South Korea 3

Listen to South Korea 3, a woman in her late 20s from Seoul, South Korea. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: late 20s

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): mid 1970s

PLACE OF BIRTH: Seoul, South Korea

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Korean

OCCUPATION: graduate student

EDUCATION: Subject was a graduate student at the time of this interview.

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

Since the age of 18, subject has spent much of her life in the United States (Kansas) and in England (London).

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject was influenced by English and American television and other media.

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RECORDED BY: Matt Simon

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/05/2002

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Seoul, Korea … long time ago *laughs*. I was raised in Korea until I graduate high school, and I moved to London when I was 18, so um, the [?] college in London, and I finished my BA degree, and I had one year of post … diploma certificate course, which we don’t have in here, and during the time I came to Kansas as an exchange student, so I came to Lawrence, Kansas for … six months, one semester. And, after that I came back to London to finish my degree, and I did, and I came back which was 19…98 ’till now. Uh, during, uh, you say junior high school? Yeah, junior high school and high school I learned six years of English, but that time it was only grammar; no speaking, no reading, no listening. So um, I was able to read..but not speak at all, and I came to London, that time I started um, hearing really…and by TV or radio, and I went to English school there…and, that time I picked English. [Speaks Korean]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/02/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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