Annual General Meeting 2011/2012

Annyeonghaseyo ~

This is our very first Korean Cultural Society (KCS)'s Annual General Meeting~

Do not shy to bring your friends who are interest to join this BIG FAMILY ya~

Weeeee !!! KCS welcome all of you~

Kamsahamida~

The below was the detail regarding our AGM:

Korean Culture Society Annual General Meeting 2011/2012

Date: 4.07.2011

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Exam Hall 

Attire:  Smart Casual (skirt are not allowed)

Brief about our AGM, we will expose you all more information about our activity as well as our club.

-We will have introduction of our committees.
-We will have briefing about our activity and events.
-We will having small competition. (* Do bring paper and pens)
-There are prizes will be given away. (@.@)
-There are performance will be perform. (^_^)

Most welcome, to those who interested to join us and not yet register, don't worry, you are welcome to attend our AGM ! Last registration still open during our AGM only !

Besides, we have facebook " Kcs Mmu Melaka". So you all can gets update and more info from here. Do come and add us.

Guys and girls, what are you waiting for? Grab this chance to be part of us ! Do come forward in exam hall and join us ! Don't miss it ! ^^
We are proud and glad to see you guys there ! :)

* Guys & girls, please help to spread this news around ya

* Remark: Those who still interested to join this club, they can attend our AGM

                for registration and be our official club member

* Fees for member: RM 6 per annum

* Do remember to bring money (around RM 50 for deposit) if you interested to join our activity Language, Dancing and Cooking program... registration will be start right after the AGM finish, the number for register every program is limited only first come first serve.

Kamsahamida^^

Warmest Regards,
Korean Culture Society (KCS)
Multimedia University,
Malacca Campus.

We love Kay See Ess!!!

Wait for it... Wait for it...

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!

The Korean Cultural Society is officially a club in MMU Malacca. Weeeeee!!! This is definitely something to be thrilled about. Imagine, our first meeting, first registration week, first booth, first dance performance, first member, and the list goes on and on! =D

Club registration week can only be described with one word and one word only - AWESOME.  For a newly established club to get 500+++ members is no walk in the park. And we did it!!! Still, I'd say most of the credit goes to our dancers who put up a fantastic performance on the 2nd day of registration week. That probably left a good impression on the students of MMU, which probably drove them to our booth and sign up for our club. Guess all the hard work we put in to perfect our dances were paid off after all. ^^

Alright enough talk. They say a picture speaks a thousand words. So....

~ Man's Hanbok ~

 The artwork of Man's Hanbok from Park Soo Bin ^^

 The artwork of Women's Hanbok from Park Soo Bin ^^

 COOL! Banana Milk, SNSD Yuri, SNSD Yoona and ginseng (imported from Korea)

Korean food, spoon and chopsticks (also imported from Korea)

Can I bring them home pleeeeease???

 Married ducks~~

BigBang and SUJU

 

Our society's handmade logo~~~aju joh-eun~~

 Dun think we can't see you yawning behind the screen ;)

 Korean traditional dance~~

 Big Bang Big Bang~~!!!!

Awww our 3 little bears~~how gwiyeoun they are~~

 Come come come join us~~^^

 Busy setting up the booth~~

 Our "couple" treasurer and assistant secretary~~~XD 

 Look at the crowd!

 KCS' very own Miss Korea ~~Pheewitt! XD

Yes yes yes join join join!

Mister treasurer and his assistant~~

A big KAMSAHAMNIDA to all the members who have joined our big family. Hope you'll have a good time with us! KCS RAWKS!!!

Photo source from : Dominic & Choi SangHo

Let's Hit The Dance Floor!

*imitating T.O.P*  BIG BANG! BIG BANG! Don't STOP!!! Lets pla... Erm.. Sorry. Got carried away. Well with all the hype surrounding KCS' performances during the club registration week, you CAN'T blame me for trying to realise my ambitions of becoming a K-pop star, CAN YOU???!!! XD

Oh and did I mention about the dance performances by KCS? Which, I've gotta say, is so awesome-liciously choreographed I just feel like taking a bite from it (joking)? No? Yes? Well just so you know, yes we DID perform during the club registration week. And yes for a bunch of newbies with LITTLE to ZERO dancing experience I'd say we did a pretty good job. Kudos to all the dancers~!

