Adverbs list! Verbs and Adverbs are really important to language. The shortest sentience in the English language is actually the verb go. ”Go!” The subject is you understood and the verb is, of course, go. So things that describe verbs are important too! ”Go now!” Tells you when to go (now). ”Go Later” also tells you when to go (later).
어제 - yesterday
오늘 - today
이미 - already
내일 - tomorrow
지금 - now
A word I’m not sure about is the word 즉시 from SNSD’s song Mr. Taxi. All sites I see have it translated at “quickly” but at Naver it is defined as “immediately, instantly, promptly, at once, right away, right off, on the spot, in an instant” which I suppose could be synonymous but not those are not words/phrases I would immediately connect with quickly.
However with further research I found a site that defines it as “speedy” which is a word I would connect with quickly. (EzCorean.com)
즉시 is used as an adverb in Mr. Taxi it modifies verb the verb “am going”. ”Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi, I am going quickly, quickly, quickly.” ”I” is the subject, “am going” is the verb, and “quickly” describes how fast “am going” is. Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi is extra information but I’m not quite sure how it would be diagrammed at this point.
What is up with this:
[학문]A woman who is aborting a child cares only about herself. (출처:Example Essays)
[이용자 참여 번역문] 아이를 유산시키는 여성은 오직 자기 자신만 생각하는 여성이다. (번역:skyeahlim)
This is uncalled for in a dictionary. Please do not give me that “Korea is more conservative” argument. Korea has a history with gender-selective abortions with some of their officials saying they may have one of the highest illegal abortion rates in the world. (koreatimes.co.kr) They may be more conservative but they do get abortions over there.
This “example” is uncalled for. I was looking up the word 여성 and this is what I was given as an example of how it’s used. (endic.naver.com)
How cool are you when you can bag a domain like “korea.com?” Pretty cool, apparently.
There is totally a Korea.com out there and they have an awesome English version of their site.
Check it out: http://en.korea.com/
My username is koreadistrict (I figured it would work best) and I’m currently browsing around in their food section. (Yummy~)
I’m all kinds of amused and excited right now.
I tend to avoid Kpop artists Japanese works for this blog because this is a Korean language blog so I feel like I get no benefit in Japanese language things, but Super Junior is right in the blog description and they’re going to Japan! So I decided I would do a Kpop in Japan roundup. Enjoy the pictures and information under the cut.
This week includes: SNSD, Kara, Super Junior
I have decided that before I transfer out I will try my hardest to take a Korean proficiency test. I think having a level one proficiency when trying to convince my hopeful transfer choices would look a lot better than “I self study a lot! v^-^;” I am aiming for the TOPIK but the KPLT isn’t completely off the table. As such, I will be adding a new section to this blog devoted to TOPIK study. I’ve been having a hard time finding TOPIK resources so maybe this blog can be useful in that sense.
난 브리트니 니까. (It’s a horrible Iljimae reference that probably isn’t correct hehe!)
What is a 완판녀? I did some searching today and I’m still not completely sure but I get the impression that it is a women that is capable of selling things. And not just like normal sales but making the things they advertise sell out. People want want wanpannyeo’s are selling.
Why did I look this up? Because of this:
“소녀시대 잡지 품절, `완판녀` 등극…1등은 서현 2등은 윤아”
This means something like “Girls Generation’s Magazines Sell Out, `완판녀` crowned 1st place is Seohyun 2nd place is Yoona.”
The nine girls were on the cover for Marie Claire recently. It was a special edition of Marie Claire that had a cover for each of the nine members. So this is basically saying Seohyun’s version sold out first and then came Yoona.
Vocab Time:
잡지 - magazine
품절 - to be sold out / to run out of stock
등극 - crowned / to be crowned
등 - rank / ranking
“SNSD, armed with sexy charisma transform into Yellow Soshi.”
A real article title I took from Naver. I happen to like Yellow Soshi.
Vocab time!
