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New Korean words that even Koreans don't know well (Ssap, Hyejaseurupda)

badminton — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:09:45 +0900

Language is a living organism. New words are maden continuously.

Some of below Korean words are very popular and used frequently among the young people. But old korean don't understand the words.

쌉 [ssap]

It means "completly", "perfectly", "really".

ex) 쌉 가능 : really possible

쌉 인정 : admit completely

혜자스럽다 [hye-ja-seu-rup-da]

It means "Good value for money".

It's from korean actress Hyeja Kim. She was a CF model of korean meal kit (selling in convenience store).

And the meal kit was good value for money.

창렬스럽다 [chang-ryeol-seu-rup-da]

It means "Bad value for money".

It's the opposite of 혜자스럽다. It's from korean actor Changryeol Kim too. He was a CF model too. But the product was not good value for money. That's the reason that this word is starting to be used.

인싸 [inssa]

It means "people person".

Some who can easily hang around together.

Came from "insider" (a kind of Konglish)

아싸 [assa]

It's the opposite of "인싸". not people person.

Came from "outsider" (a kind of Konglish)

관종 [gwan-jong]

Someone who wants to get attention from other people.

In order to attract attention from other friends, he even do something which most friends don't want to do.

Sometimes it causes embarrassment.

에바 [aeba]

It means "Over the top. Not plausible."

BTS group members join the Military Service (Korean conscription system)

badminton — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:38:56 +0900

As an only divided country in the world, Korea is keeping military conscription system.

Every young men has to join the military service in age 18~40.

Most young people often enlist after graduating from high school or during their freshman year of college.

But, there are some exception.

Especially when he gains the medal more than bronze in the Olympic game, or gains the golden medal in the Asian game.

And there are some classic music contest where military service is exempted.

In case of BTS, although they have made a great contribution to publicizing Korea, they are not receiving any benefits.

In fact, winning #1 in Billboard Chart is much more difficult than winning in any music contest.

Many koreans know well about this wierd situation and hope that government change this.

But they do not move. I think they don't have any intention to change this.

There are some rumors in Korea.

New Korean government was launched in May of this year (2022), they tried to invite BTS at the event. But BTS refused to join the event.

New government is resentful of this and do not grant any military benefit to them on purpose.

This rumor is spreaded in Korea. Not confirmed...

But many Koreans think it's not fair.

If they go to military service, we cannot see them at least for 1 year and half.

(Oracle PL/SQL Sample) Function to output the vertical results into one row (horizontal)

badminton — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:21:49 +0900

I've created the function to print the vertical query results into one row horizontally with comma(,) seperated.

As you can see above, the results of ENAME query are displayed in vertical way.

I want to print the results like this : SMITH, ALLEN, WARD, ...

 
create or replace function f_output_horizontal(v_sql in varchar2) return varchar2
is 
   type c_refcur is ref cursor;
   c_sel c_refcur;
   v_ret varchar2(2000) := '(';
   v_val varchar2(50);
begin
 
   open c_sel for v_sql;
 
      loop
         fetch c_sel into v_val;
         exit when c_sel%notfound;
         
         if v_ret = '(' then
            v_ret := v_ret || v_val;
         else
            v_ret := v_ret || ', ' || v_val;
         end if;
      end loop;
   close c_sel;
   
   return v_ret || ')';
end;
/
 

The results of execution of this function like below..

In oracle SQL*Plus, you have to put command "set serveroutput on" in order to display the results of the function execution.

In the above example, I've put SQL Query directly as an argument of the function f_output_horizontal().

If your SQL Query is long, you'd better using variable. This is the example.

Riding Motorcycle(Motorbike) in Vietnam Danang

badminton — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:59:10 +0900

If you have the international driver's license, you can rent motobike in cheap price in almost any place in Vietnam.

The bike rental price in Danang is between 5$ ~ 8$ per day. Oil(Gas) price is 1$ per liter.

If you rent motorbike, it's very easy to go around in the city.

To search motorbike rental shop is very easy.

If you search in the Google map with the keyword "danang motorbike rental", you can see many rental shops.

But there are some problems in riding motorbike in Vietnam.

1. Reverse driving is common
2. Corrupted police

Vietnamese bike riders drive the wrong way on a street sometimes. You always should be careful.

As you know, Vietnam is a underdeveloped country. It means there are a lot of corrupted government officers.

Even though you prepared the international driver's license, they will not accept it. They'll require the domestic driver's license. It's too difficult for foreigners to get a domestic driver's license.

So the easiest way is that you prepare another extra purse which has around 100,000VND(5$).

And if you get caught, you insist "I'm having only this money. Sorry. I cannot understand vietnamese language."

Big hit in Netflix Korean drama (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)

badminton — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:40:21 +0900

Recently Koreans are crazy about TV/OTT Series "Extraoardinary Attorney Woo". (이상한 변호사 우영우)

This series consists of 16 series. Not finished yet.

In fact the story is a kind of nonsense and is not plausible. How can autistic person become a lawer?

But she is a savant !! autistic but Genius ~ And most important thing is that "She is so Cute."

After the squid game hit the OTT market, another big hit came out. Not only in Korea, but also in many foreign countries it's getting more and more popular. And it's on-going...

The biggest hitting point is that it's very touching. I can feel the same emotion as I've gotten in the "CODA" (Apple TV movie)

And it's not so childish even though the story itself is a kind of non-sense.

The main actress "Eunbean Park" is featured in the another Korean movie "Witch II (마녀2)".

In the past, she was just a beautiful and ordinary actress who deos not stick out.

Now she has changed her image 180 degree.

She was also featured in Comedy program "Gag Concert" when she was young.