I invite you to "our" home.

In many cases, Korean people say "we, our, us" instead of "I, my, me."
It may sound weird (and even dangerous) to say so in English but it's very common and widely used in Korean. It's commonly known that Korea's communalism("We" culture) is reflected on its language, or vise versa.

Here are some examples for this: our school, our home, our mom/dad, our brother/sister, our wife/husband, ect.

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Formal and Informal Expressions in Korean

Koreans have lots of honorific(formal) expressions. It's one of the traditions to speak formally to someone older than you. It's unique in Korean and pretty complicated so you might find it hard to comprehend.

You make formal sentences in basically three ways.

1. with subject
In your writing, you use formal expressions for the subject when needed. e.g. When you talk about your grandfather, your teacher, principal, ect. You can add two special words- 시 and 께서- to do this.
e.g. 어머니가 집에 온다 ->어머니께서 집에 오신다.(오+시+ㄴ+다)

There's some special words to make your sentence formal too. Of course you add 께서 next to the subject.

e.g. 할머니가 방에 있다 -> 할머니께서 방에 계신다.
아버지가 죽었다 -> 아버지께서 돌아가셨다.

2. with object
You use 께 (to) instead of 한테. There's also some special expressions needed.

e.g. 책을 선생님한테 주다 -> 책을 선생님께 드리다.

3. according to listener
The word that ends the sentence(in korean it's called 어미, which means the tail of the word) is up to who you talk to. You speak in different manners when you talk to your frineds and the principal, right? It's like that.

Below shows how the verb 하다(to do) changes.
This explains how 안녕하세요 and 안녕 are different.

e.g. 안녕. (to your friend) 안녕하세요(to older people)
같이 갈래?(to your friend) 같이 가실래요?(to older people)

Introduction to Korean Language

Korean ancestors didn't have their language, as a matter of fact. They did speak Korean, though it was quite different from modern one, but they didn't have the letters to express their thoughts. They adopted Chinese characters(Hanja) as their letter, and it was surely uncomfortable but this two-language system---Korean as oral, and Chinese as written---lasted for thousands of years. But one thing's sure, Korean language goes back a long way. For example in Korean "thread" is called "sil 실," and it's known that English word "silk" is somewhat affected by it.

Korean letter, Hanguel 한글, was invented in 1446 by King Sejong. (It was named Hunminjeong'eum훈민정음 at that time, which means "sincere letters educating the people") Since then it has been revised and renovated till now.

Here are some major characteristics of Korean.

• Korean's rich in vocabularies. According to Standard Korean Encyclopedia published in 1999, there're 508,771 letters in total. What's unique in Korean is that Korean's very rich in words for colors, onomatopoeias(words for sounds), and mimetic words(words for behaviors). For example I can name at least seven words for red, blue, and yellow. And there's surely many words for sounds and behaviors, and it's so cute to read them in Manhwa(Korean comics)
• Korean language flows. It's pretty much like English, there's lots of flows and assimilations that helps you speak smoothly.
• I you love. That's how you say "I love you" in Korean. Not like English, you say objective first than the verb. That's why some people say you should listen to what they say till the end.
• Korean is an agglutinative language(glue language). In English there's a basic form of verbs, like see, write, or go. And to say something that happened in the past, it goes saw, wrote, and went. In Korean there's a major body of the verbs, like bo보, sseu쓰, ga가, and to make the past tense you add atda았다, which goes boatda보았다, ssetda썼다, gatda갔다. You basically "glue" the words you need to get the form of verb you want. Japanese works the same way.
• Korean's a easy language to learn. (At least that's what English Institute announced. It said English's hard language to learn, though. I don't know why!)

Good luck with your studies!

Korean History in a Nutshell

Korea, commonly known as South Korea is the herb of Asia. It's close to China and Russia, and Japan.Korea used to have a huge territory, farther on north dominating territories which now China and Russia owns, but due to a series of wars it'd lost many of it's valuable territories.Korea has long history, and it tried to keep favorable relationships with nearby countries most of the times.Korea's culture is somewhat influenced by China's, and Korea also influenced many of Japanese cultures. When Japan militarized on 20th century, Korea fell on pray and had been colonized by Japan for 35 years. After it's freed, however, it suffered Korean war and devided into North and South. It's amazingly grown up since 1970 and now it has become one of the most successful country in Asia.