During this session, So Myung and I mostly worked on the final podcast interview. We outlined the topics that we wanted to cover that we studied over the course of the semester into a Google Docs and took time from the meeting to record our podcast. It was quite fun to go over all the topics that we had touched on and I was surprised by how much content we covered. We mostly went over topics chronologically and focused on the subjects that we really enjoyed. Of course my favorite section was the section where we talked about Korean cuisine. That is why I made my final cultural presentation in SDLC 105 about Korean cuisine. It was really interesting to hear So Myung's experience in teaching Korean and what she enjoyed about the process and what topics really piqued her interest. If I remember correctly, her favorite topic was covering the Korean number systems (there are two of which) and the Korean time system. These two ideas go hand in hand since the Korean time system utilizes both Korean number systems. She mentioned that her presentation was on Korean number systems and it was fun for her to revisit her previous presentations for information and she was ecstatic that a student was adamant on learning the complex Korean number systems. I did not shy away from this topic since I knew that numbers was a fundamental topic necessary for fluency in a language. Even if the Korean number systems made little sense at first, it was very fun to learn about its complexities.
Besides the podcast, we also talked about what Korean dramas we have been getting into. I have noticed that this is a popular topic in the Ning Blog posts (some of it is just me giving reviews lol). We mentioned Hospital Playlist and the Reply series as possible suggestions for me to watch in terms of just entertainment and I suggested Kingdom, which I have already done so in my blog as both a horror thriller and also an educational piece on historical Korean politics.
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Hey Victor, great journal entry! I noticed that you guys talked about Korean dramas, and I agree that this is a very popular topic on these Ning Blog posts. I would suggest the Reply series, especially Reply 1988. Kingdom, on Netflix, is also a very good drama that I enjoyed.