Tag Archives: Korean language

Spotlight on Korean: Work

Posted by on July 21, 2009 No comments

For those that might not know, there’s a great project that I’m a part of called the Korean Wiki Project that can help anyone learning Korean (though right now you have to already be able to read Hangeul).  I’m going to spotlight a page from there every so often so I can give you a taste of what we do over there and maybe you’ll go check it out and hopefully help contribute your knowledge.

Below is a chart my Korean teacher gave us to learn the names of departments and positions in Korean companies.  How many do you know without looking it up? For more information and translations of the terms from the charts, check out the links at the bottom of this post.

Name of Departments

For the full page, go to the Work page in the Vocabulary section at the Korean Wiki Project.  There are probably terms that aren’t found on the work page, feel free to contribute your knowledge of business positions, departments, etc. by creating an account and editing the page.

As always if you’re on a computer that doesn’t have Korean input installed and would like to type in 한글 or if you want to learn how to type in Korean, you can use the Hangeul Assistant, a free online program I wrote for the Korean Wiki Project.  Just bookmark it and use it when you need it!

Korean CAPTCHA!? Now what??

Posted by on July 8, 2009 No comments

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For those who don’t know what a CAPTCHA is, it’s the thing where there’s an image with (usually) random letters and/or numbers like you see above where you have to type them out to verify that you are a real person rather than a computer bot.

Well, I was at school using the Macs and decided I wanted to join one of Cyworld‘s clubs (see previous post).  Well, those clubs usually have a form you have to fill out (like ‘how did you find us?’) so I was left thinking ‘how am I going to sign up for this cool club?’  Yeah, I probably could have easily saved the link to the club but I wanted to join it.  Now.

Then a thought came into my head … Korean Wiki Project!  I quickly ran over to http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hangeul_Assistant, typed out what I saw, and copied and pasted it back into the club registration form.  Easy as pie, I joined a Korean photography club from a computer without Hangeul installed!  If y’all ever need to type something in Korean or need to learn how to use Korean, I highly recommend trying Hangeul Assistant.