Visiting Korea For the First Time as an Advanced Speaker - Divjjot Singh from India
Talk To Me In Korean
Hyunwoo Sun
4.7 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sat down with a long-time listener of TTMIK from India, who came to visit Korea for the first time as an advanced Korean speaker. Divjjot Singh is our guest today, and he studied Korean for 10 years and finally had his first opportunity to visit Korea.
Today's quiz:
Which of these describes a bigger sound?
(1) 콩콩콩
(2) 쿵쿵쿵
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Talk to Me in Korean podcast. I am |
| 0:10.0 | Hjunu. Thank you for tuning in. And we have a very special episode prepared for you today because we are talking to a listener, a long-time student of Talk to Me in Korean. |
| 0:20.0 | Before we hear that part, let's go over. a long-time student of Talk to Me in Korean. |
| 0:26.6 | Before we hear that part, let's go over to today's Korean quiz. |
| 0:34.6 | Today's quiz is about an automotopia expression, a word that describes the sound of something, right? In Korean, that is, |
| 0:36.6 | e-sung-o, |
| 0:37.9 | oomotopia. |
| 0:40.4 | So now, |
| 0:41.7 | imagine that you are hearing |
| 0:43.4 | some knocking sounds |
| 0:44.8 | on the door, |
| 0:46.0 | okay? |
| 0:46.4 | Somebody's knocking. |
| 0:47.8 | And I'll give you |
| 0:48.6 | two automatopia |
| 0:50.1 | expressions in Korean, |
| 0:52.1 | and I need you to tell me |
| 0:53.9 | which one is a bigger sound. |
| 0:57.0 | Number one, kong kong kong. Number two, kung kong kong |
| 1:04.0 | Once again, between these two Korean anatopoeia expressions describing sounds, which one is a bigger sound, generally speaking. |
| 1:12.5 | Kong Kong or kong kong kong or kung kung. |
| 1:15.8 | Please think about your answer and I'll give you the correct answer at the end of this episode. |
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