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Compressed Korean
Reading the news — headlines, sources, figures, and what the article is not telling you
You can read Korean sentences, and then you open a news site and stop at the headline. That is not a vocabulary gap: a headline drops its particles, turns verbs into nouns and lets a comma do the work of a clause, so it has to be decoded rather than read. Seven daily lessons on how a Korean article compresses — the shape of headline, lead and body and why you may stop after the lead; expanding a headline before you read on; the six phrases that attribute a claim and the two that name nobody; the grammar of figures, including why a slowdown is not a fall and why percentage points are not percent; four grades of certainty about the future that English blurs into one; and how an editorial states a position it never announces. Every headline and passage here was written by us in the shape the register uses — copying real articles has a copyright problem, and naming a real company or quoting a real figure would make the lesson teach something false within a year. The course also teaches reading rather than only decoding: 알려졌다 and 것으로 보인다 look like attribution and are not, and a reader who misses that takes an inference for a reported fact.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 109
- Quiz items
- 49
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · How an article compresses
- 1A news article is not a long sentenceHeadline, lead, and why the first paragraph contains everythingRead an article in the order a Korean reader does, and stop after the lead when that is enough.
- Reading a headlineNo particles, nouns where verbs belong, and punctuation doing grammarExpand a compressed headline into a full sentence before reading on.
- Who said it-에 따르면 · 밝혔다 · 전했다 — and 알려졌다, which names nobodyFind the source of a claim, and notice when the article is not giving you one.
- Numbers have grammar증가 · 급증 · 둔화, and why %p is not %Read a figure, its direction, its size and what it is measured against.
- What has not happened yet예정 · 방침 · 전망 · 보인다 — four grades of certaintyTell a scheduled fact from a forecast from a guess, by the ending alone.
- Editorials and columnsWhere the writer stops reporting and starts arguingFind the writer's position in a piece that never states it directly.
- One article, all the way throughEverything at once, and then back to the exam paperRead a complete article using every tool from this week, in order.
Languages this course is written in
The lessons are explained in one language. Where a translation exists your screen uses it; where it does not, you see the original rather than a blank.