To be frank, it wasn't until about a month before the start of the 2011/2012 academic year that we decided to have this little dance thingy, just to make registration day a little more fun. Of course, easier said than done, it wasn't exactly smooth-sailing since most of the dancers had no dancing experience at all. Thus began the gruelling, week-long rehearsals and training! *gasp*

After spending countless hours practicing, practicing AND practicing (you guys have no idea how torturing it was, seriously), we finally managed to bring our dance moves to perfection ^^ Yes the whole affair was pretty tiring and our muscles ache so much sometimes we can't even feel our own legs. But it was all worth it when we danced to the huge applause of the crowd that gathered around during our performances, and not to mention the fun we had dancing in public =D

And now... PICTURES!!!!!!!!

 Our advisor ---Miss Cindy giving tips to our Korean traditional dancers

It's Miss VP! Ain't she serious? XD

Practice, practice, PRACTICE!

Mister VP (left) and Miss President (right) 

FINAL rehearsal at CLC concourse =)

Someone call the doctor!!! Poor Miss VP...

BIG BANG - TONIGHT

3 Bears Song

Ps : A BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU to Miss Cindy and Miss President and all our dancers for your effort that made our performance a huge success ^^ Love you guys!

Photo source from : Dominic

Introduction of K.C.S

The Korean Cultural Society, KCS is one of the cultural appreciation clubs among MMU Melaka. We just started to form this society last three weeks ago, just like a new born baby~~ This society aims to raise the awareness of Korean culture around the campus. Besides, cultivating friendships and the sharing of knowledge is what we trying to gain.

We also provides a platform upon which Korean students can interact with other students of all races and nationality, sharing their own cultural experiences and broadening their cultural awareness. We aims to expose the members of the campus to Korean language and culture. After learning Korean language, we will face no problem when we travel to Korea~~ ^^

Here are our objective why we form this society~~
1. To expose and promote Korean culture to Multimedia University students.
2. To foster a comfortable learning environment for the study of Korean language.
3. To foster an environment where students can experience the rich traditions and history of Korea.
4. To provide a platform upon which Korean students can interact with other students of all races and nationality, sharing their own cultural experiences and broadening their cultural awareness.

That's all for our short intro~~ ^^

Grains

Grains have been one of the most important staples to the Korean diet. Early myths of the foundations of various kingdoms in Korea center on grains. One foundation myth relates to Jumong, who received barley seeds from two doves sent by his mother after establishing the kingdom of Goguryeo. Yet another myth speaks of the three founding deities of Jeju Island who were to be wed to the three princesses of Tamna; the deities brought seeds of five grains which were the first seeds planted, which in turn became the first instance of farming.

During the pre-modern era, grains such as barley and millet were the main staples and were supplemented by wheat, sorghum, and buckwheat. Rice is not an indigenous crop to Korea, and it is likely millet was the preferred grain before rice was cultivated. Rice became the grain of choice during the Three Kingdoms period, particularly in the kingdoms of Silla and Baekje in the southern regions of the peninsula. Rice was such an important commodity in Silla that it was used to pay taxes. The Sino-Korean word for "tax" is a compound character that uses the character for the rice plant. The preference for rice escalated into the Joseon period, when new methods of cultivation and new varieties emerged that would help increase production.

As rice was prohibitively expensive when it first came to Korea, it is likely the grain was mixed with other grains to "stretch" the rice; this is still done in dishes such as boribap (rice with barley) and kongbap (rice with beans).White rice, which is rice with the bran removed, has been the preferred form of rice since its introduction into the cuisine. The most traditional method of cooking the rice has been to cook it in an iron pot called a sot (솥) or musoe sot (무쇠솥). This method of rice cookery dates back at least to the Goryeo period , and sot have even been found in tombs from the Silla period. The sot is still used today, much in the same manner as it was in the past centuries.

