For week 9, my goal was to learn how to say the times in Korean. Times are a little more complicated than in English because of Korean's dual counting systems. Nowhere is this more apparent than in telling the time. One refers to the hour with a native Korean number, such as "dul", but minutes are said using the Sino-Korean numbering system, like "sa". To say "it is 3:15", one would say "seshi shipoboonaeyo". "Boon" is the word for minutes, which follows the Sino-Korean number for minutes. To say "it is 5:04", one would say "daseosshi saboonaeyo" and so on.
I found this resource to be very helpful: http://www.sweetandtastytv.com/blog/2015/4/19/korean-phrases-18-telling-time-in-korean
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