- Easy to Learn Korean 881 – Mother’s Deep Love, Father’s Deep Love
- Easy to Learn Korean 880 – Adverbs: More, Also, and Again
- Easy to Learn Korean 879 – Heat Wave
- Easy to Learn Korean 878 – Major Trends
- Easy to Learn Korean 877 – Well-being Foods
- Easy to Learn Korean 876 – Body Language (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 875 – Body Language (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 874 – Married Men and Married Women
- Easy to Learn Korean 873 – Matching Outfits
- Easy to Learn Korean 872 – A Makeup Free Face
- Easy to Learn Korean 871 – Fire Friday (TGIF)
- Easy to Learn Korean 870 – Uniforms
- Easy to Learn Korean 869 – Color Coordinated Person
- Easy to Learn Korean 868 – Munjeong-dong’s Rodeo Street
- Easy to Learn Korean 867 – Come and Go
- Easy to Learn Korean 866 – Cheers and Encouragement
- Easy to Learn Korean 865 – Healthy Living
- Easy to Learn Korean 864 – Clearance Items and Store Sales (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 863 – Clearance Items and Store Sales (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 862 – Love
- Easy to Learn Korean 861 – Taking It Easy
- Easy to Learn Korean 860 – Lost Artifacts (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 859 – Antonyms – Adjectives (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 858 – Being a Good Person
- Easy to Learn Korean 857 – Counterfeit Goods and Materials
- Easy to Learn Korean 856 – Antonyms – Adjectives
- Easy to Learn Korean 854 – Comparing Things: Less than/More than
- Easy to Learn Korean 853 – Film Director Park Chan-Wook
- Easy to Learn Korean 852 – Gwanghwamun (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 851 – Gwanghwamun (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 850 – Straw Handicraft
- Easy to Learn Korean 849 – Home Remedies (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 848 – Home Remedies (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 847 – Hong Gil-Dong – Korea’s Robin Hood
- Easy to Learn Korean 846 – Pronoun Basics
- Easy to Learn Korean 845 – Traditional wrapping cloth
- Easy to Learn Korean 844 – Museum of Korean Embroidery (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 843 – Museum of Korean Embroidery (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 842 – Errand Service Center
- Easy to Learn Korean 841 – Buckwheat Noodles
- Easy to Learn Korean 840 – Describing someone with amazing skills
- Easy to Learn Korean 839 – Princess Syndrome
- Easy to Learn Korean 838 – Colloquial Expressions – First and Second Party (Gap/Eul)
- Easy to Learn Korean 837 – Older Woman Younger Man Relationship
- Easy to Learn Korean 836 – Death (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 835 – Death (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 834 – Politeness Levels
- Easy to Learn Korean 833 – Humiliation
- Easy to Learn Korean 832 – Different uses of the word ‘iron’
- Easy to Learn Korean 831 – Planning to go to a singing room
- Easy to Learn Korean 830 – Water theme park (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 827 – Making plans to see a movie (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 826 – Comparing People to Animals (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 825 – Comparing People to Animals
- Easy to Learn Korean 824 – Giving a Presentation (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 823 – Giving a Presentation
- Easy to Learn Korean 822 – Sake bar (Japanese-style Izakaya)
- Easy to Learn Korean 821 – Subway Etiquette
- Easy to Learn Korean 820 – Public Bath Etiquette
- Easy to Learn Korean 819 – Good Fortune and Bad Luck
- Easy to Learn Korean 818 – Inviting people to your home
- Easy to Learn Korean 817 – Car Accident
- Easy to Learn Korean 816 – Hair Salon (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 815 – Hair Salon
- Easy to Learn Korean 814 – North Korean rhetoric
- Easy to Learn Korean 813 – Small Cuts and First Aid
- Easy to Learn Korean 812 – Bumps, Bruises, and other Injuries (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 811 – Bumps, Bruises, and other Injuries
- Easy to Learn Korean 810 – Business Conversations (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 288-289 – Yeouido in Seoul
This weekend kicked off the annual cherry blossom/spring festival at Seoul’s Yeouido (Yeoui Island). There are over 1400 cherry blossom trees there.When: Friday April 12 thru Thursday April 18
Where: Yeouido, Seoul
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- Easy to Learn Korean 348-349 – Combat and the Gaeseong Industrial Complex
North Korea suspended operations of the joint venture Gaeseong Industrial Complex this week. The site makes low-tech goods such as appliances in additional to clothing. According to the Korea Times, 123 manufacturing companies employee 479 South Koreans and 53,000 North Korean factory workers.
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- Easy to Learn Korean 808 – Getting a Medical Examination (Part Two)
- Easy to Learn Korean 807- Getting a Medical Examination
- Easy to Learn Korean 806 – Computer Virus
- Easy to Learn Korean 805 – Drinking Tea
- Easy to Learn Korean 803 – Pizza (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 802 – Hard work and stress
- Easy to Learn Korean 800 – Where is…?
