Dadaepo Beach, located roughly 30-minute bus ride away from Busan station, is home to the world’s largest water fountain. I personally feel that Dadaepo Beach is super underrated. I’ve never really seen it being promoted as one of THE beaches to go to, unlike Haeundae and Gwangalli Beach. But seriously, Dadaepo Beach has the finest… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012 by Amber Dorko Stopper
abbott and costello’s “who’s on first?” routine — original soundtrack, but “acted” by korean transformers (and subtitled in hangul).
April 25, 2012 by Seoullovee
I found this awesome website a few days ago ^^. Click here. It provides vocabulary test for all level. It’s nice, it has a lot of categories such as colors, parts of body, birds, verbs, etc. It doesn’t give you the time, so you can answer it slowly. It gives you score And if you… [Read more…]
Have you ever watch MBC”s runaway hit, 태왕사신기, starring Bae Yong Joon, which took the country by storm in 2007? By chance, do you still remember about the legend of 단군왕검(Tangun Wanggeom) featured in the earlier episodes of the drama? If you haven’t seen the drama yet, don’t fret. Let’s read together, shall we?… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012 by zachsarette
This is often what you may hear if you come to Korea and can mutter a few words in the language. You are not a genius. You know that. Learning languages is hard and you worked damn hard to be able to read Hangul (한글). Everyone says Hangul (한글) is the easiest writing system ever… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012 by Amber Dorko Stopper
I have a pal who is a language specialist in the English Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She recently “set me up” with a Korean student who wanted some extra work with the vocabulary portions of his GRE study. I said I was happy to help him with this, if he would record… [Read more…]
April 22, 2012 by Amber Dorko Stopper
not that i am very good at it… but sometimes i will start to draw a little cartoon and then just write using only things i know (MAYBE look up one or two things) just to see how much information i can string together using the korean i already have in my head.… [Read more…]
April 21, 2012 by Seoullovee
I once watched a Malaysian TV show, it told us about how Malaysian was infected by the Korean Wave. The most impress one was a housewife who really like 김현중. She could spend all day watch the drama. Then gradually, she started to use Korean product such as cosmetic and kitchen utensils. She just lived… [Read more…]
As 언니 put in her post earlier about 준말, 우리 결혼 했어요 (We Got Married) is usually shortened to the commonly used 우결. For those who have not seen 우결 and are complete newbies, let me break it down for you: 우결 usually has 3 couples and depending on the changes going on it can… [Read more…]
April 15, 2012 by panjjakpanjjak
Oops – is my bias showing? Heh. I really didn’t mean to pick another Lee Seunggi drama, but something an 언니 of mine said to me prompted me to rewatch a couple episodes of 내 여자친구는 구미호 and that got me thinking. Koreans, 언니 said, love shortening their words and they often make up their own… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012 by starxblinded
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