Korean Reading Exercises - Part 2

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Hello there! 잘 지냈어? (How are you?) I have been from a veeeeeerryyyy very long hiatus and I decided to come back. I am now a full-fledged doctor and I am currently working as one, in a nearby hospital. How have you been? As continuation from our first Korean Reading Exercise , I would like to present to you another batch of Korean words that you can try practicing on! Are you ready to practice your Korean? If you want to reinforce your knowledge about reading Hangul, you may proceed to this post on how to read and write Hangul to refresh your mind! From now on, our reading (and writing) exercises will feature a specific theme so as to make things easier to read and understand! For this Korean reading exercise, we will feature one of Korea's highlights - their food. Let's read, read, read Korean!! FIRST ROUND: Basic Korean food Korean food is one of the highlights of Korean culture - without their sumptuous and delicious food, their culture will not infiltrate...
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Answer Key: Korean Reading Exercises - Part 2.1

Hi, how are you? Was the exercise difficult? Did you do well?

The following are the answers for the first round of this reading exercise:

  English Translation        Pronunciation        Korean word    
 Rice bap밥
 Fishsaeng-son 생선 
 Steamed dishjjim  찜
 Dried laverkim 김
 Breadppang 빵 
 Soupguk  국
 Alcoholsul  술
 Teacha  차
Meatgogi 고기
 Brown seaweedmiyeok  미역

Note that in Korean food, they really like to combine names of the main ingredients to describe the dish.

For example, one of the famous dishes of Korea is kimbap. It is a rice dish in which the rice (main ingredient), together with some various ingredients, is combined with kim, which is a sheet of dried laver.

Kimbap is an easy-to-make, easy-to-carry food from Korea!

Another dish which showcases this trend is miyeok-guk, which is brown seaweed soup. This dish is being given to Koreans on their birthday - interesting fact: this dish is originally being given to a woman shortly after giving birth, the iron and iodine included in brown seaweed helps them recover from a stressful delivery and is being given to another person's birthday, signifying his/her birth and their mother's struggles during delivery.

Miyeok-guk is a soup being given to one on his/her birthday!

Did you get a perfect score on this round? I really hope so.

Ready for another round of Korean reading exercises? Go back and finish the job!

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