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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: Article about Korea in "The Economist" magazine |
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http://www.economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9351850#thursday
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My day begins at midnight in my love hotel among the college bars of the Hongdae. The hotel was a recommendation from my otherwise infallible guide, Yon. I know it�s a love hotel for two reasons. First and more obvious: housekeeping has left prophylactics on the bedside table. Second: my basic Korean grammar explains that �yes� can be expressed �ye� or �ne�, depending on context. On TV and on the street I have heard only �ne�. After ten nocturnal minutes in a hotel in the Hongdae I can now tell you at least one context in which Koreans say �ye�.
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| That last bit about the ye and ne is weird. I don't get it.. |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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| Uh, really? |
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