A sentiment that is said to pervade Korean culture and Korean art that has mainly to do with sadness, but a bit more than that. It's one of those things, like jeong(ì •), that a Korean will tell you it cannot be explained and only understood if one is Korean. Bah. Ask someone else what it is.
Chinese dynasty, 206 BC- 221 AD
(hahn) The majority ethnicity of Chinese people.
Han (韓國, Hánguó) was a kingdom during the Warring States Period in China. Not to be confused with South Korea which shares the name in Chinese.
Han is a concept in Korean culture, attributed by some as a national cultural trait. Han denotes a collective feeling of oppression and isolation in the face of overwhelming odds. It connotes aspects of lament and unavenged injustice.
Han is a common transliteration of the Chinese surname 韩 (simp. han2) or 韓 (trad. han2) and the Korean surname 한 (hanja 韓). Han is based on China's pinyin system and so used throughout Mainland China. Spelling can vary from 'Hon' in Cantonese speaking areas to 'Hang' in Hainan.