I am very interested in mythology all over the world. The ones I am particularly interested in are Greek and Korean mythology, While I was reading many books about those mythology, I found many similarities throughout the mythologies of these culture. Being a trilingual, finding links between cultures of different countries always interests me. Therefore, for my final Time Project, I decided to focus on these similarities in mythologies.

Q1: which mythes?

I am most familiar with Greek and Korean mythologies. Also, Those two can be considered as root of my own culture, since I was born in Korea, but living in America (majority of Americans have their roots in European countries, whom the Greek mythology is in base of their culture).

Q2: Which themes?

List of similarities I found in both culture’s mythology:

• Significance of shoes: Story of Theseus, Jason, Prince Yuri, Cinderella, and Kong-Gee & Pat-Gee)
• Sun and Moon are sibling in both culture’s myth
• Unusual birth of children who becomes heroes (Heracles and Park Huk Gue Se
• Husbands who’s faces are unseen (Eros and Gyun Huen)

Q3: Method?

I would like to work on series of drawings inspired by the themes above that links the mythologies of different cultures. In terms of materials, I am most familial with digital illustration.

 

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