반짝반짝 한국어
When I think of my evolving relationship with Korean pop culture, I think I will remember 2019 fondly as the year I committed myself to Korean webtoons. Webtoons are online-first original comics optimized for mobile consumption. (There's an interesting article that came out earlier this year contrasting webtoons to Japan's print-first manga culture.) A number [...]
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 [...]
Gong Yoo is one of those actors who consistently takes me by surprise and I'm not really sure why. He's good and he picks pretty solid projects. I've seen (ahem!) five of his dramas and three of his films over the years and every single time I've found something beautiful and moving in his performance. I'll [...]
So 이번 생은 처음이라 / Because This Is My First Life wraps up this week. This interview came out in October, right before the show started airing so it's kinda old news at this point, but I needed something to occupy me between episodes and it's been ages since I've translated celebrity news anyway, so here [...]
