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  1. I've always heard #북한 in k-dramas when referring to North Korea

    However I had just started to learn #Korean when I watched Crash Landing On You, so I definitely missed any naming convention on both sides.

    theguardian.com/world/2026/may

    #LanguageLearning #한국 #대한민국 #조선 #kDrama

  2. 〈사회주의자〉에 올라온 〈진보세력 일부가 계속 극우득세론을 주장하는 이유〉를 읽었다.

    socialist.kr/the-argument-that

    주장 일부--진보운동·정당의 우경화, 투쟁동력 상실 등은 동의하지만, 결정적으로 글의 핵심 주제--“한국 수구세력은 궤멸하고 있다”에는 동의하기가 힘들다.

    세계적인 극우화의 움직임은 분명하고, 한국도 그 흐름에 편승하고 있다고 봐야하지 않을까. 12·3 쿠데타는 그 흐름만 보고서 윤석열 무리가 '오판'한 결과이고 덕분에 한국만 조금 '어긋'난 상황에 가깝다고 생각한다.

    무엇보다 '잘못된 주장'이라며 글쓴이가 인용한 다른 단체·정당의 주장들에서 나는 잘못된 것을 느끼지 못했다. 오히려 공감하는 쪽이다.

    결국에는 이번 지방선거 결과가 나와봐야 누구 말이 맞는지 결론--물론 거시적 역사 관점에서는 중간평가 정도에 불과하겠지만--이 나겠지만, **'국민의힘'이라는 한 정당의 몰락이 과연 '한국 수구세력의 궤멸'이라고 볼 수 있을까?**

    '어디'에서 '무엇'을 보고 있느냐에 따라 주장이 극명하게 갈리는 것 같아 한편으로는 답답하다. 뭣보다 내가 이런 쪽으로 공부가 아직 부족해서 대놓고 반박하기가 어렵다. 그래서 마스토돈에 쓰는 거지만...

    어쩌면 글쓴이가 보기에 내가 '우경화'된 걸 수도 있겠다. 하기사 나도 어디가면 '나는 진보가 아니라 어째 중도같은데' 하는 사람이니까 틀린 지적은 아니겠지만.

    #사회주의자 #극우 #수구 #한국 #정치 #2026지방선거

  3. 中華隊贏了🎉
    終場 🇹🇼台灣5:4韓國🇰🇷
    這是一場精彩的比賽。

    Taiwan is WIN🎉
    台湾は勝った🎉
    대만은 이겼어요 🎉

    #WBC #Taiwan #Korea #baseball
    #台灣 #韓國 #棒球
    #台湾 #韓国 #野球
    #대만 #한국 #야구

  4. I finished booking all the accommodations.

    A lot of 🇰🇷 websites return error codes or are extremely slow.

    So when a place doesn't have hotels listed on Booking or similar services, the #NaverMaps smartphone app in English is a true life-saver. Sometimes you can book and pay directly through #naver

    It even lists temples, though I don't dare to sleep there because I don't fully understand how that works. But I did book an #ondol room at a small pension.

    #SouthKorea
    #travel
    #한국
    #한국여행

  5. U.S. President Donald Trump:

    "I heard that there were raids on churches over the last few days, very vicious raids on churches by the new government in South Korea."

    #USA #DonaldTrump #SouthKorea #한국

  6. The #VisitBusanPass is even better imho because people can choose between a time validity (24h, 48h) or a package of 3 or 5 attractions to choose from the list of available ones.

    And there's stuff like yacht cruising, surfing or even #taekwondo lessons 🤩

    visitbusanpass.com/

    #SouthKorea #travel #한국 #한국여행 #Busan

  7. Browsing through the Discover #Seoul Pass catalog of free and discounted products, I found a 10% discount on portable #WiFi router device rental.

    It is a cheaper alternative to eSim subscriptions allowing for more than one device to be connected to the network.

    discoverseoulpass.com/app/spot

    There's also a 50% discount on currency conversion at Hana Bank in Myeong-dong, free sauna tickets and much more

    #SouthKorea #travel #한국 #한국여행 #DiscoverSeoulPass

  8. Another useful resource is this website with a map and nice drawings of 100 must-visit tourist attractions.
    english.visitkorea.or.kr/svc/c

    If you search for each spot, there's an online #Naver map (the only one I could find in English on the whole web) allowing to plan the journey and other information.

    #SouthKorea #travel #한국 #한국여행

  9. Delighted Sung Eun Kim & Injoo Sohn took the time to speak about how🇰🇷manages ties w/🇨🇳on the latest episode of Carnegie China's China in the World podcast. Brought to you by the Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace.

    #korea #China #southkorea #ROK #PRC #南韓 #中國 #韓國 #朝鮮 #朝鮮半島 #中国 #koreaselatan #Cina #tiongkok #한국 #중국

    carnegieendowment.org/podcasts

  10. Türkiye NATO'ya girmek için Mason bir Cumhurbaşkanı ve daha sonra Amerika adına darbe yapan Amerikan Askerî Cuntası tarafından asılarak idam edilen bir Başbakan tarafından Güney Kore tarafında bu savaşa sokulmuştu!

    Türklerin Koreliler ile çok çok uzaktan akrabalık bağı vardır!

    Güney Korelilerin sevgisini kazandık.

    Elbette Kuzey Kore bundan hoşlanmadı, ama sanırım şu anda düşman da değiliz!

