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Uisa

Posted by Kathryn on 5th August in Korean Vocabulary

Your Korea Word of the Day is… Uisa (we-sah) In English… Doctor Going to the doctor here can be hit or miss if you don’t speak Korean. When I lived in Yangsan, there was a health clinic right across the street from the school. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a regular staff, just rotating doctors from PNU [...]

Bless Babel Fish

Posted by Kathryn on 4th August in Korean Vocabulary

Bless the intelligent folks who are working on Babel Fish. On Wednesday I went walking around the city trying to find a cell phone store where the clerk spoke some English. The first challenge was finding a store that actually could do a KTF contract for me (stores that did LG were every place). The [...]

Mogies

Posted by Kathryn on 13th June in Korean Vocabulary

Your Korean Word of the Day is… Mogie In English… Mosquito I’m getting eaten alive by the mosquitoes here. I have a dozen bites on my right arm, six on my left, three on my forehead and god only knows how many on my legs. I have no idea how they’re getting in my apartment [...]

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