Learning Journal #5

[Ruofan Jiang]

     My initial interest in learning Korean starts from K-pop music and Korean TV series (of course). When I was in middle school, the first time I started to watch a Korean drama because all the girls around me were watching that. I can still remember the name of the drama is City Hunter. Girls call the main male character as “oppa” and that became our favorite chatting topic after school. Then I totally became a K-pop fan. My favorite K-pop band is CNBLUE. It used to be an underground band in Japan and then they successfully transferred to one of the most famous stars in Korea. I listened to its music, watch its show and even went to the live concert. At the same time, I watch other Korean dramas as well. Gradually I found out that these habits really help me to build up a good “ear” because I was able to catch several vocals and understood what they were actually talking about. Thus I decided to learn Korean at school. I hope I could be able to understand the lyric of my favorite songs. I hope I could be able to dive deeper into culture through the language learning .