With my language partner, I viewed a lot of videos of segments from the popular Korean show SNL (Korean-ized version of US’s SNL). Although this show has a lot of comedy and parodies, it is instructional in several ways. For instance, I watched an episode of confusing words in Korean that combine two different words. This combination of two or more words results in a new word that does not maintain the same definition as the two separate words.
For example, the Korean word for “heaven” is Chun-Gook. Those two words separately mean something completely different. “Chun” means one-thousand while “Gook” means soup. Together, they form “heaven”. This is a very strange combination but that is why some words in Korean are difficult to interpret just by looking at its individual syllables or words.
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