Prologue: Why We Study Language

One body

What is in the body but not in the flesh
body

The many faces of 'face'
face

Eyes of the body, eyes of the mind
Eyes and discernment

No sleep, no life
sleep

Two hearts and minds

Between lovers and lovers
Love/Romance

A sorrow deeper than sadness
sadness and sorrow

'어' is different and '언' is different
speech and language

Ignorance is better than ignorance.
Knowledge

Three people living together

The white-clad people in mourning clothes
Clothes/Apparel

The difference between 'inside the house' and 'inside the house'
house

The path of nature, the path of civilization
Roads and roads

Is it a group or a pack?
crowd

Net nature

The sky is round and the earth is square.
land

The day overseas travel disappears
Sea and Ocean

Are you dead or alive?
Trees and shrubs

The story of how 'truth' became 'truth'
Fruits and berries

Epilogue: The Words and I

Helps develop vocabulary, sentence structure, and imagination.

『Un-Dar-A-Dar-A-Different - Wise Word Study』 presents Korean vocabulary systematically and diversely to help increase vocabulary and sentence structure, and further develop imagination to discover relationships between facts through language.
Readers can encounter over 3,000 words and expressions under 16 headings (body, face, eyes, sleep, love, sorrow, language, knowledge, clothing, house, road, crowd, land, sea, tree, fruit) that are familiar in everyday life and 69 semantic elements derived from them.


Clarify the meaning and nuance of words and the accuracy of expression

The book examines the principles and practice of word composition through various examples of words composed of Chinese character semantics.
It lays the foundation for accurate expression and precise writing, and ultimately fosters the power of thought.
It traces the source of a word (heading) that is combined with two Chinese character semantics with similar meanings (for example, '언' [言] and '어' [語] in '語' are both interpreted as '말'), and accurately distinguishes and serializes their meanings and nuances.
And look through other words related to the title.
It is about clarifying the meaning and nuance of words and the accuracy of expression.
This book provides inspiration for creative thinking about our language.


A subtle, unintentionally chewed-up delight, a variety of illustrations and diagrams, and a collection of words.

As this is a book that helps readers develop their language skills, the expressions and sentences are accurate and precise, and the writing is refined with a dignified style.
However, there is a subtle fun that is inadvertently chewed upon thanks to the puns and wordplay used by the author, who is a master of the Korean language.
I hope you will savor the taste of the words.
The Korean poetry quoted in the text not only opens and closes the text, allowing the discussion to flow naturally, but also awakens the reader's linguistic sensitivity.

To aid understanding of the text, we have included over 80 diverse illustrations and numerous diagrams that illustrate the main points.
Illustrations are not meant to beautify a book, but rather serve as extended text that supplements the main text.
We also took into consideration the reading convenience of the younger generation who are familiar with images.
Diagrams can help you grasp the main points intuitively.


For readability, the number of Chinese characters used in the text has been minimized, but in order to clearly reveal the meaning of all words in the appendix ‘Malmoeum’ at the end of each chapter, Chinese characters have been used.
Through this 'word collection', you can not only look at words one by one, but also, readers who are interested in studying Chinese characters can learn 'Chinese characters' again.