When the Camellia Blooms 동백꽃 필 무렵 | Murder, Mystery, and Mothers

What I thought to be a flowery romcom kdrama turned out to be a kdrama masterpiece having a perfect balance of drama, romance, comedy, and suspense. Yes! That is what I think about When the Camellia Blooms. It's worth the 20 hours that I invested watching it. Have you seen it yet?

There are SOME SPOILERS in this episode. Listen at your own risk ^^

00:00 monologue, introduction, greetings
02:55 weekly vocabs and study tips!!! (details below)
10:50 discussion starts here, synopsis, initial impressions, the leads
17:45 a note about spoilers, meta stuff, awards, kdrama watching habits
22:47 kdrama masterpiece, another note about spoilers LOL, murder and joker, mystery, *Ongsan is not a real place
32:15 Gyeonggi dialect, Hyangmi's story, mothers and their love for their children, pain transfer(?)
36:10 song recommendation, Kdrama words of wisdom
and more!!!

For more information about the drama you can check out the following page: When the Camellia Blooms - AsianWiki

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**Vocabulary Words of the Week**

1.  치매 癡呆 
dementia, Alzheimer's disease 

sample sentence:
연구진은 국내 치매 환자의 56%가 경증 치매 진단을 받았기에 이 돌봄 로봇을 개발하기 시작했다고 전했다.

The researchers said they started to develop the nurse robot as 56 percent of dementia patients are diagnosed with "mild" dementia.

2. 하마 河馬
hippopotamus

sample sentence:
하마의 몸집 때문에 사람들은 하마가 느린 동물이라고 생각한다.

Because of their size, people think hippos are slow creatures.

3.  절교하다 絕交하다  
to end one's friendship, be estranged 

sample sentence:
우리 절교하는거야?

Are we not going to be friends anymore?

4.  까불다
(informal) to act up, behave badly[frivolously] 

sample sentence:
지금 나에게 까불지 마라.

Don't get wise with me now.

5.  우월감 優越感  
sense[feeling] of superiority, superiority complex 

sample sentence:
그녀의 미소는 연민과 우월감이 뒤섞인 것이었다.

Her smile was a mixture of pity and condescension.

**Study Tip**
Read aloud. Record yourself. Listen. Give yourself feedback. Rinse. 

**Song/Music Recommendation of the week**

정동원 vs 장민호 ‘파트너’♫ [내일은 미스터트롯]

!!! Check out the following playlists I made for you:
Spotify – For the Kingkas and Queenkas
YouTube Music - For the Kingkas and Queenkas

**K-drama Words of Wisdom**

그냥 아껴 먹으면 맛대가리만 없지
당장 배고플 때 홀랑 먹어야지 그게 와따지
그러니까 나중에 말고
당장 야금야금 부지런히 행복해야 돼
If you save your food to eat it later, it'll only taste aweful
It tastes the best if you eat it all while you're hungry
So you have to be diligent and happy when you can
instead of saving it up for later.
- Dongbaek's Mom

행복은 좇는 게 아니라 음미야, 음미야
You don't chase after happiness. You savor it.
- Dongbaek


**Further Readings**
If you still haven't read this last week, check it out now:
Dictation as a Language Learning Tool - ScienceDirect