How to Use Korean in a Sentence

Korean

noun
  • Every North Korean knows that Kim Jong-un is the boss — trust me.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, the country was fresh off the Korean War, whose combat ended in 1953 as the result of an armistice.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to learn Korean and would love to visit Seoul.
    Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The beer, known in Korean as maekju, drained from what appeared to be beefy version of Gatorade bottles.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The beach is named after Rosamond Johnson, who fought in the Korean War.
    USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • He was stationed in China before the war, and in Japan during the Korean War.
    oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
  • After all he the first Prime Minister to come to power while the country was at war since the Korean War.
    Zenger News, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The event comes as delegations from Russia and China visit the country for the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.
    Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Also, the fluidity between the English and the Korean is so smooth.
    Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
  • More than 70 years after the Korean War settled into a tense standoff, North Korea remains one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Tensions on the Korean Peninsula remain high in the wake of North Korea's barrage of missile tests since 2022.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Bibs also tend to represent a more diverse range of cuisines than the main guide, which more often than not skews French, Japanese, and Korean.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Most golfers reach out to a broker via text message on KakaoTalk, and the transaction typically is in Korean.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Dog meat consumption is a centuries-old practice on the Korean Peninsula and has long been viewed as a source of stamina on hot summer days.
    Time, 31 July 2023
  • Cassia Lee is a business analyst who uses an app to learn Korean.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Kim, who can no longer speak Korean, had been detained by Chinese authorities in April, missing the birth of her granddaughter.
    Jay Ganglani, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire in 1953, the two Koreas have been developing huge amounts of conventional weapons in case war breaks out again on the peninsula.
    Joyce Lee, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • To my ear, with no knowledge of Korean, the collaboration did not noticeably alter the cadence of Han’s voice in English.
    Idra Novey, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Parts of this interview were conducted in Korean and translated by the author.
    Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The team used a separate study of Australian Korean War veterans as a comparison in this new research.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Inside, the files contained editing comments and instructions in Chinese which were translated to Korean, the researchers write in their report.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The two also have close historical and ideological ties and fought together during the Korean War of the 1950s.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But a formal peace treaty was never signed, leaving the Korean Peninsula still technically at war.
    Chang W. Lee Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • In Korean, aswiwo means sadness, pity and disappointment all in one — an apt description for how customers felt during the Dragon’s final days.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Marines took over during the Korean War, storing military helicopters there until shutting down the facility in 1999.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Animosities on the Korean Peninsula remain high, with North Korea conducting a barrage of missile tests since last year.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2023
  • With the exception of Korean in part for K-pop appeal, enrollment in language courses, from elementary school through college, is steadily declining.
    Rosemary Salomone, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
  • On the Korean Peninsula, armistice negotiations lasted some two years.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • According to the Korean Economic Daily, both companies are in loss-making territory, as are some smaller rivals.
    Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • American kimchi is way different from Korean, in terms of fermentation.
    Peter Chakerian, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023

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