Korean Wave! Korea and Jeju Island

Today I watched the nice movie, 'The Great Battle, Ansi Castle'. 1400 years ago, The Korean Peninsula was divided into three nations; Goguryeo. Baekje and Silla. At the time, China King, Lee Se min invaded Goguryeo and captured some castles in Goguryeo. When Lee Se Min invaded 'Ansi Castle', the lord of the Ansi castle was Yang Man Chun. Yang Man chun had only 5000 soldiers compared to Lee Se Min's 200 thousand soldiers. Before the battle, Yang Man Chun called on his soldiers and people; We didn't learn how to retreat, to bend our knees and to yield. Fight to defend our family and our nation by sacrificing ourselves!' The fierce battle lasted for 88 days long! Finally Yang Man Chun overcame the enemy and won the battle. Nowadays the battle at Ansi recognized to be one of the greatest in history. When watching the movie, I was proud having such brave ancestors. 오늘 영화 ‘안시성’을 봤다. 1400년 전 한국은 고구려, 백제, 신라로 3개의 나라로 나뉘어 있었다. 그때 당태종 이세민이 고구려를 침략했고, 고구려의 여러 성이 함락되었...

Last night I didn't clean the make-up off my face and I fell asleep while watching TV. When I woke up I knew it was Sunday morning. I woke up early , washed my face and brushed my teeth. After breakfast I watched a TV drama that was popular two years ago. At that time I enjoyed watching it and I couldn't wait for the weekends. It's still nice to watch the show again. Yesteday I watched a funny show and I will watch other episodes of the drama in my free time. Lately, I have been watching a lecture about my work online. I still have nineteen lectures to watch this month. During the course I must take the test twice. A while ago I took one and I got a perfect score. The other test will be in May.

Every year I make the same New year's resolutions, but this year I added one more. 1. To read one book(Korean or English) a month. - To be frank with you, I didn't finish reading even one book this year so I want to read more books in 2018. 2. To improve my English skills - I want to improve my English skills, especially speaking so I will practice speaking,listening and writing. 3. To lose some weight - I need to lose about 5kg so that I can be healthy, so I have to walk or ride a bicycle for about 30 minutes every day. 4. To improve my piano skills - I have been practicing the piano by myself since I learned how to play the piano at a paino institute for three months. I will attend a piano institute near my house. That's all! Did you make any new year's resolutions?

When my children were very young, Christmas was a special day for my family. My children wanted to receive something special from Santa Claus. Every year my husband and I bought some presents and gave them to their daycare center for Christmas festival. One day, a long time ago, my youngest daughter came home with a big present. "Mommy! I received a big gift from Santa Claus. My friends envied me", said my daughter. She unwrapped it with excitement. It was a big dark brown bear. She looked so excited and very happy. Many years later, she learned the truth that her daddy prepared it for her as a Christmas present.

I work at a daycare center as a teacher. Every year there is a Christmas Festival for children at work. A few days ago, my co-workers and I already packed some Christmas presents for the children. Yesterday we had a Christmas Festival. Santa Claus in red clothes visited us to give the presents to the children. When the children looked at him, some looked a little bit nervous. Santa Claus called the children names and gave the presents. He also gave me and my co-workers small presents. My boss already prepared some presents for us. I was happy to receive it from Santa Claus and took a picture with him. I had never received any gifts from Santa claus at work. This Christmas was special.

At this time last year, I went camping with my family at Geulbik(귤빛) camp site where was next to Jeju tangerines orchards. We enjoyed picking some tangerines as well as camping. My daughter showed how to pick the tangerines on Youtube. We will go there again this month. Have a nice day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4HLKrUkVI

A long time ago, I saw a good story on TV. One day, a man found a large tree, but there were no other such large and nice trees in the area. He studied the tree carefully to know the reason. He discovered a new fact that it was not good for wood, while normally large trees are used for wood. In the end, the tree was able to grow into a large tree, because it had been ignored by humans a long time ago for that reason, 'Useless thing, '무용지물'. Now, it is no longer a useless thing, but is a good tree giving a resting place to animals, plants and human. In this case, we say Muyongjiyong, '무용지용(無用之用)' in Korean. Have you ever regretted throwing away something that you thought of being useless? In other words, are there something that one day useless things, you thought so at first, were made good use? I would like to say that even something insignificant could also someday be made good use of. ////// 오래 전에 TV에서 괜찮은 이야기를 들었어요. 어느 날, 한 사람이 아주 큰 나무를 발견했는데, 그 주위에...