Learning Korean: a warning to K-poppers

So you want to study Korean?? move there?? marry a Korean?? EXCELLENT! the more the merrier I say~ Let's fill this world with peace and love, mutual understanding and K-pop! ahhhh K-pop *salutes*

but seriously

do it right or turn around now -_- you need more than K-pop to move to Korea, because when you move out there and Taemin doesn't ask you to marry him you'll be holding your Korean language degree in tears.

"sorry guise"

for starters as a Korean learner you have to make a decision: is this my hobby? or my future?

For me I learn Korean for the enjoyment of it, I love the way the language works, and it's just so fulfilling to learn I can't describe it! So I guess really it's a hobby, but thanks to a horrible recession co-in-siding with my graduation, leaving millions of young people unemployed, I thought rather than continue trudging the streets looking for work that I am either too qualified for or too inexperienced for, I will expand on my hobby to make my job potential better! Voila~ it is now my future~

plus you know life experience and doing what I really want etc.


Now I don't blame you if you started learning Korean because you love K-pop, I started learning because I love my boyfriend.

Man I love, doing what he loves...eating

however I don't learn for him, in fact he is quite happy speaking only English to the point that me learning Korean annoys him.... jerk ¬_¬

If you decide to up sticks and move to Korea, you need to do it for you and only you, because, sadly, other people have a tendency to disappoint you, especially K-pop stars.