유성우 (流星雨) - a meteor shower
Doesn’t it sound like it could be someone’s name? 
流 흐를 류(유) - flowing, moving
星 별 성 - star
雨 비 우 - rain
I like how naver’s definition uses ALL THE HANJA! 
태양(太陽)의 주위(周圍)를 공전(公轉)하는 유성군(遊星群) 가운데를 지구(地球)가 통과(通過)할 때, 많은 유성(遊星)이 비처럼 비산(飛散)하여 지구(地球)에 떨어지는 일.
ETA: Another discovery today! 
You’re probably familiar with 양말, socks, but the hanja is 洋襪, lit. western socks, to distinguish them from 버선, which are traditional Korean socks.
I was reading the following sentence, 마냐라면 눈동자의 색깔이 수시로 바뀔 게다. I was all confident at first, certain that I could understand the sentence perfectly: A witch’s pupil color changes into sushi… Yep, that doesn’t make any sense.
Turns out, 수시로 actually means frequently. And my reasoning was also flawed from the beginning, since sushi isn’t 수시 but 스시 (the loanword) or 초밥 (醋밥) with, funnily enough, the hanja for vinegar.
The one time I thought I managed to catch a konglish word before looking it up and feeling stupid… 
Tbf, I see 스시 all the the time (more common than 초밥 in my experience) but my dumb brains still frequently types 수시 when looking for it. Even in Japanese, it sounds like 수시 not 스시… so not sure why Koreans transcribed it that way!
(Can I also say that I love that you are fine with ‘마냐’ & ‘눈동자’ but hadn’t seen 스시 
)
Oups, that was a typo, I meant 마녀. But tbh I feel like my knowledge of Korean vocab is strange, I know some super specific and uncommon words and then idk some super easy and common words? There’s always these moments where I look up a word and somehow it’s a TOPIK I word that I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing before.
우리 can also mean ‘a place where animals are kept’ (barn, pen, cage, hutch) 
I came across a new sort of grammar form today while reading 마녀를 잡아라 | L22??. Or well, maybe not exactly a grammar form, but rather a new way to categorize and refer to people. ~뱅이 and ~쟁이!
It’s a pretty simple structure of noun~뱅이/쟁이.
So a lazy person would be 게으름뱅이 or 게으름쟁이. A poor person would be 가난뱅이, etc. Both suffixes have similar uses, although it seems that 뱅이 has a more negative connotation and use.
I also stumbled upon a super interesting article about Words denoting human beings in Korean while looking into this, and it turned out to be a real treasure trove of information and examples!
아기집 is the common name for the uterus, the proper name being 자궁(子宮)… Baby house or baby palace, your pick!
Today, I learned a nice little grammar point: Noun-별.
~별 is added to nouns that represent more than one type or level of something. When this is done, it classifies the different types/levels and indicates that something is done (separately) for each type/level.
Lesson 126: To be Grouped or Classified by: ~별
Also a new word, 모둠 for group/assortment, found in the following sentence in 매일매일 아침밥 먹으리 | L15?? :
작년에 담임선생님은 모둠별 숙제를 엄청 잘 내줬었는데 그때 속 터져 죽을 뻔했던 적이 한두 번이 아니다.
Here, adding the two, we get 모둠별!
I picked up this book because I thought it’d be a very quick and easy read, but vocab is actually a lot harder than I expected, and while most sentences aren’t too complex, I’ve already come across a few new grammar points.
As I was perusing the howtostudykorean website, I also came across these two lessons:
I haven’t had the time to read them fully, but they seem promising. Anything to prevent me from struggle so much with onomatopoeia and mimetic words.
Also, a little note on the Hanja in 의성어 (擬聲語, onomatopoeia) and 의태어 (擬態語, mimetic word). The 어/語 is easy, it’s the Hanja for word/language in 한국어.
The other Hanja that they have in common, 의/擬, has the meaning of copying or mimicking here. Looking at other words that contain this Hanja, there’s 모의, meaning mock, as in 모의 시험 for mock test or simulation test.
Now, looking at the specific Hanja, 성/聲 is actually the Hanja for sound or voice, like in 음성 for voice. On the other hand, 태/態 means manner or condition, and it’s found in 상태 (condition, state). So just looking at the Hanja, 의성어 (擬聲語) is a word the mimics a sound while 의태어 (擬態語) is a word that mimics a state/form.
It’s a nice insight into the difference between these two types of words, and I also found here an article with more precisions.
Today, I learned about… Anchovy poop! It sounds wrong in English, and it sounded wrong when I read it in Korean at first as well:
할아버지와 엄마가 식탁에 마주 앉아 멸치 똥을 따고 있었다.
매일매일 아침밥 먹으리 | L15??
It turns out, eating 며칠 똥 is actually a thing! It’s supposed to be full of calcium, vitamin B and amino acids. I even came across this pretty funny article about anchovies, that mentions the debate of whether people should eat 멸치 똥.
As a bonus, I also learned the word for acid, 산 (酸). It turns out that when you think about it, there aren’t many things that 아미노산 could mean.
Sounds like a Japanese name!
In Japanese it is actually the same word because 산/酸 are the same 한자.
Being named Amino would be very unfortunate in Japan though maybe
A whole new world of words just opened to me: words in 치.
I just stumbled upon 몸치, which basically means a super clumsy person, with two left feet… That’s broken down into 몸 for body and 치 which comes from the hanja 癡 for idiot. Interestingly, I noticed the radical 疒 for sickness.
There are actually a lot more words like this, 길치 (bad at directions), 박치 (bad at rhythm), and they all basically mean a person that’s really bad at something. Here’s an article explaining just that.
