Why Koreans confuse a with the.

Why Koreans confuse a with the.

Reporter Pecin Kwon Soon-woo uploaded a question asking about the concept of instance. Instance meaning is close to "real case" when translated into Korean. Then the question arises what a real case of. The "what" that is, a concept or design is called a class. English is used a lot as the word class is used, but it is translated into several names in Korean.

For example, the Mercedes-Benz E class means a model. In preparation for the model, the car with the actual license plate that the next door man drives is an instance. When it comes to a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, "class" is also a class in English. Among the Nimitz-class carriers, the George Washington aircraft carrier responsible for the Korean Peninsula is instant.

The West has long had a philosophy that distinguishes between classes and instances. Greek philosophy of ideas, shadows, and metaphors is also the story. Furthermore, it leads to monotheistic ideas and Christian ethics that the design of the world is eternal and converges into a universal law. For reference, the integer is more than theological-physical world.

An instance is used as the name "instan-" in the context of being just an example of the design that comes to this world for a short time and eventually disappears. In similar words, people are sometimes called mortals (dead beings), but it is a very awkward expression in the East.

In the East, Lao-tzu, who preached ideal philosophy, lost and Confucius, who valued relics, took a different line from the West. The philosophy that still dominates China and North Korea is materialism, and the symbolic group that took over the regime in the end of Joseon was materialism (periodism).

From a materialistic point of view, the concept of design in a large framework is judged to be meaningless even if it exists or does not exist. What is the use of invisible and untouched concepts? It is different from the West, which sees the invisible monotheism and the philosophy of natural law as the most important criteria of life.

Perhaps it is the result of a philosophy accumulated for about 2,500 years that the West manufactures, the West likes creativity and originality, the East likes cloning, and the standard Asians are much more obsessed with money when the reins are released.

Returning to English, a is an official phrase attached to a class and the is attached to an instance. For example, when you have to pick a Grandeur, you pick an a Grandeur, and when you go to the parking lot and tell them to get in the Grandeur, you get on the Grandeur. When I go to the mart to buy an apple, I imagine the concept of an apple, so I go to buy an apple, and on the way back, I actually felt an apple in my hand, so I bought the apple.

In English, you have to distinguish whether you are referring to a class or an instance every time you speak. So, when you learn English as a child, you become hardwired in your brain and internalize Western philosophy. This may be one of the reasons why you feel like a stranger in Korea.