Je suis Lily. Je m'appelle Lily. Je suis Koreanne. Je mange du riz.

What portal site do you use everyday? What portal site do you use everyday? As a Korean, I use Naver.com and this is set as my homepage. I can read news, shop,google, watch blogs, join community there. Is there some websites like this in USA? Please tell me. I only know yahoo and google.

Papa, where are you going? There is a tv show that I don't miss every sunday. It's called 'Papa, where are you going?' in Korean '아빠 어디가?'. It's now season 2 and very popular tv program in Korea. In this tv show, five children aged 5~8 go on a trip with their fathers who are actors, an athlete, a singer, and an announcer. They usually go to rural areas of Korea so it's a memorable moment for their child who are used to the city life. The children get eggs out of the hen house(??), go to grocery shopping to traditional market by themselves, and fathers cook for them. Without having their moms around both children and fathers had troubles at first, but by doing this they get close more and more. I personally have never traveled with my father alone. The trips were either my grandfather and us(me and my two sisters) or family trip with mom. I don't know whether this is why I'm not that close to my father, but if we really had had the father-daughter time like them, things would have been very different from now. But I wouldn't blame my father for that, because he was busy to make living. And I also hope that the Korean children, who doesn't have fathers who can travel with them every weekend like this tv show, wouldn't feel sad, blame their fathers and make their fathers sad. Considering this, this program is a very enjoyable for me but on the other hand some fathers might feel unwelcoming pressure because of it. Still I laughed a lot today while watching the show. Kids were so cute, especially the part that they were trying to keep the eggs warm by blowing their breath after they took eggs out of hen house.

Riding a bicycle in Seoul,Korea I recently bought a bicycle and I try to ride on it whenever I get the free time. There is very well made bicycle road along the beautiful Han River, so I go there to ride. I rode my bike for about 1 and a half hour today. This really helps me to stay fit. In the elementary school, I learned that 70% of Korea is mountain ground( I mean not plain/flat). So most of the cities and roads are made by cutting these mountains. Because of that, there are so many unhills and downhills through out the city. Plus, Seoul is very crowded city so it's very dangerous to ride a bike in the city of seoul. All these facts explain why most riders in Seoul come to Han River for a ride. It's the same logic for skateboarders or rollerbladers. Imagine bicycle, skateboard and rollerblade use the same 'bicycle road'. It's very dangerous. I feel pity for all these leisure people that is growing rapidly. Soon Han River will be also crowded by many riders. And the freshness of riding along the river would be substituted to a stress. I hope that day come slowly. *your correction is so much appreciated! Please correct not only grammatical errors, but also unnatural word usage. you may rephrase the sentence to much more natural way. Any advice would be so helpful to me.*

Winter in Europe. Most people visit Europe in summer, and say winter is not a good season to travel Europe. But if i happen to be in Europe in the winter, say January, what shall i do?? All the pictures and books are talking the warm, bright season in Europe. It's really hard to get information about winter in europe. any, i mean seriously any suggestions? (just don't say that i should get my ticket refund....) --so glad if you correct my note : )

someone who's interested in regular group chatting about certain topic??/// language exchange partner ENG-KOR

Hello, everyone. I'm a Korean learning English and have lots of interest in different cultures.

There is a Korean tv show, called '비정상회담' which is directly translated to non-summit session/ abnormal session. (in Korean the 'summit' and 'normal' are all sound as 정상, and 비 means 'not')

 There are 11 foreigners from 11 countries in the world, and they all have very good Korean speaking skills. So these 11 foreigners talks about their countriy's culture, education, history, etc. in Korean.

Last show that i saw was about money and traffic culture.

 What i wanna do is making our own '비정상회담' but spoken in 'English' between English learners all around the world. I think 11 is too many for us to start, 3 to 5 is just good to have one session.

we can try these through skype (if connections is good) or just group chat or

make a blog together->this way is the best i think.

 Is there someone, who thinks it's a good idea, please let me know. please send me a message through italki or skype. thx!!

 

Last but not least !!

++++++I really need a person who can help me with English. Hope his/her mother tongue is English and wants to learn Korean. I want to send diaries or just short thoughts in English and get it corrected, also vice versa.