More Than Korea’s 2nd City – Busan Posted by sasha on Mar 20, 2015
After a few days of exploring all that Seoul has to offer – the palaces, museums, parks, and nightlife – we headed to the other side of the country to Busan (부산). With over 3.5 million people, this is the second biggest city in South Korea. Famous for its beaches, hot springs, and international film…
Korean Craft Beers Allowed to Play Fair with Hite, OB? Posted by Tony Kitchen on Mar 17, 2015
From Seoul to Busan, beer drinking in South Korea was always a steady pour from the usual suspects. Hite. Cass. OB Blue (Oriental Brewery). But starting next week, microbreweries will be allowed by law to sell their beers off-site from brewing locations, and will have their taxes lowered by nearly 15 percent. However, the road…
Learn Korean “From” Posted by Soo on Mar 16, 2015
You read and watched how to use “To” last week. Related with that, you will learn “From” in this week. There are a few way to say “From” in Korean: 한테서/han tae seo, 에게서/ae gae, 께/ggae. 한테서 is casual form and you will hear a lot when Korean speak without last syllable “서”. Most of…
Learn Korean “To” Posted by Soo on Mar 9, 2015
There are a few way to say “To and From” in Korean. Let’s learn “To” first, there are three ways to say “To” in Korean: 한테/han tae, 에게/ae gae, 께/ggae. 한테 is casual form and you will hear a lot when Korean speak. So, it is speaking form. 에게 is formal and you will see…
Learn Negative Form of Korean Posted by Soo on Mar 4, 2015
There are two common ways to say “not” in Korean: 안 and 지 않다. Both of them have the same meaning. Let’s study how to use them. First, when you use 안/AN, you need to add verb after 안 “안+verb.” For instance, 밥 안 먹어요/bab an meok yeo yo/ I am not eating a meal…
Korean Food Myth: Do They Eat Dogs? Posted by Tony Kitchen on Mar 4, 2015
Walk past any food stand selling an unidentifiable mea and the joke is its probably dog. In Korea, it isn’t. Westernized views of minorities are filled with this perception: Koreans eat dogs and the Chinese eat dogs and cats (and snakes and monkey brains). Although the consumption of dog (among others things) does exist, the practice is…
Changyeong Palace Video Tour Posted by sasha on Feb 26, 2015
Tour one of Seoul’s Five Grand Palaces – Changyeonggung – in this short video. It was destroyed twice by the Japanese, but has been somewhat restored and is a nice place to spend an afternoon in the Korean capital.