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Chamchiman
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: Where can I buy this book? |
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I'd like to pick up this book - it gets good reviews.
Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension (by Miho Choo)
The link is:
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0824818156
Anybody recognize it, and know where to buy it?
Thanks for helping! |
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excitinghead
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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When I bought it 4 or 5 years ago I had to get it over Amazon because, of all places, it wasn't available in Korea! But nowadays, it's hard to find a bookstore with an English section that doesn't have it, which annoys the hell out of me because I had to pay $11 for delivery from the US...how hard have you looked?! 
Try Kyobo: they will have it, or be able to order it for you. |
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Chamchiman
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| excitinghead wrote: |
When I bought it 4 or 5 years ago I had to get it over Amazon because, of all places, it wasn't available in Korea! But nowadays, it's hard to find a bookstore with an English section that doesn't have it, which annoys the hell out of me because I had to pay $11 for delivery from the US...how hard have you looked?!
Try Kyobo: they will have it, or be able to order it for you. |
The thing is, I haven't looked. I usually check out almost every book in the "Learning Korean" section of the bookstores I go to, but I didn't recognize the cover when I saw it on-line. I may very well have seen the book before, and I just don't remember it.
From the sounds of it, I'll be able to find it at Kyobo. If that fails, Youngpoong and Bandi & Lunis are five minutes away.
Thanks for the reply. |
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excitinghead
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a great book...seriously, I think it shaves a year off learning Korean. Enjoy! |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| excitinghead wrote: |
| It's a great book...seriously, I think it shaves a year off learning Korean. Enjoy! |
Yea, but how do you study it? Just flipping through it and trying to remember that stuff is damn boring. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| excitinghead wrote: |
| It's a great book...seriously, I think it shaves a year off learning Korean. Enjoy! |
Where can I find that book in Seoul? I am going there this Monday. Is there a section of town or bookstore I should look at?
Basil |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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jmbran11
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: |
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I have this book, though I actually don't really love it that much. But it might work for you.
Like some the others, I ordered if from amazon.com. I ordered several Korean books at once and shipped them. Definitely pricey, but a great selection and it only hurt once - then I had enough books to study for a year. |
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Chamchiman
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| excitinghead wrote: |
| It's a great book...seriously, I think it shaves a year off learning Korean. Enjoy! |
Where can I find that book in Seoul? I am going there this Monday. Is there a section of town or bookstore I should look at?
Basil |
I found it (after a while) in Kyobo Bookstore (Gwanghwamun). I suppose, as excitinghead said, you can find it almost anywhere. But, the reason it took me a time to find it is the newest edition is a different color than the older edition I saw on-line. The front cover is orange and green now, and the spine is orange. It was only 13000 won, which I thought was pretty reasonable for a book that's almost 400 pages long. |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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last time i checked kyobo @ gangnam didn't have it
but the huge bookstore in coex mall did.
i heartily recommend this book if you love looking at long organized lists, like i do.
ROBT |
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