When I was a kid, I wanted to be an author.
The stories, poems, and lyrics I read were a huge inspiration to me. So, I want to inspire people with my words, just like those who inspired me.

Since the colonial period, Korea has been influenced by Japan in various fields, especially in terms of entertainment. I didn’t know most of the anime I watched when I was a kid was from Japan. I didn’t know some TV shows and even songs that I liked were Japanese remakes. I didn’t even know how to read or speak Japanese, but I was always surrounded by Japanese culture.

One day, when I was in middle school, one of my friends recommended some Japanese TV shows to me, and I fell in love with the Japanese language right away. For the first time, I realized how fun learning a new language could be and it motivated me to learn Japanese. One of the biggest reasons I loved Japanese is that it has the same sentence structure as Korean, but there are some special words that do not exist in Korean such as 木漏れ日 and 遠回り.

It was kind of like a game for me. Finding similarities and differences while learning Japanese was so much fun.
When I was 21, I decided to move to Japan and I got the chance to live there for a year. During that year, I met a lot of people from all over the world and it surprised me that people from many different countries could communicate with each other in Japanese (and I was one of them, too!).
In 2019, Korean culture spread like wildfire around the world thanks to K-pop groups like BTS and Black Pink, and through the movie “Parasite” and the very popular Netflix show “Squid Game”. Because of this, people finally began to pay attention to the Korean language as well. That made me feel like NOW is the perfect time to share the best tips I have gathered since I began learning Japanese with the people who have started to learn Korean.
Korean might seem harder than Japanese because of some grammar and pronunciation rules, but I am sure that it will be just like a riddle that you’d love to solve!

I hope that by introducing you to some very effective methods for learning both Korean and Japanese at the same time, you will be inspired to continue your learning journey with me!