#english in south korea

[ntaleteam]

1𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙫 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧 listen to this song ᖰ(ღ’ᴗ’ღ)ᖳ

Dialogue in the Moonlight- #Dmoon🌙

🎶"May I call you at this moonlight night" "Imagine your smiley face through the text that I send" "with my sign of my mind"

"one step in to your day" "ride your time to tomorrow"

[regrettable-username]

remember when netflix got the first season of house of anubis and for some reason everyone thought that meant there would be a super gritty riverdale-esque remake? and then people were arguing about whether or not it should be remade at all

anyway house of anubis is literally built out of remakes and I think it should happen again but this time as a kdrama

[gacha-incels]

article from the english edition of the Hankyoreh, August 28th 2024 archive link

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With new revelations of abuses involving the creation and dissemination of sexually explicit deepfake images coming out almost daily, Korean women’s rights group Womenlink is decrying the reality in which women are left “living without a state,” as they no longer feel that their country will provide them with the protection they need. 

Womenlink released a statement on Monday condemning a “broken society which has spawned over 220,000 perpetrators of sexual violence” and asking how long we will “ignore the abysmal state of affairs.”   “There are around 227,000 members of a Telegram channel that allows people to obtain sexually explicit images of their acquaintances in five seconds simply by sending a photo and paying a fee,” Womenlink wrote in its statement. 

“The sheer number of people participating in the channel shows that the problem is bigger than the specific individuals who joined those channels to create and consume illegal content,” the organization went on.   “Korean women live in a society where crimes and violence targeting them are neither punished nor prevented, therefore forcing them to spend their everyday lives with a sense of dread. They are left living without a state, without the protection that the country ought to provide,” the group wrote.    “Can a society in which the safety of so many of its members is threatened daily, which tolerates and encourages the collective acts of insulting and disparaging of fellow citizens, continue to exist? More importantly, should it?” the group asked, emphasizing that “this is a state of national emergency.”   It’s time for a society-wide wake-up call, according to Womenlink.

“How low is the bar for the average Korean guy that this society cultivates? Women are objectified by their male peers and juniors, by their coworkers and bosses, and even by their closest acquaintances as objects to be evaluated based on their looks and gender, as things to be humiliated sexually and destroyed,” the group asked. 

“Objectifying one’s female acquaintances as objects of desire has become a game, allowing men to look down upon and shame them,” it said.    Womenlink also denounced the Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s claim that “systemic sexism does not exist.” By pointing out that these digital sex crimes were borne out of misogyny and sexism, the group slammed the administration, saying, “The Yoon administration is trying to rationalize the abolishment of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family by making the baseless claim that systemic sexism does not exist and ignoring the suffering of so many women in society. This is a clear dereliction of duty.”   “The government should wholeheartedly throw its weight behind government departments dedicated to promoting gender equality and take comprehensive short- and long-term measures across all ministries to address structural sexism and violence against women,” the organization argued.

The women’s group concluded its statement by saying, “Every citizen, as a member of our community, is complicit in this horrifically normalized culture of sexual violence. We need to adamantly demand that every member of our society, regardless of gender, show respect for others.” By Choi Yoon-ah, staff reporter

[worldtalks]

매운 국수 외에도 한국은 드라마로 유명합니다.

Apart from spicy noodles, South Korea is also known for its dramas.

[jimin-updates]

Park “first and only” Jimin

The hometown king edition 👑

Four of Jimin’s solo songs have surpassed 100k daily streams on the Spotify South Korea charts.

Thank you to everyone who works so hard for Jimin!

[avtomat-kalashnikova47]

My korean student from seoul. Had them for private tutoring so they can learn english. They got more than english from me. Love them so much and miss them. Quiet but naughty girls.

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

[doyouknowthismcyt]

[entropyvoid]

There is a particular subgenre of post I keep seeing on this webbed site wherein people denigrate individualistic cultures but talk about collectivistic ones like they’re the absolute best thing to happen the world and have no flaws of any kind and I really have to wonder how many people making or reblogging those have actually had the opportunity to live in both

[jumpingpistachio]

Paris Olympics so far:

Snoop Dogg torchbearer side quest

Mysterious figure running around Paris with the torch

Boxer wins boxing match, people cannot accept it.

Turkish guy with no protective gear casually wins silver

Sleeper agent activates, does one routine, gets bronze for US in gymnastics

[korea-within]

If you're coming to live in Korea or work as an English Teacher, you might end up meeting with Bucheon, a residence city west of Seoul. Its high residence population makes it in need of many English language hagwons and schools. But it this the right place for you to live? Would yu enjoy this city? learn more about Bucheon City from this blog.

[gacha-incels]

article from the english edition of the Hankyoreh, Sept 10 2024

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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the chat app Telegram, who has been indicted without arrest for aiding and abetting the proliferation of child sexual abuse material on his platform, is trying to calm the storm by announcing the removal of various controversial features from Telegram. However, his response is getting slammed for its shallowness, as such wishy-washy measures cannot stop the barrage of illegal pornography proliferating on the platform.

