I have a new fascination, with the Korean Imperial family. Well former Korean Imperial Family now, their history and everything. Basically Korean history, but in particular the royal family bit going back centuries. I am sadly far too broke to stock up on new books 🙁 that and I have enough to read as it is. But learning more about Korean history (the royal family part) is really fun. Very enjoyable, and it’s getting freakishly addictive. I repeat freakishly addictive.
Sadly though, that isn’t the only thing I’m addicted to. But that’s a separate post.
As I have been reading more about Korea’s former royalty (- odd, but them being dead doesn’t make them former does it? I don’t know.) I have taken to the life of Korea’s last Princess. 덕혜옹주 – I have just become really fascinated with her, her life and how much she seems to have suffered in her life. Early and later. Her life journey is just fascinating but also very sad.
I will of course get to other members of the family and learn more about them, but right now I have my favourite and it’s almost the same as when I read and buy WWII history books! 🙂 I like history and I am so happy I have found a piece of Korean history that has roped me in and actually kept me in ^^
History is as important as learning a language I think, and although I have always read Korean history and kept myself relatively informed on their background (as much as I could.) I have never done any in-depth reading of any kind. I just didn’t get round to it and also I am anti-softcopy lately. I like physical copies of things. Ohmygoodness, it makes me seem like a tree killer, I am so sorry but I like physical paper books. And it’s getting worse
I need to find a book on King Sejong too though, I mean without him I wouldn’t have Hangul to love 🙂 do you know what I mean? I don’t want an English book though, I am neglecting reading a lot these days but luckily I would assume that a book on King Sejong the Great wouldn’t be all that hard to find in Korean. Just to pick and have it shipped to me. When I have money….T_T
Hope you all have a wonderful day. Also, I’m curious do you have a favourite Korean royal family member? Anyone love history as much as I do? 🙂
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Recently I watched the drama The Moon Embracing the Sun and it was really good! It was my first period drama that I watched all the way through. I had read about Korean history before that, so it made it a lot easier to understand the cultural situations that might have happened back then. I should also get a book on King Sejong. My friend lived in Sejong City!
I have always wanted to see that drama, is it as good as people have told me it is? XD I have never been a period drama fan, only gotten through two in the last 5+ years, its that bad. And those were mainly because of either bias or my mother :p
You should, and that’s cool. Personally I had no idea there was a Sejong City :/ embarrassing. 🙂
I really enjoyed it! I’m interested in Korean history so it was cool feeling immersed in the palace life. It was really comical and romantic but really sad so have tissues ready past episode 6. I mainly watched it because I love Kim Soo Hyun but ALL the actors were fantastic. Haha yeah it’s really small but growing. It’s on the outskirts of Daejeon which is a big city so most people live in the city and Sejong is trying to attract more people by lowering the real estate prices.
Do you have any book recommendations for learning about the Korean royal family? Or are you just researching online? I would love to learn more about them.