I am using  Ku Kim-Marshall’s book Once Upon a Time in Korea to practice my Korean reading skills.  It is a collection of children’s stories that have fairly easy Korean vocabulary.  I am currently reading 혹 달린 할어버지 (The Old Man with a Lump)  Here is an excerpt:


옛날 어느 마을에 한 할아버지 살았습니다.  이 할아버지는  아주 착했습니다.  그런데 이 할아버지 턱 밑에는 혹이 하나 달려있었습니다.  세수할 때나, 또밥을 먹을 때 아주 불편했습니다.  그러나   할아버지는 혹을 떼어낼 수가 없었습니다.  그래서 할어버지는 언제나 슬펐습니다.

Once upon a time there was an old man who lived in a village.  This old man was very kind-hearted. But this old man had a lump that was attached to the bottom of his chin. When he washed his face and ate food he was very uncomfortable. But this old man could not remove the lump.Therefore this old man was very sad.


I also downloaded Talk to me in Korean‘s workbooks for level 1 20-25 and level 2 1-10. I did pretty well on them but had forgot some of the vocabulary that I had learned.

I also cracked open Sogang’s 2A and started to work on chapter one again. I have finished about half of this book but have forgotten a great deal of it.

Other Korean Language Activities:

  • Started sending messages to Korean friends on Facebook in Korean.  I should have been doing this a long time ago but always revert to English.
  • Working on a letter that I am going to send to my Father-in-law.  I will probably use Lang-8 and JJ to help check my work before I send it.