also, the alphabet I looked at shows ㅕas "yo" but with a curve on top of it... to make it sound like "yacht"...

 

it's yuh

I hate how confusing they have to always make it

 

= bo kyung

yeah it can be hard G or K, it's pronounced as sort of a mix of both

 

so now we have mina, beanolo, mee nam, bo kyung

 

or somewhere in the middle

 

so are the g and k characters interchangeable?

 

there is NO specific g or k sound in korean. Like every language, there are different pronunciations.


when you pronounce 경 its not really Kyung. it's a gentle tone of K... somewhere between g and k. get it?

 

I think I get it~

so because it's a gentle sound of k, it uses the g character...

but when it's written into English sounds, it uses the letter k. Right?

 

A friend of mine who works for me part time just told me about an hour ago that he's going to Korea for a year on a job. He'll still work for via email.

 

correct! that's just because there is no other way to spell it