Women in Korean Society: A Past and Present Perspective

The Music from Gwangsang Mountian where I contend in my dream is whizz of the most famous poems, which was compose by a woman who lived in 1500s. The poem basically means that the writer of this poem eager to escape from the patriarchal society. The poem was written by a Korean wo manpower poet Heo Hanselheon who lived in 1500s wrote this poem before she died. This poem is describing when she had a dream that she was in the place called Gwangsang Mountain. Gwangsang Mountain is actually represents the paradise that she always dreamed of which is being free from the paternalism.In the poem, the first line, Blue sea- water permeate into beaded sea, head the paradise she had been dreaming, also means the movie that she saw in her dream. The second line, Blue bird line on colored bird, means that she is timeworn of all her life and she need some rest. The third line, Twenty- seven lotus flower root in red tell us that the rest is close when she become a twenty-seven geezerhood o ld, which is predicting her death. Of coarse, red would be color of blood, which also represents her death.The last line, It is cold on the moon light hoar, is telling that the moon light frost which represents the cruel society towards her is leading her to death or doesnt feel any guilty and sympathy to her. In the poem, most of words are represent death of her and the dream that she had. The reason why this is important because we understand and assume how harsh her life was how much she wanted leave this horrible place. Since her poem tells us that she wants to escape from patriarchal society, so which relates to our unit 2, Hidden Voice, that thither were many Korean wo hands who had same wish like writer of this poem.On the other side, the K-pop music has altogether dissimilar meanings and account statement than the old Korean poem. The music I Will Show You by Ailee is unity of the music that women power gets stronger and overcome the paternalism. The story of this musi c is very simple there are one man and one woman who were couple but a woman was a nerd. As a result, a man dumped her and gets a nonher girlfriend. However, a woman channelized into a very fashionable and confident, a man changes the attitude toward her and starts to follow her.On the other hand, a woman tired to revenge to men who made her angry and sorrow. It shows that women can control over men. In the lyric, the chorus part, I will show you totally different myself/ I will show you more beautiful myself/ I will not cry because of you who was eager love/ I will show I am happier than you when I resonate a more cool man/ I dont feel any ruthfulness even though you are not here, I dont collapse, boy you gatta be sensible show how much she become confident about her appearance and herself.The starting part of the second verse, metamorphose my hair style more fresh and do makeup better/ everyone looking at me who dupe high heels and short skirt directly shows that how she rev enge to her ex- boyfriend and it represents the higher states of women. The song is showing why this states changed in the story in the song. This song is important because in the song the states of men and women changed, how men delicacy women towards their appearance and why women had higher states at the middle of the song. The women and the men had different choices but ended up that she wins in this competition of the states.Since the poem and the song were written in different people in different time, there are many similarities and differences between two. Both poem and song is telling the story in the same point of view. These are all written in womens perspective and it tells us the story that they have. However, there are more differences between these two. In the song, the woman tired to change her and the attitude that men had towards her. On the other hand, in the poem, the writer wanted to escape from her situation not trying to change her situation.