ELITE Global Language Learning Center is about to start a beginner’s Korean course and interested parties are invited to join. Enroll with two friends and you and your friends will enjoy a special monthly fee of RM350 per month (originally RM400). For details on the offer, contact Mark Yun (pic left) at 03 7729 7909 or drop by the center at Office Eastwing, E-L3A-09 Metropolitan Square, Jalan PJU 8/1 Damansara Perdana, 47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Related:Korean courses @ ELITE Global Language Learning Center
Korean courses @ ELITE Global Language Learning Center
Looking for a language center to learn Korean? If you’re living in the Damansara Perdana area in Petaling Jaya, check out Elite Global Language Learning Center at Metropolitan Square. Managed by Alice Choi and Mark Yun from South Korea, the newly-established language center offers Korean language for the various levels. 어서오세요!: Mark Yun of ELITE Global Language Learning Center Apart from that, the center offers preparatory classes for the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK). If you are planning to attend a Korean university or work for a Korean company, then you’ll need to take the test. “We offer Korean classes two times a week. Every class is for one and a half hours and the maximum number of students for each class is six,” said Yun, who is the manager and Korean language teacher at ELITE. The monthly fee for a Korean course is RM400. The center also provides one-to-one tuition at RM60 per hour. Also, if you bring a friend with you to register, you will receive a 5% discount on the fees. For more information on the Korean language classes at ELITE, contact Mark / Alice: Tel: 03-7729 7909Address: Office Eastwing, E-L3A-09 Metropolitan Square, Jalan PJU 8/1
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World Cup Street Cheering at Little Korea, Ampang
World Cup fever has gotten to Syd, who dutifully dons her red shirt and heads out to Little Korea, Ampang to cheer on the South Korean team. She shares with us her experience cheering on the streets with the Korean community in Malaysia. One of the most anticipated sports event is here – the 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP! Even if you’re not a football fan, you can’t escape the excitement and passion for the Beautiful Game. Victory Korea!: The Koreans in Malaysia show support for their football team This year, the newly-launched Saranghaeyo Korea Club (SKC) organized a Street Cheering event in a show of support for the South Korean team. SKC was initiated by Korea Tourism Organization. On June 17, South Korea played against Argentina and nothing would have stopped me from joining the Street Cheering crowd in Little Korea, Ampang. This is my first time watching the World Cup as a Kpop fan, and my second street cheering event. (The first was when South Korea played against Greece on June 12). Check: SKC members register for the Street Cheering event in Little Korea, Ampang I arrived at the venue around 6pm. As a member of the SKC, one
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Sogaeting @ The Street Café on April 24
Psst, have you heard? The Street Café and K-popped! are organizing a little get together where boys meet girls…and they have some fun. Will you get your mind out of the gutter? Sogaeting @ The Street Café is happening this Saturday and guests who have booked a place for the by-invite only event will get to meet and mingle with new friends with similar interests. Oh, and they will be taking home a goodie bag from Korea Tourism Organization and Galaxie magazine. Sogaeting (소개팅), which basically means blind date, is a very common past time among Koreans. I’m sure you’ve seen K-dramas where the characters meet their dates for drinks at hotels, cafes and such, no? Well, to make it less intimidating for Malaysians (we are quite shy, mah), we’re adapting it to our culture. Through the sheer effort of Orchid – and some help from The Street Café’s owner Andrew Kim – 6 boys and 6 girls will be attending our inaugural Sogaeting @ The Street Café. They are:여자 Syud Zack Samantha Tew Cindy Xin Liming Syd Mokhtar Nina Kim 남자 Kim Irsyad & 5 Korean guys whom I do not know the names of…yet (don’t worry, allow me
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Sogaeting @ The Street Cafe (24 April 2010)
Hi all, K-popped! and The Street Cafe will be co-organizing a ground event called “Sogaeting @ The Street Cafe” on the 24th April 2010. Thank you to those who have shown interest and who have sent Orchid (that’s me!) a personal message on Facebook to secure a seat. Currently, we have more than enough ladies who have responded. Thank you girls! So here, we are making a shout out to the guys out there, who are reading our blog. If you are interested, please private message Orchid on FB. Please note that Sogaeting @ The Street Cafe is NOT A PARTY. It is more like a GROUP DATE. Five girls and five guys will be invited to the first session on the 24th. The Street Cafe will be sponsoring drinks but cost of food will be borne by the participants themselves. There will also be some freebies given out to the participants. It’s sort of a get-to-know one another session, and we hope to bring the Korean culture of sogaeting (blind date) here to Malaysia! For more information: Check out the event on Facebook Join Sogaeting Malaysia 20s on FB Related articles:Sogaeting MalaysiaHalal Korean food at The Street Cafe
Book Review: The Surrendered (Lee Chang-rae)
