코엑스 아쿠아리움 & 남산타워 | COEX Aquarium & Namsan Tower
아쿠아리움을 좋아하는 편인데 한국에서 아쿠아리움에 간 적이 없어서 남친이랑 코엑스 아쿠아리움에 가기로 했어요. 다 이미 알겠지만, 한국에서 아주 잘 된 것 중에 하나는 엔터테인먼트에요. 아쿠아리움에서도 물고기를 보는 것일 뿐만아니라 즐거운 오락거리도 많아요
I love aquariums, and not having ever been to one in Korea, my boyfriend and I decided to go to COEX Aquarium. It’s common knowledge now, but one thing Korea does really well is entertainment, and even this aquarium has far more to keep you entertained than just aquatic animals.
Some reading and listening resources for you, my Korean studying friends 🙂
Please also recommend me any resources you use, especially apps, I’m hungry for Korean resources!
세바시 | 세상을 바꾸는 시간 15분) (youtube, app, website)
Korean version of TED talks. For years I’ve been jealous of my English-learning friends using TED talks to study, but no longer.
연애의 과학 | Science of Love (website, app)
“Relationship tips and psychology tests.” Articles introducing research studies on relationships, sex, breakups etc. in very easy-to-read language and with cute illustrations.
Blog site with the feel of a magazine. Brunch is very publicised and has a high quality of content.
Just… blogs… I don’t actually use these personally but recommend me some blogs if you find anything interesting there.
Learning Korean with Humans of Seoul (facebook)
Language posts about any interesting grammar points/expressions/words that pop up in Humans of Seoul interviews. The Humans of Seoul page itself is also really good for reading practice.
러브뮤지엄 & 트릭아이뮤지엄 (19금) | Love Museum & Trick Eye Museum (NSFW)
My boyfriend and I had a lot of fun exploring Hongdae’s Love Museum and Trick Eye Museum. They’re located in the same building, where there is also a ‘circus fair’ and ‘ice museum’, so there’s so much to do there.
홍대 러브뮤지엄과 트릭아이뮤지엄에서 남자친구랑 즐거운 시간 보냈어요. 둘다 같은 건물에 있고 아이스뮤지엄과 서커스도 있어서 볼거리가 많아요.
Read about what we did there and see pictures from the Love Museum here. Pictures are NSFW!!
지동 벽화마을 | Jidong Mural Village
요즘 서울 이화 벽화마을에 가볼까 생각 많이 하는데 수원에도 행궁동 벽화마을 말고 다른 벽화마을이 없을까 궁금해서 검색해봤어요. 들어본 적이 없었던 지동 벽화마을이 나와서 거기 가기로 했어요. 우선은 창룡마을 창작센터에 가서 스탬프 지도를 받았어요.
I’ve been wanting to go to Iwha Mural Village(이화 벽화마을) in Seoul for a while, so I wondered if there was any mural village in Suwon other than Haenggung-dong(행궁동 벽화마을). We searched online and found Jidong Mural Village(지동 벽화마을), which I hadn’t even heard of before, and set off to visit there. We started by going to Changyong Village Creative Centre(창룡마을 창작센터) to get a stamp map from the office.
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Thank you for the love hahah!!!!
hm when I was around that level I read (and listened to) a lot talktomeinkorean material. I found their stuff to be really level appropriate and fun! They have a lot of news like material as well 🙂
News are by nature not very beginner/ lower intermediate level friendly, most foreign language classes start using news articles at upper intermediate level, but articles in the society/culture/weather section tend to be a lot easier, if you really want to read the news.
I personally don’t see the point in starting to read the news at a super early level; sure there are some interesting articles, but all the texts that will take you a reasonable time to read will be fairly boring, and you’re not learning words and grammar structures that you can use in every day casual settings or in conversation, which is what you’ll be learning as a upper beginner/lower intermediate learner.
If you want to know what took my reading from high beginner to intermediate, it’s yonsei’s level 3 reading book. I know it’s not free, but it’s worth every cent. I’m fairly sure there are news like articles in there but most of the stories are everyday life oriented and very level appropriate, while still being engaging and challenging.
