Hong’s Cave

Maybe it was just me that didn’t realize this, but I came across a site with a pretty good application of machine translation.
Naver.com, probably the most popular portal site in Korea, has a section called “enjoyjapan” where things related to Japan are discussed. That site also provide machine translation service between Korean and Japanese. [...]

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There was a buzz about a new ABC series, “Lost”, created by JJ Abrams (of “Alias”) on an A/V message board I frequent. It sounded good, so I had my TiVo record the series, and we’ve finally watched the second half of the 2-hour pilot last night.
The show being promising is not my concern [...]

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Should I write my name as Younghong Cho or Cho Younghong?
There is something I’ve been noticing recently about how some Koreans write their names in Roman alphabets. Some of them started writing Korean names with their family name first without a comma. This seems to be more common for the names of Koreans in [...]

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This is a bit embarrassing. No, a lot.
This newspaper article (in Korean) talks about a Korean language instruction booklet that has been circulating on the Internet. This Korean language book was made about two years ago by a Vietnamese company who exports labor outside Vietnam. Almost all the Vietnamese workers in Korea [...]

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I was going to say something, but I don’t think it’s that interesting. :p I guess I will just note that it’s an order of magnitude more difficult for me to flirt in English than in Korean. Since I grew up on Korean, it’s definitely my emotional language, where English was learned and mostly used [...]

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On a personal reflection…
I don’t have much accents in my English even though I spent the most of my first 24 years in Korea. This often puts people around me and myself in a bit awkward (?) place.
For example, at a wedding reception of one of my friends recently in Seattle, I was talking to [...]

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This is also one of those things that go back several years, but it came up again recently. And the interesting thing was one of my friends told me that I can probably get a grant to do a research on this subject…
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but one of the things that [...]

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