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More 프리사이클

I’m getting quite a workout this weekend with all the 프리사이클 attention. A Korean in Mexico has written to me wanting to know how to start a Freecycle network in Mexico. I have a gentleman who works in 광화문 who thinks this is a great idea and wants to help. I decided to read the comments on the 중앙일보 article and discovered that perhaps not everyone thinks this is a great idea. One person wrote:

공짜라면 똥물도 좋습네다.

After looking up the one vocabulary word with which I was unfamiliar, I wondered about the difference between 좋습네다 and 좋습니다. Can anyone give me an answer?

All of this is in Korean, and with much effort and a few tips from 인선, so are my replies.

Posted by kangmi on October 31, 2004 at 3:27 PM5 comments

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Philip 01 Nov, 2004 04:45 AM	Just a guess, but maybe 좋습네다 is a bit of 채팅말~ It fits the sarcastic nature of the comment...
강미 01 Nov, 2004 10:05 AM MSN: kangmi	Thanks, Philip.
Joe 01 Nov, 2004 12:45 PM	~네다 is kind of N. Korean sentence ending style.(~니다 in South.)N. Koreans seem to use those ending forms a lot. Some S. Koreans say like that just for fun or humor, but not often.
강미 01 Nov, 2004 01:18 PM MSN: kangmi	Thanks, Joe. Sounds like usage I should avoid until I know better.
oranckay 14 Nov, 2004 08:03 AM	Yeah, as Joe NK sentence ending but it's not standard there, just a frequently occuring dialectal variation for some regions up North. They certainly don't spell it that way, so when you do hear a Northerner say it, s/he'd still write it ...ㅂ니다.