Here are some brief stories about each: #1 Gold rocks This story takes place in the 14th-century Goryeo Dynasty. There are three important people in this story: Choi Young (the saying is attributed to him) – persuaded the King to send an army into Manchuria and reclaim some of the land of China for Korea. […]
Last year, I read a really interesting book called: So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Steve Martin The title of the book comes from advice that comedian Steve Martin likes to give whenever someone asks him, “What does it take to be successful?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teAvv6jnuXY […]
Let me give you a really quick update about me. This may help you understand why this site hasn’t received as much “love” lately. As you may have read elsewhere on the blog, the following have kept me extremely busy since about 2013: I’m working 2 (nearly full-time) day jobs I’m trying to change my […]
Key To Korean needs an upgrade. After being “away” from the site for a while, here are the first major things I noticed when coming back to it: Design: complicated, cramped, too much information/stuff Colors: not bad, but could use tweaking and optimization Fonts: old and small Images: not consistent Page organization: haphazard, unorganized Plugins: […]
Today, I’ve just put the finishing touches on the final group of Korean Frequency List PDFs – Level C, Advanced, 고급. You can find links to those PDFs below, as well as a few other bundles I’ve created with PDFs from all 3 levels: Level C Bundle Level C Full List Level C Nouns Level […]
I’ve recently finished creating the PDFs for the Intermediate Level (B) Korean Vocabulary Frequency Lists. Here are the links to all the Frequency Lists and bundles we have available so far: Level B (중급) Full List (PDF) – 2111 Words Nouns only (PDF) – 1199 Nouns Verbs only (PDF) – 501 Verbs Adjectives only (PDF) […]
Hi, and thank you for being a reader of KeyToKorean.com. Let me start off by saying we do appreciate all the support you’ve shown over the past few years as this site has grown from about 40 to 40,000+ monthly readers. Let me give you: a brief overview of the history of this site as […]
There we go. I updated this Post to NOT use Google Drive anymore to share the file – there were some permissions errors that prevented people from being able to download it. Now it should be no problem. Download and enjoy!~ Inspiration Here is a PDF of ALL 1500 Intermediate TOPIK Vocabulary Flashcards I made […]
Inspiration I spent the summer studying 30 new vocabulary words per day, making flashcards for them and going through the Leitner Calendar Spaced Repetition System to make it all work and help me memorize the words long-term. Well, after creating 1500 flashcards, I found that I needed a quick refresher with some of the words, […]
Inspiration So, hi again. It’s been a while. Actually, according to my calendar, I should be writing “120 Days to TOPIK #42” today. So, I got a little behind schedule. My apologies. Sometimes it’s just tough to do EVERYTHING you want, so you have to prioritize. Over the past month (during my absence), this is […]