The Virtual Picture Album -- Korea

The grid below is an annotated index to part of the Virtual Picture Album compiled and distributed by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project at the University of Minnesota. The pictures in this section of the VPA are of people, places, and objects in the Republic of Korea. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the grid, and is accompanied by:

• a list of vocabulary items corresponding to elements in the picture
• some suggested lesson topics and grammar points for which the picture might be useful. (These categories are summarized at the bottom of the page.)

There are also suggestions for ways to use certain pairs or groups of pictures.

Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for Korea is divided into five parts.

 

Part 1	Daily Life: Shopping, Food, Transportation
Part 2	Korea Today: People, Education, Recreation
Part 3	Korea Yesterday: Culture, Tradition
Part 4	Historic Remains
Part 5	Geography: Landscape, Scenery

To view or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below.

Part 1. Daily Life: Shopping, Food, Transportation

Photo (Thumbnail)	Topics	Vocabulary Items	Grammar Points
	Shopping in a department store, clothing, size	Clothes, price, sale, clerk, inside, interior, window shopping, clothes rack, signs, sales price	Making requests, descriptions, comparisons
	Shopping, customers, asking price	Korean currency (won), dollar, accessory, customer, native Korean number/sino-Korean number, expensive, cheap, good, better	Comparing prices, comparatives, superlatives, demonstrative pronouns, counters
	Traditional market vs. modern market, shopping in open market, dealing price	Namdaemun (South Gate), Traditional market, entrance, sign, big, old, open market, shopping	Description, locatives  (~e/eso)
	Korean traditional clothes, buying hanboks	Hanbok, skirt, coat, pants, silk, colors, size, height, waist, tall, short, long, short, large, medium, small, display, manekins	Describing body measurements and colors, size comparisons, expressing preferences
	Crowded Korean traditional market	Shopping, street, sell, buy, store signs, buildings, stores, people, crowds, many, crowded, souvernir	Description, comparatives, superlatives, demonstrative pronouns, counters
	Shopping at night	Market, signs, crowds, crowded, evening, customers, electric pole	Description, comparison, dealing price
	Fruit vendors	Street vendors, fruits, persimmon, mandarin orange, apple, pear,  strawberry, kiwi	Asking prices, counting, counters for general objects (~kae), tom (extra)
	Street vendor	Red/green hot pepper, spice, red pepper paste, spicy, bowl, ajumma	Asking for price, counting, counters for amount
	Dried seafood store, Korean food	Dried fish, anchovy, small, big, seaweed, size, boxes, prices	Description, asking prices, counting, counters for amount
	Seafood store, buying fish and seafood	Seafood, fish, fresh, ~mari (counter for fish)	Description, counting (mari), asking prices, polite request
	Fish tank of a seafood market	Fish tank, squid, sea squirt, alive/dead	Description, counter for fish (~mari), counting, asking prices
	Snacks on the street	Chestnut, gingko nut, roasted chestnut, street vendor	Asking prices, counting, counters for amount, descriptions (size and shape)
	Open market, comparison to modern supermarket	Fish market, display, bargain, sell, buy, parasol	Comparisons
	Reading store signs	Store signs, coffee shop, cosmetics shop, ice cream store, noraebang	Descriptions
	Coffee shop, college life, blind date	Coffee shop, customers, sofa, table, window, cup, bag, menu	Ordering beverage (coffee, tea, etc.), polite request ~chuseyo
	Eating at a restaurant	Tables, floor, floor cushion (pangsok), fan, picture, television, fish tank, window, blind	Description, polite request, counter for servings
	Korean food table setting	Stew, side dishes, chopsticks, spoons, kimchi, namul, table setting, boil	Describing Korean table setting, counter for dish, describing tastes
	Eating at a restaurant	Eating a meal, taste (hot, spicy, salty, bland, cold, sweet), delicious, chopsticks	Describing tastes and flavor, comparisons (eating a meal, sitting on the floor)
	Spicy Korean food	Round table, pan, vegetables, spatula, red pepper paste, red pepper powder, vegetables, napkins, ash tray, cup	Describing tastes and flavor
	Spicy Korean food	Spice, red pepper paste, vegetables (bean sprout, green onion, onion, noodle), pan-broil	Describing tastes and flavor
	Sliced raw fish (hwe)	Hwe, fish, to slice, slices, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, lemon, green pepper, noodles, minced garlic, to chew, soy sauce	Describing tastes and flavor
