Learning Journal 13

[Mary Chang]

I have experienced myself and also heard that Koreans, especially the older generations, use idioms and proverbs a lot in their daily lives to refer to certain situations as there are many business jargons in the United States. I have personally felt really dumb when I couldn't understand these proverbs that everyone in Korea seems to know. So my learning goal for this week was to learn proverbs. To do this, I looked at a collection of commonly used proverbs in Korea and my classmates also gave a presentation on proverbs they found interesting. Youngmin taught us about common proverbs that have to do with "words." I also made a presentation on the theme of "knowing yourself" to combine a few proverbs that had the topic of knowing yourself first before judging others.