Your boss can give the orders, is always talking about productivity and efficiency. Sales, sales, sales! But what does he/she actually do behind closed doors? In this lesson we’re going to take a look into a Korean company, two of the biggest Korean companies to be exact, and take a look at the office of two CEO’s. Do Koreans workers really work that hard? As the two Korean bosses will be doing things simultaneously and performing multiple actions at once, we’ll be using the Korean grammatical structure 면서 (myeonseo) to express what multiple actions at once in Korean. We have some essential Korean vocabulary, to cover as we learn Korean with KoreanClass101.com! And after listening to the lesson, remember to stop by and leave us a post! 
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20 Responses to “Beginner S2 #15 - Good for Nothing Boss (Part 1) - Are they really working?”
KoreanClass101.com says:
July 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
여러분… 한국어 공부하면서 뭐 하세요?
(Everyone… What do you do while you study Korean?)
maxiewawa says:
July 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NP-jzW8m-Zs
See for yourself!
Jacqueline (쟈클린) says:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Maxiewawa ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋthat was funny 
Bouks, 저도 한국어 공부하면서 커피를 마셔요. 
Jacqueline (쟈클린) says:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
To answer the other question above: Do Koreans workers really work that hard?
Korea is #1 on the 2008 Forbes magazine list of The World’s Hardest-Working Countries.
Here’s the 2008 Forbes magazine article “The World’s Hardest-Working Countries”:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/21/labor-market-workforce-lead-citizen-cx_po_0521countries.html
Shan says:
July 8th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Nothing. I’m concentrating hard
While I’m listening to the audio, I read the PDF and the comments, and go through the forum posts and blog entries. 
선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:
July 8th, 2008 at 7:08 am
아니카
맞아요. 일하며 공부하기는 쉬운 일은 아니죠. 그런데 술 마시며 공부하는 것도 쉽지만은 않을 것 같아요 ㅎㅎㅎ
Jacqueline 
Hahaha !
Yeah - I personally hope that Korea won’t make it into the list again but… hehe. I guess it’s not gonna change any time too soon.
Shan
집중하는 모습! 아주 바람직해요 ^^! ㅎ
Shan says:
July 8th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Hyunwoo - I had to look up the dictionary to understand your sentence! Did you say that I only appeared to be concentrating, and that it was very desirable? I hope my dictionary is reliable!
I also learned something very important in this lesson - the correct proununciations of Samsung and Hyundai!! Yes, would you believe it, I (and most Singaporeans I believe) have been prounouncing it wrongly our whole lives We usually say them as “삼송” and “휸다이”!!!
선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:
July 8th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Shan
번역을 아주 잘 하셨어요 ^^
You did a very good job with the translation!!
Haha, yeah it’s interesting how wrong romanized Korean words can be pronounced ^^!! ㅋㅋ I’ve met plently of people pronouncing Samsung correctly, but no one who pronounces Hyundai correctly.
아니카
아라요 –> 알아요
아프는 –> 아픈아픈 머리 싫어요 –> 머리 아픈 거 싫어요 ^^
Chriss says:
August 17th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I usually play soltaire(s) on my computer. How do I say that in Korean?
선현우 says:
August 17th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Chriss
In the Korean Windows, it’s just called “카드놀이”, so you can say “보통 컴퓨터로 카드놀이 게임 해요.”
보통 = usually
Chriss says:
August 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
감사합니다.
그럼 저는 보통 koreanclass101.com로 한국어 공부면서 카드 컴퓨터로 카드놀이 게임 해요.
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Category: Beginner Season 2 |
Grammar: 면서 | Function: doing two things at once, performing two actions simultaneously | Topic: beer, DVD, snacks, companies | Politeness Level: standard
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