How to Write Korean in 20 Minutes
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Published 2023-08-22
This is a sequel to "How to Read Korean"—that's right, it only took me 4 years to make a sequel. You don't need to have watched that video to understand this one (since it's Reading vs. Writing). In any case, they're actually supposed to complement each other.
This was definitely one of the most ambitious projects on my channel ever, not just this year. I've never gone all-out like this in making/editing a video before. For a long time, I've wanted to make this video as a follow-up to "How to Read Korean"; I just didn't know how I would structure the video or what I would say in it. Finally, after a lot of consideration, I decided to move on with it this summer. Researching and brainstorming ideas took quite a bit of time because I wanted to ensure I was covering everything necessary. Furthermore, since this video is for anyone—including foreign learners—I had to think about how to explain things easier (that would normally be straightforward/easy to Koreans). Writing the script (which was contemporaneous with research) also took a couple weeks as well.
When it came to editing, I realized I wanted to make this more visually appealing than other Korean videos I've made, which resembled slideshows. I decided to make this video as cinematic as possible—like a documentary—giving myself no time limit or deadline for this video to unleash as much creativity as possible. And I'm proud to say that it worked. Creating the visual materials and coming up with the transitions in between have never been more fun. I hope this is one of the most well-edited Korean videos out there, combining artistic visualization and my signature tangents—sometimes digressing from the topic, but still informative and interesting enough to point out. (You'll be surprised to hear that I didn't include a tangent about Korean 3-set or 10-key keyboards, which would've led to another huge rabbit hole.)
I think this is one of the best videos I've ever made, if not THE best. This was one of the most time-consuming projects on my channel, spanning slightly over a month from inception to completion. Editing itself took 12 days, which consisted of working on it every day from morning to night (not even joking), and Premiere crashing 11 times throughout didn't help at all. I've never put in this much effort for a video before, and it was only possible because it was summer break. Consequently, it would be difficult to dedicate such an immense amount of time to another project like this in the future. I will still try, though.
I hope you guys found this video helpful! Leave a like if you did and subscribe to the channel! Thanks for watching.
SOURCES:
Korean Letter Frequencies & Heatmaps: story.pxd.co.kr/958 and lab.pxd.co.kr/heatmap/ (I created my own heatmap for confirming calculations and better visual customization)
Korean Syllables/Unicode : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_Syllables and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language_and_computer…
Korean's 2,350 Common Characters: namu.wiki/w/완성형/한글%20목록/KS%20X%201001
Korean has the most words in the world: • Language Comparison: Number of Differ...
About Korean Characters: namu.wiki/w/현대%20한글의%20모든%20글자 and namu.wiki/w/뷁
Website full of Old Korean characters: uncyclopedia.kr/wiki/랜덤_옛한글
Serious thanks to the legendary @chiclix on Twitter (not X) for indirectly leading me to this website (faq.ktug.org/faq/%c7%d4%c3%ca%b7%d2%c3%bc/GSUB) where I could download Old Korean fonts. Finding fonts that supported Old Korean was incredibly difficult and took me over an hour for sure.
WATCH MORE HERE:
➤ How to Read Korean in 20 Minutes: • How to Read Korean in 20 Minutes
➤ Korea's Two Numbers Systems Explained: • Korea’s Two Number Systems Explained
➤ Korean Age Explained: • Korean Age Explained
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - What does the Korean keyboard look like?
0:52 - Writing the 14 Consonants
4:08 - Writing the 10 Vowels
5:20 - Rules of writing Korean characters
6:14 - Writing Double Consonants
7:30 - Writing Double Vowels
8:25 - Writing Examples & Exercises
9:14 - Typing on a Korean keyboard
12:02 - Korean typing is more efficient than English
14:21 - Korean is efficient as a language overall
16:07 - Uncommon & weird Korean characters
17:11 - Old Korean characters
18:25 - What comes next?
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🎵 MUSIC USED 🎵
Unicorn Heads - Drifting at 432 Hz
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All Comments (21)
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This is a sequel to "How to Read Korean" (https://youtu.be/xlU35hbJvb0), which was released back in 2019. You don't have to watch that video to understand this.
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This video legally underated
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Assuming that everybody knows how to type with ten fingers instead of searching and picking at the keyboard with two is adorable of you. 😅
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When you were talking about how many words are actually used in everyday conversation, it reminded me that English speakers learn over 10,000 words in the first 18ish years of life, but only use about 150 to communicate.
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I appreciate how your teachings is straight to the point. Thank you ❤
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This is such an extremely high quality video!!
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This is so through Why does this not have more views🧐
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I'm beyond words on how much I've learned here. Thank you so much for the teachings and research done! Plus I would really love the video on Korean fonts
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Man you should get much more recognition! After watching the vid I was surprised how little comments there were... I'm korean but i tumbled upon with the duolingo vid and ur explanations are phenomenal... I also got many korean questions living abroad so I know how difficult it can be to explain it when u don't actually understand and study how the language works... 가려운곳을 시원하게 긁어주는 느낌이에요!! 재밌게 보고 갑니다 :))
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Thankyou so much for this video. Crisp and sharp 👏i learnt korean numbers from your video earlier. Please continue to teach korean.
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YAY YOU DID UPLOADED👍🏻
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OllehRebelz new video?? I have been summoned
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dawg imagine this being on my fyp of youtube, I need my mom to teach me
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Waiting for the font video!
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I feel like my head is empty its not getting in 😂
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Thank you so much ❤
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난 한국인인데 이게 왜 뜨냐ㅋㅋㅋㅋ갑자기 한글공부하는중
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미치카
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파을
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You speak sooooo fast i actually speak spanish and german and i can speak a Little bit english and understand a lot but youre tonfast to me lol... 😂😔 im learning korean since 5 days and i spend allready 10 hours in duolingo learning hangul. Now i can read and know all the hangul but im still learning how it reslly works. I dont understand why there are two ㄹ for example like this ➡️ 을라 ⬅️ when u only need to speak it once. U understand what i mean? Does Duolingo explain it anywhere? Or can someone explain it to me. ???
