It's been awhile since I update this blog. There has been a lot of changes on the subway map since I last uploaded it. Busan Subway Line 4 and Busan-Gimhae LRT are scheduled to be open around March/April 2011. Line 4 has now been set with blue, so I have to re-colour the LRT line to purple. Line 4 station name has been officially announced earlier, although there is still on going request for retaining the actual place name of Bansong, I will use the earlier announced station names and update accordingly when there is newer announcement.
The LRT line station name, especially for Hanja and English name are not the official name given, but my guess that is how it would be named later judging from various sources online. Also, no news on the official colour for LRT line, and blue has been taken over by Line 4, so without confusing anyone looking at it, I will set it as purple for the moment.
Also, as part of the renaming of station name for Line 1, all stations with the word 동 will be streamlined without it and so are those with the word 앞. Since Line 1 extension all the way to Dadaepo is announced, I have added those in, but since no station name was announced yet (other than the potential location for station), I will leave it as it is for this version. Most likely we will be seeing the station of 장림, but I am not very sure how would they named those sharing the same area or road name, and there is nothing prominent but apartment nearby.
If you have been watching 제빵왕 김탁구 episode 22, did you notice a letter with "unauthorised" seal? Observe the following :
The protagonist name as explained so many times in the drama is suppose to be with the character 求 and not 購, and they even highlight it with big characters as shown towards the end of episode 7 :
Although both 求 and 購 can be given as 구할 구, the latter is better to be known as 살 구. This 漢字 mistake reminds me of the writeup in Chosun Ilbo : 자격증 따려 속성 강의 매달려… 한자 2급도 '大韓民國' 제대로 못써 or you can view the Chinese version 盲考证书 韩大学生样样通样样松.
I'm not sure anyone notice this, but Busan Subway announcement within the train and on the platform are actually available for download from the 부산교통공사 website. Announcement of next approaching station and approaching train are available, as well as some of the previous versions of announcement are available for download. One particular cool thing that I found available in Busan subway is the available of four languages announcement :
한국어 : 지금 장산, 장산행 열차가 들어오고 있습니다. 고객 여러분께서는 한 걸음 물러서 주시기 바랍니다.
English : The train for Jangsan, Jangsan is now arriving.
日本語 : 萇山, 萇山行きの電車が参ります。
中文 : 开往장산, 장산方向的列车马上就要进站了。
Do check out more of these announcements MP3 or WAV file download and also the statistics for passenger ridership of each line and stations are available.
Korean Air has launched an advertisement campaign promoting flights from Incheon to Xi'an and Zhengzhou in China. The advertisement contains famous location near these two destinations and also famous quote from old sayings and proverbs as shown in the picture above. In the advertisement, it shows some footage on the location and then comes a scenario based example showing how to use the proverbs. I think this advertisement campaign has become viral in Korea with some people trying to imitate the narrator but with random sound when reach the Chinese proverb portion. Check out the advertisement video at the end of this post.
There is even a parody going on as shown in the picture above, mocking the style of presentation in the advertisement. The first picture (from the original) stated "When you are always given small (unimportant) task to handle, 이사 said .. ". The second picture shows one line of Chinese character 河己失音 官頭登可 with Korean reading of such characters at the bottom [하기실음관두등가] mimicking the same style used in the original advertisement. I have tried to decypher what does that proverb means, but apparently, that is where the parody is hidden. The Chinese characters is just some characters that was selected in place of the Korean pronunciation. The Korean reading of that phrase sounds like "하기싫음 관두든가" means "Should just quit if you don't like to do it." There are some website trying to explain the literal meaning of the Chinese "proverb" and trying to find the meaning. But to me, I just like the sounds-like idea more.
Here are the 3 of the 6 TV advertisements from Youtube. You can check out the rest from Korean Air website at http://chinatravel.koreanair.com/
This is so funny, I saw this moments ago from the 10pm news of Arirang TV on 2 December 2009, on a segment called Jonalyn's Dream, about an English teacher who came from the Philippines. Gosh, the TV crew should edit this shot off and should inform the school about it. I'm not sure why no one in the school notice this in the first place. You can read the news report here.
As I mentioned in previous post, there is an episode from Tantei Gakuen Q that as the R/L mix up commonly found in Japanese. This is from Episode 11, where Dan Sensei explained what is the difference between Class A and Class Q.
Problem with R and L is a frequent mistake found in Japan or Korea. Lately, I saw this from Detective Conan Episode 547 - 犯人との二日間(一日目). Where Conan was in a shopping mall overheard about a kidnapped child and ran to the car park to look for the suspect. I remember seeing R/L problem in one of the anime episode of 探偵学園Q, where the founder explained about how the founder 団守彦 named the class with the letter Q. Then there is a scrolling word at the background showing 'Quarified'. I think you know the proper word.
Starting from this post, I will be listing Chinese cover version and the original counterpart as a closing remark.
클론 — 도시탈출
Cover : 徐懷鈺 — 妙妙妙
Non English songs are also a good source to import tune. Here are some songs that have made it to the Chinese song arena.
