World Champion Korean swimmer in London Olympics, 2012

South Korea's Olympic and world champion Park Tae-Hwan gestures after he competed in the men's 400m freestyle heats swimming event at the London 2012 Olympic Games in London. (AFP Photo) "I don't know why I was disqualified, I will have to speak to my coach," said Park, the first male swimmer to win four individual medals at an Asian Games in a single stroke, after the pool. Park Tae-hwan (born September 27, 1989) is a South Korean swimmer. He is a member of the South Korean national swimming team, based in Taereung, Seoul. He won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a silver in the 200 meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is the first Asian swimmer to win a gold medal in Men's 400 metre freestyle event, and the first Korean to win a medal in swimming. It was really surprising!

5 facts about TOPIK, Korean language test, South Korea

The test of proficiency in Korean, TOPIK. The test is conducted four times in a year and twice in other countries for people learning Korean Language.

 
• . The test is divided in four parts vocablary, grammar,writing and listening. There is no oral session.the test has maximum score of 100. The test fees is different in different countries.
•  There are two types of test Standard and Business test. The standard test has three types test:1-2 beginner (초급), 3-4intermediate (중급), and 4-5advanced (고급).
•  You can download the Sample test on the www.topik.go.kr.
•  The writing section is really hard and scoring in writing the essay is little hard if you are not confident in writing, you need to prepare well.
•  The test results came declared after one month which can be seen on www.topik.go.kr. There are several Topik test guides available online. The test is more popular than KLPT. The test is taken in different countries.

 The test is important for the students learning Korean language, the people who wants a job in Korean govt or Korea job where Korean language is very important. Once you take up the exam, solutions of the exam will be uploaded on the website, hence you can check your answers. Later, they display the result on the website.

 The test is designed to check the ability of non-Koreans, with expressions and comprehensions. If you are still a beginner, I would suggest you take the KLPT exam first and then go for TOPIK. The TOPIK is harder than KLPT. Good luck for all the learners!

Indian Restaurants in Changwon city, South Korea

I love to try new food, so as recommended by my friends we drove to  Changwan city. I have heard there are many Indian engineers in changwan city in many companies like Doosan, LG, samsung etc. Hence there is an Indian Restaurant named Bombay which is very popular.

Till now I just loved the food from Delhi Restaurant which is located in Okpo.

So in order to go for a long drive we chose to have lunch in the Indian Restaurant named Bombay.

Actually the names of the restaurant are derived from  the list of  Big Cities of India named Delhi(being the capital of India and Bombay (now called Mumbai), which is famous for Indian cinema, Bollywood.

The Delhi restaurant is among the top restaurants of Geoje and offers are very authentic Indian food.

But once I drove to Changwan city for the Indian food in Mumbai that was just amazing. It was much more like a home food which I enjoyed alot. The food had no color content. The resturant is really huge and service is very good.

We ordered the starters named Samosa, indian mandu with Khamja.

The lunch set of Bombay restaurant is around 15,000 to 17,000 Won depending on the Lunch set 1, 2, and 3. The set offers several choices of drinks which include the salad a curry, naan, Barbecue chicken, curd, rice and fried rice.

  

The food had a lot of quantity and really made us full.

The food was very delicious and I might rate the restaurant very high.

The driving from Geoje might take 1hour 30mins but I think its worth it coz the food is really awesome.

And to my surprise I was shocked to see there are two more restaurants next to bombay restaurant named Punjab and Taj mahal which are also Indian restaurant. So I feel the competition is high hence quality and quantity of the food is perfect.

Street market or farmers market in South Korea

Thank you for your comments and liking my blog. Well! today I will share my experience about the street market or farmers market in South Korea. Previously, I wrote about the grocery marts in South Korea which are located in each locality.

Generally the street markets are located in the market where the farmers bring the freash vegetables, fruits, kimchi, special snacks, some cheap clohes. The street markets are very popular among korean housewives. They buy the vegetables, fruits, sea-food, fish, kimchi etc from these street market.

 The farmers market offer good price, quality and quantity. Best part is the korean old ladies sell products on a cheap rate, if required you can even bargain the price. The old ladies selling the vegetables keep cleaning or washing the vegetables well.

 Otherwise in a big street market you can find products other than food like clothes, general daily stuff, pans, utensils, decoration items, CDs, DVDs old oncs etc.

 But i might recommend you to buy fresh vegetables from the Korean street market and sometimes you can experience the street food like Thikim(fried food), dakpokki etc. You can even buy the rice cake from there which is home made by ajumas.

 Do have an experience of it!

Top 10 facts of Korean History

Koreans are born with good manners, patience, hard working attitude, and intense love for their mother land.Tan-gun was the founder of Korea. His father was considered a heavily diety who had shown his interest to live on earth. The philosophy about Korean are endless but I am here to share about the top 10 facts of Korean history:

1.  Koreans emerged from pre-historic North Asia. They use to hunt and animals and survived. Lately, they started growing rice.By the bronze age they started developing good metal tools.
2.  Since 1st century three major kingdoms grew named, Goguyeo, Baekje and Shilla.These kingdoms were very strong and famous. Later they were unified Goryeo Dynasty.In this dynasty civil laws were identified and the buddhism was considered as the religion. 
3. Then came Josun Dynasity with a new king , who laid several civil, social and adminstratitive laws. Hangul came as the national language and dialect.
4.  Josun dynasty faced several foreign invasion espeally from Japan. They titled it as Korean Empire.
5.  Several Resistance movement took place and in 1945, division of North and South Korea was done. The divison Created several tensions between the Democratic and Communist which led to Korean war in 1950,as North Korea invaded South Korea.
6. Korean pottery has been a very famous and several artifacts have been found in teh Korean peninsula. 
7.  There has been several facts which show the existence of Chinese records in North Korea.
8. A small Jin state was established in 300B.C which was made in relation with China.
9.  Gaya was also a small kingdom which hailed near a river. It was constantly in war with the three kingdoms.Gaya King had married an Indian queen, most famous expatriate Queen Hwangok of Gaya.  
10.  King Taejo identified Seoul as the Capital of South Korea which was previously called Hanyang. The word Korea was derived from Goreoyeo Kingdom.

Also it is called the land of morning calm. The art and music of Korea are very much dedicated to Nature.

Korea has been gifted by several natural sites with the mountains around, river coast, sea, beaches, islands. The most famous ancient sports of Korea are taekwando, Hapkido(martial arts),and Ssireuim(wrestling). Modern Korea has made several developments in science and technology with their good education system and immense hard work. The modern Korea is a blend of historic philosophies and new technology which is worth to visit and experience.