kangmi: learning korean

In the news

Oranckay alerts us to the new Korean word for North Korean defectors.

And according to an article in the Chosun, Korean is a more popular foreign language choice in Japanese high schools than French and German.

Posted by kangmi on January 9, 2005 at 1:08 PM0 comments

Better late than never

My new year’s resolution? To learn at least a little more Korean every day, and to push myself beyond that small amount whenever I can.

Posted by kangmi on January 7, 2005 at 11:06 AM0 comments

Really, it’s not our fault

GI Korea alerts us to a Chosun article with a novel perspective on the state of English-Korean dictionaries.

Posted by kangmi on January 6, 2005 at 7:39 AM0 comments

오늘의 신문 기사

Today’s newspaper article is from the 북스 section (yes, you read that correctly). I picked a short sentence to translate:

살라흐 앗 딘은 쿠르드 족 출신이다.

살라흐 앗 딘은: Salah ad-Din (1137-1193), aka Saladin or Saladdin, the Muslim warrior who fought against the Crusaders (per Joshua Snyder)

쿠르드: the Kurds

족: a race; a tribe

출신: origin; birth; stock

The first half of the sentence requires further research on my part (and reader input is always welcome). Based on the context, I suspect that 살라흐 is either a hangulization or a loan word.

Posted by kangmi on January 5, 2005 at 8:00 PM2 comments

목욕탕에 가다

First up on the list is a visit to a 목욕탕. I easily avoided going when I lived there, but after visiting Iceland a couple of years ago, I lost those inhibitions (it was that, or miss doing a couple of things I really wanted to do). I don’t know which one of my friends will take me, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find someone.

Posted by kangmi on January 4, 2005 at 2:01 AM2 comments

On my next visit to Korea…

I’m inaugurating a new category: On my next visit to Korea…

Because there will be one. There are places to which I want to return, things that I want to do, people I want to see.

And I keep forgetting to write them down.

Posted by kangmi on January 3, 2005 at 2:01 AM2 comments