We have planned for big changes after the holiday. Our application will be greatly improved. And, although we will still have the same quality information, my life will be so much easier to update this site.
So, yes. 2010 is going to be a big deal for open okpyon.
You may have noticed, but I have added the ability to extend your user profile. Tell our community about yourself, your interests, and you can even rate your Korean and Hanja skills.
Stay tuned for forums. Ask questions, and make comments directly on character and vocabulary pages. Also there will be an open forum where you can ask translation questions, or get homework help, etc.
Because it is so important, entering characters into the database has been left to myself, but I am considering extending that ability to our community on a content approval basis. e.g. Once you submit the content, a reviewer will take a look and make sure everything was entered properly on a weekly basis and then the content will go live.
After a little fine tuning we can resume business as usual. If there are any requests for functionality, you can do that from the report error page for now.
As any member would know, there are a lot of vocabulary in this database. In an effort to add even more capabilities to this database, I am working to categorize the vocabulary database so you can look up words by theme.
I already have a working beta version but it would be nice to categorize more words first.
Recently the site has been coming together really nicely and I am finally seeing the light at the end of this tunnel of a project that i have been working on for almost 3 years.
The bookstore is a great way to support the open okpyon project. Every book you buy will help support maintaining and developing this site.
Consider buying your Korean course books right here. We have the whole line of Hawaii University Press Korean language series
Remember that a large part of learning a language is learning more about the culture and history of the people who speak that language. There is also a wide range of Korean and Korean-American literature, history, and cook books.
New Radical Search
Just updated the radical search. Added new font and fixed some of the bugs associated with the select box.
Slowly I will be adjusting the different pages… sorry once again for this slow pace. I do not have lots of time to update this. However, please give me until the end of February before you start complaining, okay?