Perhaps this should’ve been my first posting on Substack. After all, this flag represents the country I was born in, the country I’m writing about. These national flags have their own names. Can you name all four? The American Stars and Stripes (or,
I just watched "Mr. Sunshine" [미스터 션샤인], a South Korean TV series which first aired in Korea in 2018. The story was set in the early 1900s and focused on activists fighting for Korea's independence. The importance of the Korean flag in the film reminded me of your essay here on Substack. I really appreciate all the Korean stories you share with us.
It actually was one of my goals writing this blog--providing backdrop and reference to K-drama plots and those little idiosyncrasies. I never watched Mr Sunshine though. It is based on a real character--Hwang Ki-hwan (황기환). I deliberately stay away from the Japanese occupation era stuff because reading, watching, learning anything about it makes me so incredibly mad.
Once again, your photographs are great and illustrate so well the topic of your essay. The story of the trigrams and their relation to binary code is fascinating. 감사합니다
천만의 말씀. I think they did the right thing dropping the "mountains and swamps." That binary code thing -- I had no idea until I started reading up on it. You learn a lot when you write.
I've seen this as well. There are other versions of Taegukgi, just as you have other versions of the Stars and Stripes. The official word is, Bak Young-hyo never actually designed the flag--he defined what elements should be included in the flag, so there was some room for interpretation and different versions.
I just watched "Mr. Sunshine" [미스터 션샤인], a South Korean TV series which first aired in Korea in 2018. The story was set in the early 1900s and focused on activists fighting for Korea's independence. The importance of the Korean flag in the film reminded me of your essay here on Substack. I really appreciate all the Korean stories you share with us.
It actually was one of my goals writing this blog--providing backdrop and reference to K-drama plots and those little idiosyncrasies. I never watched Mr Sunshine though. It is based on a real character--Hwang Ki-hwan (황기환). I deliberately stay away from the Japanese occupation era stuff because reading, watching, learning anything about it makes me so incredibly mad.
Understandably; it is a brutal history.
Once again, your photographs are great and illustrate so well the topic of your essay. The story of the trigrams and their relation to binary code is fascinating. 감사합니다
천만의 말씀. I think they did the right thing dropping the "mountains and swamps." That binary code thing -- I had no idea until I started reading up on it. You learn a lot when you write.
I also found an interesting article on binary code, mathematics & computers: Leibniz: ‘The Chinese invented the first binary code’. -https://jankrikke2020.medium.com/leibniz-the-chinese-invented-the-first-binary-code-42c46f26cb60#:~:text=In%201789%20Gottfried%20Leibniz%20published,inventing%20the%20first%20binary%20code.
Isn't that amazing? Besides, are you and your family/friends ok with that madman in Maine?
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You always make me look further. A flag with all 8 trigrams
https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/%E1%84%82%E1%85%A9%E1%84%87%E1%85%AE109_%E1%84%8C%E1%85%AA%E1%84%83%E1%85%A9%E1%86%A8%E1%84%80%E1%85%B5-scaled.jpg
Taegeukgi-style processional flag (Jwadokgi, 좌독기, 坐纛旗), 19–20th century, silk, 121 x 150cm (National Palace Museum of Korea)
https://smarthistory.org/korean-national-flag/
I've seen this as well. There are other versions of Taegukgi, just as you have other versions of the Stars and Stripes. The official word is, Bak Young-hyo never actually designed the flag--he defined what elements should be included in the flag, so there was some room for interpretation and different versions.