Easy to Learn Korean (ETLK)

An Illustrated Guide to Korean Culture and Language

Easy to Learn Korean 796 – Arriving at a Restaurant

Posted on March 21, 2013 by easykorean

Easy to Learn Korean 224, 682 – Gwiyomi lyrics, 1+1 Gwiyomi Player, and Acting Cute.

Posted on March 21, 2013 by easykorean

Updated on 10/14/2020
Since earlier this year, the 1+1 Gwiyomi Player game and Gwiyomi chant have gained popularity across the internet. If you do a YouTube search, you’ll see many singers and actresses performing this song-game. Korean girls play this in order to woo men who love the cute factor- and all Korean men love it. This game is also known as Aegyo Gwiyomi or Cutie Player.

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Easy to Learn Korean 795 – Clumsy

Posted on March 20, 2013 by easykorean

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Easy to Learn Korean 710 – Korean search engines and websites

Posted on March 20, 2013 by easykorean

Today’s Korea Herald has an interesting article about Korean websites. Believing that it’s safer to keep foreign search engines from indexing all the content on their site, many Korean websites use robots.txt files to block search engine bots from indexing a portion (or all) of their site. The robots.txt files are read by search engine bots as they index websites and the data inside this file lists which pages should not be indexed.

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Easy to Learn Korean 751-752 – Figure Skating.

Posted on March 19, 2013 by easykorean

Kim Yu-na, the 2010 Olympic figure skating champion, was in the news again this weekend for winning the World Figure Skating Championship in London, Ontario (Canada). She had been away from competitive events for nearly two years. Story here.
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Easy to Learn Korean 794 – Small talk with an acquaintance

Posted on March 18, 2013 by easykorean

Free foreigner bus service from Seoul to North Jeolla Province

Posted on March 17, 2013 by easykorean

Period: March 1 – August 25, 2013
Weekly Schedule: 8AM – 5PM every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It’s a 3 hour bus ride.
Route: Departs Donghwa Duty Free Shop in Seoul Gwangwhamun and arrives at Jeonju Hanok Village in North Jeolla Province (Jeolla-buk do).
Maximum People: Each bus holds up to 40 people.
How to apply: Jeonju Chess Tours or call the North Jeolla Province Hotline: +82-63-1330.

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