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Go-eun is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "go" and 30 hanja with the reading "eun" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Because of such a prevalence of English in modern South Korean culture and society, lexical borrowing is inevitable. English-derived Korean, or "Konglish" (콩글리시), is increasingly used. The vocabulary of the South Korean dialect of the Korean language is roughly 5% loanwords (excluding Sino-Korean vocabulary). [39]
Kkachi durumagi is a children's colorful overcoat in hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, which was worn on Seollal, New Year's Day in the Lunar calendar. It was worn mostly by young boys [2] and literally means "a magpie's overcoat".
George Heber Jones (front center) during a 1906 visit to the Honolulu Methodist Church. Jones arrived in Korea in 1887 as a Methodist minister; while there, he not only made major contributions to the spread of Christianity in Korea, but also founded three academic journals: The Korean Repository, The Korean Review, and Shinhak Wolbo (Theology Monthly).
Sino-Korean words constitute a large portion of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and loanwords from other languages, such as Japanese and English to a lesser extent. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts, [ 5 ] and to express abstract or complex ideas.
WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription.
McCune–Reischauer romanization (/ m ə ˈ k j uː n ˈ r aɪ ʃ aʊ. ər / mə-KEWN RYSHE-ow-ər) is one of the two most widely used Korean-language romanization systems.It was created in 1937 and the ALA-LC variant based on it is currently used for standard romanization library catalogs in North America.
Naengmyeon (냉면; North Korean: 랭면; Raengmyŏn), "cold noodles"), This dish (or originally winter dish) consists of several varieties of thin, hand-made buckwheat noodles, and is served in a large bowl with a tangy iced broth, raw julienned vegetables and fruit, and often a boiled egg and cold cooked beef.