131C23: March First Independence Movement; Korean Martyrs of Resistance; Mr. Sunshine (2018), Ep. 24
About 100 years ago, none of you would have been able to learn Korean and 한글, even if you had traveled to and lived in…
Tag: K-Music
130. Vowel Harmony 모음조화; Elegant Literary Imperative -어/아다오; 어제 내린 비 Yesterday’s Rain by 윤형주 (1975); Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016), Ep. 11
Do you need to nicely and sincerely ask someone younger than you, for example, your child, to do something in Korean? Try a little literary…
128L1. How to Talk to Yourself in Korean: Verb/Adjective -네; Can This Love Be Translated? (2026), Ep. 1; 새색시 시집가네 by 이연실 (1971)
When you hear a Korean finish a sentence with -네 [sounds like ’neh’], it is often a soliloquy, i.e., he or she is talking to…
122Q85. Arrêtez de translittérer ! Traduisez plutôt ; 사랑할수록 Plus je t'aime (1993) de 부활 ; Bon Appétit, Votre Majesté (2025), Ép. 3
Il est presque toujours plus judicieux d’utiliser des mots coréens originaux, s’ils existent, plutôt que de translittérer des mots étrangers en 한글, en imitant la…
Metaphor - Korean Style; 총 맞은 것처럼 Like I Got Shot (2008) by 방시혁; Trigger (2025)
Conversations between two Koreans can become metaphorical, more often than in the West. Some Koreans just enjoy saying things indirectly, to the extent that they…
85. How Korean Moms Teach Children; 우리 = “My”; 어머니의 마음 Mother’s Heart; 무빙 Moving (2023), Eps. 2 & 20
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…
82. The Importance of Repeated Words in Korean; 가곡 Gagok, or Korean Art Song; 고향 (Hometown) Interpreted by 조수미
Long before BTS and Blackpink, ordinary Koreans sang songs called “가곡 (歌曲),” which can be best translated as either “gagok” or “Korean Art Song” in…
81. The Importance of Rhyme in K-pop; Meter in 시조 Sijo, Korean Classical Poetry; Indirect Quote with -다고; Ditto (2022) by NewJeans
Rhyme is a concept reserved for poetry in European languages, generally speaking. It is not often used in Korean poetry, mainly due to the agglutinative…
77. A Few Idiomatic Expressions; A Cautionary Note on 감히; Love Dive by Ive (2022)
궁금하다 to be curious / to wonder about [ The subject with the subject marker (-이/가) of this Korean adjective corresponds to the object of…
71. World: 세상 vs. 세계; Korean Folk Song 한 오백 년(About Five Hundred Years)”
세상; 세계 world monde mondo mundo mundo Welt świat svět pasaulis світ 세상: the world of people that one experiences during one’s lifetime; human society…
