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We have a new feature again. Now it's easier to keep track of the recent updates in the forum and the blog! If you look at the right-hand side of the lessons page, you can see the lists of 5 recent posts in the forum and in the blog! 또 하나의 새로운 기능이 생겼어요! 이제 포럼과 블로그에 올라온 최신 글들을 더 쉽게 파악할 수 있어요! 레슨 페이지의 오른쪽을 보시면, 포럼과 블로그에 가장 최근에 올라온 글 5개의 목록을 볼 수 있습니다.

We've posted a thread in the forum asking for participation in the making of the 5th Korean Word Relay video, and Austin, James, and rooraa helped out with the word relay ideas! 참여해 주셔서 고맙습니다 ^^! Thank you for your participation!! And here's the outcome of your 참여! We will be posting new threads for future videos too, so be sure to join in! Thank you!

We went to Pier 39 last weekend, mainly to see the Aquarium of the Bay but also to see San Francisco. As a teenager I spent a lot of time in San Francisco either just hanging out or working. It is fun to visit every once in a while, and our visitor (I'll call him 'Michael' from now on) wanted to see the city. When he first came to the states he flew into San Francisco but he really doesn't remeber seeing any of the city or the bay. Pier 39 was fun. They have some interesting shops and a whole lot of touristy stuff. The aquarium was a bit of a disappointment in that I was expecting more, something on par with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We were expecting to spend much more time there than we actually did. So we spent more time wandering... Show more

Last week I wrote about one particular day.  Here is what happened after dinner. As it turned out there really was no one working in the elementary boys side that night. After dinner is usually shower time, and even with an 엄마 it can be hectic (it depends on which 엄마 is there)! The kids don't really wash every day. Often they do little more than splash some water around their waists.  Shower time is not managed well.  Granted, it is a big undertaking. Some parents struggle with just a few of their own kids, but 20+ kids is a whole different battle.  And only the oldest kids really do it themselves. 1st-3rd and sometimes 4th graders are washed by an adult. It struck me as odd when I first saw it happen, but it is indicative of an... Show more

This is a very common question that I get from my non-Korean friends. "What's 곰탕? Is there really 곰 in there?" And as you know, 곰 means "bear", the animal. :-) So imagine - a bear soup ... hehe. But in fact it has nothing to do with bears(곰) although it's 곰 + 탕(soup). If you look at the sign in the picture above, it says 닭곰탕 too. So it must have something to do with 닭(chicken) and 곰(bear) together in a soup? :-) The truth is, 곰 is actually a noun coming from the verb "고다". And 고다 means to boil something to a pulp or let the flavor come out of something by boiling in water (usually with various spices added) for many hours. So, 곰 is not the animal 'bear' but a nominalization of 고다, therefore the act of 고다. So 곰탕 is a soup... Show more