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Where is “Korea”? What do you call “Korea”?

Submitted by Berkeley Langua... on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 14:40

Few years ago, when I was an undergraduate student learning Korean, one of my professors started his methodology class about Korean studies with these two questions: Where is “Korea”? What do you call “Korea”?
Back then, everyone was quite sure about the answer and was wondering why a professor would ask that kind of question to [...]