B2

Korean English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word Korean once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning Korean meaning

What does Korean mean?

Definitions in simple English

Korean Adjective

— If something is Korean, it is from or related to Korea (South Korea, North Korea, or both).

Korean Proper noun

— A Korean is a person from Korea (South Korea or North Korea). The class had five Koreans, two Japanese, a Brazilian, and people from a number of other countries.

— Korean is the main language of South Korea and North Korea. The tourist could only speak in Korean so they had to employ someone to interpret English.

Korean

— adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language Korean handicrafts

— noun a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language

— noun the Altaic language spoken by Koreans

Synonyms Korean synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Korean?

Korean English » English

gay

gaudy

chorea

Examples Korean examples

How do I use Korean in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Have you ever been to the Korean Peninsula?

Korean food is generally very spicy.

Japanese has something in common with Korean.

I love Korean food.

Korean food is generally very hot.

Korean mental hospitals have been compared to concentration camps. Patients are said to be treated like animals who are subjected to violence and maltreatment rather than therapy.

I study Korean.

My friend studies Korean.

My friend is studying Korean.

Who's your favorite Korean musician?

Yumi keeps getting better at Korean.

You understand Korean, don't you?

I love Korean food because of the hot spices.

Have you already been to the Korean Peninsula?

I want to learn Korean.

Movie subtitles

You're Korean?

Are you Korean?

Why aren't you speaking in Korean? Is there something wrong?

Yeah, I could use a little nice Korean sleep.

I suppose the Korean War might have a little something to do with it.

In that moment i decided to spend the rest of my life tracking him down to recapture the evil i'd released the evil that soon took the shape of the second world war the korean war, the hideous new weapons of war.

Watch out for the Korean-Manchurian border.

My unit's to make a final stand at the Korean-Manchurian border.

I've been thinking about what that Korean peasant told us.

It was officially announced that United States ground forces entered the Korean War today.

We're sending a little Korean boy through school.

If he was a Korean teacher he must've been nice.

You won the pingpong championship during the Korean war.

Korean War hero.

I'm just a Korean. The Japanese and Chinese both look down on me.

I think he's Korean.

Korean?

I'm not Korean.

Mr Okishima, let us handle that Korean dog!

After reaching the Korean border, we are making our last stand.

I've been thinking about what that Korean told us.

Not Chinese, dear. Korean. At least I think he was Korean.

A very large Korean gentleman.

We're sending a little Korean boy through school. We actually raise money for it.

Come to think of it, we never had a girl that high, legs incomparable but we got a gorgeous line of Korean cuties.

The owner was in the Korean War and now he's called the Chinaman.

But for a King to have an engagement with a North Korean Officer, what decency is there?

I will use him as a role model and lead my homeland, the Korean Peninsula.

Hello. I'm Korean People's Army's Defense Department's First Lieutenant, Ri Gang Seok.

Hello. I'm from the Tactical Operations Department of the Korean People's Army, Gwon Yeong Bae.

They helped us during the 625 Korean War, how can we-- Oh, you guys are from the North so you're probably not clear about it.

Did you attempt to kill Korean King the 3rd Lee Jae Gang and Queen Bak Hyeon Ju?

To let me become a South Korean.

I deal with many countries as Chief Prosecutor, is there any reason for me to talk to the North Korean dedication for more than 2 minutes?

At 9am this morning, the military operations power has already been handed over to the combined Korean-American headquarters.

May I bring that Korean vase to my place?

In the Korean war, with 5, 720,000 personnel engaged, only 77 men were so honoured.

Korean.

At least I think he was Korean.

News and current affairs

The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.

The attack on the South Korean naval ship Cheonan earlier this year may be a grim sign of things to come.

In fact, following the recent currency fiasco, North Korean leaders may have become more open to economic reform than ever before.

But Israel has managed to attack Syrian territory twice - destroying a North Korean-staffed nuclear reactor in 2007 and, more recently, striking a Hezbollah convoy - with no casualties or loss of planes.

But US and South Korean leaders were not ready to accommodate Kim's overture.

Its sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 were unprecedented, and raised inter-Korean tensions to their highest level in decades.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's recent proposal to provide humanitarian assistance despite the recent spike in tension, is a start in the right direction.

Argentine inventors received just 63 patents in the US in the year 2000, compared with 3,400 patents received by Korean inventors.

And a long planned step forward in cooperation between South Korea and Japan was torpedoed when the South Korean president visited the barren island that Korea calls Dokdo, Japan calls Takeshima, and the United States calls the Liancourt Rocks.

South Korean's per capita income has grown 23-fold since then, while Pakistan has experienced only a three-fold increase.

Today, the average South Korean has 12 years of education, whereas the average Pakistani has fewer than six.

Once Korean students overthrew the dictatorship of Park's successor, Chung Doo-hwan, Korean scientists, engineers, economists, and others, returned home en masse, bringing knowledge acquired in the US with them.

The Korean Peninsula, however, remains divided along ideological lines, and the two Koreas co-exist as living remnants of the Cold War.

Events and structural forces, however, have affected and changed the nature of the North Korean system since 1991.

Nowadays, every North Korean seems to like money and know its value.

The engagement policy pursued by the South Korean government in recent years also contributed to changes in North Koreans' perceptions of the outside world and of their own abject economic situation.

So, even before the recent reports of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's health problems, North Korea was already a country marked by growing uncertainty.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country's economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

This reflects a hardening of South Korean public opinion, following North Korea's nuclear test in 2006.

As a result of this policy shift - and the recent killing of a South Korean tourist in North Korea's Kumgang Mountains - official dialogue between North and South has stopped for the past several months.

After six turbulent but somewhat predictable decades, we may be entering into a new era of greater turbulence but less predictability on the Korean Peninsula.

Moreover, the manner in which the Bush administration unveiled its withdrawal plan has weakened the credibility of the US-Korean alliance.

Indeed, the North Korean threat nowadays derives more from the regime's internal weaknesses than from its aggressive external posture - the latter being the authorities' fearful response to the former.

Western governments also could permit charitable foundations to provide North Korean officials or students with scholarships to study abroad and learn how to run a market economy.

South Korean voters of all ages and regions have welcomed Park as a candidate for their country's leadership.

Indeed, she looks more like a Korean Margaret Thatcher - a lady not for turning, in Thatcher's famous phrase, and with clearly thought-through political principles animating her actions.

Others take a flagrantly sexist stance, arguing that a woman president would be a non-starter as long as the North Korean regime continues to threaten national security.

Come presidential election-day in 2012, South Korean voters will pick the candidate who embodies pragmatism and centrism over a partisan or ideologue.