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This study conducts a comparative analysis of length measurement systems in the Mongolian and Korean languages, with particular emphasis on traditional units, in order to examine similarities and differences in their underlying cognitive frameworks. The research employs a contrastive linguistic approach, supported by descriptive and document analysis methods. The findings demonstrate that, although both languages have largely adopted the international metric system in contemporary usage, notable differences persist in the origin, application, and cognitive categorization of traditional length measurement units. In Mongolian, traditional units are primarily based on human body measurements, reflecting an experiential and context-dependent conceptualization of space. In contrast, Korean traditional units exhibit a more standardized and hierarchically structured system, indicating a more systematic approach to spatial measurement. These findings suggest that measurement systems are closely related to cultural and cognitive patterns and have important implications for language learning and cross-cultural communication.
The folk literature of any nation contains not only common features of human mythological thinking, but also unique differences of thinking related to the worldview, religion, language, culture, symbolism, customs, and history of that nation. There are lot of themes of symbolic attributes of numbers in Mongolian folktales, especially of odd numbers, and that symbolism is expressed based on life, work, and brotherhood of the characters of the story. There are many fairy tales among Korean folktales as well that contain the symbolism of numbers. Like Mongolian fairy tales, the theme of the tale is named with a symbolic number and those symbolic numbers are embedded within the content. The folktales of any nation carry the responsibility to distinguish features and values of history of country’s early development, traditions, and of life of the people from other countries, and to pass them on a heritage. For such roles, various tools had been developed and used taking shape in a way that incorporates the symbols of numbers in fairy tales.
Mongols are a people with a nomadic culture that has been passed down from ancient times to the present. This is what distinguishes us from other nations. We can learn about the characteristics of the economy of any nation, its daily life experience, history, culture, social institutions, and customs from its traditional national words. In this article, we will discuss the characteristics of translating Mongolian horse names and breeds into Japanese by Mongolians who are nomadic herders. These words are part of the national vocabulary of the Mongolians, and the aim is to study some horse names in Mongolian and Japanese side by side, observe similarities and differences, and clarify the characteristics of how to translate Mongolian horse names into Japanese.
This research paper discusses folk literature and traditions of living comparing them with those of other countries, and analyzes similarities in between. Therefore, the research is important for preserving our own heritage and culture, keeping pace with the current era of globalization, and enriching the research of previous scholars, and continuing to study the great heritage of folk literature, introducing it into further scientific discussions, and making it a document or evidence that can be passed down in the future generation. This is also important for studying the different characteristics and traditions of folk literatures that preserves the traces of the ancient history of relations between Mongolia and Korea, and clarifying and analyzing the differences and similarities. The purpose of this paper is to clarify whether fairy tales contain elements that are present in other types of folk tales, such as animal-themed tales and magic tales, as they are different from folk tales in terms of animal character patterns and often contain abstract features of imagination, rather than preserving character patterns from real life.
