Koreans too have rice porridge (kanji) and it is called juk. Like our Athirasam (a deep fried sweet) they have the Yakgwa. Nandini points out, “There’s Korea Mandu (meat, vegetables and tofu filled) that’s a lot like our kozhukattai. And most people like spicy food very much like here in Tamil Nadu, which is similar in Korea.” Also, the main food in Korea too is rice. There are many words with similar pronunciation. Park adds, “Language and food are similar to Korea. This is a lot like Koreans, who have enjoyed singing and dancing for a long time, and this is why K-Pop has developed now.” “I find the kolam drawn in front of houses fascinating,” she begins and continues, “I’ve also found it interesting that people here enjoy dancing and singing, I have observed it in films and during festivals. Soonjin Park, a Korean teacher at the InKo Centre shares a little about her first impression of cultural similarities between Tamil Nadu and South Korea.
While this is indeed an astonishing fact, there are cultural similarities too. There are many such words that are similar between the two languages,” she tells TNM. “For hair (mudi in Tamil) they say meoli (머리) (pronounced mao-li), for abdomen (thoppai in Tamil) they say Bogbu (복부) (pronounced toh-pu) and for come here (inge va in Tamil) they say yeogiwa (여기와) in Korean. Nandini Menon, a teaching and information personnel at InKo Centre in Chennai claims that there may be as many as 3000 such words in common between the two languages. The Canadian sitcom on Netflix, Kim’s Convenience, that follows a family of Korean immigrants living in Canada, with their Canadian born children, popularised this similarity between the two languages. Some might already know that the language spoken in Korean countries and the language spoken in Tamil Nadu (India), share certain words, much to the fascination of many. However, the extent to which the similarities can be observed forms a topic of great interest for scholars, anthropologists, linguists and the likes. Cultural and linguistic similarities across Asian countries is a familiar concept, it is the same among European countries.
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