MY KOREAN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE IN A NUTSHELL
Original Date Made: October 2018 My Discovery of the Rising Gods of the East in 2008 Ten years ago, when I was a Sophomore in the University, my friend introduced DBSK ( a.k.a 동방신기 , Dong Bang Shin Ki, TVXQ which means Rising Gods of the East), a Korean boy group, to me. I loved this group so much that I always sang their songs both in Korean and Japanese. I even watched the videos of their concert and guesting in variety shows in the internet. But I have never thought about learning their language because there were subtitles available. But the subtitles used to come a week after the raw files T.T Can you imagine how patient I was? I remembered that there was a show where DBSK tried to teach Korean by demonstrating two phrases. Unfortunately, I could only remember one phrase. And it was… 나는 할 수 있어 ! Naneun hal su isseo! Which means ‘I can do it!’ I somehow memorized this line, which made me remember it until now. The Start of my Kdrama Fandom in 2009 It