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In Asia, the use of characters makes lots of words sound almost identical. You can imagine then how someone new to Korea, say NichKhun of 2PM, would get a little lost in communication.

On a special episode of Strong Heart, NichKhun shared the struggle he faced to grasp the Korean language. Having moved from Thailand, he didn’t know a lick of Korean, so during his trainee days, NichKhun memorized the phrase, “Hello, I am from Thailand.”

“One day I went to the company office for the first time and I happened to see a trainee who said, ‘Hello, I am from Thailand.’ I was so happy to see that trainee.” Little did he know that the other trainee was Junsu and so not from Thailand.

In Korean, ‘Thailand’ is pronounced as ‘Tae-guk’, which sounds similar to the word ‘Daegu’, just stressed differently. NichKhun then continued, “Junsu misunderstood my bad pronunciation of ‘Thailand’ as ‘Daegu’ and was happy to see someone from his hometown, while I thought Junsu was from Thailand and was happy to see him.”

Aish, what a headache! I’ve tried learning Korean and you stress one word just a tad too hard and you’ll end up saying something completely off from what you were intending.

Has anyone been lost in a communication-mess?

Source: kpoplive


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XD, lol they made this mistake also in one of Hello f(x)’s episodes ><
Nichkhun and Junsu are soo cute xd


hahaha! that’s so cute! i guess these two were just too homesick to notice the pronunciation differences xD


lol~
so funny...!
keke ^^
yeah..
learning new language is hard.. XD


Lol ... hehehehe


Funny! The boys are just plain cuteXD


lol!! ahahahaha!!


haha this is so funny XD


lmao how complicated and i wanted to learn korean i might make more mistakes then that
they are so cute
how confusing im from aussie x)


hahahhaha,… korean language really is complication,..aigoo,..


omg this is hilarious!  wonder what happened after that =))))


lol aww thats funny~ XD
kind of reminds me of when my step brother moved to canada from mexico and he didnt really know any english and i remember trying to talk to him lol the conversations normally didnt last very long we settled for just playing video games and soccer that way no conversation was necessary XP


Lol too cute >~<


Ha..tha’s funny XDD


sooo cute!!!! >.<
Korean reminds me of Chinese because of the stress on words…


HAHAHAHA.. they’re so funny. lol
korean is so hard >.>


awww XD thats cute~! mannn. i have to keep that in mind when i learn korean then XD


Haha they’re so cute <3


AWW THAT IS SOOO CUTE!! XD
i wanna pinch nichkhun’s cheeks nooow!! XD LOL


hahaha this is why i gave up on learning korean xD
wish i was there to witness such a cute moment ^^


Awuh, that’s so cute.
I too have experienced moments like that before with both the Korean and Chinese language, it is very frustrating at times, but it just gives me the incentive to keep on studying! =)


LOL! they’re so cute ^_^ love these boys
they must have a blast remembering things like this =D


Poor Junsu and his cast. :(


aww that’s just epic omg that sort of reminds me of something now ._.


Haha that is the funniest thing eveeeer! The places Thailand and Daegu are nothing alike haha ^^ Cute misunderstanding <3 !


Oh that is funny but sad at the same time. I’m learning korean now and everyday i make sure to say the alphabet using different vowels in front or under the consonent


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