While checking links on some of my old posts to make them work in this new blog, I found out that Park Chan-wook's Paranmanjang, a short film made entirely with a iPhone 4, is available on iPhone Film Festival's YouTube channel. It is a 33-minute video and, though there are no English subtitles, the images captured are quite beautiful and need no translation. Do check it out!
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Movie of the week #1: Paranmanjang, Park Chan Wook
While checking links on some of my old posts to make them work in this new blog, I found out that Park Chan-wook's Paranmanjang, a short film made entirely with a iPhone 4, is available on iPhone Film Festival's YouTube channel. It is a 33-minute video and, though there are no English subtitles, the images captured are quite beautiful and need no translation. Do check it out!
Monday, 11 April 2011
My private Korean Movie Week
GD & TOP - High high
This week will be Korean Movie Week for me, yay! Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Thirst, A tale of two sisters and, if possible, My sassy girl. Comments will follow. (And click on each of the names to see the trailers!)
I'm also preparing a post with lots of lovely pictures of modern first year birthday parties, that include my favourite Korean tradition: the part in which the child "chooses" her or his future. Parents nowadays are really creative and come up with a lot of really pretty and modern solutions for this moment.
And, well, the video has nothing to do with any of this, but I find TOP is extremely handsome in it, so... why not post it?
edit: i do realize my sassy girl has no connection whatsoever with any of the other movies, but i do feel i'll be in need of something to cheer me up by the end of the week.
Check out more posts from this collaboration HERE.
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Learning Korean - Talk to me in Korean!
When I talked about some of my favourite websites to get extra study material on Korean, I completely forgot about a recent but great find: Talk to me in Korean! It is, actually, good that it happened like that, because I think this one deserves to be featured alone.
Talk to me in Korean has weekly lessons that come out as podcasts on their website or via iTunes. They start at a very basic level and go up 'til Level 5 (so far), so almost all learners will find appropriate lessons. Besides having the regular video/audio podcasts, they also release every once in a while Iyagi lessons, which are "recordings of Korean conversations, at natural speed, about various topics". And that's not all! TTMIK also produces several other videos or audios with original content for you study times.
One great thing about it is that they have PDFs with each lesson's notes and worksheets for all lessons (but 1-10, Level 1), so you can also practice a bit after listening to the podcast. This is the best part for me, 'cause I'm one of those visual learners, so I need to have something to look at when studying.
But nothing's perfect, and I find that their putting the Korean word side-by-side with its romanization is a considerable drawback. It may be only me, but my eyes go straight to the letters I'm more used to read, instead of focusing on the Korean alphabet. This is manageable, though. I just used a black marker to "erase" all unwanted romanization. I reckon you'd be able to tweak the files if you have that Acrobat Professional (or something like it), but I just cannot say for sure.
All in all, it's quite good and it's been helpful to me, so I'd definitely recommend it!
Their last post is this fun video on popular exclamations. I love those kind of things and I hear "진짜요?" all the time on Korean TV shows, so it was nice learning how to write it properly and also learning a few more expressions. Take a look at the ones below and at the video I'm pasting here. And don't forget to check Talk to me in Korean and subscribe to their feeds!
"Here are some popular expressions used by Koreans when they are surprised or express exclamations.
1. 엄마야! = Oh My God! / Oops!
2. 대박 = Super cool! / Awesome!
3. 우와 = Wow
4. 진짜요? = For real?
5. 그래요? = Is that so?
6. 정말요? = Really?
7. 아이고! = *sigh* / Whew! / Oops!
8. 아싸 = Yay! / Hurrah!
9. 네? = Yes?
10. 어? = Huh?
11. 아/아야 = Ouch!
12. 헐 = What the…
13. 헉! = *gasp* / OMG!"
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIvZSdN3d8Y]
Check out more posts from this collaboration HERE.
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Talk to me in Korean has weekly lessons that come out as podcasts on their website or via iTunes. They start at a very basic level and go up 'til Level 5 (so far), so almost all learners will find appropriate lessons. Besides having the regular video/audio podcasts, they also release every once in a while Iyagi lessons, which are "recordings of Korean conversations, at natural speed, about various topics". And that's not all! TTMIK also produces several other videos or audios with original content for you study times.
One great thing about it is that they have PDFs with each lesson's notes and worksheets for all lessons (but 1-10, Level 1), so you can also practice a bit after listening to the podcast. This is the best part for me, 'cause I'm one of those visual learners, so I need to have something to look at when studying.
