Our world is full of hundreds of cultures, scattered all over the place, but when we can't travel to every country on the planet, how can we learn about these cultures. We can learn a lot about a culture simply by studying its literature. First, we can learn a lot about their basic culture; their daily life. We can also find out what type of society they live in today and what type they lived in hundreds of years ago. And finally, we can learn about their history simply by studying their culture. Culture is not just defined as the history of a country or the type of society it lives in, it is also about simple things like what you eat, or the type of bed you have, or what you believe. Culture can include education, which we can also learn about through literature. In the movie "A Shower", we see the boy traveling huge distances just to get to school, not like in Canada where you just take a bus. The boy and girl in the film had school bags that looked like a Canadian briefcase; they did not carry them on their backs. In the film, the boy's mother said that "Saturday is a half day", meaning that Korean children go to school on Saturday, which is part of their culture, which is extremely different from ours. In Korea, they take education very seriously and children respect their teachers and their schooling; they also respect their history, it is not just a subject taught at school as is the case in Canada. By simply reading a few Korean poems or stories, or watching Korean movies, we can very quickly learn about their daily lives. Korean life and culture are very nature-oriented; from the foods they eat to where they want to retire. In the movie "A Shower" ...... middle of paper ...... knowledge of Korean culture, Sijo poems began to be written during the Chosŏn dynasty, so they reflect Confucianism, these poems are still popular and are still being written about to this day. Just by studying a country's literature, we can learn a lot about its basic culture; their daily life. We can also find out what type of society they live in today and what type they lived in hundreds of years ago. And finally, we can learn about their history simply by studying their culture and literature. People might think that we can only learn about a culture if we visit that country and we cannot learn anything about that culture by studying their literature, but that is completely wrong, a country's literature is the key to learning more about the culture of a country. We can learn a lot about a culture simply by studying its literature..