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A brief personal background In this posting, I would like to share a brief personal background of myself and teaching philosophy that I have always had in the hopes that this will be helpful for others who are pursuing similar career paths or simply interested in learning the Korean language and culture. I was born … Read more
Another unique musical feature of 국악, 장단 We talked about the most unique musical feature of traditional Korean music called 시김새 (sigimsae) that refers to various types of musical ornamentation or embellishments attached to the baseline note in our previous posting. In the current posting, we will attempt to learn another aesthetic aspect of traditional … Read more
What to expect when listening to traditional Korean music Traditional Korean music is called 국악 (gugak) in South Korea, which literally means ‘national music’. As is well-known, music occupies such essential and fundamental part of our human lives which therefore constitutes different cultures of various ethnic groups and communities. The musical aesthetics of traditional Korean … Read more
What does it mean to be an agglutinative language? When learning Korean, you may have had a question regarding the morphological typology of the language and how the Korean language linguistically differs from other languages you speak or have tried to learn before. Korean is considered to be an agglutinative language in the morphological sense. … Read more
The subtle yet interesting linguistic difference between objective vs. subjective time references One of the basic particles that Korean learners encounter during their Korean study journey is probably the most versatile particle ‘에’. The main semantic functions of this particle are linguistically three-fold as follows: (1) to indicate a static location in which something or … Read more
Evidentiality in language use Evidentiality as a linguistic term roughly relates to the representation of the attribute of the source of information or given evidence for a stated remark. This often has to do with whether or not any piece of evidence can be identified for the given information and if this is the case, … Read more
Physical: 100, 피지컬: 100 Physical: 100 (often called as Physical One Hundred) is a popular Korean survival show that includes intense physical competition on Netflix. The presented goal of the show is to discover the ideal and strongest human ‘physique’ according to many performance tests designed for the show. The first season of the show … Read more
Arirang Medley Performance by BTS Have you watched the opening ceremony of M Countdown, titled ‘Arirang Medley’ by BTS? You may have had a question regarding what Arirang is and what it means culturally in the Korean musical context. Arirang is one of the most famous Korean folk songs. There are numerous variations of the … Read more
The geomungo from Pink Venom music video and in the traditional context of Sijo You may have wondered what the traditional instrument being played in the beginning of the music video of Pink Venom by BLACKPINK was. The instrument is called the geomungo (거문고). The geomungo also appears frequently in many Sijo pieces. Sijo is … Read more
A short recap of the previous posting We started to closely look at various moments from Jessi’s Showterview featuring the interview with Park Misun, a famous female comedian in South Korea, through our previous posting in terms of what Korean speakers do with age. It is well-known that the social hierarchy needs to be established … Read more