In October 1949, four years after national liberation, March 1st was officially designated one of the four major national holidays. The National Flower - Mugunghwa. The mugunghwa, or the rose of ...

Find the answer at the bottom. While South Korea lacks a specific law officially designating a national flower, the rose of Sharon, or "mugunghwa" in Korean, is widely recognized as such. The ...

Kim, who died in 2002, hovers over “Mugunghwa” like a ghost. His story stands for all survivors of the Korean War whose lives were turned upside down. Commissioned by conductor Grant Gershon ...

Ampotan has a nice post discussing differences in symbolism of Japan and Korea's national flowers: cherry blossom or sakura (Japan) and the Rose of Sharon or mugunghwa (Korea). Global Voices stands ...

It's binomial nomenclature is Hibiscus syriacus and in Korean it's known as the mugunghwa hibiscus (무궁화). In English it's sometimes called the Rose of Sharon and in Spanish it's the Rosa de Siria. The ...

With Korea's liberation in 1945 and the establishment of the government in 1948, the mugunghwa gained official recognition as the national flower. It has been incorporated into the lyrics of the ...