	Restaurant interior, reading menu and prices	Menu, beverage, soju, beer, rice wine, sundae (sausage), noodle, fish cake, wood table and chairs	Description, polite request, comparing prices, counter for servings
	Restaurant in suburbs, restaurant building	Restaurant building, suburbs, downtown, spacious, parking lot, to park, to make a reservation	Descriptions, comparisons (wide, spacious vs. narrow, small, etc.), making a reservation
	P'ojangmacha	P'ojangmacha (small wheeled snack bar with a tent), soju, to drink, noodles	Descriptions, comparisons, ordering food, counter for dish
	Snacks on the street	Snacks, ttokpokki, fish cake, ajumma	Descriptions, polite request, counter for general objects
	Street food, street vendor, signs	Pizza, street vendor, ajossi, Japanese	Descriptions, ordering fast food, counter for general objects, counting
	Korean traditional sweets	Korean traditional sweets, wagon, ajossi	Descriptions, counter for general objects
	Traffic jam in downtown Seoul	Buildings, cars, buses, traffic jam, bill board sign, traffic signal, downtown, rush hour, congested	Descriptions
	Busy streets, signs of stores, walking passengers	Chongno, hagwon (private institute), dentists, book store, walking passengers, buildings, alley, crowded	Descriptions
	Bookstore, entrance	Books, bookstore, entrance, basement	Descriptions, directions, locatives
	Public transportation, bus	Bus, bus stop, bus lines, bus fare, waiting, taxi, street	Description, directions
	Airport ticketing, travel	Airport lobby, airlines, travel agency, airplane, flight number, counter, passenger, security check, baggage check, departure, arrival, destination	Description, time and date, number
	Airport lobby	Money exchange, bank, to go straight, turn left/right, smoking room, first aid	Number, Korean/foreign currency, asking locations, locatives, polite expressions
	Airport bus, public transportation	Airport bus, bus fare, passengers, destinations, bus time table, bus lines, non-stop	Asking for directions/time, polite expressions, time
	Airport bus, public transportation	Airport bus, bus fare, passengers, destinations, bus time table, bus lines, signs, time	Description, asking for directions/time, polite expressions, time, locatives
	Subway station, public transportation, subway	Subway, subway station, entrance, signs, public phone	Description, polite expressions, locatives
	Subway train, public transportation	Subway station, subway lines, destinations, passengers	Description, asking for directions, polite expressions, locatives
	Subway train, public transportation	Subway station, subway lines, destinations, passengers	Asking for directions, polite expressions, locatives
	Public transportation, subway	Ticket, ticket counter, fare, passengers	Number, money, descriptions, asking for directions
	Using subway, public transportation	Ticket, vending machine, coins, button, general ticket	Describing procedures
	Subway map	Subway map, lines, green, blue, orange, red, grey, transfer	Describing directions
	Subway: car inside	Passenger, to sit, to walk, to read, newspapers, seats, ads	Descriptions, motion verbs, present progressive tense
	Seoul station, railroad station, public transportation	Seoul station, railroad system, public transportation, buildings	Descriptions
	Railroad station, public transportation	To read, signs, tickets, time, to go, to buy/sell	Description, locatives
	Ticketing	Ticketing, to buy, time and dates, counter, to line, selling out	Descriptions, time, dates, number, asking for prices, making requests, polite expressions
	Ticketing machine, reading signs	Automatic ticketing machine, to buy, instructions, to push buttons, passengers	Descriptions, time, dates, number
	Ticketing, railroad system	Line, to buy, tickets, ticket counter	Descriptions, asking for tickets/prices, time and dates, number, money, making requests
	Tourist information	Information center, travel, tourism, tourists, tickets, the old and the weak, group	Making requests, making suggestions, to ask for information, polite expressions
	Waiting for a train, reading schedules	Passengers, to wait for, train, hanbok, elderly, rails, platform, tracks	Descriptions, asking for help, polite expressions, giving directions
	Railroad, public transportation	Signs, railroad lines, destinations, Gwangju, Mokpo, Yeosu	Descriptions

1. Shopping: department store
2. Shopping: traditional market
3. Foods on street
4. Korean restaurants and food
5. Public transportation: Airport
6. Public trasportation: Subway
7. Public trasportation: Railroad station
8. Seoul
9. Pusan, Inchon
10. Schools and students
11. Entertainment: Noraebang, Internet cafe, Nightclub
12. Korean traditional constructions
13. Natural scenery in Korea
14. Traditional lives of Korea
15. Folk games
16. Traditional arts

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