Friend Culture

Making Korean friends is a huge advantage to learning the language. Learn some Korean friend culture and impress your friends with your know-how! These will help you relate and connect more with new Korean friends

Practice Korean & Learn About Korea with Humans of Seoul

Practice Korean & Learn About Korea with Humans of Seoul

Humans of Seoul is a blog I have been following before I started studying seriously! They focus on interviewing Koreans of all ages about various topics with both original Korean and English translations.

 

Practice Korean & Learn About Korea with Humans of Seoul

This is a perfect light resource to develop your reading skills. With a full range of ages, that means everyone can find a conversation to their depth or vocabulary level to practice with. Also, the range of topics means there will definitely be something to interest you and give you a perspective on Korean life and the people living there! From sports, books, hobbies, school, romance, work, parenting, childhood, health, and much more.

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By Pam, ago
All About Korean Dialects and Satoori

All About Korean Dialects and Satoori

Today I want to get into Korean dialects! South Korea while being small in size, is quite big in population and history of culture to build their own dialectal variences. I’ll cover the major dialects, where they are from, any notes about them, the pronunciation differences, and then some interesting slang or expressions!

By Pam, ago
20+ Latest & Most Popular Korean Slang

20+ Latest & Most Popular Korean Slang

Past swear words some of the most fun things to learn is slang. You can easily connect with and impress Koreans with your knowledge past typical dictionary or textbook-level Korean. So let’s get into some Korean slang. I’ll try to break it down by its meaning/origin and whatever else might be interesting about the word/phrase and see if there is an English equivalent!

By Pam, ago
Why Is Korean MBTI So Huge

Why Is Korean MBTI So Huge?

If you’ve been following recent Korean cultural trends you may have heard of Korean MBTI being adapted and gaining huge traction. While the trend of MBTI seems to have died down here, it is going strong in South Korea with many people making judgment calls on people based on their type. 

By Pam, ago
Korean Metaphors and Expressions

Korean Metaphors and Expressions

A while back I introduced some common Korean idioms; phrases like “find a needle in a haystack” or “rags to riches”. This time I’m going more into some general Korean metaphors! A few of these will be combinations of different words to create their own meaning, others will have both literal and metaphorical meaning, and some are similar to metaphors in English so let’s get into it. 

By Pam, ago