Bi-weekly post #2

[Jenna Lee]

For the third week of class, we went over the list of proverbs Jimin prepared for us. She told us that Koreans still use proverbs in everyday conversations, and that it was important to know in order to express your thoughts during a conversations. For example, she showed us a few clips of Korean variety shows, in which they quizzed the cast on those proverbs, and how important it was to know those since a lot of people use them everyday. An example of a Korean proverb would be “하늘이 무너져도 솟아날 구멍이 있다”, which directly translates to ‘Even when the sky falls apart, there is a hole to rise up’. This proverb means ‘even when things are bad, it is good to stay positive’. For the fourth week, we went over the list of four word proverbs, which are proverbs that are made up of four chinese characters (Hanza). Each Hanzas have different meanings, so once you put them together, it creates a proverb. For example, 一石二鳥, which mean one stone, two birds, make up the proverb “killing two birds with one stone”.