Bi-Weekly Post #4

[Hyeon Jun Jo]

We looked at recent Korean news to become more familiar with the Korean culture today. The language in news is a lot more formal than what you would encounter in a normal social conversation. I have noticed in news articles that many words that are used in a social conversation are replaced with more complicated vocabularies with the same meaning. I think this is partly due to its large stress in formality. Also, by examining news articles, I was exposed to a lot more business languages which is something that I wanted to get familiar with. Not only does this improve my vocabulary, but my comfort level and ability to have an intellectual conversation with another person is greatly enhanced. To be able to read new articles allows me to stay on top of current events in Korea with a deeper understanding of the event, expanding my conversation choices with anyone that I speak to. Vocabulary cards and regular reading of the news will help me familiarize specific business languages in the future. In addition, I think reading news from different industries will allow me to have more options with different business terms.