Sonyeoshidae - Era of girls 소녀시대 (often put at Girls’ Generation)
섹시 - sexy (this is an English word put in Korean letters)
카리스마 - charisma (this is an English word put in Korean letters)
무장한 - armed (like to arm oneself with something) 무장 is the verb. (Naver Dictionary)
옐로 - Yellow (this is an English word put in Korean letters)
소시 - soshi
변신 - transformation / change into (Naver Dictionary)
To start off: I love Lee Junki; I love historical dramas. This drama is clearly up my alley and forever relevant to my interests. AKA This means that there might be some kind of bias, however, I am not huge into K-dramas at this moment. That may help with not making my bias so bad.
For my 21st birthday I looked up Korean restaurants and decided I would make my mother join me in trying Korean food. We got to taste galbi and bulgogi (among many other things like kimchi)! I’ve been craving Korean food like crazy the last couple days and decided to look for Bulgogi. I’ll post a review if I try this recipe soon. Right now, I just wanted to share.
Today is a very lazy day around my household. We’re all out with some type of cold (I have a head cold) and it’s so quite here since we’re all recovering. Since I figured today was such a lazy day I’d learn how to say something related to sleep.
저는 자고 있어요 - I’m sleeping.
있어요 - is to have/exist and can be used in more than saying I’m sleeping.
고 있어요 - this makes my statement present tense. I’m sleeping NOW darn it.
저는 - I am (more correct: I and a subject marker placed after it to show that the subject is me in this sentience.)
자 - the verb steam for sleeping (잠을 자다)
저는 졸려요 - I’m sleepy
The verb in this sentence is 졸리다 / 졸려요. (The first gets adorable images of sleeping cats and babies on Google.)
Suicide in Korea is a big deal. As of this typing, Korea has the highest suicide rate in the industrialized world. Korea has second highest in the entire world when including under-developed countries.
This quote should scare you:
Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Koreans in their 20s and 30s, and it is the fourth leading cause of death overall, after cancer, stroke and heart disease.
In 2009 alone there were over 5 celebrity suicides in South Korea. The death of Choi Jinsil alone caused a 70% increase in suicide for that month.
Why does this happen? Korea is a society where “saving face” is very important. Reputation is key, and that make sense considering they have such a strong politeness code built right into their culture and language. Korea developed very quickly and became advanced very quickly and this stress builds up on them. The stress of advancing so quickly, presenting yourself in the best way possible at ALL times (remember saving face is huge), and the overwhelming belief that seeking out help for depression means you’re crazy will all help foster a suicide.
Until these problems are addressed I will unfortunately have to deal with headlines screaming “so-and-so found hanging/over-dosed/at the bottom of a cliff/etc and is now dead”. It gets harder every time, I cried when I saw Kim Yuri. I hope their families get help and that the dead have peace.
read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702781.html
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/09/123_72820.html
I was devastated over this yesterday so to know she didn’t purposely kill herself brings a sense of relief but now I’m more worried about other things. For example why is she only 47kg at 177cm? That is extremely under-weight even on a Korean build. I would not be surprised if she died due to the weight she was at, which is what she was at most likely because of her career. We need to promote healthier body images. :(
At night there is a channel that plays a four hour block they call M.Net (which is actually a legit Korean channel) and there has been a movie on at the same time every night on that channel for the last few days. So the last time I caught it I decided to record it (as I said, it plays at night; I’m trying to sleep) and watch the whole thing.
This movie is titled “D-Day” (디데이) (when I did a google search for this movie I also got the title “Roommates”) and it’s supposed to be a horror movie.
I just can’t. She was 22 years old. These suicides in Korean celebrity-dom just keep getting harder to take.
R.I.P Kim Yuri
I don’t feel well: 몸이 안 좋아.
Mon-i an-joha
Literal translation: body is not good
In Korean things like I and You are frequently understood and therefore left out. :) If you do not want to leave out the “I” in this then say 내가 몸이 안좋아.
The Sea of Japan or 동해 as it’s known in Korea (East Sea) are the same thing. The two names will be used interchangeably in my posts that involve the East Sea. I will probably refer to it as East Sea more often (it’s shorter) but I have no real strong opinion one way or the other.
