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To: Hugin
Gee! I thought Han-guk was Korean people, Chung-Guk is Chinese people, and Mi-guk is American people
25 posted on 08/21/2003 10:29:46 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: the_daug
Gee! I thought Han-guk was Korean people, Chung-Guk is Chinese people, and Mi-guk is American people

Hmmm, well I don't speak Korean, I was just repeating something I read once. So guk just means "people"? Could it be that they refer to themselves as "the people" for short?

26 posted on 08/21/2003 10:43:10 PM PDT by Hugin
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