- Easy to Learn Korean 799 – Instant Noodles (Part One)
- Easy to Learn Korean 798 – School Districts
- Easy to Learn Korean 797-Splitting the Bill
- Easy to Learn Korean 326-328 – Crime
On Wednesday afternoon, organized cyber attacks took out several Korean banks and broadcasters for 2 hours. The attacks were incorrectly pinpointed to an IP address in China and regulators will not make further announcements until a definitive source is found.
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- Easy to Learn Korean 224, 682 – Gwiyomi lyrics, 1+1 Gwiyomi Player, and Acting Cute.
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 710 – Korean search engines and websites
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.
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 751-752 – Figure Skating.
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.
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 543-544 – Bullying and cyberbullying
President Park Geun-Hye plans to re-prioritize school bullying on her agenda in response to recent suicides in Korean schools. Students spend long school days together within a competitive education system and bullying frequently surfaces as a result.
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- Easy to Learn Korean 17, 463-465 – Fashion and clothing
‘Inappropriate clothing’ legislation passed in Korea and goes into effect in 2 weeks. A 50,000Won ($50USD) fine will be imposed on women who wear clothing that provokes others to feel ‘uncomfortable’. Full story.
Fashion and Clothing
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 790 – Popular Catch-phrases
- Easy to Learn Korean 664 – Time zones – Korea Standard Time (KST) and Daylight Savings Time (DST)
This weekend marked the beginning of Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the US and clocks were moved ahead one hour. We remember this by the phrase, “fall back spring ahead”. DST runs from March until November each year.Large countries, like the US, may have as many as three time zones. China, on the other hand, uses a single time zone for their entire country (UTC+8). North and South Korea use a single time zone called Korea Standard Time (KST). Neither country utilizes Daylight Savings Time although South Korea had considered using it several years ago and eventually abandoned the idea. Korea is UTC + 9 hours.
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한국 표준시 (hanguk pyojunsi) – Korea Standard Time (KST)
일광 절약 시간제 (ilgwang-jeolyak sigan-je) – Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Note: DST is commonly called 썸머타임 – which is literally ‘summertime’ (sseommeo-taim)Easy to Learn Korean 664 – Time Zones
Here are some interesting thoughts on why some people believe DST is useless.
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 562 – Smartphones and Kakao Talk
Korea’s KakaoTalk is a free multi-platform instant messaging app with over 70 million users (mostly in Korea). It’s available for free on Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry phones. The app developers admitted to have been inspired by WhatsApp of the US but they’ve gone on to expand the design. It features a phone number based ID system where your contact list is automatically compared to existing Kakao users and matches are determined to be ‘friends’. KakaoTalk’s explosive growth and success derives from Korea’s quick adaptation to smartphones. Even the word ‘Kakao’ has become synonymous with chatting in Korean.-
카카오톡 (kakao-tok) – KakaoTalk
If you’re living in Korea or have Korean friends abroad, you’ll find KakaoTalk to be indispensable. While it doesn’t necessarily do anything better than other instant messaging apps, you’re guaranteed to find other Koreans using it. I frequently travel and communicate with international friends and KakaoTalk sadly has no use for me. Instead, I spend most of my time using Apple’s iMessage, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger, and Skype. KakaoTalk does support mVOIP for making calls to other Kakao users, but the quality is very poor (especially when calling internationally). I also dislike the app feature that automatically makes every contact a potential app ‘friend’.
KakaoTalk has been in the news recently for several privacy issues as they had stored personal messages on their servers for up to 10 days. Currently, messages are stored for 5-7 days and they’re looking to reduce this in the future. Full story here. On March 6, they posted a notice to the app that there were further security issues and the Emoticons, Themes, and Plus Friend features had to de-activated until users installed a new version of the app.
NHN’s Line is another popular Korean messaging app with over 100 million users globally.
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네이버 (neibeo) – Naver, also a Korean language search engine and portal site
네이버라인 (neibeo-ra-in) – Naver Line
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 789 – Seoul City Hill
- Easy to Learn Korean 788 – Talking on the Phone
- Easy to Learn Korean 5,6,731-734 – Numbers and Counting
Numbers come in two forms: Korean and Sino-Korean numbers. Koreans use many special Counting words with them.
Here’s the complete Numbers and Counting sets!
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 787 – The NIS (Part Two)
North Korean defectors must keep their identities and personal information confidential. If this information is leaked, family members who are living in the North face severe punishment or torture. Sadly, a defector who was working for the South Korean government on a 2-year assignment, was arrested by the NIS for leaking the identities of defectors to the North. Reports state that data on as many as 10,000 North Korean defectors might have been revealed.
Full story at the Chosun Ilbo.
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 786 – National Intelligence Service NIS (part one)
President Park Geun-Hye began choosing her Cabinet members on Saturday. Among them, a former Army chief of staff was named Director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS). The NIS is Korea’ central intelligence agency, like the US CIA. Full story at the Korea Times.
Continue reading → - Easy to Learn Korean 205-206 – North Korea
Missiles or crayons?
In today’s news, the Korea Herald reports that up to 70% of North Korean missiles are pointed at South Korea. Click here for the 1000 Missile Story.
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Father – 아버지 (abeoji)
Kim Jong-Il – 김정일 (gim jeong-il)Son – 아들 (adeul)
Kim Jong-Eun 김정은 (gim jeong-eun)
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