During these days in quarantine, the lessons with Mallory and I’s language partner, Jannette, have been a little different than in the past. We have been meeting on Zoom. Although our weekly little story time lesson from the book Jannette would brin
Read more…Doljanchi (돌잔치) and Birthdays (생일 - saengil)
Let’s talk about birthdays! Birthdays tend to be happy occasions and are celebrated across culture. There is also a certain component of tradition to birthdays. Whether or not you’re someone who enjoys ce
Read more…If I received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Korean, one of the first things I will do is move to Korea and live there for a period of time and travel around in Korea. When I first studied English, I did not learn much when I was i
Read more…In a study of the Portuguese language and cultures, I would want to compare and contrast the different nations that speak Portuguese. Since the Portuguese Empire colonized communities dispersed all over the globe, the language is also spread across t
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Surprising, South Korea has one of the world’s biggest drinking population ratio in the world, with an estimated 1.6 million alcoholics. The Journal of Korean Medical Science reports than every night about 6 million South Korean drink 9.35 million
Read more…The article that I read for a few of my classes on Parasite sparked my interest in the South Korea class discrimination. After some research I found that the wealth gap and the power struggle in South Korea might be more significant that the film hav
Read more…I am also taking a course on Japanese Colonialism this semester that talks about Japanese colonial control over Korea from 1910 to the end of the second world war, and I want to talk about the influence of Japan over Korea in this culture post.
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Read more…This week we looked at another new news event in Korea which shook the international community, the nth room. More than 2million people have petitioned to the Korean government to fully disclose the Nth room (n번방) suspects and put them on a press pho
Read more…Tteokbokki (떡볶이)
One constant component between any culture is food! Everybody no matter where they come from or what culture(s) they are a part of need to eat food. Each culture develops its own traditional plates that become a staple of their cu
Read more…In this week’s korean lesson, we watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the title kang’s restaurant (강식당) season 2. We started off with this article in order to get some context for words we are going to learn and use in normal every
Read more…For this cultural post, I thought I would focus and talk about the “evil eye” which is the nazar boncugu. Nazar is a word that is derived from Arabic. Nazar means sight. The nazar is an eye-shaped amulet or bead which is believed to protect an indivi
Read more…Street foods exists all over the world from China to New York. As a result, it’s not a surprise that street foods play an essential role in Vietnamese culture, especially in the southern area. Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City), more commonly r
Read more…This two weeks of learning we looked at another article that talked about the unfolding corona virus in South Korea. This article described the key incident that greatly exacerbated the pandemic in South Korea, which is the 신건지 신도a cult based in Daeg
Read more…In today’s class we looked at the 2020 new Korean slangs:
얼죽코 (얼어죽어도 코트)
Doesn’t matter when it is, I want cold [Ice Coffee]
This slang is a reference to one slang we learnt last year 얼죽아: 얼어죽어도 아이스 아메리카노, which means doesn’t matter when I want Ice A
Read more…In this week’s learning we watched the first foreign film to win the academy award for Best Pictures, Parasite 기생충. The film is a black comedy social thriller that illustrated greed and class discrimination in South Korea. The Kim family live in a se
Read more…One reasons why I joined this program was to improve my writing skills, so I have delved into writing since the beginning. Typing is quite difficult in Vietnamese because of all the tone markings and diacritics and the combination of the
Read more…In this biweekly reflection I will write about what I did to compensate for no Korean lessons for two weeks due to a cancelled lesson and spring break. In order to keep with tradition, I watched a little bit of 예능, a korean variety show, with the tit
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