This is a re-up of a column I wrote for 1945.com recently. I find the hyperbole in Western media on Ukraine exhausting.

The ending ~지다 can be used together with Descriptive Verbs to mean "to get" or "to become" that verb. For example, 춥다 means "to be cold," and 추워지다 means "to become cold" or "to get cold." You can use these new verbs as Action Verbs.

Last Sunday I did a full live classroom all about using this form (as well as compared it to ~게 되다), and you can watch the shortened version in just 8 minutes here.

I remember trying to use 씻다 everywhere when I first learned it. But it wasn't until a bit later when I learned about 닦다 and 청소하다, and then 감다, and others. So I wanted to put together a simple guide for anyone wondering about how to say "to wash" or "to clean," to help other people who might have thought the same way as I did when I was a beginner.

This video covers using the verbs 씻다, 닦다, 세수하다, 청소하다, 빨다, 감다, and 헹구다.

This is a re-up of an essay I wrote a few weeks ago at 1945.com on the debate over an ‘end of war’ declaration in Korea. The debate has passed, but it was pretty hot in December and January, when Moon was pushing pretty hard for it.

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Have you listened to Kpop songs before? K-Pop, shortened from Korean Pop, stands for popular and mainstream music from South Korea, usually in Korean. It is an interesting area of popular music to dive into, as there is a specific format in which groups and albums are built. And yet there is such a diverse variety of the best K-pop songs available with addictive quality for all fans to tune in.