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소울메이트 (Soulmate)

soulmate

Soulmate is definitely my favorite romantic-comedy drama to date, followed closely by Fantasy Couple.  It’s only twelve episodes long, so it’s shorter than your average drama.  Nevertheless, what’s there is worth any other full drama.  While most romantic comedies center on some sort of extraordinary event that throws the lovers together, Soulmate takes a more natural approach.  It takes some lovable characters and weaves their lives together through sadness and coincidences to guide them to their true soulmates.  On a personal note I don’t believe that everyone has some soulmate out there, but the illusion is quite alluring.  I think that by dedicating ourselves to our partners we can become that soulmate we are all looking for *gets off soapbox*.  After all, everyone needs a 서울메이트 (yes, I spelled that wrong on purpose…).  If you haven’t seen this go watch it.  Now!  (Sadly it’s a little hard to find this online, but I’m sure y’all are up to it)

There’s no trailer, but here’s a song I LOVE:

Here’s my other favorite song from this series:

Here’s a great clip that, like I say on the YouTube description, I really think I would do what the main guy does:

Culture

Here’s a great clip where the main male character teaches his date how to drink soju (소주):

Here’s a fun little session where the girls break down a sentence and you learn different meanings of words:

Don’t give a Korean girl shoes

According to superstition, if you give your girlfriend shoes she’ll run away. This sort of notion was expressed in Soulmate when a boyfriend who was cheating on his girlfriend gave her shoes. Hmmmm …

How to Drink Like a Korean

Is the video broken?  Please comment so I can find a new copy.  Thanks!

All you have to remember is drink quick and then make the throat sound ‘kkkkkkk’. There you go, now you drink like a Korean!

I really like taking these little clips out of the dramas I watch so you’ll probably see more in the future. It just seems better having a real example (if you can call a drama a real example) to show you rather than have me try to explain something I probably don’t fully understand anyway.

Interupt and various other words

KoreanClass101.com:
방해하다 = to interupt / bother (someone)
채소 = vegetales (pretty much the same as 야채)

서울메이트 (K-Drama):
~했냐(니) 안 했냐(니)? = Did I or didn’t I ~?

Korean Essential Vocabulary 6000 (buy from hanbooks) (‘A’ list, ‘ㄱ’부터 ‘ㅂ’까지):
노란색 = yellow (yes, for some reason I learned weird words like 독학 but I still don’t know my colors ㅋㅋㅋ)
마흔 = 40 (korean rooted), used mostly for hours or age (though I think even Koreans stop using the Korean rooted numbers after a while, it’s a lot easier to use the Chinese rooted numbers)
못하다 = to be inferior / below (someone)
못하다 = to be impossible

Chatting Slang

거침없이 하이킥 (K-Sitcom):
OTL = a picture of a person crying, saying I’m sad
ㅋㅋㅋ, ㅎㅎㅎ = lol (it’s the sound when you laugh)

의주 (친구):
ㅇㅋ = 오케 (OK)
ㅇㅇ = yes
ㅂㅇ = 바이 (bye)

Random Site:
ㄱㅅ = 감사합니다
ㄱㅊ = 괜찮아요

Random Site 2:
-여, -염, -엽, -욘, -용 ,-효 = substitutes for ~요 at the end of sentences
-셈 = substitute for -십시오 % -세요

서울메이트 (K-Drama):
~하삼, 하3 = substitues for -습니다 & -습니까 at the end of sentences
= a sound you make after someone makes fun of you

Other:
누리망 = Korean online slang
방가= 방가워