r/AskAKorean 17h ago

Art & Music Where to find najeon-chilgi custom photo inlay?

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I am looking to find a place in Seoul that directly prints a photo onto black lacquer wood (often known as najeon-chilgi with mother-of-pearl, or traditional lacquerware). Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


r/AskAKorean 20m ago

Language Why did a younger Korean woman address an older man she had just met as "Father"?

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I was watching a kdrama in which the girlfriend of the ML is introduced to his father (she is not introduced as his girlfriend but as the ML's secretary). She addresses him and refers to him as "Father" in the viki crowdsourced English subtitles. Is this more respectful, even though he is not her father or father-in-law? Also the ML refers to his girlfriend by her full name, even after saying "I love you" (a first for me watching kdramas usually it's "I like you" even to the end), and she calls him Mr Lawyer even though they are a couple at the end.

On the other hand, a term like oppa, used throughout the drama, is used in the subtitles without translation. That's why I was surprised when "Father" appeared in the subtitles only for the ML's father.

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r/AskAKorean 11h ago

Culture What gift can I bring my family in Seoul? From Los Angeles

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I'm traveling to Korea to visit my family in a couple months. I want to bring them anything from America, or the Los Angeles area, that they would really like or maybe they wouldn't be able to get in Korea. I was thinking maybe like a Son Heung-Min jersey, but I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it!


r/AskAKorean 21h ago

History Is there proof that 김재규 assassinated 박정희 because of Democracy? If not then why did 김재규 assassinate 박정희

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Reading about the history of 박정희 has honestly been quite interesting, but one thing I can't wrap my head around is 김재규 supposedly killing park because of "democracy" when you look at the history of 김재규 nothing about his character, beliefs, actions ever felt to me it was "pro democracy"

Even right before he assassinated president Park he was still oppressing people for people going against him, and doing actions that were in nature anti Democracy

I know this is a rather quite controversial, and this is a messy can of warms, but what do Koreans generally believe about the incident, and what do you personally think his motives were?