Tuesday, October 15, 2013

How long should a class or lesson should be?

Question today comes from one of the fellow language teachers, Maria:
Generally classes and lessons are either 50 minute long or 90 minute long. How long do you think is the best for private lessons on line?



Monday, September 30, 2013

Friday, September 28, 2012

How to Address Others in Korean

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Question today comes from Mark in Canada:
I heard Koreans do not call older people by their names. Then how do you address each other? How about in professional relationship such as colleagues or your clients?

Monday, June 18, 2012

Is it a Korean Culture? Korean Men Beat Up Women

Question today comes from Gina:

I saw one Korean man stated that in Korean he is the King! Women are slaves. Korean men beat up women. And I saw this article where Korean men beat up Chinese women in KFC. Is this a culture n to day world?

http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/videos/chinese-girls-beat-up-by-suspected-korean-men-in-chengdu-kfc.html

SOURCE: http://www.meetup.com/korean-165/boards/view/viewthread?thread=24275602

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sogaeting

We are having a Valentine-themed Workshop and "Ask a Korean" meetup today. In observance of this workshop, I thought you may be interested in one of many aspects of Korean dating culture: Sogaeting (소개팅).

Question today comes from Cris who asked about "소개팅."
I have the understanding that 소개팅 means something like introducing something in the form of "matchmaking". I heard my korean cousin saying it in a joking manner, but i wasn't sure what it meant.