stroke
Think!! (Q1) Why do blood clots form inside the vessels, and why do blood clots increase with aging?
Think!! (A1) When we have scars outside, a blood clot forms to protect and stop bleeding. If blood vessels have internal wounds, blood clots form as well to protect inside organs and vessels . After the wounds have healed, the blood clots are detached like outside scars, and blood clots move away as thrombus, and could block the vessels.
Think (Q2) Could we resolve formed blood clot scrubs inside blood vessels safely and slowly or increase attachment (never dropping forever)? Instead of inhibiting formation process of the blood clots which could be dangerous, causing non-stop bleeding.
삶이란 균형이 필요한 법
나와 너
일과 휴식
남편과 아내
시댁과 친정
절약과 씀
균형과 분수를 지켜야 모든지 오래 가는 법
Life requires balance
You and I
Work and rest
Husband and wife
In-laws and parents
Saving and spending
Maintaining balance is how everything lasts a long time.
세상은 넓어요
볼 곳도 다닐 곳도 많아요
구석 구석 다 보기 힘들어요
구석 구석 다 가보기 힘들어요
사람의 마음도 넓어요
들쳐내고, 들쳐내도
구석 구석 다 보기 힘들어요
구석 구석 다 꺼내 보기 힘들어요
The world is big
There are many places to go and see.
It’s hard to go to every corners.
It’s hard to see all of the corners.
People’s hearts are wide too
Even if you dig it up and lift it out
It’s hard to see every corners
It’s hard to know every nook and cranny.
Think how much you/I have positive characteristics
Full movie: clink here
Today, I hope to mention cultural differences in death in Korea and the US. I do not say there are differences between Asia and Western because I do not want to generalize too much, and I do not know about any other countries.
There were several differences between funerals in Korea when I was young and Western funerals, but currently, many Koreans have started following the Western style and/or mixed form of them.
To understand funerals and deaths in Korea,
Maybe we should mention the Korean word, 돌아가다 (Die), our Korean word of 돌아가다 (Die) means also “Return”.
So Dying is Returning to original home place, and usually, funeral is a bigger festival than any other souvenir days such as birth and wedding.
In the movie, you could see white Korean dress and a white ribbon hair pin, which relatives and related people wear when someone dies.
Whereas the Westerners wear black.
And the person who died, wore hemp clothes. Hemp is one of the best clothes that returns to the dust and returns to nature.
Sometimes, the elderly and seniors in Korea prepare their own hemp before dying.
Also, direct children, usually men, also wear hemp clothes.
Also, you should understand the splendid, and even gorgeous carrier called 상여 (Sang-yeo) used to move died person from the funeral festival place to the grave site called 장지 (Jangi).
This Sangyeo is currently located at Chuncheon National Museum
20-30 years ago, when I was a kid, there were a kind of 49, 100 or 150 times praying /ancestral rites to wish that person who died, go to a good place. In that case, every week, relatives gather at some place usually a temple, where sometimes, a monk danced to make a wish to return well together.
I/my generation may be the last generation to see and attend this Korean culture.
Please visit the link if you want to see a monk dancing called Seungmu.
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