South Korea 8

Listen to South Korea 8, a 20-year-old man from Incheon, South Korea. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/10/1998

PLACE OF BIRTH: Incheon, South Korea

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Korean

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: freshman in college

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

At the time of this recording, the speaker had been living in East Lansing, Michigan, United States, for one year.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The speaker’s first language is Korean.

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RECORDED BY: Mia Taylor (under supervision of Deric McNish)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 24/04/2019

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I grew up in Incheon. That’s like, um, basically like California in the United States but way less popular version of it. Um, apparently it was, it used to be popular with like, um, oceans since it’s around the coastal area, so a lot of tourists came in and out around my town, but then later, um, since there were too many tourists, so the beach and ocean all got dirty, so no one really comes any- anymore. Um, even though I’m from, I’m around like a coastal city, I’m kinda more in the surface area. I don’t really like eating fish, too. Um, maybe grilled is fine, but people tend to eat fishes raw, and I don’t really like that, like sashimi or something like that. Um, anyways, um, that’s where I grew up. It’s, I guess not as different as our capital city, but then there are some stuff to enjoy there. Like there is Chinatown, where there’s a lot of like, um, Chinese community, within our, um, city. And also the place where I, like, grew up, during my elementary school to, like, now, where my family lives currently, um, there are a lot of in- um, foreign people, since there are a lot of, like, um, I guess, international companies — complexes are like everywhere. So I was able to see a lot of, like, fore- foreigners all around: either tourists or, like, just people who are working inside our city. …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Mia Taylor (under supervision of Deric McNish)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 24/04/2019

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