    Türkiye NATO'ya böyle girdi!

    #Korean #한국 #韓國 #조선 #朝鮮 #NATO

    youtube.com/shorts/2LxV1SrWhYQ

  11. Hey, so next up in the search for #local #pet stores is #Singapore ! If anyone has good recommendations, I'll be there long enough to try the majority of them! Singapore is packed with stores but everything is a short distance so it should be easy.

    Then, it'll be #Seoul #SouthKorea if people are aware of nice local pet stores #한국 #대한민국 #서울 #애완동물 #

  12. CW: Why in Korea and not in the Philippines?

    If you are from #Korea #한국 and you're wondering why a powerful talent like #Elisia is trying to debut in the #Kpop industry, there are a lot of reasons and some of it are the following based on my own observations.

    (in no particular order)

    1. No opportunities.
    2. The idol industry is still in its infancy, even though it has been around for more than 10 years.
    3. It is very hard to promote talents.

    ---

    NOTE: This is my own analysis of the situation.

    I. The P-pop industry

    The Pilipino Pop (a.k.a. #Ppop) industry is focused on bands and solo singers. In the “solo singer” category, one has to have gone through an intensive proper singing lessons, or born with the talent in singing. One can probably say that this became unwritten criteria because Filipinos are generally great singers.

    Let's face it. Before #Jpop and #Kpop became popular abroad, P-pop was already making waves, it just wasn't called “P-pop” (Pilipino Pop or Pilipino Popular Music). Also, the subclassification #OPM (Original Pilipino Music) was pushed in the 80s and became more used as a label for anything Filipino music (even though it was not “original”). There were also a lot of P-pop which topped the charts in #Japan and Korea; and many of those were also translated in Japanese and Korean languages.

    This made the P-pop industry very competitive, to the point that, talent agencies will only give an opportunity to those who had proper singing lessons from reputable schools and/or well-established mentors. Then the 1997 economic crash and the dotCom bubble crash happened, many talent agencies closed, and investors after those only want to invest if there's a very high guarantee of success.

    Talents like #Elisia, #GehleeDangca, and #AyaNatsumi (all from the Philippines) have no choice but to try to debut in the K-pop industry because there, they have a better chance (as compared here in the Philippines) to be recognised.

    II. Projects and promotions.

    The Philippine entertainment industry is dominated (if not controlled) by only two networks: GMA and ABS-CBN. If you are promoting in other local networks, it won't look good for the investors. The problem is, these two big networks almost always get what they want: exclusivity. And if you do sign to be exclusive to either of them, there is no guarantee they'll give you exposure and projects. After all, they already have a lot of talents under their own labels, and you are from a label they do not have a majority shares.

    Even if a talent signed for the labels under these two networks, there is still no guarantee. They have far too many talents signed, but they can not produce enough projects for even half of them.

    There are 110 million Filipinos in the Philippines, compare that to the 52 million Koreans in South Korea. Yet, there are far more talent agencies in Korea than the Philippines, and talents from different agencies can appear in any Korean network; which you rarely can do in the Philippines.

    For example, talents from agencies not under GMA or ABS-CBN rarely appear in music shows produced by GMA and ABS-CBN unless they signed an exclusive deal with them. If you are a producer, and you want to produce a music show where anyone can be invited, they won't allow it. Or, if they'll allow it, the labels won't allow their talents to appear in the show (because they either signed an exclusive deal already, or planning to).

    III. Conclusion

    So, think about it. How can talented Filipinos have a chance in the P-pop industry if the industry itself is gatekeeping it? No wonder the Philippine idol industry is still in its infancy even after more than 10 years has passed.

    Talented Filipinos, like Elisia (who is receiving the highest praises from the judges of #UniverseTicket and K-pop producers), are targeting the K-pop industry. They have a fighting chance there to achieve their dreams. Even the Korean contestants started to see how different Elisia is.

    Let's not forget #GehleeDangca. Her group did not win in their match, so only two from her group can earn the “Unicorn Ticket” (judges pick who will advance to the next round/level automatically). Gehlee was the second choice from their group.

    If these two are so talented, why have they not debuted in the P-pop industry?

    Well… #Philippines #필리핀

    P.S. To the respectable Senator who complained about Filipinos focusing too much on foreign entertainment instead of local, the problem is not that Filipinos don't like local, we do, the problem is the industry. Instead of complaining, create laws that will make the industry better (like eliminating the improper use of exclusive contracts).

    @pinoy @[email protected] @[email protected] @philippines

  13. It always strikes me how the #ISO standard #language designations belie some lack of understanding of cultures that weren't brought in for them.

    Like, the abbreviation for #한국 / #한글 (#Hangug / #Hangul) is "KO", for "#Korean", when that's not what the language is called by native speakers, nor is it really even a word in that language. I think the best one would have been "HG", but these people never asked someone who even knew a bit of the language.

    Meanwhile, they correctly labeled #Deutsch as "DE", and not "#German", which is good because "German" is not a word in Deutsch and many people from Deutschland don't know English and might legitimately not know what it refers to.

    It just feels like we're dealing with inconsistencies caused by legacy #eurocentrism when we use these old designations for modern technology: I'm coding a website in #HTML that I want to have options for EN, DE, ES, and KO, and that's super weird when you've learned enough of all four to know the reality.