On Friday, Durov posted on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account to say that Telegram has “removed the People Nearby feature,” as well as disabled “new media uploads to Telegraph, [Telegram’s] standalone blogging tool.”

“While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk,” Durov claimed.

While Telegram has agreed to delete two features that have been used for criminal purposes, these features are largely unrelated to the recent sex crimes involving deepfakes. The “people nearby” feature utilizes GPS technology to track your phone’s location and indicate other users in the area, allowing people to form chat rooms with people in their region.  

Telegram logo. (Reuters/Yonhap)

This feature shares a user’s location data without their consent and places users at risk of stalking. Critics pointed out that it has often been used by bot programs to indiscriminately target people for financial scams. The Telegraph feature allows users to anonymously upload blog posts, photos and videos. Scammers would use this feature to create fake websites, share the links to the fake sites, and lure unsuspecting users into phishing scams that harvested their personal data. Yet neither of these features is directly related to the production and distribution of illicit deepfakes. 

Experts say that simply removing one feature is not going to uproot digital sex crimes. Malicious users constantly create and discover ways to circumvent such controls or restrictions or simply migrate to more liberal platforms, where they can replicate their crimes.

Cho Gyeong-suk, an activist with IT feminist group Techfemi who identifies and reports bots that produce sexually exploitative deepfakes, explained the concept of bots sharing bots. 

“If Telegram shuts down a specific bot, malicious users rapidly create a similar bot. Then they use a bot for sharing a link to that bot to repeat their crimes,” she said. 

On Sept. 3, Cho discovered and reported a Telegram channel with 210,000 subscribers. Upon entering, the user is greeted with the message “We're always here. Come back to our new bot,” alongside a link to a new bot and instructions on how to use link-sharing bots in Korean, Japanese, German and French. 

A message in a Telegram chat room on Sept. 3, 2024, informing readers of the address of a new deepfake sexual abuse material bot with messages in multiple languages. (courtesy of Cho Gyeong-suk)

It’s urgent to send a message to these malicious users that if they commit a crime, they will get caught. 

“Telegram has agreed to cooperate with Korean authorities, but all they’ve done is share an email address,” said Park Ji-hyun, the former interim leader of the Democratic Party. Operating under a group codenamed Team Flame, Park helped expose the criminal activity of the notorious Nth Room channel. 

“If the police or the KCSC [Korea Communications Standards Commission] have to find every individual video and which channel it’s in and report them all to an email address with an erasure request, it’s going to take too long for them to delete them. During that time, the videos are distributed through other channels,” Park added. 

“When authorities receive a report about the distribution of illicit online sexual exploitation, an investigative body needs to be aggressively informed about the perpetrators’ IP addresses, online registration data and other identification data. We need to send a clear message to the perpetrators: You will get caught. That’s the only way they’ll stop,” she said. 

“Rather than simply deleting specific features, Telegram needs to monitor its platform to prevent the distribution of child sexual abuse material or sexual content depicting minors and establish an ethical monitoring committee, like Google does. They need to discuss ways to find out what happens on their platform and to cooperate with the authorities,” said Won Eun-ji, the other half of Team Flame. 

“We also need technological measures such as the automated deletion of content that shows signs of being illicit or sexually exploitative. There could also be preventative tools that prevent such content from being uploaded in the first place,” she added.

By Chung In-seon, staff reporter

[yaoigoddess9158]

I need to make a Korean name for my oc for a fic (okay, maybe not NEED but I want to because it’s fun) but I have ZERO idea how names work in Korea and I don’t want to have a totally weird name that is improper and stupid

The name will probably only be used once because I’m planning to make a nickname for the character that they’ll prefer to go by but anywayss

Sooo….. I have an idea (that I totally didn’t just get from google translate haha.. hah..) uhhhh

Jung Yohaji (Anheum if it’s appropriate) (중요하지 않음 is what showed up in google translate as well, it’d be nice it know if this is right too)

According to Google and DeepL translate, it means unimportant or not important

Is there a better name for something around the same meaning? This was honestly the best I could come up with using free translators (and Idk if I can even use just the actual words for a name, because you definitely can’t in English)

Btw, it’s a girl character, in case that helps

Help a hyper fixated girly out 🙏🙏

[alotusinthepond-art]

ᴘᴀꜱᴛ ʟɪᴠᴇꜱ

인연 [in-yun], it means "providence" or "fate". It's an 인연, if two strangers even walk by each other in the street and their clothes accidentally brush. Because it means there must have been something between them, in their past lives. If two people get married, they say it's because there have been 8000 layers of 인연. Over 8000 lifetimes.

[ceiling-karasu]

Anyone in the fandom know what style of Morse Code North Korea uses?

Next chapter of Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket is coming along! I'll have to say I am planning a few sentences in Morse Code for secret messages.

So, it seems like most countries use International Morse Code.

But South Korea uses a special version of Morse Code called SKATS, apparently, if I'm properly understanding what I have found.

Does anyone know if North Korea uses SKATS, International Morse Code, or a North Korean specific version?

[magical-demigirl]

What if we got Precure trending on here?