Also, I hate being that person, but topik beginner 2/intermediate level reading texts are often based on recent news, while being level appropriate and short, so I recommend that. You can get past exams for free here.
I don’t have any specific tips, basically try engaging with the text until you feel confident that you can read it without looking up a word or grammar and to understand it. And if you come back to it in a week, that this will still be the case. That’s why them being fairly understandable and level appropriate is important to me. If I can’t understand 50% of the article already, I’d just leave it.
Note that not everybody has the same opinions on reading than me, I just like to read the text and not translate it word by word, so for me level appropriative-ness is very important. But not everybody thinks like that.
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바로 밖에는 행궁동 벽화마을이 있으니까 예술을 좋아하는 분에게 아주 좋은 코스인 것 같어요. 행궁동 벽화마을도 작은 편이지만 그래도 예쁜 그림이 많아요. 더 큰 벽화마을에 가고 싶으면 가까은 지동 벽화마을이 더 좋을 수도 있지만, 여기 화성행궁도 바로 앞이라서 여기는 짧은 시간에 다양한 곳을 돌아다닐 수 있어요.
Haenggung-dong Mural village(행궁동 벽화마을) starts right outside the gallery, so for people who like art this makes a lovely place to start a day out. Haenggung-dong Mural village is also quite small, but there are still a lot of very nice murals. If you’d like to visit a larger mural village then Jidong(지동벽화마을) might be better, but since this is right next to Hwaseong Fortress(화성행궁) it’s easy to walk to various different sights within a short time.
“While involved in social movements in Seoul, I lived a truly hectic life. After a while, I was so fed up that I went to India for my sabbatical to experience a slow-paced society. I expected that it would be a bit like 1970s Korea. But when I was there, waiting for one or two hours was nothing. One time I went to the bank and was waiting for four hours, but someone would just cut in line. So I lost my temper and said I have to take care of my business then and there, but the bank teller said, ‘Wait, wait, just wait! It’s simple!’ I told my Indian friend’s family about this experience and they said, ‘If you can’t do it today, you can do it tomorrow; if you can’t do it tomorrow, then you can do it the next day; if not this year, then next year; if not this life, then the next.’ That really left a deep impression. We usually say, ‘I have to do it. I have to do it,’ but they say, ‘It’s okay if it’s not now. It’s okay to be a little late.’ Through those words, they were caring for themselves. After spending a little time like that, I came to understand it well. ‘What could be as simple as waiting? There are already so many difficult things in this world…’”
“서울에서 사회운동하면서 정말 너무 바쁘게 살았었어요. 그러다가 지쳐서 느린 사회를 체험한다고, 안식년을 맞아 인도에 갔어요. 마치 한국의 70년대 같지 않을까하고 기대하며 그곳에 갔죠. 가보니까 한 두시간 기다리는 건 일도 아닌 거예요. 한번은 은행에 가서 4시간을 기다리고 있는데, 누가 새치기를 하는 거예요. 그래서 나도 욱해서 지금 바로 일 처리해야한다고 말하니까 은행원이 ‘Wait, wait, just wait. It’s simple!’ 이라고 하는 거예요. 그 경험을 인도의 친구 가족한테 말하니까 그 사람들 또 하는 말이 ‘오늘 못 하면, 내일 하면 되고, 내일 못 하면 모레 하면 되고, 금년에 못 하면 내년에 하면 되고, 이 생에 못 하면 다음 생에 하면 되고’ 라는 하는 거예요. 그 점이 참 인상 깊었어요. 우리는 보통 ‘해야돼. 해야돼’ 하지만, 그 사람들은 ‘지금 안 해도 돼. 조금 늦어도 괜찮아’ 하는 말로 마음을 보듬어 주고 있었죠. 조금 지나고보니 잘 알겠더라고요. ‘기다리는 것만큼 단순한게 어디있어? 이 세상에 어려운 게 얼마나 많은데…’ 하고요.”
Sutdy-Korean 