수 (Su) — Water, Hand, Number, Way — Four Pillars of Korean Daily Reality
수 (Su) — Water, Hand, Number, Way — Four Pillars of Korean Daily RealityIf 화 (hwa) captures Korean culture and emotion, 수 (su) captures Korean daily reality. It is the syllable behind the word for swimming (수영, su-yeong, 水), behind surgery (수술, su-sul, 手), behind mathematics (수학, su-hak, 數), and — most importantly for Korean grammar — behind the most fundamental Korean expression of possibility ..
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화 (Hwa) — Flower, Fire, Picture, Anger — Four Pillars of Korean Cultural & Emotional Expression
화 (Hwa) — Flower, Fire, Picture, Anger — Four Pillars of Korean Cultural & Emotional ExpressionIf 가 (ga) captures Korean daily life, 화 (hwa) captures Korean culture and emotion. It is the syllable behind the word for flower (꽃, 花), the word for fire (불, 火), the word for picture (영화·만화, 畵), and — most importantly for Korean emotional life — the word for anger itself (화내다, hwa-nae-da, to get angry..
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