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Name: 이희재 (Lee Hee Jae) - Hate my names for several reasons... -_-;;
Age/DOB: 20 (Korean age: 21) - 11/02/86
Background: Born in the States, moved to Seoul at age six, and raised there until I finished High School. Yes, I'm a proud, full-blooded Korean who can speak both English and Korean fluently, but I get a bit confused when writing in Korean. My family still lives in Korea, so I visit it as often as I can, and I love it there... 서울짱!

Green Tea Leaves here, but the korean anem is Yu-jin. I hear from a transfer student here that it's a really common name...

Oh well, I like it. My sister is hee-jin. funny. And then my brother is just yo-sep.

Ok, well I am, indeed, Korean, but I live in America.

Born in New York, actually and moved around for a few times. I'm only 17...unless you add all my character's ages onto me then *counts on her fingers* - I've lost count. sweatdrop

I can pretty much understand most of korean, can speak it with gramatical errors and then- It takes me a long time to spell and read. And then the spelling is horrible. I used to know how to type korean, but the program isn't even on my computer and I've forgotten how to.

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So~ yea...

Name Mirry.
Age 16
Born Pennsylvania, USA. Lived here forever.

I'm not Korean, but I am really interested in the culture and language (slowly teaching myself..). I really like Korean music, and dramas. And I have some ball-joint dolls from Korea, which is a really cool hobby. :3

헨리 - Henry
15
American, living in Qingdao, wishing he was either home in the USA or in Korea

korean name: 보배
english name: Esther
year born: 1990 in VA

korean born in USA, but sometimes mistaken as fob which i am not even though i can write, read, and speak korean -_-

Randy
10 sweatdrop
08-15-1996
I like korean movies like the one i just finshed called A Millionare's First Love and i join the guild because i like the korean writign and how you pronouce things

안녕하세요!



Name: Julie =)
Age: Currently 16
Born in: America

Erm, I'm not Korean, so I hope you guys will teach me your language and culture! I first became interested in Korean's POP culture when I was 14, I think... I saw this uber kewl Shinhwa music video on this Asian channel and I was like, "Wow, dude! Why don't Americans do this kind of stuff?! Why don't the Chinese do this kind of stuff?!" I immediately went on youtube, thinking, "Korean music rocks!" I became a frequent listener of Shinhwa's music... then I found out about DBSK and VOOOOOM! The whole Korean industry appeared apparently before my eyes. Even before all this, I never realized my mom loves Korean dramas! I watched a few with her, but back then, I didn't even know what exactly "Korean" was. All I thought was that they liked to produce tear-jerking tragic dramas where the main characters always die of cancer. As a family, we sit and cry together at those sad scenes.... hahahaaaa....

But then I watched Full House and realized not all Korean dramas are like that. 3nodding Korean dramas and mvs are the bombz.

Hmmm.... then I decided to write a fanfic on Shinhwa, right? So I searched everywhere about the Korean culture so I could embellish the fanfic with the appropriate setting and all. As I was collecting data, I became sooososososososo interested in the Korean culture! Too bad the collection of those information is gone now. =( Some dude erased it from my computer. I remember searching up all those different Korean dishes, looking at its ingredients and delicious-looking pictures.... awwwww....

Because of that, I decided I want to go to Korea one day. If I want to go, then I must know how to speak with Koreans, right? So I tried self-teaching myself Korean by sitting through around an hour a day looking at "Learn how to speak Korean" videos -you know, Ahn Chak Hee-. For awhile, I thought I was on my way to success, but that was summer. When school approached, I stopped watching the videos. I totally forgot most of the stuff I learnt, but I went back to the basics and retaught myself the alphabets. Right now, I have library books teaching me Korean.... and some Korean myths. =3 Next year, I might even enroll in Korean class to officially learn from a professional. As for now... I'll just try to not forget the common phrases I know, study from the Korean picture books and ask some of my friends who're in Korean 4 to help me out once in a while. ^-^

Thank you so much for accepting me to this guild!
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