Watching dramas is a really great way to get the hang ofKorean pronouns and their proper usage. Instead of the word “you,” Koreans use a variety of different words based on people’s position in society. The most common are: 한국어 (Korean)RomanizationEnglish Meaning ...
Korean is a phonetic language, meaning that you can sound out individual letters to make words. It has an alphabet with individual sounds for each letter, and the letters are read from left to right and top to bottom. There are individual syllables. Many native English speakers can learn the...
*ㅃㅃ, short for 빠이빠이 (ppaippai) meaning “Goodbye.” This texting word sounds cuter than ㅂㅂ, and is therefore commonly used by young teenagers or ladies. Example: 오빠 내일 봐, ㅃㅃ! (oppa naeil bwa, ppaippai!)“See you tomorrow honey, goodbye!” ㄱ...
I always forget sometimes that Korean unlike English cannot just be looked up, there are stems and what-not D: so I finally got the meaning of that word asliving overseas/living abroadthen looking at the 한자 made me almost scream because it is so hard. I tried to write it down bu...
Girls use this to refer to an “older brother.” But the meaning ofoppahas evolved over time, now including older guys who are just friends. It can also now mean boyfriend.Watch any Korean dramaand you’ll most probably hearoppaused this way. ...
Pretty in Korean In this lesson, we take a look at how to say “pretty” in Korean. The standard way of saying this is with the word: “yeppeoyo“ (in Hangul:예뻐요). To make a sentence, you can combine it with the word jeongmal (정말) meaning “really”: ...
Emi(에미) – referring to the mother in front of an adults with children, i.e. the parents of your children. Boo-in(부인) – literal meaning of ‘Mrs’ and can be used either to address the wife directly or for referring the wife when talking to others. ...
American Culture(1992) — a collection of short, impactful magazine articles — has just blown me away since picking up a copy in Seoul a few weeks ago. I didn’t need to think twice about making her my first official writing role model, and am already calculating average sentence word ...
Alice In Cheongdam-dong: very good :D And ya...I'm watching coffee prince once again with my mom.. 0 2 reply greentinted60smind December 21, 2012 at 6:28 AM UNREGISTERED I've been meaning to start on School & Alice, but KoD has "sucked" me in so much that I always ended...
(just because I love red and that army green together, no deeper meaning). 0 6 Kiara September 5, 2014 at 6:36 AM UNREGISTERED This is rather odd to ask on a K-drama site but is there a football fan out there who is in a Fantasy Football League? YAY! Football Season is ...