Hanguk Babble

Here is a documentary of a Korean monk painting the Bodhisattva of Compassion for the Asian Art Museum in Seattle.  The monk artist Seol-min has dedicated her life to keeping the tradition of Bu...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/korean-buddhist-artist/

Diabetes is 당뇨.  Also, diabetes is 당뇨병 where 병 means illness.     Korean is a thin-country, but has approximately the same rate of diabetes as USA.  The sudden change in the typi...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/diabetes-%EB%8B%B9%EB%87%A8-as-common-in-korea-as-usa/

Check out the Economist article “The model minority is losing patience”. It quotes one study that says a reason why Asian Americans excel academically is they work hard. “On average Asian-A...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/hard-work-pays-off/

We learned 平 peace.  It also means flat, level, equal (picture a level scale).  We learned grass 艹.  Put them  together, and you get apple 苹.  Apple is one of the earliest Korean wo...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/hanja-for-cimi-%E8%8B%B9-apple-%EC%82%AC%EA%B3%BC/

My language exchange partner shared with me the lyrics to “September Song”.  Koreans have an appreciation for many American songs, and I feel such a flush of joy hearing classics again, brou...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/september-song/

Received a gift of a Korean bible from the Korean woman I met in town.  Since the bible is organized by chapter and verse, it is easy to match the Korean to an English bible. I am the light of �...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/korean-bible/

Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in USA, but they’re also the least likely to vote. NPR published a story How Asian American Voters Went From Republican to Democratic.  The...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/asian-american-voters/

A Korean master expresses delight in simplicity in this way.   Unaffected by the passage of time I remain bright and quiet while I sit. A bowl of porridge, A plate of wild greens, And a cup of t...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/poem-delighting-in-simplicity/

I take great thrill in my fortune cookies, now that I am learning a little Chinese.  This one taught me the word “taste”.  Imagine in ancient times, you are a king who can’t eat yet until...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hanja-for-cimi-%E5%91%B3-taste-%EB%A7%9B/

天 sky, heaven, day 천 I chose the character 天 because of a Zen poem “An Answer on Behalf of Heaven and Earth”  代天地答.  We learned soil/earth is 土.  See 土 (earth) in the ch...

https://jreidy17.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/hanja-for-cimi-%E5%A4%A9-sky-%EC%B2%9C/