You can consider them as a set of two books; (1) Survival Korean and (2) Survival Korean: Basic Grammar Skills.

They were meant to be companion books for audience of Arirang's Let's Speak Korean programme hosted by Lisa Kelley and Stephen Revere, of course.

The Table of Contents for book 2.

Preface

How to Use This Book

Essential Bocabulary

Section 1 Tenses

CHAPTER 1 To be N, To not be N - N예요, N이/가 아니에요

CHAPTER 2 To be A, To do N - A/V여요, A/V아요, A/V어요

CHAPTER 3 Was, Did - A/V 였어요, A/V았어요, A/V었어요

CHAPTER 4 Be hoing to V - A/V(으)ㄹ 거예요

CHAPTER 5 Will, Would, Could A/V - A/V겠어요

CHAPTER 6 Be Ving - V고 있어요

CHAPTER 7 To exist/have, To not exist/have - 있어요, 없어요

Section 2 Negatives

CHAPTER 8 Not A/V - 안 A/V

CHAPTER 9 Not A/V - A/V지 않아요

CHAPTER 10 Don't V - V지 마세요

Section 3 The Basic Markers

CHAPTER 11 Subject Marker - N이, N가

CHAPTER 12 Object Marker - N을, N를

CHAPTER 13 Contrastive/Topic Marker - N은, N는

Section 4 Conjunctive Particles

CHAPTER 14 N and N, with N - N(이)랑 N, N하고 N, N와/과 N

CHAPTER 15 N or N (N or something) - N(이)나

CHAPTER 16 N too/also, N either, even - N도

CHAPTER 17 N's N, N of N - N의 N

Section 5 Postpositions

CHAPTER 18 To (Person), For(Person) - P에게, P한테, P께

CHAPTER 19 In/On/At/To/For N, In/On/From N - N에, N에서

CHAPTER 20 I'll take N, by N, to N - N(으)로

Section 6 Adnominal Endings

CHAPTER 21 Adjective + Noun - A(으)ㄴ N

CHAPTER 22 The N(one) that Ved - V(으)ㄴ N

CHAPTER 23 The N(one) that (is) Ving, The N that V - V는 N

CHAPTER 24 The N(one) that will V - V(으)ㄹ N

Section 7 Showing Respect

CHAPTER 25 Polite Suffix - V(으)시

CHAPTER 26 Polite Ending Form - V(으)세요, N(이)세요

CHAPTER 27 Vocabulary Modifications, Honorific Vocavulary

Section 8 Irregular Verbs

CHAPTER 28 'ㅂ' Irregular Verbs

CHAPTER 29 'ㄷ' Irregular Verbs

CHAPTER 30 '르' Irregular Verbs

CHAPTER 31 '으' Irregular Verbs

CHAPTER 32 'ㄹ' omission Irregular Verbs

Appendix

Estension English Translation

Skills Building Answer Key

Basic Verb/Adjective Conjugations

On 8am KBS morning news on 11 Feb 2009

Korea's Central bank unveils new 50,000 won bill

The Bank of Korea Wednesday (Feb. 25) unveiled a 50,000-won (approx. US$33) bill depicting a female Korean artist and calligrapher of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).

The woman is Sin Saimdang (1504-1551), who is often referred to as a model of Confucian ideals. She is also the mother of Yulgok, one　 of the two most prominent Korean neo-Confucian scholars, along with Toegye.

The bill's draft design, revealed by the central bank in Dec. 2007, went through a year-long period of modification based on experts' advice, the bank said. The 50,000-won bill will be issued to the public from June

On the front side, the bill has Sin's portrait and part of her famous drawings of grapes and branches. Sin's portrait was drawn based on experts' accounts and records of her description made during her lifetime.

On the reverse is drawn a combination of two renowned Joseon artworks, which, according to the bank, represent mid-Joseon period paintings.

The length of the new bill is 6 millimeters more than that of the 10,000-won bill, but the width is the same.

The 50,000-won bill, the largest denomination banknote in Korea, has many state-of-the-art anti-forgery devices.

By James Ro
Korea.net Staff Writer

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KBS World Radio

Kpop Connection

Kpop Connection used to be really good; no log-in required and every week, a new top 10 list could be heard but now for copyright reasons, that has disappeared.

A new one　 just launched on 1st Dec 2008 :

Global Seoul

Here's a good visual of the Korean keyboard layout. Click to enlarge picture.



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