Korean: learning

Maybe this will help, if not the videos, so maybe normal way. I don't like flashcards in the form of a program, I hate it, because I get distracted sometimes. But I usually make myself some, or print if I find ones. Those I'm going to post here I found some months ago, but I forgot about them.

Strong, silent and addicted to action

This is the title of the article I found about the leading men in Wed-Thu dramas.

And the subtitle is: I’m not interested in playing a ‘nice guy.’ Who said that also, good children, who? See this love?

I don't care if JoongAng Daily has So Ji Sub as the main photo. I like him too, but, you know...

The whole interview and the article is below.

I'm in such a bad mood. 

Wine doesn't help.

I don't want to watch any of his work in this mood. Really.

Interview with Jeong Jae Young

This time I will most definitely translate it as soon as I can, because the article is so good^^. I mean, I knew he's one of the bests, and most definitely the best in Asia, but reading about it made my heart flutter. I know, a lot of pressure on Iggi, on him, on director Kang. But I believe everything turns just well. First screenings were favorable, but the general audience is what will judge the movie.

Asiae: 2010-07-07

Bad Guy: 나쁜 남자 : Kim Nam Gil

Ekhem.. I will stay still, I will stay firm. As much as I can. But those eyes...
Damn it, why do you have such gaze??

Bad Guy: 나쁜 남자 : Kim Jae Wook

Lets face it, I'm biased toward one male lead in this drama, so forgive me if the number of pictures doesn't satisfy you. I will try to dig out some more goods on this cherry^^.

Bad Guy: 나쁜 남자 : eh well, what's left? Pictures? Part 1

I don't know what direction this drama goes at. I had such high hopes, still, I think it's not bad, but it's confusing. I like, I repeat: I like the relationship between Gun Wook and Tae Ra. I see how Gun Wook and Jae In are really good match and why he is drawn to her. Because this is probably GW's pain in the a**. Because he genuinely is drawn to her, despite all his scheming, all his hatred, all his disdain. Ok, he's the best played character, apart from Tae Ra. He's a snake, like a real snake: quiet, sometimes lazy, sometimes motionless, but he can strike. And I like his quiet mode, I like his mystery air around.

As for pictures, there are too much for one post, so I will divide them: The rest of the cast, Kim Jae Wook, and KNG-nim.

And when I say too much, I really mean too much. I had few bad days in a row, so I was not interested even in going to SBS site, that is why when I finally went there today, I had 3 days' worth in pictures. That makes almost a 100. Of ourse I will not post them all. Who cares about the detectives anyway? Except for Gun Wook, of course, mehehe.

Let's Speak Korean

   With A*.* in mind^^ . Hope that may help. Videos may not be new and the best crystal clear Full HD, but it's good. I will try to post all of the episodes, but for now, first 10.

The conversations and cultural explanations are the strong part of it.

I have somewhere similar thing but on Japanese, if anyone wants, called (if I remember it right,) Youkoso! But the bad thing is, there are not that many resources on learning Korean, and if they are any, they stop after very beginner level. Eh, well, we have to do something about this.

Lake

Something I wrote long time ago and translated much, much later as a part of the game. I'm not used to write such short texts, I have always had problems with that. But I was in the mood, that is why. Maybe I'm in the mood right now, that is why I'm posting it here.

The absynth and the doubt

Poetry is something strange. Some words put together that make totally different sense from the one they make separately. I have always liked poetry. But not contemporary. Please, everyone can be a poet in the modern sense. I don't like Baroque poetry either, with its ornaments and concepts. It was a word-play, nothing more.

I've read many poems that moved my heart back then (yes, I have that organ, despite what people say), but after some time, I came to notice how childish they were. And as almost every kid, I tried to write my own, firmly believing I'm following the path of Elders. But, eventually, the reason found its way to me and I stopped, seeing all nonsense of it. Perhaps they were good poems, but I don't think so. Now I almost regret I'm not a poetess, so I could put my words with finesse and grace just to sing an antiphone for someone.

The only words I'm left with are cursing ones... ekhem...

But I would like to present some good poetry:

Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, E.A. Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lee Su Ik...

폭풍전야: Lovers Vanished

  
    This movie is known under 5 different titles: After the Storm, Last Night, Lovers Vanished and The Day Before, Lovers Vanquished. But what's more interesting is the fact that 폭풍전야 means actually "Before The Storm". I will try to be as much objective as I can while writing about it, but first I need my sleep.

As for now, some posters (there were few) and videos.

When I read that the movie will be in theatres in Korea on April 1st, I though, "It's a joke, right? Another movie his character will not see the end of"...  In Miindo he didn't, in Public Enemy he didn't. And now, in drama Bad Guy he won't.

The first man in my long life and I regret I'm not a poetess. I don't know how he does it, but his every role, his every character is so memorable. Plus the voice.

In Modern Boy he spoke like whispering, he raised his voice just once, and I was scared brainless... but more I was scared with his quiet mode. He has something dark in this calmness of his.

Lovers Vanished I find the most suitable title regardless of the original. I like the word "vanish", it has some disappearance substance in it. This "-ish" at the end reminds me of the sand. Sand and ashes. The whole movie was sand and ashes...