With the New Year passing a few weeks ago, thought I would make this. Note that in Korea, the Year of the Rooster can also be called chicken or hen, the Year of the Goat can also be called ram or sheep, and the Year of the Pig can also be called Boar. Each animal … Read more
I’ve been teaching in Korea for awhile and these would always come up in the classroom. Most students didn’t know the English for many of the symbols (especially exclamation point) and I realized I didn’t know the Korean for them. Knowing these will be useful especially for those teaching in Korea.
I love this time of the year. It usually means about 3 days off from school for me (and Hyo’s rare time off as well). Hyo’s mom also cooks me lots of food to last me a couple of days and usually I go over and help as well for a few hours. Then we … Read more
So when we first started dating, it was a bit of motivation for improving my Korean. One way I did this was basically acting like a kid and asking what signs meant what, what this word meant, etc. I also found it a little too convenient to have someone to immediately translate everything if … Read more
I love bridges, so I enjoyed researching the bridges in Seoul for this graphic. Keep in mind I only did bridges within the actual Seoul city limits. There are several more bridges outside the city along the Han River that I may add to this graphic later. Bridges are listed in order from west to … Read more
Lots of people hear about the Korean DMZ, but don’t know many facts (or which Korea is which). Here are 8 Korean DMZ facts to get you a little better familiarized with this area that is well known among Koreans and expats who live in South Korea.
Lots of vocabulary on opposites. This may be a two or three part series depending on how you guys like it. Korean opposite words are pretty fun although some may seem difficult to remember because of the strange spellings.
You may need to know a little bit of Korean to understand this one. This is based on a common mistake I used to make when tryin out a nickname for Hyo like this comic.