독도 (dokdo) or Takeshima are both the same group of islets. They are sometimes known as Liancourt Rocks. Dokdo is something I have an opinion on (one I am making sure is completely informed) and I will always refer to them by their Korean name until I have reasonable doubt they should be referred to as something else or their status changes officially. However, as it stands Korea is the administrator of the islets so I will use their Korean name.
Written in Korean by hurlkie@soompi; translated by hotshotlover30@soompi
Photo by Bong Sook Hee of Studio V (studio_v@naver.com)
Shared by hellohazel @ SMTownJjang
This quote disturbs me. This just reinforces sexism; this time being based on age is the form of sexism.
Something I’ve noticed is that there are fansites popping up everywhere in Kpop-dom…for bands that have yet to debut, or even release a teaser of what their music sounds like.
February 12th, a site for APink (a band that dropped their first album yesterday) already had purchased expensive forum software and made their own rules and more. This means they started a site for a band that didn’t even debut until over two months later. This band didn’t even release a music teaser until this month.
How does the owner of this site know that they will even like the band if they don’t even have a teaser to go by? Or even pre-debut videos?
I am willing to go as far at to say that the owner didn’t create this site out of love for these girls; they did it to be first. In Kpop international fandom if you do not own the first forum you do not get as much attention as the one that did. For some odd reason Kpop fans believe that there should only be one site for each artist.
I am not trying to single out just this particular forum; I only use it as an example because I was on their site today. The Brave Girls forum also started before the band even debuted.
I think this trend is ridiculous. Make a site because you enjoy the artist, not to be first. You’re taking away from someone that will actually be their fan that could have created the next big thing. (See Soshified for example.)
Simple lesson! I decided to do review this month over at Talk to Me in Korean (.com) so today was 이에요 / 에요 review.
이에요 / 에요 is used to make statements like “it’s a bag” 가방이에요.
You can also ask “뭐에요?” “What is that?” with these endings. Also with a tone change all these statements can be questions.
학교에요? Is that a school?
Simple lesson, I may review another because of it. :)
I’ve been making lots of posts for a place that isn’t open yet, haven’t I? I can’t contain my excitement it seems. However, this place is still being made perfect.
Everyday I make little code changes and I don’t know how many drafts of my “About Me” page have been made.
This place is almost usable but it isn’t perfect yet. I haven’t even made the blog email yet! Yikes! Done~!
If you click the links you’ll see that they’re still just full of filler and not what I plan to put on them yet. I’m still working with the Facebook like button (why so strange Facebook?) and I’m just working on little kinks.
My posting is the reason my blog isn’t password locked right now.
May 10th is the day after I get out of my classes, but with my excitement I may move this date around. Priority, however, goes to my school work. This is a supplement to my education not something to overtake it.
I also want to host a grand opening contest….we’ll see. Depends on time and money. Money is what I’m lacking right now.
Today, I want to do a history lesson and I figured what better place to start than Hangul: Korea’s alphabet. Hangul also known as “Great Script”, as coined by Ju Sigyeon in 1912, has had an interesting life.
It’s really hard to imangine Korea without Hangul but when it was first introduced by King Sejong there was actually a lot of resistance. The educated among Korea wanted to keep the Chinese writing system. Hangul was so easy that they claimed “even women can learn it”. It was given the name 암클 because it was largely used by women. (암클 means something like women’s script)
Every week there is a new girl band debuting. This week it’s Blady, I believe? A Pink is a band that’s only been teasing the Kpop world for two months; they’re coming out soon too. Last week all the debut buzz was around Rania. So why, in a market that is clearly so saturated, are all these girls debuting?
Since 2007 there has been a huge flood of girls debuting weekly. This is common knowledge in Kpop. 2007 saw Wonder Girls, Kara, and SNSD (in that order) debut. Other girl groups such as Black Pearl debuted in 2007 as well but have largely gone missing in the media frenzy that is Kpop. 2008 saw the debut of Davichi. 2009 is where this starts to get crazy; try to keep up with me: t-ara, 2ne1, F(x), After School, 4minute, Rainbow, Secret, HAM, JQT, and Brand New Day.
