{"id":117,"date":"2009-07-14T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-07-14T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T03:50:30","slug":"korea-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/korea-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Korea, I saw a sign that said <strong>\u4eba\u6c11\u5e01\u5347\u503c\u4e86, \u6293\u4f4f\u673a\u4f1a<\/strong> (the RMB is rising in value, seize this opportunity!).\u00a0 In fact, the island of  <strong>\u6d4e\u5dde\u5c9b<\/strong> (Jejudo\/Jeju Island) has rolled out many  <strong>\u63aa\u65bd<\/strong> (measures) to attract <strong>\u6e38\u5ba2<\/strong> (tourists) from China.\u00a0 Even the <strong>\u8def\u724c<\/strong> (road places) have Chinese names of places (this is unrelated to Korea&#8217;s use of Chinese characters in other situations).\u00a0 One of the attractive point of Jeju for Chinese tourists is that they can purchase many <strong>\u540d\u724c<\/strong> (name brand) products at a<strong> \u514d\u7a0e\u5e97<\/strong> (duty-free shop) without worrying about the high <strong>\u5173\u7a0e<\/strong> (tariffs) at the Chinese border for products such as makeup.\u00a0 They also don&#8217;t have to weigh the option of <strong>\u8d70\u79c1<\/strong> (smuggling).<\/p>\n<p>Words<\/p>\n<p>\u4eba\u6c11\u5e01 ren2min2bi4 &#8211; &#8220;people&#8217;s currency&#8221; &#8211; the currency used by the PRC<br \/>\n\u5347\u503c sheng1zhi2 &#8211; to increase in value<br \/>\n\u6293\u4f4f zhua1zhu4 &#8211; to seize<br \/>\n\u673a\u4f1a ji1hui4 &#8211; opportunity<br \/>\n\u6d4e\u5dde\u5c9b ji2zhou1dao3 &#8211; Jejudo, an island off the southern coast of South Korea<br \/>\n\u63aa\u65bd cuo4shi1 &#8211; measure(s)<br \/>\n\u6e38\u5ba2 you2ke4 &#8211; tourists<br \/>\n\u8def\u724c\u00a0 lu4pai2 &#8211; road signs<br \/>\n\u514d\u7a0e\u5e97 mian3shui4dian4 &#8211; duty-free store<br \/>\n\u5173\u7a0e guan1shui4 &#8211; tariff<br \/>\n\u8d70\u79c1 zou3si1 &#8211; smuggling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Korea, I saw a sign that said \u4eba\u6c11\u5e01\u5347\u503c\u4e86, \u6293\u4f4f\u673a\u4f1a (the RMB is rising in value, seize this opportunity!).\u00a0 In fact, the island of \u6d4e\u5dde\u5c9b (Jejudo\/Jeju Island) has rolled out many \u63aa\u65bd (measures) to attract \u6e38\u5ba2 (tourists) from China.\u00a0 Even the \u8def\u724c (road places) have Chinese names of places (this is unrelated to Korea&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/korea-pt-2\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}