Bi-Weekly Post #7

[Hyeon Jun Jo]

During the last two weeks of class, we studied a recent forest fire incident in Korea. We watched and read the Korean news and interviews of the victims. We got to read a lot about the incident and learned new idioms and vocabulary that were used in the news. This forest fire was devastating and basically destroyed a whole city in Korea. It was very hard to see elderlies with their home destroyed. We also talked about donations and recovery acts in response to this massive incident. We wrote reflection writings to practice different writing skills and the vocabulary and analyzed variety of news articles about the same incident. One thing that I am still having trouble with is that the Korean news goes by so fast. It is hard to pick up information as fast as it is saying. I can definitely improve by regularly watching Korean news and learning its pattern.