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"English is cooler than Hangeul?" street signs being dominated by English

Saturday, October 10, 2015



Article: "Hangeul is outdated"... streets overtaken by street signs in foreign languages

 Source: SBS via Naver + Nate

1. [+13,635, -567] Funny this article comes from Naver when they changed their logo to Hangeul just for Hangeul day yesterday and put it back to English today

2. [+6,877, -191] There are a lot of pretty Hangeul names for street signs too..

3. [+6,711, -268] Am I the only one who finds Hangeul street signs better to look at...

4. [+5,918, -207] Funny because foreigners think Hangeul is cute....

5. [+4,795, -281] Koreans are obsessed with the idea that foreign culture is superior so this does't come as a surprise...

6. [+1,121, -23] It's not that Hangeul looks outdated... people just design the street signs to look outdated

7. [+1,106, -26] In Insadong, English street signs are banned. Even Starbucks is written as '스타벅스'!!! And it just just as pretty as ever.

8. [+895, -8] Even the public broadcast TV shows are in English like 'Running Man', 'Oh My Baby', 'Morning Wide', 'Star King', 'K-Pop Star', 'Healing Camp', etc... SBS is the most problematic and should look into it.

9. [+886, -26] It's obvious how much Koreans think English looks better when we call 'yorisas (chefs)' as 'chefs' in English.

10. [+452, -3] I think Koreans using random English everywhere is more outdated ㅋ especially magazines throwing around 'bling bling' everywhere

11. [+787, -7] The Hangeul street signs in Insadong don't look outdated at all

12. [+27, -2] How can Hangeul be outdated? It looks so cool when you change the fonts around

13. [+17, -2] Hangeul is one of the best characters in the world

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Article: 'Oppa' seen on French ad? Foreign actor's love for Hangeul

Source: SBS via Naver

1. [+708, -33] That hyung is now my top 3 favorite actors

2. [+698, -18] An achievement of our great King Sejong

3. [+557, -12] I remember there was a Korean jean brand named 'Jambangee' back then that had its logo written in Hangeul and it was really popular because the jeans were great but the logo was pretty too... but a few years later, they changed it to English. Sad because their Korean logo was pretty..

4. [+30, -5] Hangeul is something that scholars are constantly praising as one of the most beautiful in the world. You can express any emotion in it and is also one of the easiest languages to learn

5. [+22, -4] We're so used to seeing English text on t-shirts that we find Hangeul awkward but I think it'd be pretty if t-shirts started using Hangeul text

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