Discussion Post #5

[Sreya Aluri]

The Korean entertainment industry has always been fascinating to me. The past few years I’ve mainly been interested in Korean pop culture revolving around idols and fashion. In general, I think that it takes a certain level of mastery of a language to be able to understand songs written in that language, because singers have an artistic license to stray from grammatical rules and they might use subtle metaphor to refer to the theme of the song which can easily get very complicated to understand–especially for someone who is just starting to learn the language. Someday I want to be able to listen to a Korean pop song and fully understand it on my own. For now, I just listen to K-pop songs as a source of entertainment and as a source for learning new vocabulary. To reach the level of aforementioned mastery, I’ll start by working on expanding my vocabulary and by spending time on understanding the fundamentals of Korean grammar.