For this week’s biweekly journal entry, I will talk about how these two weeks have been and how my Korean learning is progressing. To start off, I would like to mention that I have been keeping up with the usual activities I do as a remote student. I continued to talk and converse with my parents and family in Korean. I found that this method of communication was effective, but also helped me better my ability of pronunciation and comprehension of the Korean language. However, I found that it has been difficult for me to fully portray what I want to say with the limited vocabulary that I know. As a result, last week I set a challenge for myself to learn at least one new word from my parents over the course of these two weeks. I would like to say that this has been fairly successful and though I missed a couple of days, I have learned a lot of new vocabulary. In particular, I have learned vocabulary pertaining to activities and everyday tasks. I plan to incorporate these words into my vocabulary and use them in the future.
In addition, I challenged myself last week that I would also watch more Korean news and entertainment programs. I have been fairly successful with this challenge also, but I could not watch as much as I would have liked. As classes progress and the workload is starting to build, I find that I have less time to invest time into watching the news/ entertainment program as I would like. However, I have been able to watch on the weekends some of the entertainment programs that I regularly watch and continue to practice my comprehension skills there. Looking forward, I would like to continue this challenge and continue to watch Korean programs and news without subtitles, because I know that this is an effective way to drastically improve my Korean.
Over the course of these two weeks, I also talked to Vivian over zoom. Though my meetings are limited due to me being a remote student, I find that our meetings are always helpful and informative. During our meetings, I had the opportunity to practice my reading. Vivian provided me with an article regarding a relevant issue that has emerged in South Korea. This issue was regarding Korean youtubers accepting sponsored money, but playing it off as though they are not sponsored or receiving money. This issue was huge, especially with a famous Korean mukbang youtuber, TzuYang. This girl has been known for her eating videos and for her kind hearted image she displays on her channel, however information had surfaced that she had been receiving sponsorships and product placement items on her videos without informing her viewers. Though this seems like not a big deal, to me at lease, this became a huge issue and she began to get “cancelled.” I feel as though she did make a mistake by not being honest with her intentions, however at such a young age I feel as though she should not be getting the amount of hate she is getting.
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