This week for my cultural learning Youngmin and I have been going over the Korean royal palace Gyeong Bok Gung(경복궁). This was prompted by a gift from Youngmin that she brought from Korea of a build-it-yourself cardboard model of the palace and grounds, but I was especially excited to learn more about the place
because I had actually visited there on my last trip to Korea. We decided that it would be a good learning exercise to build the model together and then use it as part of my final presentation, with her giving me the instructions and part numbers in Korean, and me following her instructions. It was really helpful to get some practice using the positional vocabulary we had learned and using numbers in a real life situation.
After we finished each building or section she would tell me the name in Korean and then we would read about the history of what we'd just built. We built models of and learned about structures like 광화문, the great southern gate of the palace which was built in 1395, which I was planning on including a picture of us in front of but Isla vetoed the picture because she didn't think she looked good (which obviously isn't true), but here is a picture of us in front of the museum entrance with Isla attempting to hide from the camera.
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