An Introduction to Korean

by J. David Eisenberg

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Images of Seoul, a combination tourism guide and photo gallery.

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Other Korean Links, Korean Textbooks, and Korea One Ring

Thanks to Shin, In-Rae, the Korean teacher at Foothill College, who has made this material clear to me.

Thanks to Heather Lim for recording the sound for these pages.

Thanks to Whan-Soo Kang for his suggestions and corrections.
Any mistakes remaining in this tutorial are still mine; all mine!

Thanks to the folks at Crown Bakery in Santa Clara, CA for their kind permission to take a picture of the inside of their store.

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