First of all, I was amazed by how many different kinds of platforms were available on stack exchange. I’ve only ever used stack overflow so I took a while scrolling through the page checking out the various topics being covered.

I decided to contribute to a platform that I was knowledgeable in, so I first went into the Korean language (also because it was very fitting considering my paper was on Hangul).

Once I was on the page, I was surprised by how difficult the questions actually were. For some reason, I assumed it would be foreigners posting questions so they would be very simple and straightforward, but I found quite complex ones instead that needed a lot of thinking (and even researching on my part).

After looking through all the questions, I noticed there were also some Korean users asking questions about how they would describe the Korean language in English. This meant that the user was assuming that some people on this platform were knowledgeable enough about the language to be able to help with translation. Thus, I think this website as a whole would then work well for both groups (Koreans and non-Koreans) to have a fruitful discussion about the language. I also liked the function of voting up/down a question, but at the same time I felt like it would make people more wary and conscious about their posts. This is good in that people wouldn’t be posting inappropriate questions, but at the same time may make them feel insecure about whether it is too easy of a question to post online.

I’ve answered the some questions regarding pronunciation of some Korean words, and I hope they’ve been helpful. (I look forward to my up-votes :3… on this note, I think this is a good function also because it encourages people to engage and contribute more.)