To Korean ears, rhyming often seems like a form of wordplay. Due to syntactical differences between Korean and most European languages, Korean poems rarely use…
Happy International Women’s Day to all my female friends and members who liked my posts and participated in the Monobility® Group. May you always feel…
When you travel to a foreign country and don’t know the language yet, one of the first things to learn online is how to say…
This is my tribute to Korea’s very fine actor 이선균 (1975 – 2023). He left us too early, too sadly, silently pointing out a dark…
“보고 싶었어요” literally means “I wished to see you (again)” [ 보다 to see; (verb stem) +고 싶다 wish to … ; -었다 past tense…
Your teachers or textbooks may tell you simply that Korean possessive adjectives are 나의, 내 (my), 너의, 네 (your), and 우리, 우리의 (our), etc. But…
In many languages, days of the week are named after words of various etymological origins. English days, for example, have both words from Norse and…
Like it or not, time passes relentlessly. And life goes on. But sometimes, on some fine day, you feel suddenly sober and look back at…
In Korea, today is 광복절 (光復節) – Liberation Day, which commemorates Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies on August 15, 1945, which ended not only…
In English, a tag question is formed by stating a positive sentence followed by a negative question, or vice versa: In Korean, however, you don’t…
주님 일어나십시오돌무덤에 갇혀 있던 어둠을 밀어내고어서 빛으로 일어나 우리에게 오십시오 죽음의 깊은 잠을 떨치고 일어나신당신의 기침소리에 온 우주는 춤추기 시작하고우리는 비로소 나태의 깊은 잠에서 깨어납니다…
메리 크리스마스, 여러분! 아기 예수님의 사랑이 모노빌리티® 그룹 멤버님들 모두의 마음에, 그리고 여러분의 가족과 나라에 가득하기를 기원합니다. 포근하고 행복한 성탄절 보내세요! [formal register, professional situations]…