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회식 Company dinner. Rule #1) count on 소주. Lots of it. Serious. Just look at what happens when I type "회식" into Google Image. Food and alcohol - get used to it. This cultural event of course has a deep cultural context that should never be ignored. I encourage those seeking to understand the Korean mindset to venture into the past. Either way, in the present, soju is plentiful, cheap, and widely available. Soju has been around for a while and there's no sign of it stopping - however it is getting weaker in alcohol content as the years pass. Soju is typically drunk at such company diners but certainly other spirits are involved, too. However, I get the impression that beer is not exactly a masculine choice for alcohol. I've been... Show more

Welcome to the KoreanClass101.com blog, Feature Spotlight. Here we would like to periodically introduce some well known features as well as some not so well known features here at KoreanClass101.com. We want to make sure everyone knows about all the great features that you can use to master Korean in just minutes a day. Today we would like to introduce My Feed. This is a fully customizable RSS feed. What's that mean? Well, for those that haven't studied up on the latest Web 2.0 technology, that basically allows Premium members to decide exactly what lesson content they want on their Premium feed. Here's 3 simple steps on how you can use My Feed to really master Korean: You decide exactly what you want. You download what you want... Show more

Korea Train Express. Public transportation at a cool 186mph. Not bad. Thanks France. The official KTX website has some sweet animations (best viewed in IE - sorry world). It's an experience for sure. Kudos to 현우 for providing an overview. And here. He's awesome. Since 2005, daily commuters totaled a little more than 100,000. There were 450,000 more commuters in the second half of 2008 than of the first half due to rising oil prices (and thus higher ticket prices). The Korean government says there were about 38 million total passengers on the bullet train in 2008, a 1.9% increase from 2007. Apparently a lot of people like their speed. Now, not to freak out anyone, but some people think we should take things a bit slower if the... Show more

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Hi Hyunwoo here. I hope everybody is having a wonderful day and enjoying your Korean studies. Some might think there's enough variety to the list of categories on this blog already, but I've just added one more category to it. And as you can see, it's about how to translate certain words or phrases between English and Korean - sometimes from English to Korean, and other times, the other way around. I'd like to start with a very basic word describing a very important behavior, which, however, is not translated very correctly all the time. It's  'to eat.' What's the Korean word for it? It's very easy. 먹다. But the thing is, when you use it in a sentence, you always need an object noun. So for example, if you want to say "I'm... Show more