But nothing's perfect, and I find that their putting the Korean word side-by-side with its romanization is a considerable drawback. It may be only me, but my eyes go straight to the letters I'm more used to read, instead of focusing on the Korean alphabet. This is manageable, though. I just used a black marker to "erase" all unwanted romanization. I reckon you'd be able to tweak the files if you have that Acrobat Professional (or something like it), but I just cannot say for sure.
All in all, it's quite good and it's been helpful to me, so I'd definitely recommend it!
Their last post is this fun video on popular exclamations. I love those kind of things and I hear "진짜요?" all the time on Korean TV shows, so it was nice learning how to write it properly and also learning a few more expressions. Take a look at the ones below and at the video I'm pasting here. And don't forget to check Talk to me in Korean and subscribe to their feeds!
"Here are some popular expressions used by Koreans when they are surprised or express exclamations.
1. 엄마야! = Oh My God! / Oops!
2. 대박 = Super cool! / Awesome!
3. 우와 = Wow
4. 진짜요? = For real?
5. 그래요? = Is that so?
6. 정말요? = Really?
7. 아이고! = *sigh* / Whew! / Oops!
8. 아싸 = Yay! / Hurrah!
9. 네? = Yes?
10. 어? = Huh?
11. 아/아야 = Ouch!
12. 헐 = What the…
13. 헉! = *gasp* / OMG!"
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIvZSdN3d8Y]
Check out more posts from this collaboration HERE.
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Video of the week #3: Do you know South Korea?
I'm still having problems with images for my posts, so, as I don't really know how long it'll take for me to find the photos I'm looking for (I'm really messy and my picture archive is in a terrible state), I searched for a few videos that show beautiful things/places in Korea.
I leave you now with this one, “Do You Know South Korea?”, by David Dutton. I found it on seoulful and loved it right away. The video is lovely, some of the places shown are beyond beautiful and the music helps you get into the right mood to fully appreciate it.
Enjoy!
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Friday, 11 March 2011
So, I'm a Korea Blog writer!
Life was pretty hectic for a while, but over the last couple weeks I've been organising everything so I'd have more time to do the things I really like, blogging, for example.
Having been chosen as a blogger for The Korea Blog also played a big part in it, I have to admit, since it sort of compels me to become more active than before. I was so glad to be chosen that I told everybody about it, hahaha. So, now, I really have to put some effort into this.
(By the way, if you want to check out all the folks who made the cut, go here!)
To start this whole thing, I'm posting something that was already seen on my old blog, The Annotated Life. The original post dates back to early 2010, when I was still in the beginning of my obsession/passion for Korea. Even though it's not 2010 and the article I refer to in the text doesn't make much sense anymore, I really like this post because it kinda shows a bit how excited I was to be discovering such a rich culture for the first time.
So, here it goes!
Seoul: a city to visit in 2010, according to The NY Times
(originally posted on January 12, 2010)
I guess I haven't talked about my obsession with Korea in here, have I? Well, that's pretty much it: ever since I came to London, I kind of fell in love with it, a country I had never given too much thought before. Yeah, I know it does sound bad, but I'm really trying to redeem myself: I've been reading about its culture and habits, as well as getting started on Korean literature. Of course, I'm also looking for a place that teaches the language and have already begun planning a trip to the place in July (more on that will follow, surely). I subscribed to many Korean-related blogs, too, and it was in one of them, Ask a Korean, that I found out that Seoul, the capital city, was selected as one of the 31 places to visit in 2010. Not only this, but they were voted #3! Pretty cool, huh? Here's what the newspaper had to say:
“Forget Tokyo. Design aficionados are now heading to Seoul.
They have been drawn by the Korean capital's glammed-up cafes and restaurants, immaculate art galleries and monumental fashion palaces like the sprawling outpost of Milan’s 10 Corso Como and the widely noted Ann Demeulemeester store — an avant-garde Chia Pet covered in vegetation.
And now Seoul, under its design-obsessed mayor, Oh Se-hoon, is the 2010 World Design Capital. The title, bestowed by a prominent council of industrial designers, means a year's worth of design parties, exhibitions, conferences and other revelries. Most are still being planned (go to wdc2010.seoul.go.kr for updates). A highlight will no doubt be the third annual Seoul Design Fair (Sept. 17 to Oct. 7), the city's answer to the design weeks in Milan and New York, which last year drew 2.5 million people and featured a cavalcade of events under two enormous inflatable structures set up at the city's Olympic stadium. — Aric Chen”
True enough, I'm not a design aficionada at all, but I'm pretty sure I can find other interesting things to do and places to visit (which, in this case, means that I could actually go to Seoul in any year I feel like, not particularly this one).
