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100
What is the common ingredient among the following Korean foods?
붕어빵 Bung-O Pang (Golden Fish bread)
경주 빵 Kyung-Ju Pang
팥죽 (Pat Juk)
Red beans (팥, pat)
100
Sejong the Great is the most admired king in Korean History. He is very famous for creating this.
What is this?
Korean alphabet (Hangeul)
100
Who is NOT a Korean football player?
a) Son Heung Min
b) Lee Kang Inn
c) Park Chan Ho
d) Ahn Jung Hwan
c) Park Chan Ho
Hi is a baseball player who played in Major League Baseball (MLB).
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100
What is the name of the main river that across Seoul City? It divides Seoul to North part and South part.
It is _ _ _ River.
Hint: It's in my name.
Han River
My last name is also 'Han'
200
In New Year's day, we eat 'Tteokguk'.
Whenever we eat this food, we always say this food makes us "_____." What should be the blank?
One year older.
200
Which is Korean Traditional Clothes, Hanbok?
A)
B)
C)
B
200
Taekwondo (Korean: 태권도) is a Korean martial art involving punching and kicking techniques. The literal translation for taekwondo is "kicking", "punching", and "the art or way of". People wear belt in different color according to their level of practice. For example, black belt is the heighest level you can reach. What would be the color for the second lowest level?
Yellow
200
What is the currency unit of Korea?
Won (Korean Won, KRW)
300
삼계탕(Sam Gye Tang) is a dish made by boiling down a young ___ stuffed with ginseng, sticky rice, jujubes, etc. We eat this to get energy to survive from the Hot Summer in Korea. What is a correct answer for the blank?
Chicken!
Sam: Ginseng
Gye: Chicken
Tang: Soup
300
In Chosun dynasty, which was the last kingdom before Republic of Korea, General Yi Sun-sin defeated more than 200 Japanese battle ships with only 13 during the Imjin war (Japanese invasions of Korea).
Among those 13 ships, there was a special battle ship, which looked like an animal. Which animal is it?
Turtle
300
Yuna Kim (Korean: 김연아; born September 5, 1990) is a South Korean retired competitive figure skater.
Some Korean kids think she is Elsa...
She has an unbelievable record in her career. What is that?
Yuna Kim is the first and only female figure skater who never missed the podium in her entire career.
300
With 123 floors and a height of 555 meters, the building holds the records as the tallest building in South Korea, the 5th tallest building in the world, and the tallest building in OECD as of 2023.
Which Korean company's building is it?
A) LG
B) LOTTE
C) SAMSUNG
D) HYUNDAI
B) LOTTE
400
Geum Jul
is a straw rope for preventing evil: (archaic) A straw rope hung in front of a house's gate to prevent evil spirits from entering, or after a birth, restricting people from casually entering.
In the case of birth, when girl is born, we hang pine twigs with Geum Jul. What would be if it is a boy?
Red pepper (고추)
400
In Seoul, there are five main palaces that are inherited from Chosun Dynasty. Those are Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, Changgyeonggung Palace, Deoksugung Palace, and Gyeonghuigung Palace. Which picture is one of those Korea palaces? (Others are from other countries)
A.
B.
C.
D.
D. Changdeokgung Palace
400
Team Korea of Archery has been doing really good in Summer Olympics games. Especially, women team won gold medal __ times in a row. Guess how many times.
9 times since 1988 Seoul Olympic games.
400
Here below are the National Celebration Days.
Which is one is not holiday?
A) Christmas
B) Buddha's Birthday
C) Constitution Day
D) Children's Day
E) National Foundation Day
C) Constitution Day
500
Jeju Samdasoo is a bottled water product produced in Jeju-do (island). The Jeju island is also called Samdado meaning an island abundant of three things. What are they?
Wind, Rocks, and Woman.
500
To greet people with a full respect, we do bow. Especially, in lunar new years day, elderly people give pocket money (세벳돈, sae bae don) to children for doing bow to them. But they will be embarrassed if a child bow to them twice. What would be the reason?
We bow twice only to souls (dead people).
500
1988 Summer Olympics was held in Seoul, South Korea. Which animal was the mascot of this Olympic? Hint) Its name was Hodori.
Hodori was a tiger.
500
How many metro lines does Seoul have?
23 lines (624 stations)
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