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Traditions had changed a lot but still we can see little aspect of the past culture today. It didn't disappear totally right away but it changes and fixes itself overtime.

There were some traditions that I was not able to understand because it changed so much. Such as contacting friends at home and not being able to contact them outside because they had no cellphones, my aunt says it was not that difficult and hard to do but for me, I couldnt imagine the discomfort of not having cell phones. Also spending time with family and respecting the elders were strict when my aunt was young but for me now, we have much less time with family and we don't respect elders as much as we did long time ago, it seems to get less strict over time. I was able to see that science and technology was a huge difference between past culture and present. Also the strict and strong traditions seemed to get mild and less strict. Such as celebrating myung jeul, korean traditional holiday was so big and huge with traditions but now we miss it or celebrate it very little. As I mentioned previously, respecting elders got less strict. In the past, we get punished harshly for not respecting them but now we don't.

Culture and tradition is something that you can not just make it disappear or appear again. As I interviewed my aunt, I was able to see how culture changes really slowly but fast. Culture is just like writing an essay because it gets fixed and changed little by little over time to adjust to the time period. Also I learned that culture affects one's life a lot. Due to culture changes my grandparents and my parents perspective is different from mine. Our opinion and thoughts are developed from our culture that we live in.