Who designs nations flags, and what thought goes into it?
The colours and designs of national flags are usually not arbitrarily selected but rather stem from the history, culture, or religion of the particular country. Many flags can be traced to a common origin, and such “flag families” are often linked both by common traditions and by geography. The oldest European flags still in use… The flag of South Korea has three parts: a white background; a red and blue taeguk in the center; and four black trigrams, one in each corner of the flag. In Korean, the flag is called the Taegeukgi. The design of the flag was reportedly suggested by Qing Dynasty diplomat Ma Jianzhong in 1882 during the reign of King Gojong, [1] and was designed by Bak Yeong-hyo, the Korean ambassador to Japan. Gojong proclaimed the Taegeukgi to be the official flag of Korea on 6 March 1883. The symbol of taeguk originally came from the Chinese book ZhouYi or 周易, representing the four Chinese philosophical ideas about the universe: harmony, symmetry, balance, circulation. Si
