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TOPIK 시험 볼까? ㅋㅋ

Before going for my morning bike ride today, I decided to print off the latest TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) test that people took (elementary level only) this year. For me, the test name is a bit meh... it sounds similar to TOEIC, and the word "topic", which I guess is what they were after, but "Test of Proficiency in Korean" feels clumsy. Korean Language Proficiency Test sounds better, but can't make any funky abbreviation. KoLapt, maybe? :p

Did the practice test after shopping with my sister. Here's my results for the elementary test:

Listening (듣기): 94/100
Reading (읽기): 79/100
Vocabulary and Grammar (어휘 및 문법): 91/100
Writing (쓰기): 73/100

Total (총액): 337/400
Average (편균): 84/100
(technically 84.25, but i rounded down.) ^^

There is a 30-point free writing question (150~300자로), which says:

어느 계절을 좋아합니까? (Which season do you like?)
왜 그 계걸을 좋아합니까? (Why do you like that season?)
그 계절에 특별한 무엇을 합니까? (What's special about that season?)

Here's what I wrote, on pen and paper, without using a dictionary:

한국에서 저는 가을을 진짜 좋아해요. 옛날에 전라남도의 시골에 살았는데 여름이 아주 습해서 편하지 않았어요. 그런데, 가을이 나왔을 때 날씨가 따뜻하게 편해져서 여행하러 갈 수 있어요.

전라남도에서 유명한 산은 "내장산"라고 있어요. 다른 계절에 가면 "예쁜 산이 아닌데"라고 생각하겠지만 거울에 가면 단풍나무의 잎이 빨간색, 노란색과 주황색으로 아름답게 바꿔요.

갔을데 여친이 없었어도 거기서 진짜 좋은 시간 아직도 보냈어요. ㅋㅋ

There you go. I'm hoping, that an online friend of mine, Equinox, over at Mountain and Field, who has taken a few TOPIK tests, could give me a mark (and maybe some comments, if he has a bit of time ^^) out of 30. Thanks for the email, Equinox, and the 18/30 for the written part.

Just after I took the test, I went to check out Brian in Jeollanam-do, and found this interesting article.

South Korea vs South Park (Part 2)

Just a bit more fun with the South Park Character Creator. This time, a parody of Big Bang.

Here are the two images I based the parody on:

And here's what I came up with. The boy band - Big Bark, with their 1st mini album "Sit Down":

The image is 1920 x 1200, so you can use it as a wallpaper *^^*

South Korea vs South Park

So, I had a bit of fun with the South Park Character Creator thing that I found today. I started to think, what would some Korean artists look like, if they were on South Park. Here's what I came up with.

The first one. She's Hyroish - Hyori Lee (이효리):

Second. Seven (세븐). This one required a couple of minutes of work, to get the clothes right:

The last one, I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Epik High (에픽 하이). With their lovely white album cover from their third album (which has the songs Fly and Paris), Swan Songs.

I thought this one turned out so well, i made it into a 1920 x 1200 wallpaper ^^

Do you know? Gimchi is Korean Pride!

Brian over at Brian (obviously) in Jeollanam-do found this in one of his school text books the other day. (Brian's original article here).

Which made me think... with all the issues around Dokdo bringing up the ~~over the top, wanna make you puke, wish they'd all shut up, get over it and find some individual identity~~ usual nationalism stuff, it's good to see that Dokdo is getting a rest for a while... But, where is the "Did you know? Gimchi" shirt?

For people how like gimchi:

For people who like kimchi:

Movie Spoofs/Ideas/Parodies

Where's Wally/Waldo?

(He was called Wally in Australia.)

Tetris - The Movie

Matrix Reloaded

From the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
Will Farrell as the Architect ^^

Dark Knight

Korea's definition of "ironic"

Taken (without permission, of course ^^) from the online newspaper The Korea Times.

Yes, a Korean newspaper making a comment about another country being too nationalistic.

Korean T-Shirts, Semi-explanation

In Korea, so many t-shirts had random English bullshit on them. One thing I find funny, in a country that is so pedantic about learning English grammar to pass tests, they buy t-shirts with bad English on them. Here are 2 highlights of recent, Korean made stupidity on a shirt:

Not even sure what they mean by this one...

Umm... you have a really hard what? This one, I saw in COEX, a guy, with his girlfriend was wearing it, and by the looks of his girlfriend, i can understand what the "really hard" thing was.

But still, if you wanna look like a douche, then it's up to you.

Oh yeah, and for the people who are really interested in what has happened to me lately, find me on facebook, or send me an email (atmx888@gmail.com). I'm not cool with putting it up on the blog yet.