[learning Korean] Rain check.
— Cloud cover by: Stephe, Managing Editor ^@@^
{*Edited to Add: Thanks to native speaker stacy09 for this info on the Chinese characters that TaeHee is displaying:
The chinese character (福) is pronounced as “bok (복)” which means fortune/luck as in the “새해 복 많이 받으세요.” 새(sae: new) 해(hae: year) 복(bok: fortune/luck) 많이(mani: many/much) 받으세요(badeuseyo: receive). “Best wishes(good luck) for a new year!” “Happy new year!” to all of you, clouds!! }
Looks like Coupang is throwing a fresh new customer event in celebration of the new year. I’ve no idea what the box TaeHee is holding says because those look like Chinese characters, but the wider poster does say “Happy New Year” along the top of it (sae hae bok manh-i badeuseyo). ^@@^ (Source: Coupang / caps: ratoka)
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A fresh Rain for Anchor Ice poster. “Double” Ice, Raining dragon! (Image: daxuechengnews @weibo)
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A little RRG from around the Rainiverse…
(Music Bank Rain, courtesy of hime)
(The Best Show Encore Rain, courtesy of Rain Love Song)
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Hi Stephe,
The chinese character (福) is pronounced as “bok (복)” which means fortune/luck as in the “새해 복 많이 받으세요.”
새(sae: new) 해(hae: year) 복(bok: fortune/luck) 많이(mani: many/much) 받으세요(badeuseyo: receive).
“Best wishes(good luck) for a new year!” “Happy new year!” to all of you, cloulds!!
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Thanks,Stacy! Happy New Year to you and yours. 🙂
Stephe ^@@^
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Thanks sister, and the same to you and everyone.
Happy new years and I pray for a safe,healthy,peaceful & loving year full of prosperity.
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Thank you for the translation and transliterations! One more pronunciation tip: the ㄱ (k) in 복 (bok) is pronounced “ng” because the sound changes when it comes before ㅁ (m). So the whole thing is pronounced “sae hae bong mani padeuseyo”. (long o in bong, ae is like in between short e and ay, i is pronounced ee)
Happy New year everyone! Health, good fortune and happiness to you!
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Let Rain wish you a Happy New Year in this 2007 SKT ad!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQ2QhgYvF44E&v=Q2QhgYvF44E&gl=US
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Hi Isilvalie,
You’re right about pronunciation of “ㄱ ” before “ㅁ” . If you say the whole sentence without any pause, then it is pronounced “bong”.
By the way, are you Korean? It seems that you know Korean very well. I grew up in Korea and Korean is my mother tongue. Even though I have lived here quite a while, I still feel more comfortable communicating in Korean.
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