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Korean words of English origin

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wawawawonder:
Can somebody help me find a good list of words in common usage in Korean that are directly borrowed from English? I'm thinking for example of tomato and orange, or seemingly the majority of the countries in the world.

I want to demonstrate to my students how much they already know so that next time they tell me, "영어 못해요", I can point to this list.

MissC:
check out this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konglish#List_of_most_common_Konglish

wawawawonder:
That's a good list, thanks.

I'll omit the words such as "ballpen"  and "handpone" which have become just TOO Koreanised.

SpaceRook:
A lot of technology words and foreign food words are English. 

A lot of Konglish words are easily identifiable because they tend to be longer (more than 2 blocks) and use a lot of the harder sounds like ㅍ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅊ.  If you are scanning a Korean sign and you see long words that use those characters, chances are they are English. 

chasmmi:
You could probably take a photo of almost any fast food or coffeeshop menu and find it is really about 92% English (and some Italian in the coffee shop example :) )

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