Week 10: Third Cultural Post
I wanted to talk more about my cultural project for this post. The topic of the idea and standard of beauty in South Korea is really appealing to me. While doing research, I found so many new information that I was never aware of before and I did not realize that it was such a big issue present in this world right now. Plastic surgery has swept the nation of South Korea and has become so common that even children as young as twelve years old are getting it. What's more interesting is that the parents of these children recommend that in order for their children to be beautiful, they must go under the knife. In particular, the most popular type of surgery is the "ssangkkopul" or better known as the double eyelid surgery. Their society believes that people with small eyes that have monolids are seen as "ugly". Beauty seems to play a huge role in people's everyday life. I read that people get eyelid or nose surgery performed before going to an interview or before going on a date in hopes of enhancing their chances of landing a job or getting a husband. I find these to be extremely ridiculous. Children are told by their parents and family that they are ugly everyday just because they do not have a double eyelid. I will continue this topic on the next cultural post.
Week 11: Fifth Bi-weekly Post
For weeks 10 and 11, my task was to learn the grammar for the marker '-보다' : more than and 제일/가장 : the most. I read over the explanations provided by the lesson for this particular grammar and my language partner explained it further. Comparing and saying something is more expensive or cheaper than an another object required more vocabulary and sentence structuring. A lot of the combination of previous lessons were required to complete this task. I think I understood the main part of the lesson and tried my best to accomplish this task. I made a few sentences comparing items which seemed to help practice this grammar lesson. These grammar lessons have been useful in understanding how to create sentences but sometimes it is still a bit difficult to master everything and all the tasks I've created for myself. Overall, these past two weeks were okay and lessons weren't too bad but still were challenging.
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