지갑 (jigap): wallet Here are some words picked by Jae: 주민등록증 (identification card) 운전면허증 (driver's license) 현금 (cash) Do you know what to say when you've lost your wallet? Click here to learn more! P.S. Get Your Daily Dose of Korean with 1-Minute Mini-Lessons The Daily Dose of Korean is a Calendar that gives you new, 1-minute lessons every day. Why? Because learning a little every day is easy, strengthens your habits and motivation and you improve your Korean over time. Lessons range from culture and holidays to grammar, slang, phrases and more. Find it in the Korean Resources menu or in the Quick Links menu on your Dashboard. Click here to check out the Daily Dose of Korean Calendar.

The Month of May in Korea is often called Family Month. There's Children's Day, Parent's Day, and Teacher's Day. Korea takes Mother's Day to a whole different level! On these days you give your Children, Parents and Teachers gifts to show them how much you appreciate them. Children often benefit the most with candy and money being popular gifts. Teachers get quite a lot of gifts as well as they have many students and parents to receive gifts from. And that's why the month of May is called Family month in Korea! Well... did you learn something new about Korea? If you did, you'll be glad to know that you'll learn cultural tidbits in every single lesson at KoreanClass101.com! In every lesson, not only will you learn Korean that will... Show more

Hi Hyunwoo here. I hope everybody is having a wonderful day and enjoying your Korean studies. Some might think there's enough variety to the list of categories on this blog already, but I've just added one more category to it. And as you can see, it's about how to translate certain words or phrases between English and Korean - sometimes from English to Korean, and other times, the other way around. I'd like to start with a very basic word describing a very important behavior, which, however, is not translated very correctly all the time. It's  'to eat.' What's the Korean word for it? It's very easy. 먹다. But the thing is, when you use it in a sentence, you always need an object noun. So for example, if you want to say "I'm... Show more