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TONGUE TWISTER

DID YOU KNOW there are three different ways to say goodbye in Korean, depending on who leaves and who is staying?

No? Me neither, at least not until I sat down to write this farewell piece, at which point I also learned that Korean is one of the world’s oldest living languages, most likely a distant relative of the Ural-Altaic family of languages, which includes Mongolian, Finnish and Hungarian.

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