{"id":2706,"date":"2025-08-29T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:17:24","slug":"week-5-middlebury-school-of-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-5-middlebury-school-of-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 @Middlebury School of Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the week when I started to truly notice how much my Korean has improved.<\/p>\n<p>In class, I have become adjusted to my Korean teachers\u2019 speaking\/teaching styles, and during lunch I feel that conversations with my peers are flowing much better.\u00a0 I am glad to be able to understand and express a lot more than before.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are also approximately midway through the program, I am hopeful that in a couple more weeks my progress and abilities in the language will be even more evident.<\/p>\n<p>Another fun and exciting part of this week was the \ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4 \ud559\uad50\uc758 \ub178\ub808\ubc29. The term \ub178\ub808\ubc29 literally means &#8220;song room&#8221; in Korean.\u00a0 It generally refers to singing Karaoke with friends and family in either a pre-established room for that purpose or anywhere that fits, from my understanding. At our school, we had a \ub178\ub808\ubc29 in our dorm&#8217;s living room and at the Grill. As someone who loves music and singing,\u00a0 I participated in both, and I found it to be very entertaining and enjoyable!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the week when I started to truly notice how much my Korean has improved. In class, I have become adjusted to my Korean teachers\u2019 speaking\/teaching styles, and during lunch I feel that conversations with my peers are flowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-5-middlebury-school-of-korean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}