These children look rather cheerful consideringthey're at school during spring vacation.
According to the Joongang Ilbo, yet another type of robot teacher has been deployed at Howon Elementary school in
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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These children look rather cheerful consideringthey're at school during spring vacation.
According to the Joongang Ilbo, yet another type of robot teacher has been deployed at Howon Elementary school in
샘 is not all that recent. I think I may have heard it the first time in the late 90's, but I've only ever heard it used as a cutesy informal nickname by younger students.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first came to Korea in 2003 people were using 샘. But strangely, I don't hear it that much in the public schools.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I've ever heard it from a Korean. I have, however, read it in at least one learning-Korean book ("Dirty Korean", where it's referred as slang, like 'Yo, Teach!').
ReplyDeleteStudents used it all the time in my previous public schools.
ReplyDeleteIs there like an OED for Korean that lets you look at usage history? Or maybe a Naver search will bring up something.
Not only my students, but even my co-workers (in an elementary school) would sometimes address each other using 샘, so I doubt it's too slangy. I can't remember who exactly was being addressed - most likely it was slightly older teachers addressing younger ones or ones the same age/level of experience.
ReplyDeleteThe original article says this is in Anyang, not Ansan. Also why is "Robosem" a poor romanization of "로보샘"? Robo is certainly not a Korean word, they copied it from the English language and transliterated it into Hangul so maybe it should be the other way around.
ReplyDeleteI meant 샘 = saem is all. Thanks for catching the error.
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