Korean Lesson 1

I am actually working on my second Korean lesson....but the first week was introductions and this past week was my first "work" week

For class, we have to choose a subject about Korea that we want to learn more about.

I started brainstorming and the first things I thought of was Roy Kim's song 봄봄봄 (spring spring spring), from there it went to cherry blossoms and I was soon running around the internet trying to figure out how to pronounce things and how to put together a presentation on 봄!


Besides Spring, I wanted to look up four other words/things that had to do with well SPRING!
One was cherry blossoms. I am sort of captivated by them. I am not sure what it is but Cherry Blossoms in Korea are certainly on my bucket list, as well as here in the US, but especially, Asia, I think it might be all of those romantic scenes in Korean dramas with the cherry blossoms falling that make me dream of blossom scented breezes and walking and yet feeling all alone in a crowd and yet whole, or moonlit petals falling to the ground that has me completely captivated. That and when I was in Asia I was too sick to enjoy much of the flower seasons. Sick, through both Cherry and Plum blossom season...well, I feel like I missed out.

I spent a good part of my week trying to figure out how to pronounce 벚꽃 cherry blossom  and stumbled across this song by Busker Busker about cherry blossoms


Other words on my list were pink and white because I was curious if they followed the Chinese pattern of adding the word "color" on the end. THEY DO!!!!
So I found out that 복홍색 and 히얀색.
The characters 색 = color.

So three words down on my list, two more to go.

There are a lot of Cherry Blossom Festivals so obviously that had to go down on my list.
Festival 제천

Last I think cherry blossoms are beautiful, and I've long wanted to know what the word for beautiful is. So when I looked it up I felt baffled, those were sounds I wasn't even sure how to assemble in English, much less Korean I felt that way with Cherry blossoms too.
아름마워 <- try saying that!
So I went and found a song! THANK YOU SHINee!!!!


And that was my FIRST week in Korean class with homework!

Pig Rabbit, You're Beautiful - Genuine Merch Advice

Well, if you get obsessed over Korean dramas like I do...

Where you suddenly desire to have everything in the drama.
My obsession with Pig Rabbits from the drama You're Beautiful has led to a remarkable collection, that I am not sure...if it's a good or a bad thing.

Meet my Pig Rabbit Family.

I've you've watched. You're Beautiful. 

And you CRAVE a Pig Rabbit.

If you love it. 

Secretly want one.....

REALLY REALLY BAD...

Buy the big one. 

I bought a bunch of little ones over a few years thinking they'd cut the bill. 

NO. 

THEY DON'T.

 BUY THE BIG ONE!!!

But don't buy just any big one.

The one on the left I bought off of amazon for about 10.00 and was very disappointed, at his non-genuine appearance and feel. Fluffy, soft, pig-nosed he was but, his cheeks didn't have that slight puff, his body and nose were just too big, and he wasn't the right sort of fuzzy.

Some markers of genuine Pig Rabbits are...

Removable bow tie

beautiful tag--see the cute pig rabbit???

genuine = smaller and brighter

fake = larger and more faded

VS.

Also, my large Pig Rabbit from China had this weird thing attached.

Like he was a carnival toy or something. 

Noooooot genuine. 

If you want a genuine Pig Rabbit, be willing to shop around and pay the big bucks.
I found mine on eBay through a seller based in Korea who had a list of things and photos to show exactly how it was the genuine merch, and not a sad, dinky, China rip off.

There are other stores online that sell great merchandise such as YesAsia.com

Where I got this cute little Hanbok Pig Rabbit.

The Habock PR faces all look a little weird
but the hanbock's are BEAUTIFUL and silky

Can you tell which is not genuine? 

One of these is not like the others!

Here is my entire collection of 8 Pig Rabbits.

If you are curious here is my complete list from right to left BR

Genuine PR 55cm

Recordable PR 23cm...I think

Gigantic PR. 

Front row

Hanbock PR
Tiny PR (keychain size -the middle kid)

Love PR

Screen Wiper Pink PR (super tiny)

Ungenuine Tiny keychain size

So what you do think? Have you ever bought drama merchandise?

DRAMA ON!

Unni