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| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5819 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 1 of 3 17 March 2012 at 6:37am | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone
I can't believe I forgot to post this a while ago when I first discovered and checked it out but basically there's a completely legal way to watch Korean TV streamed on your laptop or broadcast to your TV with English subtitles. It's from a website called http://kbsworld.kbs.co.kr/ Click on the blue box in the left corner and it'll take you to the player/sign up page. It's 1,500 won for a month which is dead cheap. It'll play 24 hours if I recall (you can see the schedule somewhere) and I found it very reliable. You can get it to your TV but I don't know the details of that. It can be broadcast to many TVs around the world (except to South Korea of all places) but the internet version doesn't have any restrictions (although I think it works best with Internet Explorer) and you can watch the stream in any country. I just hooked up my laptop to the TV with a HDMI cable and I was fine. Normally the subtitles are pretty good. They're not 100% perfect (they're written by a native Korean speaker, not a native English speaker) but generally pretty good. I think it doesn't do subtitles for the news and there are only Korean subtitles for most songs they do (if I recall) but everything else is fine. Also the dramas were quite modern ones that were being broadcast in South Korea around a similar time instead of just repeating old ones. It's been a while since I used it but I didn't have any problems with it while my month was still on. If you don't want to continue it then that's not a problem either. You can just pay for a month if you feel like it and then never do it again. I hope you enjoy it and I hope it helps. Edited by crafedog on 17 March 2012 at 6:43am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6339 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes | Message 2 of 3 17 March 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
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I remember couple years ago on KBS2 there were certain dramas you could actually download a korean script for free. It is not for every drama but certainly it appeared that they had posted them regularly for all episodes. However, recently I check again and I have not got any luck finding them again. I wonder if they just got tired of posting them.
Those are even more useful for learning because you can cross-check what you hear and a nice way to learn new words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 3 of 3 18 March 2012 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
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I've watched a ton of video from KBS World over the past couple years, but I didn't realize they offered a legal, paid way to watch their video feed over the internet. The only way I knew to access it was by subscribing to the pack of Korean channels that DirecTV offers, but I can't bring myself to get DirecTV just for that when I don't really watch anything *but* Korean media currently (so even an inexpensive base package would be a complete waste of money for me).
The captions on KBS World vary in accuracy depending on what they are talking about. For general dialog the translation is quite good, though they do truncate a bit to keep the captions at a readable pace (similar to what commercial DVDs do with their captions). Where they greatly deviate is word puns or games involving Korean words (during which they will seemingly just make up their own version of the pun or word game). I understand why they don't translate what is really there (since that word play obviously doesn't directly map to English), but as a language learner I greatly prefer the method most fan subbers use which is to translate the words and include translator notes where necessary. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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