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Learn Korean with the KoreanClass101.com family, complete with free online lessons and free daily podcasts! In this Culture Class, we’re taking a look at the Korean family. Korean society places strong emphasis on family, and this can definitely be seen in the month of May. It’s not just Mother’s day, or Father’s day, but there’s also Children’s day, Teacher’s day, and also Buddah’s Birthday! In this Culture Class, we’re going in depth into Korean culture and Korean families. After listening, remember to stop by KoreanClass101.com and leave us a post! Korean Families



This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Korean Culture Class . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

14 Responses to “Korean Culture Class #12 - Family Month”

KoreanClass101.com says:

여러분… 5월은 아주 좋죠? (Everyone… May is great, isn’t it?)

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Shan says:

Thanks for this lesson, great insights to Korean culture! It was a lot of fun too listening to you guys bantering and laughing, I think the dynamics amongst the hosts are great. Makes learning a little less tedious! :grin:

I think it’s a great idea to make children’s day a national holiday. After all, kids ought to enjoy their parents’ company on their special day, right?

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theresa says:

of course may is great cuz it’s my birthday month. haha.

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Bouks says:

Hmmm I’m not sure I would trust my nine-year-old 송주 to mess around in the kitchen cooking me something :shock: But she is a fantastic sketch artist, so she should stick with that :lol:

The Teacher’s Day tradition of pinning carnations on teachers sounds very nice (as long as you don’t stick them with the pin by accident :lol: )

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Bouks says:

oops, I mean 공주, NOT 송 주! 하하하
You can tell I haven’t mastered the Korean keyboard yet, even though I’ve improved somewhat! :roll:

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Jacqueline (쟈클린) says:

i didn’t know that father’s day was also on may in korea!

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Keith says:

Shan, that’s right :) Children definitely feel like it’s “their day” on Children’s day. All the gifts that they get and the special treatment, they feel really good about it all.

Theresa, whens your birthday? Got any plans? ;)

Bouks - you almost spelled my name! 성주… but I’m no 공주… ㅎㅎㅎ :mrgreen:

Jacqueline - it’s really nice to have all the days in one month. 편해요 ^^

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Bouks says:

그럼요…성주씨는 황자예요! :mrgreen:

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theresa says:

keith - my birthday’s over already. it’s actually on 5th may, which is the korean’s children’s day. keke.

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Bouks :-)

If you meant to say “Prince” it’s 왕자, and if you want to say “Emperor” that’s 황제 :-) ㅎㅎ 황자 is maybe the combination of the two ? :-)

Theresa :-)

늦었지만, 생일 축하해 ^^

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Bouks says:

Hyunwoo - heh heh! Well, I tried. I meant 왕자, I picked it up phonetically from watching all those episodes of Jumong :cool: This is my first time to see it spelled out.

Korean spelling is almost as hard as foreign students say English spelling is! (I used to tutor foreign students in college for their TOEFL test.)

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Bouks 하하 :-) yeah, Korean spelling(맞춤법) is not the easiest. At least, it’s easy to read :D

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steved says:

My first week in Korea was 부처님 오신 날. We went to a temple where the monks treated us to a meal of vegetariain 비빔밥 . It was great but a bit overwhelming.

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Today is 부처님 오신 날 (or 석가탄신일) in Korea :-) It’s an exciting day as is, but a lot of people here are also VERY excited about the fact that LAST monday was a holiday because it was Children’s Day and THIS monday is also a holiday because Buddha’s Birthday(18th of April in the lunar calendar) fell on Monday this year :-) A 3-day weekend in a row! :-)

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