Korean

Id like to start learning Korean. Can you recommend me any good book to start with?

Also id like to hear your experiences about learning Korean.

I asked this before here:

http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1206237922/1-40

Although I have never bought this book, it may be of use to you. Try to get the edition with the audio CDs, even if they may not match the chapters exactly.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071414363/talks20-20/

I recommend these two sites to you for learning Korean:
http://langintro.com/kintro/index.htm
http://www.mct.go.kr/koreanthroughenglish/chapter01_1.htm

I stopped learning Korean in favor of Mandarin Chinese, but those were very valuable to me.

The little Korean I know I've learned from movies, tv shows, and 2 friends of mine that are Korean.

JeJu for you : http://www.jejuforyou.com

Info-laden balloons released into North Korea

Former North Korean defectors and US human rights activists releasing the balloons in the border town of Paju yesterday.

PAJU (South Korea) - South Korean activists launched thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets and Wikipedia-loaded USB keys across the border yesterday, despite past North Korean threats to shell the "human scum" involved.

   Packages floated over the heavily militarised border by balloon also contained 1,000 US one-dollar bills and DVDs detailing human rights abuses in the North.

   "There is clearly enormous hunger for outside information in North Korea," said Mr Thor Halvorssen, president of the US-based Human Rights Foundation, which supported the event.

   "USB keys are one of the most powerful tools because they're small, can be hidden and shared easily, and carry massive amounts of data," he added.

   Each of the 1,500 USB flash drives had been loaded with the Korean-language version of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

   The 500,000 anti-North leaflets were also accompanied by around 50 tiny transistor radios.

   While North Koreans live in what is probably the most isolated and censored society on the planet, the country is not a complete IT desert.

   Cellphones were introduced through a joint venture with Egyptian telecom firm Orascom in 2008, the same year the state launched a domestic intranet, and some government bodies have websites.

   Yesterday's event was organised by a North Korean defector group that is particularly vocal in its criticisms of Pyongyang.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Theres never any good resources for Korean.
I suggest studying the vocabulary, buy a work book, keep a note book of the vocabulary, ummm what else... id save grammar for last since you could really depict a sentence just by knowing vocabulary. Just know that the word might change slightly depending on grammar. I suggest getting a korean person to help, koreans on penpal sites are eager to help.

Honestly, I've been looking for a nonkorean speaker to study with, watch kcinema with but I have yet to find one.
Its hard out here.