Korean Language Notes

ANSWER: Probably 울, which means "the family" or "the clan" Koreans seem to be unsure of the origin of "우리" ...

ANSWER: Yes!

ANSWER: 출사표를 던지다 When one "throws one's hat into the ring," it means the person wants to challenge someone in a contest or s...

ANSWER: 좀이 쑤시다 When a person cannot sit still because of some anxiety, impatience, or excess energy, we might ask the person in English, ...

ANSWER: 진저리 In an article, HERE , which NBC News jokingly refers to as "yellow journalism,"  the phrase "pee shivers"...

ANSWER: follow each other In the video below, the young man mentions 맞팔 when talking about replying to posts on Instagram and Twitter, tw...

ANSWER: baggage or luggage 行 (행) means “walk” or “travel,” and 李 (리) means “plum,” so the Korean word 행리 (行李) literally means “walking ...

ANSWER: I think he's a great teacher. But I think he mistakenly explained 맞히다, which really means ""to  guess or do somethi...

A: 네 속에 내가 있고 내 속에 네가 있다. "I'm inside you, you're inside me." B: 내 속에 네가 있고, 네 속에 내가 있다. "You're inside ...

ANSWER: Some Koreans think it is. Korean Dictionaries and Gender-Biased Words Some Koreans want gender-biased words removed from Korea...

ANSWER: The Principle of the Six Ha's In the video below, a woman gives really good advice, in Korean, on writing book reviews (독서록)...

ANSWER: I'm guessing sometime between 1992 and 2017. In my 1992 edition of "Donga's New Korean-Korean Dictionary" (동아 ...

ANSWER: Are you feeling well? I am from Texas, where we frequently say "hello" to strangers as we pass them on a sidewalk. In ...

ANSWER: For Korean-language learners, I think it is better to hear the Korean first. The following video says the Korean expression first...

Well, these days Koreans usually say 치즈, which is just a transliteration of the English word "cheese," but the Sino-Korean word f...

ANSWER: having sex The Korean word for copulation is 교미 (交尾), which literally means "to cross (交) tails (尾)," though it could ...

ANSWER: I guess it depends on if you are studying Korean or English. These videos are good for those who like to study with their eyes cl...

ANSWER: It depends. If you memorized 100 characters a day, you could memorize 1,948 characters in less than three weeks, but if you are ...

ANSWER: marriageable age for a girl (14 ~15); the year a girl is sexually mature (nubile) In old Korea, a girl was apparently considered ...

ANSWER: the seven grounds for divorcing a wife 七去之惡 (칠거지악) literally means "the seven (七) abandonment evils ( 去之惡)." These ...