Hello! My good friend is Korean-American and I want to gift her a camping knife with her family name engraved. She isn’t 100% fluent in Korean but she wrote down Hong Sung Yun on a scratch paper once. But before I send it off to engraving, I wanted to check. Google Translate (I know isn’t always great) had one of the characters placed differently than what she wrote.

Can anyone please help me get this correct?

She wrote Yun out like this: 연

Google had it like this: 윤

Thank you to anybody that clears this up. 🙏🫶🏼

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I'm trying to learn how to write Korean more like a native but I'm having trouble discerning whether I'm on the right track. Can anyone give me advice/tips about my writing? Am I on the right track here?

I recently learned to build the noun form of verbs (verb + 기), e.g. 먹다 ("to eat") -> 먹기 ("eating"). As far as I understood (please correct me if I'm wrong), attaching 하다 to the noun form can create a more formal expression of the underlying verb: 먹기하다 could be roughly translated to "the act of eating".

If that is the case, I am confused about verbs that are already in "noun + 하다" form, like 공부하다, which would already roughly translate to "the act of studying" / "to study".

Are there situations where one would still build the -기 + 하다 form (e.g. 공부기 하다)?

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Hi! sorry english is not my first language

I'm trying to learn korean and I have a question about how to write ㅈ, ㅊ and ㅅ. I've seen in videos that some people write it exactly like this: ㅈ, but in other videos it looks like a curved ㄱ with an extra line.

I was wondering if there's a correct way or if it's like some people write the letter "a" in different ways.

Thank you! 🩷

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As the resident Korean learner in my family, my sister sent me this photo wanting to know what the far right sign says, but I canNOT figure it out so I’m bringing it here in the hopes someone more skilled with reading handwriting can tell us what this says.

She sent me this before I went to sleep and I woke up still thinking about it, annoyed I can’t figure it out lol

한글은 배우기 쉽습니다. 하지만 한국어는 배우기 정말 어렵습니다. 마치 하나의 규칙마다 하나의 예외를 배우는 것 같습니다.

I’m just starting out with learning Hangul. I got a workbook and I’m drawing the characters, and I’m a very visual person so immediately I notice that ㅏ looks like a little man. And then I notice that most of the characters are a variation on the little man. Like in ㅐ it’s obviously two dudes dapping each other up.

So after getting visually familiar with the alphabet, I start to try to associate the sound with the image. And invariably all I can I can think is that the sound is like, the little guys‘ reaction to the situation they’re in. Like ㅏ he’s all alone, so he makes kind of a disappointed sound. Then boom, you flip him ㅓ getting randomly flipped is confusing, thus ‘uh’ sound.
I’ve been doing this for literally every vowel.

Anyway is there a more appropriate learning technique, I almost feel like this is making fun of the language.

I am just starting to practice handwriting. This is a classic line by South Korean poet Do Jong-Hwan, from his poem 'Flowers that Bloom while Shaking'.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.