Comments on: Lets Learn (North) Korean

By: danb

danb — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:40:04 +0000

Hey Curtis, this is awesome, thanks for posting the whole thing. I know several Korean teachers who will find this interesting.

Jack, the alphabet looks the same, maybe it’s a font you haven’t seen before.

But skimming just a page or two, I found a couple things that really stick out. From p41:

기차여행 (SK – “train travel”) => 기차려행 (NK)
내일 (SK – “tomorrow”) => (래일) (NK)

I had to look twice to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. They can’t be typos because they’re written the same way in the English transliteration.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:51:00 +0000

Thia is totally awesome! I notice there is quite a but of difference in the alphabet.

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By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:46:24 +0000

For Neil – http://malektips.com/adobe_reader_7_0023.html

Anyway, thanks for sharing it with us, I’ve been looking for some books on Korean, and this might be quite handy for me and others, though a bit dated (language possibly haven’t changed much).

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:48:18 +0000

Does it have to be sideways? How can I rotate this in the reader?

And isn’t this infringing North Korean copyright, they might not be happy about that