Dear BB: 나는 처음부터 자네 글이 아니라고 생각했다. 

자네가 이 정도로 주도(酒道)에 통달했다고 믿지 않아서, 한번 읽은 후에 다시 올려보니,

아니나 다를까 친구의 글을 퍼왔군. 나도 술에 관해서 아는게 별로 없지만, 

우연한 기회에 어떤 Surgeon으로부터 Wine drinking배웠지. 그것도 거의 20년 가까이 걸렸네.

그래도 내가 영 진도가 나가지 않아서, 사람들만 모이면, "이건 내가 Kwan에게 맛보였고, 

지금 다섯번째 먹여도 아직도 그맛을 잘 알지 못한다." 하여서 모인 사람들로부터 폭소를

받았네. 그 후 그 다정했던 Dr. Harold Stopp은 떠났고, 나는 가끔 그를 생각하면서 저녁때 

Californian Chardonnay Sauvignon을 조금씩 기우린다. 그들은 "Dry," or "Tart"하고 주고 빋지만,

그걸 모르면 어때? 내 식대로 Steak이나 Sea food를 먹을 때 조금씩 마시면 기분이 좋다. 
 

Thank you for enlightening us, Professor BB.

Certainly, I feel good about learning the origins of the few 

commonly used words.

Glad you enjoyed it, Dr. HJ!

Indeed, I have never heard of this before. What an embarrassing ignorance!

As a matter of fact, I was quite amused to watch Japanese drinking custom, much more complicated than ours though heard Chinese also has similar custom.

BB Lee

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얼마 전 한문을 전공하는 박사 한분과 이야기를 나눌 기회가 있었는데, “우리가 토종 우리말로 알고 있는 말의 상당수가 실은 한자어에서 생겨난 것”이라며 몇 가지 사례를 들었는데, 순우리말에 대한 나의 무지에 대해 깨닫는 계기가 됐다. 여기에 <전국한자교육추진총연합회>에서 발표한 사례 몇가지를 적어보았다

Precisely, Dr. Ohn! More you look into what we use daily, more surprised to find out many are actually Chinese words.

We all know, 대변, 소변, 변소 are Chinese words but I was surprised with the word '통시' which I thought 영천 사투리 but confirmed as Chinese while I made a visit to Chongqing years ago! 

BB Lee

Hello... Please be careful. Hold on to your blind admiration of the Chinese letters.

You guys sounded like loyal Chinese slaves.

Ever thought of the possibility of Korean to Chinese conversion?

You guys may be showing to be "Fucking" 사대주의 사상 엽전 군중 심리.

You are simply thinking, by default, the Chinese letters are far superior to Korean letters.

Any Korean phrases can be overridden by Chinese phrases just because they sound similar?

Are they the mother of all languages??

No way !! I don't buy the stupid blind admiration on the Chinese letters of yours

and the Lee Dynasty. Please give some respect to your own Korean letters!!

There are good possibilities in which some Korean 토종 단어 might have been re-written

into Chinese letters as the Chinese system was so popular and dominant in the old days.

It's not only "Chinese to Korean conversion" but also the possibility is also great

in "Korean to Chinese conversion".

Please don't overestimate the Chinese influence. The change (or conversion) happened in the land of Korea.

Therefore the influence of the Korean language might have been much greater.

It makes me sick to see your one-tract-minded way of thinking in Chinese superiority.

A lot of Chinese phrases might have been originated from Korean phrases. Why not??

Do you guys understand what I am saying?

We carry some Chinese poems on our website in the respect of a personal hobby of a member.

We don't carry Chinese poems in order to promote blind respect to the superiority of Chinese poems.

You should know that it's not superior to the Korean language.

It is actually much more stupid, primitive, and un-scientific compared to Korean Hangeul.

No, I am not a blind admirer of Chinese letters nor a slave to Chinese culture! But I accept Chinese letters as a part of Chinese civilization like the Latin language to Western culture/civilization. As a self-claimed intellectual of Asian origin, I proudly show up how much I know about Chinese letters - as a part of the preparation for my SNU Graduate School exam for Ph.D., I reviewed 3,000 original Chinese characters/letters to claim as an intellectual - as the base of Asian civilization whenever I encounter! 

So, I envy the Chinese on their vast cultural background with such rich history they only have and also try to enjoy their unique literature especially their exquisite poems deeply linked to their history, no more no less!

Indeed, I am a proud Korean with dignity - remember we had not only 사육신 but also 생육신 to show Korean gutsy spirit!  No other human history would have an equivalent story as I know of (perhaps, Chinese?) - especially in these days watching such cowardly Republicans lined up to lick this mother fucker's shoes.

As KwanHo once introduced/brought up to this website, my mother was happened to be such staunch patriotic activist - I believe she received quite a few awards and even once nominated as a living treasure to lead pure Korean culture/poem, know as 시조-, who spent her entire life to dedicate to dig out often intentionally ignored/suppressed pure Korean culture represented by 언문 to get the public recognition as pure Korean culture/words. She vehemently fought to preserve pure Korean words and also collected forgotten 조선말 through 내방가사. So that is one of the reasons why I am particularly interested in 경상도 사투리 from such linguistic point of view.

Anyhow, I also heard exactly the same criticism on the intentional interpretation of pure Korean words/expressions to fit Chinese alphabets to make it look like Chinese origin and indeed some are very likely to look suspicious especially among 경상도 사투리! And they might as you correctly pointed out.

But we have no reason to deny or feel shameful of the reality that over 90% of Korean custom and culture we know of are based on Chinese civilization, and borrowed from them like all other East Asian countries like Japan or Vietnam. Instead, I rather feel shame on the reality that, sadly, Yi Dynasty spent full 500 years to make a carbon copy of Chinese culture except for a new creation of Korean-unique alphabets/한글 while the Japanese did spend more time to create such vast cultures of their own based on Chinese culture they also borrowed like us/Korea.

Now, the whole world recognizes not only the value of unique Japanese painting which already became the base/motivation for Impressionism centuries ago but also unique Japanese music incorporated into a theatrical activity like Kabuki besides the infamous Sumo we all know that!

Hope a new Korean generation would be more creative than the old one to be proud of!

BB Lee