![]() Kim Yol-kyu defined han as “the collective trauma and the.Post-colonial efforts to create a ‘Korean’ essence.” Essentialist view “ thought by many to beĮssentially Korean, and by many others to be the product of modern, Han is derived from the Chinese character 恨, which means resentment, hatred, or regret.ĭefinitions and characteristics of han are highly subjective. ![]() A central aspect of han today is loss of identity. The idea that han is a specifically Korean characteristic was adopted and popularized by Koreans in the 20th century. The contemporary concept of han, that it is a national characteristic of the Korean people, is a modern phenomenon that originated during the Japanese occupation of Korea from Japanese colonial stereotypes and the characterization of Korean art and culture as “sorrowful” in Yanagi Soetsu’s theory of the “beauty of sorrow”. That is said to be an essential element of Korean identity by some, and a Variously described as some form of grief or resentment, among others, Han, or haan, is a concept of an emotion, ![]()
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