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…
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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…
68. Conjunctions after a Clause Ending in -다; 기억의 습작 (Etude of Memory) by 김동률
Conjunctions are one of the most sensitive elements that determine the meaning of a sentence as a whole. There are two main differences between English…
65. 무지개 Rainbow; Major Color Words; Korean Tolerance; 무지개빛 하모니 Rainbow Harmony by 윤학준
In Korea, a rainbow is simply an optical phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of…
64. Past Tense Relative Clauses -ㄴ/은, -던, -았던/-었던, -았었던/-었었던; 사랑이 지나가면 (When Love Passes By) by 이영훈
So far, I didn’t know how well our members speak Korean. In fact, I was curious about that all along. Now I know that many…
63. A Statue of a Pilgrim at Burgos Cathedral; 시인의 마을 (The Poet’s Village) by 정태춘
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