Is 10 girl group debuts in a single year enough in order to show that this debut craze is going strong? 2011 already has seen the debut of three different girl groups (Coin Jackson, Rania, and Brave Girls).
Surely this trend is going to end, right? No, no it’s not and here’s why I think so.
I just got home not too long ago from an event called Big Friday. Today at Big Friday was election day and I was up for treasurer, I came out victorious! I am now Arete treasurer! Arete is the name given to my college’s honors students. :) Since I am now treasurer I decided to learn more about money…in Korean!
Video of “Don’t Don” is under the cut. It’s by Super Junior and deals with money and people’s selfishness. It’s an SMP so expect a message in it. Don’t Don is a play on the words “donda” and “don” which mean “to go crazy” and “money” respectively. 돈다 is “to go crazy”, however, the Korean title 돈돈 literally means “money, money”. Don’t Don is full of things that you have to be raised with Korean to truly understand, unfortunately. I remember Korean translators going nuts over how to translate this song because it was full of poetry (for lack a better term) and things that just don’t make sense in a non-Korean context.
Nothing quite as refreshing as early morning Korean. It’s nearly seven am and I’ve already gotten down to work for today; I’m going to be gone for a good chunk of today is the reason why. This morning I continued on my journey to learn all the various Korean sentence markers and I ended up here: 도 and 또한
도 - subject is also
English Example: Liyin is a Korean student. Zhou Mi is also a Korean student.
또한 - subject is both things.
English Example: Liyin is both a Korean student and a singer.
In spoken Korean the 또한 is reduced to 또.
Ok, well I have to go get ready so enough Korean for now.
”그 남자는 바보 OR 그 남자가 바보?”
Somewhere along the way I learned random Korean grammar markers. I’m still not sure 100% on when/why they’re used but knowing them is a start, right?
는/은 - These…are replacements for 이/가? These are topic markers. Less weight is put on the subject with these.
Maybe an example would be like yelling out of annoyance “That man is stupid!” 그 남자가 바보! In comparison to stating “that man is stupid” in a more peaceful way; like, maybe, chatting with your friend over someone that annoyed you recently.
그 남자는 바보. The “그 남자가 바보!” version is stronger than the “그 남자는 바보.” version.
이/가 - These mark subjects. The first one, 이, comes after consonants while 가 is after vowels. These hold more weight on the subject.
를/을 - These mark objects.
New girl group is out and about in Korea and they’re making quite a bit of noise. The entry title is an actual line from their debut song. This girl group, known as Rania, debuted with a Teddy Riley produced song titled “Dr. Feel Good”.
Too sexy for Korea? Check it out under the cut: (may or may not be overly sexual. Depends on your tastes)
Original Post:
I’m korean and im into kpop, kdramas and that, but one thing that really weirds me out are non-asian people liking everything korean because of kpop. Im not being racist or anything but its so strange, i’ve told all my friends at school about it and they agree with me.
Bash me or whatever, non-asian people liking kpop music, dramas and everything korean, its so out of the norm for us (my friends and I). Also, the vast amount of bashing on idol groups/artists from international fans is quite sad, seeing you people judge their comebacks/songs and saying “I’m so dissapointed in them/their album”, be fucking grateful that they are back (doesn’t matter how long their were on hiatus), appreciate their music and stop being such cry babies about it. At least the korean population in South Korea fully support their blood born idols.
*NOTE: Like I said, no racism intended*
I find this very…well offensive but also interesting…in a bad way. This hits very hard at the heart of my blog and also the course of my life. I want to be a Korean major and I would like to be a university teacher to teach Korean classes to others. I’ve been into Korean things since I was 13 - 14 years old, I grew up with Korean pop. This is 7 - 8 years of my life. My feelings are hurt. Korean nationalism is something I’m very familiar with but to have it right in my face like this bothers me. So much in this posting is screaming ignorance, I hope that this poster is young. Is this poster not aware that when she posts about Kpop in English that they too are part of this international fan club? Anyone raised outside of Korea is international even if they are Korean.
