Author: yonghokim
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In chatrooms we are often engaged in a…
In chatrooms, we are often engaged in a age-old northern nomadic tradition of “wordless chatter”. Northern nomadic peoples (“오랑캐” in korean) had to deal with the constant sandstorm that heat up the gobi desert every summer. People were keenly aware that water was scarce and opening your mouth drained you from water faster. in other…
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What is Translation? (Part 1)
The more concrete the linguistic example, the more on-point the cross-cultural translation would be. The more abstract, the less helpful for specific situations. For most highly nuanced expressions, it’s best to 1) apply the expression to a specific social situation, then 2) transfer that social situation culturally to the target language’s natural environment and then…
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Someone on HelloTalk asked for feedback on her…
Someone on HelloTalk asked for feedback on her sentence “그럼에도 다시 일어나, 숨 쉬고 미소 짓고 앞으로 전진해”. I wanted to discuss the poetic imagery a bit to have the sentence flow more naturally. Ok.. So the imagery is that the 화자 was running (in the race.. Of.. Life, i guess), but stumbled across a…
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A couple years ago we organized a major…
A couple years ago we organized a major 200-person conference style event. I wanted to put up the materials on our website, but there was serious concern that this could tank attendance, as people would read the materials and not come to the conference. I think the opposite is the case. People would read the…
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The difficulties of coordinating live conversations between people in Korea-England-US/Canada
In the KakaoTalk Korean/English exchange group, the idea of doing audio conversation practices came up, and we have been trying to work out times that worked out for everyone. We had participants from Korea, U.S./Canada, and England. We thought that this would be pretty simple, but at the crux of the problem is this phenomenon:…
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Every single cutscene in Scandal’s season finale was…
Every single cutscene in Scandal’s season finale was a “omg who is doing what now?”, “oh poor X, they are so Y”
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https www youtube com watch v=UlkjdHlq8Hk I saw…
I saw Jeremy’s video “Why is Learning Korean So Hard? – Language as Mind” and found many of the ideas presented there to be very intriguing, and wanted to continue this conversation. Here is my take three on this video response.
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I need this debated with all the pseudo…
I need this debated with all the pseudo doctors in my life. Especially the Korean ones.
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The Korean singer Lee Juck wrote the below…
The Korean singer Lee Juck wrote the below poem when he was in Junior High. Apparently he was a good kid who always bought birthday presents for his mom using the allowance money he received. (What! I never did that!) This one birthday however, he had spent up all his allowance, and he didn’t have…
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got Windows Live Writer working with WordPress Multisite…
got Windows Live Writer working with WordPress Multisite. did these steps. don’t know which are the ones needed: added “IP address yokim.net“ (and also the pre-mapping subdomain) to /etc/hosts when adding blog, followed these instructions: With my main blog WLW works normally but with other blogs (not main) I do the following trick: initially I…
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Season 5 Episode 20 of Scandal was just…
Season 5 Episode 20 of Scandal was just perfect. Drumpf Doyle goes down in flames, Edison calls out all the MF racists, and Ross has a koala affair. Fans agree. Jake has a Cold War spy level double play, I have no idea what he’s thinking of. “Tell Liv that I want to live, that…
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The good old days https www reddit com…
The good old days Share funny stores of how you played when you just started playing WoT byu/yonghokim inWorldofTanks
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KakaoTalk randomly grabs one of your google accounts for Play Store purchase and does not have a mechanism to change it
Yesterday someone online introduced me to Girl’s Day, a K-pop girl group. I was sick in bed with fever, and after watching hours of Hyeri in street events and interviews in YouTube, I decided I also wanted to get the Girl’s Day emoticons sold at KakaoTalk for $3, just like the person who introduced me…
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part of the reason why I care so…
part of the reason why I care so much about in-person user experience optimization may be because how terrible, terrible, absolutely terrible the majority of Korean websites’ UX is. The Korean internets is filled with evangelists that have been decrying the lack of information architecture, cross-platform compatibility, disability access, standards compliance (W3C), data machinability… really,…
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Scandal The Miseducation of Susan Ross Omg Liv…
Scandal: The Miseducation of Susan Ross Omg Liv is talking like her father now, with the same marked commas and all.