Fundamental Korean Language and How It Works You just made up your mind to study Korean this year while watching K-drama on Netflix. What are you going to do after? You might pick up vocabs and sentences randomly. Shall we start with how it works first? I'm writing this because many students have been struggling with the structure of making sentences as a beginner. Back to the basics, let’s have a look at fundamental Korean. 1. Tense There are six tenses in Korean: Present, Past, Future, Past perfect, Past Progressive, and Present Progressive. In Korean, the present tense forms include not only the present tense but also the present progressive tense and future tense in which a future event will occur. 2. Sentence structure Korean sentences consist of either “a subject + predicate(verb)” or “a subject + object + predicate(verb)”. 3. Connecting sentences and Conjugation(Long sentence building) When connecting two sentences with a conjunctive adverb, it is sufficient simply to place the conjunctive adverb between the two sentences. However, when using a conjunctive ending, the ending must be attached to the word stem of the predicate of the preceding sentences to connect the two sentences. 4. Speech Why do Koreans use Honorifics? Koreans use honorifics to show respect through speech to someone older or higher than themselves in the social hierarchy. That is because the Korean language and culture are hierarchical. Age and status are important in communication and everyday life. Those are examples with the verb ‘go’. I hope it would be helpful to correct your grammar and get to know Korean sentence structures better. Then, let’s continue to watch K-dramas on Netflix.