Have you heard of the Boryeong Mud Festival (보령 머드 축제) in Korea? The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival that the city of Boryeong hosts during the summer and the festival has attracted over 2 million visitors to Boryeong so far. It’s a fun event, and we, the TalkToMeInKorean staff, are going to go there on the 23rd of July, 2011 as well! We’ve prepared a round trip bus for you, so we hope some of our listeners can accompany us to Boryeong!
Plainly counting from 1 to 100 in sino-Korean. We hope some of you find this useful! : ) If you haven’t checked out our lesson on sino-Korean numbers, please check out Level 1 Lesson 15.
안녕하세요! Have you ever watched any talent competition shows on TV? It is a kind of program where people show their talents and the winner gets either a lot of prize money or an opportunity to have their own singing album produced. Lately there are many television talent competition shows being created in Korea. Have you ever watched any of them? What are your thoughts? In this Iyagi episode, 석진 and 경은 sat down to talk about it. Enjoy!
In this lesson, we are looking at a very popular verb ending in Korean, -잖아(요) [-ja-na(-yo)]. -잖아(요) is used in various contexts and therefore has various meanings, but you can use -잖아요 most commonly when you want to ask the other person to agree with you or when you are correcting the other person’s remark. Are you ready? Have fun!
In this Interview episode at TalkToMeInKorean, Hyunwoo sat down with Clara Polydoro from Brazil to listen to Clara’s stories about her life here in Korea as a full-time university student at Ehwa Woman’s University.
Welcome to another episode of TalkToMeInKorean! In this lesson, we are going to look at how to say “instead of” in Korean. The key expression to remember here is “대신에” [dae-si-ne].
안녕하세요. ^^ In this Iyagi episode, Kyeong-eun and Hyojin talk about frendship. What does “friendship” mean for you? Do you meet your friends often? Let us know! Leave us commnets. 
There are many expressions in Korean that make a sentence less direct and less straightforward, and therefore a bit “softer”. In this lesson, we are going to introduce one of those expressions : Compared to, Relatively.
Have you heard or used the Korean expression “대박” before? If you haven’t, it is a slang expression that means “Super cool!” or “That’s amazing.” or even “I can’t believe it.” If you already know the meanings and usages of this word, do you also know WHERE this word came from? In this episode of Hyojin, What Does This Mean, Hyojin and Hyunwoo talk about the possible origins of 대박.
Welcome to another episode of TalkToMeInKorean! In this lesson, we are looking at how to use the verb 말다 in the form “말고” and make expressions such as “Not this one but THAT one.” “Not here but over there.” or “Don’t buy it and use this one.”
