{"id":8219,"date":"2023-11-12T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2023-11-12T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:09:01","slug":"young-minds-ignited-by-the-beauty-of-korean-characters-at-sibf-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Young minds ignited by the beauty of Korean characters at SIBF 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Children unearthed their artistic skills as they drew Korean hieroglyphs at a workshop titled \u201cKorean Artistic Journey\u201d, at the the 42nd Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). South Korea Pavilion &#8211; the Guest of Honour at SIBF 2023 &#8211; has given children a golden opportunity to understand Korean culture, language and literature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The master teacher is Christine Lee who gathers eager pre-teens around her to demonstrate how to draw a Korean character called \u201ckkum\u201d to describe a dream. \u201cGo this way, and then this way,\u201d Lee tells them, making horizontal strokes in the first square box and vertical ones in the next with a painting brush. \u201cThis creates the Korean character <em>kkum <\/em>meaning dream. Now what is your dream?\u201d she asks children around her.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a squared practice paper, painting brush and black ink, future doctors and astronauts settle down to make three horizontal strokes followed by two vertical strokes before they get the character right in the next square. Once they master the strokes, they are given thick craft paper to draw their final masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful,\u201d comments Lee as each one holds up their calligraphic output for inspection. Each child gets a couple of gifts to take home for their creativity. \u201cYou can frame your artwork at home,\u201d suggests Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Delving into the history of Korean hieroglyphs and calligraphy, Lee briefs that Korea did not have a written language until the year 1444, when King Sejong invented the alphabetic system called Hangul.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lee, the workshop is popular since it helps to train children in patience as each stroke has to be made slowly to get the perfection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Children unearthed their artistic skills as they drew Korean hieroglyphs at a workshop titled \u201cKorean Artistic Journey\u201d, at the the 42nd Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). South Korea Pavilion &#8211; the Guest of Honour at SIBF 2023 &#8211; has given children a golden opportunity to understand Korean culture, language and literature. &nbsp; The master<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionworlds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}