Korean Bow, Our Superior Etiquette of Greeting

Korean bow is our noble and superior etiquette of greeting accompanied by the array of actions and speech acts expressing respects and kindness to opponents when people meet and part.

Korean bow gives friendliness to people and caters for the sentiments of our people as it fully expresses courtesy to every one through bowing.

Korean bow fully embodies the characters and sentiments of life of the Koreans who are modest and gentle outwardly but strong-minded.

It is also good in hygienic term.

Different countries and nations have their own etiquettes of greetings such as handshaking and embracing.

Korean bow is superior in hygienic term as it fully expresses mutual respects and friendliness at a certain distance between people.

Korean bow was inscribed as an intangible heritage of the nation in the DPRK in Juche 110(2021).

Our people positively sustain our beautiful and noble etiquette and morality with the pride of having the superior etiquette of greeting.

Rodong Sinmun