Dear Family,
I told you I would have a
new Korean word for you each week, and since I didn’t have one for you last
week, here’s two to make up for it:
하나님 pronounced ‘hah-nah-neem’, means God. This one is interesting because the first
part, ‘hah-nah’ means one, and ‘neem’ is an honorific suffix. I thought that was really cool.
가족 pronounced ‘kah-joke’,
means family.
Korean
is really cool because of how the characters look. . . like some kind of
code. It is also really cool to listen
to people speak it. My teacher, Brother
Memmott, is like the coolest guy ever, he has a really strong spirit about him. But anyway, it’s just really cool to listen
to him speak Korean.
One
of the members of the Korean branch presidency came to a district meeting and
told us some interesting facts about Korea:
- The highest rated airport in the world is in Seoul
- There are 75 million Korean speakers in the world
- Since the Korean war, South Korea has grown to 15th in the world in GDP
- In South Korea, about 45% of the people are atheist, and 30% are Christian, but their culture has underlying Shamanistic beliefs
- Writing someone’s name in red ink means you wish they were dead because death rolls are written in red ink
- The number 4 is considered bad luck, equivalent to the number 13 in our culture
- Stabbing your chopsticks into your rice means death to your host
- Showing the bottom of your feet is disrespectful
I
hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder
Hines
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