For my last cultural post, I decided to find an article in Korean and read and understand the story. I went on google and searched up “Korean news articles” and found a website that had many articles in Korean. It is a popular news website for Koreans and there was no English anywhere on the website. Finding an article itself was a very educational task. I had to read through many article titles and understand what they were saying. I wanted to find an article that interested me, something about sports. So, I went to the top main subcategories of news and read each of them out loud. It took a couple of minutes, but I was finally able to find the category for sports in Korean. I knew exactly what it was in Korean but identifying it amongst many other phrases and words in Korean was pretty difficult. After finding the sports news articles, I read through a couple of the headlines to find an article that I was interested in reading about. After just a few minutes of looking through different article headlines, I found one about Maradona that caught my eye. Maradona, a very esteemed and respected Argentinian soccer player died recently. I thought this would be a great read for me and took about 1 hour to read through and understand the whole article. It was hard because there were many terms that I did not know such as heart attack and heaven, but after reading through it all, I learned many new phrases and words in Korean related to sports. The article talks about how Maradona died from a heart attack and how he was considered one of the most successful soccer players in the world and in the history of soccer. Maradona was only 60 years old but had many visits to the hospital in recent years. The article talks about how Maradona was the MVP of the 1986 world cup and other significant awards he has won in the past. It was really interesting to read about Maradona’s death and memorial article in Korean and on the Korean news website. I read an article the other day about this on ESPN and the structure and content are similar. It is cool to me how Korean articles and news channels talk about America and other nations often. While looking for other articles on the website, I saw many articles related to the United States as well as Trump. This was very interesting to see because of how often the Korean news articles are related to American news. This is not true in America, where we don’t have articles on Korea that often. Furthermore, I was very fascinated by how they cited CNN and ESPN in the article. This also supports my previous observation of how the United States in very important in other countries’ news articles. Taking time to read and understand every word in this article definitely helped my ability in writing and reading. I recognized many words, but I also learned many other words. I think the most important thing that this article helped me with is recognizing the bachims and the spellings of commonly misspelled words.
https://www.donga.com/news/Inter/article/all/20201126/104152590/1?ref=main
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Jiwon, it’s pretty cool that you chose to read a Korean news article! Since I’m more comfortable reading in English, an article in Korean can sometimes be very intimidating for me, so I also use the method of reading out loud to focus one a sentence at a time. I checked out the article and learned some new vocab too!