Dear Korean, I moved to America at the age of 9, and have retained most of my Korean fluency (although its only about Elementary school level). However, I lost most of the history that I learned duri...
Dear Korean,Lately, the guys at my school have started calling my Korean friends and I "gooks". At first we just thought it was an immature thing that they had made up, but it turns out that ...
Dear Korean,Why do Koreans throw up the peace sign whenever they take a picture? SparkleYou mean, like this? (source)And like this?(source)And like this?(source)Oops, maybe not like the last one.At a...
Dear Korean, Please comes to know this stranger from the East Coast, U.S. henceforth as the Blankard. The Blankard is a recently certified ESL teacher. The Blankard comes from a family that grea...
The Korean will be on vacation for about two weeks, dear readers. Please be understanding if there is no new post, or your question is answered even more slowly than usual.Got a question or a comment...
Dear Korean,I am an American woman but have been living in Korea for almost five years now. There has been something irking me lately. Even though Im fluent enough to have general conversations in Ko...
Dear Korean, Do wealthy Koreans carry something in their wallets other than won notes? In many K-dramas Ive watched, someone--usually a rich someone--will offer payment that looks like a sort of chec...
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, which began on April 29, 1992. The riots themselves preceded the Koreans time in America, as he was an 11 year old living in Seoul. But having ...
[Part I]Now, for the second part of Erics question:Also, it seems that the Saenuri Party is making a greater effort than other parties to appeal to immigrants to Korea. From a western perspective, th...
The Womens Global Solidarity Action Network (WGSAN) will be hosting a free documentary film screening of "My Heart is Not Broken Yet", a powerful testimony of Song Shin-do Halmonis continued ...
Dear Korean, I was wondering what the Korean thinks about the election of the first naturalized Korean citizen to the National Assembly as part of the Saenuri Partys proportional list. The views...
Dear Korean,We are adopting a sweet little boy from the Seoul area. My husband is Lebanese/American and I am European/American. We were planning on keeping the name his birthmother had given him whic...
The Korean is a faithful reader of Prof. Tyler Cowens blog Marginal Revolution. Like Prof. Cowen, the Korean is also a resident of Northern Virginia, and he cares about food deeply. So the Korean is ...
Dear Korean,I always wondered what Korean people think about Turkey and Turkish people. I was in high school during 2002 World Cup. I was shocked when i see the large Turkish flag on the stadium carr...
Dear Korean, The issue over so called "Korean collaborators" is quite the hotbed issue amongst the general Korean populace. Many so-called collaborators are dismissed by Korean nationalist hi...
Here is a public service announcement, because the Korean constantly receives this type of question:From this blog, you will not get an answer for a question like this one: "I want to learn...
More indications that North Korean regime is falling apart at the seams: since last year, there have been a series of murders targeting the North Korean equivalent of police chiefs. According t...
First Cho Seung-Hui, now this? Yesterday, Korean American Goh Won-Il shot up his former school at Oikos University in Oakland, California, killing seven and injuring three. Goh was captured alive aft...
Dear Korean, With all the monetary wedding gifts, who does that belong to? Does it go to the couple? Or does it go to the parents? Traditionally in the US, the money is suppose [sic] to go to the cou...
[Series Index]19. Kim Wan-Seon [김완선]Also romanized as: Kim Wan SunYears of Activity: 1986-present? (Last regular album in 2005, a single released in 2011)Discography:Korea: Regu...
[Series Index] 20. Crying Nut [크라잉넛]Years of Activity: 1998-presentMembers:Park Yoon-Sik [박윤식] - Vocal, GuitarLee Sang-Myeon [이상면] - GuitarHan Gyeong-Rok [한경록] - Bass, GuitarLee Sang-Hyeok [이상혁...
This is exciting. President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College, to lead the World Bank. To be sure, Dr. Kim is not the only nominee for the post. Angola...
The Korean usually steers clear from discussing too much Korean politics in this blog, because Korean politics requires too much advanced knowledge to fully understand. But this particular issue does...
Big, huge thanks to dozens of people who volunteered to teach English to North Korean defectors. Thank you all so much. The Korean passed your contact information to the person who would be coordinat...
Thanks to the raised awareness of the North Korean defectors issue, several ESL teachers in Korea emailed the Korean to ask for the ways that they can help.The Korean asked around, and discovered som...
Dear Korean,I recently learned of the word "마음". 마음 is a very interesting and beautiful word; its often heard in K-pop songs. Are there other interesting words like it? My wife thinks 달콤 is a...
[Series Index]21. Lee Seon-Hee [이선희]Years of Activity: 1985-presentDiscography:Oh the Good Old Days [아! 옛날이여] (1985)Lee Seon-Hee vol. 2 [이선희 vol. 2] (1985)The Lost Promise [잃어버린 약속] (1986)This Place ...
Terrible news. Mr. Joo Seong-Ha, through Dong-A Ilbo, reports that China, in a clear violation of international law, sent back all 31 North Korean defectors to North Korea. According to sources,...
Dear Korean,As a basketball fan, I am sure you are aware of the Jeremy Lin story that made NBA and the New York Knicks, in particular, relevant again. And perhaps you are also aware of the controvers...
[Series Index]So far in this series, the Korean discussed what may be called the "macro" level of understanding Koreas suicide problem. This part of the series will be a kind of an interlude,...
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