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Me, in Korean
People often ask me if I have a different personality when I speak Korean. My answer has always been no.
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Tips for improving Korean essay writing
After more than a year of attending advanced Korean classes and regularly writing and reviewing 500-800 character essays with my teacher, I’ve accumulated a few useful tips for improving long-form writing that I thought I’d share here. I’ll preface this by saying few people write well in any language, even among native speakers. I’m a…
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Interview with Jung Yumi (Elle Korea 2018)
I’ve liked a lot of projects that Jung Yumi has been in, but the one I can’t forget is Que Sera Sera, her first TV drama. It’s possibly one of the most horrifying and hard-to-stomach (i.e. amazing) melodramas I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen it 2.5 times myself and the opening song still always gives me goosebumps. That said, I…
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I guess this is a slump
I’ve been feeling very “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” when it comes to studying Korean these days. When I don’t have time to study a language, I feel bad because I truly love it and want to do it regularly. That is not what’s happening now; for the past couple months, I’ve actually…
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Throwback to my K-pop listening days
Confession time. I tend to get defensive when people ask me if I’m learning Korean because of K-pop. That’s because 1) K-pop was never a motivation for me to learn the language; it was a side-effect, and the better I got at Korean, the less I started to like idol music anyway. And 2) the…