Author name: Frances Smit

FB raises cultural awareness as an author, teacher, and playwright. Her passion is to engage children about all things Korean and Asian. Her picture books, The Mysterious Stream and Heung Bu and Nol Bu, are English/Korean and English/Chinese bi-lingual folktales.

10 Fun Facts About South Korea

2 Comments / Fun Facts Series, Korea, Learning About Culture / By Frances Smit

Korean Pop Music (K-Pop) and Korean Dramas (K-Dramas) are wildly popular, but there is more to South Korea than music and movies. Here are 10 fun cultural tidbits about the peninsula to expand your world. 1. Korea and Kimchi Go Together If there is a national food of Korea, kimchi is it. Every grocery store, …

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Big Folktales Small World – Korean Folktales

1 Comment / Books for Children, Education, Korea, Learning About Culture / By Frances Smit

A maiden finds help from seven quirky dwarfs after she flees from a jealous and wicked Queen who is after her life. Hungry Jack swaps his cow for magic beans only to find himself fleeing for his life when he disrupts a sleeping giant. Do these stories sound familiar? Fairy and folktales existed even before …

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