KOREAN PECULIARITIES
The Koreans are said to have Japanese faces, Chinese customs, and manners of their owfl. Next to the Eskimos they aro the heartiest eaters in the world. The flesh of young dogs is their favourite delicacy; Japanese beer their favourite beverage. Every Korean house has a cellar, called a khan, which is used as a furnace. Its mouth is some distance from the house. On a cold night you will see one or more white-clad figures cramming the khan's mouth as fast as they can with twigs, branches, and other combustible food. Thus well fed, the furnace burns for hours and keeps the house warm all night. In Korea, as in China, ancestor worship is the real religion. Fortune tellers, asl.rologers, and sorceresses aro in great demand. The Koreans are a nation of poets and painters. Every fairly educated man writes poems and paints pictures. "Gessangs," who correspond to the Japanese geisha girls, are numerous in the larger towns, and especially abound at Ping-Yang, in the northern mining district. The Korean population is divided into two classes, the workers and the students and officials. The workers are oppressed and abused without mercy, and. are apathetic, indifferent, and lacking in energy.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 6
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