Rice is used to make a number of items, outside of the traditional bowl of plain white rice. It is commonly ground into a flour and used to make rice cakes called tteok, of which there are over two hundred varieties. It is also cooked down into a congee (juk), or gruel (mieum) and mixed with other grains, meat, or seafood. Koreans also produce a number of rice wines, both in filtered and unfiltered versions.

source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine#Foodstuffs

Kimchi

Kimchi refers to often fermented vegetable dishes usually made with napa cabbage, Korean radish, or sometimes cucumber, commonly fermented in a brine of ginger, garlic, scallions, and chili pepper.There are endless varieties with regional variations, and it is served as a side dish or cooked into soups and rice dishes. Koreans traditionally make enough kimchi to last for the entire winter season, as fermented foods can keep for several years. These were stored in traditional Korean mud pots known as Jangdokdae although with the advent of refrigerators, special Kimchi freezers and commercially produced kimchi, this practice has become less common. Kimchi is packed with vitamin A, thiamine B1, riboflavin B2, calcium, and iron. Its main benefit though is found in the bacteria lactobacilli, this is found in yogurt and fermented foods. This bacteria helps with digestion. South Koreans eat on average of 40 pounds of Kimchi each year.


source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine#Kimchi

Fan dance

A fan dance is a dance performed with one or more fans. This form has been adapted in various countries. TheKorean fan dance, for example, evolved from Joseon Dynasty court dances and remains a popular form of traditional Korean dance. The Spanish or Portuguese flamenco makes dramatic use of fans. There also exists a form of fan dance in traditional Yu'pik culture in western Alaska; it bears little resemblance to the other forms represented herein.

In the West, a fan dance is often an erotic dance performance, traditionally by a woman. The performer, either entirely nude or apparently so, dances while moving two large fans, typically constructed from ostrich feathers. The essence of the choreography is suggestion, limiting the parts of the body exposed to the audience while focusing attention on illusions of exposure. Performers often evoke illusions of:

• having already seen what had never been exposed,
• not being able to shift one's gaze fast enough to see what seems surely to be presently exposed, or
• being aware of currently "seeing" what in fact is not exposed to be seen.

A fan dance can be viewed for erotic stimulation, aesthetic appreciation of grace and beauty, and for simple amazement of the skill of the illusion.

As of 2004, no fan dancer has been more famous than Sally Rand, who popularized it in the 1930s, remained the symbol of it throughout the middle of the 20th century, and continued to perform it beyond the age of 70.

In the UK, the fan dance has been used in the finals of the Miss Nude UK 2000 competition and in The Windmill in Soho where it replaced the tradition of nude tableaux and has since been replaced by table dancing. There have been claims that the latter has exclusive rights to it although it has also been seen at the Whitehall Theatre.

source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_dance

Korean dance

Korean traditional dance originated in ancient shamanistic rituals thousands of years ago. By the time of the later Korean kingdoms, Goryeo andJoseon, in the 2nd millennium CE, Korean traditional dance benefited from regular support of the royal court, numerous academies, and even an official ministry of the government.

A number of different dances gained permanent high status, including the Hermit dance, the Ghost dance, Buchae Chum (the fan dance), Seung Mu (the Monk dance), the Oudong (Entertainer) dance and others, despite the fact that many had humble origins. For example, the Fan dance is believed to have originated with shamans performing nature rites with leaves but evolved into one of the most highly refined Korean dances.

Due to the cultural suppression by Imperial Japan, so called "cultural genocide" during the Colonial Korea, most of the dance academies died out and some dances were lost as well as some of dance forms were distorted. However, few pioneering Korean dancers such as Choi Seung-hee (최승희 崔承喜) created new forms of Korean dances based on the traditional dances and kept many of the traditions alive in secret and abroad, and today Korean traditional dance is enjoying a vibrant resurgence. Numerous universities in Korea teach Korean traditional dance, and even some universities abroad now provide instruction in the forms. Top dancers are recognized as "Living National Treasures" and are charged to pass their dances down to their students. The lineages of dance and dancers may be traced back several generations through such connections.Other Korean dances remained and remain to this day under the ambit of farmers and folk dance groups. Props used in the dances include the long billowing silk scarf of pure white used in the Salpuri dance, drums, hats, swords and others. The props may be peripheral or central to the story of the dance. In the Ghost dance, the entertainer has a joyous reunion with a deceased spouse, only to endure the heartbreak of reseparation, and there may few or no props. On the other hand, the Great Drum dance (one of several forms of drum dances) features a gaudy drum which may be taller than the performer. The drum tempts a monk until finally he succumbs to it and performs a rolling drum "orgy."

source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dance#Court_dance