Family, kinship and relationship -Yeon Ju, Heo (허연주)

Last class, we learned about family, kinship and relationship. I didn’t know the difference between family and kinship before this class. But now I know. Kinship is a type of relationship and family is a group of people bonded by specific relationship. In this class, we also learned about marriage, divorce, patriarchy, etc. and we discuss about Korean marriage rules.

 

 

Q. What are the marriage rule in Korea? How have they chaged?

 

Korean traditional marriage

In the past, Korean marriage proceeded by the bride and groom’s parents. Parents got involved in their offspring’s marriage. Sometimes parents promised their offspring’s marriage without their offspring’s agreement. Accordingly, there were some cases that the bride and groom didn’t know each other. Marriage mostly was enacted to carry on a family line. Bridal age was very young. The bride and groom wore a hanbok (Korean traditional clothes).

 

Modern marriage clothes

Nowadays, many parts were changed. Parental intervention reduced and marriage that followed the offspring’s opinion increased. People marriage to share their life with a lover. The age at marriage get higher because people want to marry after their economic condition become stable. Marriage procedure has been streamlined. The bride and groom wore tuxedo and wedding dress.

 

 

Like other cultures, marriage also changes according to the passing of time. I think that the meaning of marriage became weak. Celibate increase and media report divorce of celebrities and extensible a divorce rate. I am regrettable. Because in the tough world, family value is more needed and marriage is the base of the family. I hope marriage becomes more positive and preferable thing.