Korean Radio Station In Uae
Francisco Raya
This is a list of South Korean radio stations. these stations can be heard on free-to-air terrestrial radio (which requires an outdoor antenna to receive FM radio clearly since radio stations in Seoul are broadcast nationwide via propagation broadcast.) or via the internet via the station's websites or PC apps.[citation needed]
Although han is considered indefinable, it is often described as an internalized feeling of deep sorrow, resentment, grief, regret and anger. Scholars say it's a uniquely Korean characteristic borne out of the country's long history of invasion, oppression and suffering.
According to Michael Shin, a professor of Korean history at the University of Cambridge, han is pervasive in pop culture and everyday life. It's frequently explored in Korean literature, art and film, and is casually brought up in conversation.
My family immigrated to Canada in 2000. My father, a long-time broadcast journalist, had a lofty vision of starting a radio station for the Korean-Canadian community with a single goal in mind: to remind immigrants of home.
My father pursued new opportunities abroad, first in the U.S., and eventually Korea. My mother stayed with me and my brother in Toronto as long as she could. But after my father had several health scares in Korea, she had to make the difficult decision to go back to care for him. She left my 20-year-old brother and me, aged 14, behind in Canada.
He told me we should've spent more time together and made more memories as a family. He said as the years go by, the sadness and regret I feel from our time apart will eventually turn into my own version of han.
Eunice Kim is a Toronto-based writer and producer with a penchant for multimedia storytelling. Whether it's through text, visuals or sound, she is always looking for compelling ways to tell diverse stories. She started her career in radio as the inaugural intern on Campus, CBC's first original podcast series featuring raw, intimate portraits of college students. Since then, she's worked as an associate producer on award-winning current affairs programs like The Current to high-impact investigative podcasts like Someone Knows Something and Uncover: Escaping NXIVM.
Racial tensions had risen since the shooting death in March of 1991 of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins. Accusing Harlins of trying to shoplift a bottle of orange juice, a Korean American liquor store owner in South L.A. shot the Black girl in the back of the head.
That evening, Choi was driving home from the studio in Koreatown when he heard on the radio that a white trucker, later identified as Reginald Denny, had been brutally beaten at the intersection of Florence and Normandie. Choi made a U-turn and arrived back at work as the calls began pouring in.
Violence claimed more than 50 lives and the city sustained about a billion dollars in damage. Korean-owned businesses were disproportionately destroyed. As the community struggled to get information or help to contend with the unrest and its aftermath, they turned to Choi and the reporters at Radio Korea.
That message upset some. On day two of the unrest, Kee Whan Ha, who owns the Hannam chain of grocery stores, walked into the Radio Korea offices holding a handgun. He rested it on a table and argued that business owners should protect their property. The president of Radio Korea, who had been hunkered down at the station, accompanied Ha around Koreatown to see what was happening.
Choi remembers one volunteer in particular. Eddie Lee, was killed in the crossfire, mistakenly shot, it turned out, by another Korean American. Lee would be one of more than 50 people to die during the unrest.
Those who armed themselves to protect their businesses were in the minority and got outsized attention from the media. But Choi says news of business owners mobilizing slowed the destruction of Koreatown. He likes to think that Radio Korea also had a role in protecting the neighborhood.
Up until that point, Koreans were just merely living in the U.S. There was no sense or identity of being Korean American. And although what happened in 1992 was heart-wrenching and really sad, what happened was that these Koreans who were merely living in the U.S. started becoming Korean Americans. We started seeing the identity of the Korean American be born and formed.
The first step to finding a Korean radio station is to ask yourself whether you want to focus on global or peninsula-related content. KBS World, for example, which focuses on international content, may be easier to understand if you already follow the news in your native language. You may be able to quickly guess what is being discussed from major headlines. Opting for a domestic Korean news channel such as KBS Radio, however, while it may be a bit more challenging, has the advantage of acquainting you with ongoing issues in Korea.
Then, highlight the words and structures you encounter most frequently. If possible, write down full sentences that you heard during your streaming. This will help you to create word associations and remember the vocabulary more easily.
All you need to do is start streaming some of the above options. And why not pair your radio listening with some delicious 우전 (Ujeon) tea and 약과 (yakkwa, sticky cookies), for a truly Korean feel?
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There are reports that domestic radios in North Korea lack a tuning control. From the point of view of a totalitarian government, this is obviously a good idea as it prevents people from listening to evil ideas (i.e. not the government's).
I like to fall asleep at night to the strains of classical music, and to listen to the early morning news before I rise. Previously this modus vivendum was supported by a bedside radio which could switch between a station on FM (the music) and one on AM (the news) with a single button push, and which had a snooze function which turned the radio off after a thirty minute delay.
Sadly, after only eighteen years of service, that radio broke and when I went to buy a replacement I could not find any in the shops which had the features I required. Suitably angry, I decided to build the perfect bedside radio [1].
You may notice the absence of things like tuning to other stations, battery power, good at using a poor signal, multi-band, nice display, etc. etc.. Should you wish to add such things to your version, then I wish you well, but I do not need such fripperies for a bedside radio.
I ripped a pair of speakers from a (different) dead radio and lashed up the breadboard shown above to get a proof-of-concept working. This ran off the power supplied by the Arduino's USB, had no volume control and had essentially a single-line program controlling it which just sent a frequency request to the tuner on boot-up.
Fitting the tuner onto the board was going to be harder, since it was fitted with angled pins which would have mounted it vertically. I heated the board with a hairdryer to soften the plastic a little, then pulled off the plastic housing the four pins of the connector. Then each of the four pins was desoldered and removed individually and a straight header soldered into place.
The four lines required were connected to the Arduino. The power (5V) and ground were connected. The library I used for driving the tuner required the use of pin A4 for SDA and pin A5 for SLC, so those pins were used.
As a piece of wonderful design, the connectors on the amplifier board were spaced at _just_ not quite 0.1", so I had to solder wires to the connectors, and use a couple of short M2 stand-offs to hold the amplifier on the stripboard.
I used terminal blocks for all the connectors from the amp. There are a fair few. The left and right output channels have separate grounds, and I found some pages saying "connect at your peril," so kept them entirely separate.
To connect the audio input, I used an old PC audio lead, 3.5mm TRS to 3.5mm TRS, and snipped off a few inches to make the connection. It works OK, but for the next version I shall remove the 3.5mm socket from the tuner board and solder directly.
The amplifier is a class D and is pretty efficient, but it also has a mute pin. Drawing that low shuts the output of the amplifier off. The Arduino only has internal pull-up, so I mounted an external 1k pull-down resistor to disable the amplifier by default. Without this, there is a nasty squawk at power-on as the amplifier starts amplifying before the tuner tunes. The same mute line is connected to an output pin on the Arduino so that the amplifier can be muted or enabled by software.
I spliced this in the audio input to the amplifier to save power so that the amplifier would only produce as much as was needed. It worked OK but cramming it onto a little corner of the board meant that it looks a bit messy.
To select which station to use, I got a SPDT switch with center-off. This is connected to a couple of pins on the Arduino and can link either of them to ground. When the switch is in the centre position, neither is connected to ground
with the switch in "UP" position, one pin will be tied low and the radio will tune to that station and play the sound.
with the switch in "DOWN" position, the other pin will be tied low and the radio will tune to that station and play the sound.
with the switch in "CENTER" position, neither pin will be tied low and the radio will remain on the last selected station but start to countdown to muting the sound.