Every language has “untranslatable words” – a word that perfectly encapsulates a feeling or situation which lacks an exact equivalent in other languages. Here are ten useful Korean words that don’t have exact English equivalents.
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Notoriously chilly relations between South Korea and Japan received encouraging news this week.
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As policymakers around the world look to ease the impact of the financial shock from Brexit through further fiscal stimulus and monetary easing, it is vital that they not discount the pivotal role politics plays in managing an economy and how the anti-global integration phenomenon can change the domestic political landscape.
KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Valerie Dabady Liverani, manager of the Resource Mobilization and External Finance Department at the African Development Bank.