Interesting fact: a comment on the post I mentioned above led me to discover that, for some people, Seoul is actually quite a bit disappointing. =( Sad, but I'll just refer to a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke that I recently found: “If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.”
Oh, and another list in which Korea appears: the world’s strangest festivals mentions Boryeong, a sort of mud party that happens every July.
Something extra: nice little Lonely Planet video on Korea:http://www.lonelyplanet.com/south-korea#video-ltv-369E92E845CA0F25. The ending is the best part, actually; “say hello to kimchi (…). You'll get used to it”. Yay!
*All pictures in this post were definitely NOT taken by me (surprise, surprise), but come from the Lonely Planet website. Check their South Korea page by clicking HERE.
Check out more posts from this collaboration HERE.
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Originally published here.
Having been chosen as a blogger for The Korea Blog also played a big part in it, I have to admit, since it sort of compels me to become more active than before. I was so glad to be chosen that I told everybody about it, hahaha. So, now, I really have to put some effort into this.
(By the way, if you want to check out all the folks who made the cut, go here!)
To start this whole thing, I'm posting something that was already seen on my old blog, The Annotated Life. The original post dates back to early 2010, when I was still in the beginning of my obsession/passion for Korea. Even though it's not 2010 and the article I refer to in the text doesn't make much sense anymore, I really like this post because it kinda shows a bit how excited I was to be discovering such a rich culture for the first time.
So, here it goes!
Seoul: a city to visit in 2010, according to The NY Times
(originally posted on January 12, 2010)
I guess I haven't talked about my obsession with Korea in here, have I? Well, that's pretty much it: ever since I came to London, I kind of fell in love with it, a country I had never given too much thought before. Yeah, I know it does sound bad, but I'm really trying to redeem myself: I've been reading about its culture and habits, as well as getting started on Korean literature. Of course, I'm also looking for a place that teaches the language and have already begun planning a trip to the place in July (more on that will follow, surely). I subscribed to many Korean-related blogs, too, and it was in one of them, Ask a Korean, that I found out that Seoul, the capital city, was selected as one of the 31 places to visit in 2010. Not only this, but they were voted #3! Pretty cool, huh? Here's what the newspaper had to say:
“Forget Tokyo. Design aficionados are now heading to Seoul.
They have been drawn by the Korean capital's glammed-up cafes and restaurants, immaculate art galleries and monumental fashion palaces like the sprawling outpost of Milan’s 10 Corso Como and the widely noted Ann Demeulemeester store — an avant-garde Chia Pet covered in vegetation.
And now Seoul, under its design-obsessed mayor, Oh Se-hoon, is the 2010 World Design Capital. The title, bestowed by a prominent council of industrial designers, means a year's worth of design parties, exhibitions, conferences and other revelries. Most are still being planned (go to wdc2010.seoul.go.kr for updates). A highlight will no doubt be the third annual Seoul Design Fair (Sept. 17 to Oct. 7), the city's answer to the design weeks in Milan and New York, which last year drew 2.5 million people and featured a cavalcade of events under two enormous inflatable structures set up at the city's Olympic stadium. — Aric Chen”
True enough, I'm not a design aficionada at all, but I'm pretty sure I can find other interesting things to do and places to visit (which, in this case, means that I could actually go to Seoul in any year I feel like, not particularly this one).
Interesting fact: a comment on the post I mentioned above led me to discover that, for some people, Seoul is actually quite a bit disappointing. =( Sad, but I'll just refer to a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke that I recently found: “If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.”
Oh, and another list in which Korea appears: the world’s strangest festivals mentions Boryeong, a sort of mud party that happens every July.
Something extra: nice little Lonely Planet video on Korea:http://www.lonelyplanet.com/south-korea#video-ltv-369E92E845CA0F25. The ending is the best part, actually; “say hello to kimchi (…). You'll get used to it”. Yay!
*All pictures in this post were definitely NOT taken by me (surprise, surprise), but come from the Lonely Planet website. Check their South Korea page by clicking HERE.
Check out more posts from this collaboration HERE.
Check out the other collaborators' blogs here.
Check out The Korea Blog!
Originally published here.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Video of the week #1: Gummy - As a man
I don't really like the song, but this is totally cute indeed.
theowlknows:
This is such a cute video.
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