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This is a great example of how a historical/literary/cultural/geographical reference is picked up by another cultural sphere and takes on a life of its own. La ligne Maginot, as the Encyclopedia Brita …

For strangers being approached in real life, 반말 is never an option. 존댓말 is obligatory, and is mostly 해요체 - informal (as this isn't a business meeting) but polite. However, whether you need honorifici …

I'd say "classical" hanja-eo (based on Middle Chinese eumhun readings) is quite easy to spot, although the accuracy is quite low. You've mentioned certain phonological and phonotactic features; there …

There have quite a few studies in Korean and in English of the rise of the modern South Korean entertainment industry, with particular emphasis on the now global rise of K-pop. As with most musical …

-히 is an adverb form (and is thus not conjugated for politeness, formality, or even honorificity, which distinguishes it from verbal nouns ending in -ㅁ or -기). Same principle as 확실히 (certainly), 천천히 ( …

The Naver Korean dictionary is my go-to for any word etymology that I want to find out, as it has information about old forms and from the 표준국어대사전 (Great Dictionary of Standard Korean). But even the …

In modern Korean, 핍박 (逼迫) is a synonym for 박해 (迫害) in its meaning of "persecution"; however, 핍박 does come across as slightly 'older' than 박해. For example, most Bibles in Korean use 박해 if they've been …

경 comes from the Chinese word 景, which in Modern Standard Mandarin is pronounced jǐng, and in Standard Cantonese ging2. This is also used in Japanese in its on'yomi reading as けい (kei). On its own, th …

Modern Standard Korean has the nouns 파랑 parang = blue vs 녹색/초록 noksaek/chorok = green, where the first is native Korean and the second is hanja-eo. Other nouns exist, e.g. 파란색 paransaek. But 푸르다 pureu …

This comes under Korean sound symbolism, which was more productive and more prevalent in Middle Korean (where vowel harmony was still rather strictly observed in the verbal system). Thus we have a few …

A pedagogical breakdown that might make sense to you: 내일 아침에는 Tomorrow morning, ... 일찍 일어나도록 ... in order to get up early... 노력해 볼게 ...(I) will try working hard. In English, infinitives with "to" an …