📺We are going to watch a K-drama together!

Can you guess which one it is?

안녕하세요, 여러분!

Hey everyone! I hope you are having a good week so far!

Today I would like to talk a little about K-drama. I’m sure many of you have been watching Korean shows for a while. I’m not particularly a K-drama fan, but I definitely enjoy them when I watch. It certainly has become a global mainstream and the popularity of K-dramas can be attributed to a combination of factors like their compelling storylines, emotional engagement, high production quality, cultural authenticity, and accessibility!

So, does constantly watching K-drama make you good at Korean?

Unfortunately, not much…😕

You will pick up few words and maybe a couple of simple phrases that are repeated all the time, but other than that, you won’t really see much progress. I’m sure many of you can relate to this as many K-drama fans actually watch more than 10 shows every year! And if you think about it, one tv show usually consists of 16 episodes and each episode is usually an hour long… that’s 160 hours of listening practice! If I ask you to find a listening material in, let’s say… Norwegian, it’s going to be really challenging to not only find something to listen to, but also enjoy doing it. (I’m sure there is a lot of quality content in Norwegian, it was just an example😬)

So, what I’m trying to say is that most of you already have access to a massive amount of excellent resources, and we are going to utilize and maximize the effect of it by watching a Korean tv show together in the course. I have been looking for a K-drama that uses Korean in the daily lives of native Korean speakers, because it wouldn’t make sense to watch a show that’s based in Joseon dynasty where they speak the old Korean language. So, after going through a number of K-dramas, I have picked a show that was loved by many and some people even call it their all-time favorite K-drama!

Can you tell which K-drama this is? I haven’t watched it so I’m excited!

In order to make it as effective as possible, you are going to watch one video lesson first, then you will be provided with a pdf file that has the grammar pattern you just learned from the lesson. Once you start watching an episode, you will know exactly when that grammar pattern is used, and you can go over the particular line and there you’d have a real life example! I’m not going to throw a bunch of different grammar patterns, because that’s just going to be overwhelming. Instead, you will have just one thing to focus on per episode.

And do you remember that I wanted to use progressive overload training? We will try and accumulate what we learn going through the episodes. So, for example, when you watch episode 5 of the show, instead of just reviewing the grammar pattern of lesson five, you will see and review patterns from lesson one to five all together!

At least, this is my plan as of right now and when I start making the material for you, I might run into some problems but I’ll try my best to make it work! And let me know if you have any other ideas and opinions!

If you want to be a part of the team, you can join the course here!

And for those of you who are not joining the course, please try and memorize some new words and learn grammar patterns as you watch your shows. That’ll definitely help you understand Korean faster which will ultimately lead you to speak Korean!

Thanks for reading!

감사합니다!