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These days, Korean students are in the middle of 겨울방학 (winter vacation) so things are pretty quiet around the orphanage.  Kids go home (remember that some of them still have parents) and a few are away on some sort of school trip.  I also haven't been around there as often as I usually am since my own schedule is a bit different right now. It must be pretty boring for them.  Since they aren't in school, they stay home all day.  It's too cold/dangerous to play outside, so they are stuck watching TV, or maybe going to the computer lab.  For many of them, that is their day! I'm sorry there isn't much else to report.  I hope to get a new video made with some of them this week, and have it up for the next post.  I could get them to make a... Show more

Earlier this week we announced the launch of the Hanja Vocabulary feature in our PDF's. Today, we are glad to announce the much anticipated release of a new premium features which is sure to take your speaking skills to new heights. Pronunciation Practice To address speaking practice, we have integrated a state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills. This feature is available to all active Premium subscribers in the Line-By-Line Audio Transcript page for each lesson in the Learning Center (see screen shot below): We hope you enjoy this new premium features and as always please let us know what you think. Team... Show more

Hi everyone! What kind of thoughts does the word "January" bring to your mind? These are the first things that come to my mind. Please share with me what January means to you !

I've spent the past week wondering what to write about for today's blog entry. I don't want to start writing about specific groups or even specific genres for another couple of weeks, so I was wondering for most of the week what I could write about. It's one of those things where there's just so much to write about that you end up not knowing what to write at all because you don't even know where to start I have that problem a lot XD But when I signed on today, I found that a couple of artists that I like have released digital singles, and so in that I have found my topic for today :D Digital singles - tracks that you can legally download from the artist's/label's website - are something that certainly aren't exclusive to the... Show more

For your reading pleasure my daughter is going to tell us all about her experience at a 찜질방.  So, in Korea, there are these things called 찜질방. usually, there's a 목욕탕 there too. When I went to korea a few years ago, a few of my friends had talked about a 찜질방, but I didn't know what it was, only that it was 'fun'. So this year I got to find out. I went there with a couple of my friends and upon entering the building, it appeared to be just a 목욕탕. The person at the counter gave us some  pink uniforms (shorts and a T-shirt kind of thing). Then we went up a few flights of stairs and put our things in some lockers and changed into our uniforms outside of a small 목욕탕. Then we went up more stairs and into a big room. There were people (men,... Show more