The SurrenderedChang-rae LeeISBN: 978-1-59448-976-1US$26.95www.riverheadbooks.comK-popped! was asked to review The Surrendered, a novel by Korean American author Lee Chang-rae. Lee (45) is an award winning, bestselling author of three novels: Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and Aloft. The Surrendered will be released March 9, 2010 in the US. I have not read any of Lee’s (pic right, below) works and The Surrendered is my first book by the author. The novel is filled with eloquent and affecting prose with a very engaging first chapter. It is about the tragic deaths of the protagonist’s siblings in an accident that is at once graphic and heartbreaking. Lee paints vivid pictures for the reader with his words. It comes as no surprise since the author teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.While The Surrendered is beautifully written, it is not an easy read as the story is disheartening – tragic with a sense of hopelessness. The dark themes running through the story are of unpleasant memories and longing. So moving and upsetting are they that I had to periodically take a break from the book. The story revolves around two characters – June Han and Hector Brennan. The former is a Korean
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Sogaeting Malaysia
소 개팅 (pronounced So-gae-ting) is a favourite Korean past time. “Sogaeting” simply means blind date. On weekends, single Korean men and women would go on blind dates. They would obtain contacts of a member of the opposite sex from friends and meet up for drinks. If they don’t hit it off, then they move on, and probably set up another date to meet another person the next week. There is another Korean word for blind date called 선 (pronounced Son or Seon). These blind dates are normally arranged by parents for their children, with the intention of marrying them off. Well, Orchid is attempting to bring this Korean culture of blind dates here to our shores – 소개팅 Malaysia (Sogaeting Malaysia). Become a Facebook fan, and meet new people, who knows, you might just find your Mr. or Mrs. Right there! Join Sogaeting Malaysia (if you are in your 30s or 40s)http://www.facebook.com/sogaetingmalaysia Join Sogaeting Malaysia 20s (if you are in your 20s)http://www.facebook.com/sogaetingmalaysia20s
Kangaroo shoppers in South Korea
Do you go shopping with your mother…and let Mom pay for your (expensive) purchases? If you answered yes, you may actually be a kangaroo shopper – a married woman who isn’t ashamed of letting Mom pay for your vanity. The profile of a kangaroo shopper: married to an ordinary salary worker and a housewife. Lee Yoo-kyung (34), who is married with a toddler, got Mommy to buy her a 300,000won (RM883) silver pair of Prada flats. She said: “My Mom feels sorry for me so she almost always pays for my shopping. It’s not that I’m poor but I definitely have far less money than my Mom so she’s happy to take me out.” Her Mom, who is in her 60s, said: “I can afford to spare that much on my daughter. Even if she is married, she’s still my child.” The pair usually goes shopping once a month and Mom would spend about 500,000 won (RM1,472) on her daughter each time.Apparently, many married 20- and 30-something women are increasingly choosing to become kangaroo shoppers. The term comes as a result of overprotective parents. These parents are called “kangaroo parents” – keeping their kids in their pouch and excessively protecting
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Children’s drawings given life
Ever wonder what kids drawings would look like in real life? Photographer Yeondoo Jung probably did. In his 2005 project entitled Wonderland, Yeondoo Jung created a collection of photographs inspired from artworks drawn by children. The photographs are whimsical and fun. Some of them I find quite hilarious. Besides creating a replica of each drawing, Jung injects his own thoughts and interpretations into his photographs. You can view more of his work on his website http://www.yeondoojung.com. Television was so funny Snow White He didn’t sleep for three days The magician turned the whale into a flower Pic Credit: Yeondoo Jung
South Koreans are friendlier to Western tourists?
Results of a survey conducted by the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute show that South Koreans are more hospitable towards Western tourists compared to their Asian counterparts. Visitors from 16 countries took a survey during the first half of 2009. Of the 5,822 participants, tourists from Western countries gave Koreans high points for hospitality while tourists from Asian countries gave them a lower rating. Malaysian tourists: Rooster (left) and Orchid en route to Namsan The Germans (79.7%) and French (77.9%) think South Koreans are friendly, followed by the British (77.1%), Americans (73%) and Australians (71.4%). Meanwhile, tourists from Asia gave a lower rating: Taiwan (32.8%), Thailand (48.9%), Japan (48.6%) and Hong Kong/Singapore (44.5%). This suggests that Koreans are selective when it comes to showing hospitality.I believe this happens in Malaysia too. Friends have lamented how Malaysians can be all smiley and kind towards the Mat Salleh (white guys) but show a long face towards fellow Malaysians/ Asians. Sigh. For health and vitality: Don’t forget to eat fruits even ina foreign land. Rooster buys oranges. Nonetheless, when the K-popped! Trio were in Seoul last November, we didn’t run into any particularly rude person…. Maybe there was that street food ajumma who
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