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China Beach is an American war drama television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe [ 1 ] beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam , nicknamed "China Beach" in English by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War.
The beach was referred to as China Beach, but technically was My Khe and marked the first time U.S. troops officially set foot in Vietnam when 3,500 soldiers disembarked there in 1965. [3] What started initially as a small lifeguard outpost, grew into a major surf club with soldiers bringing surfboards back from the states.
The Gyeongsang dialect is one of the best-known South Korean dialects, known not only by Koreans but also by foreigners interested in Korean culture. The Gyeongsang dialect is frequently characterized as the most "rough" and "macho" dialect of all South Korean dialects. The Gyeongsang dialect is one of the most common dialects employed in K-dramas.
China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at a military evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to the Western nickname for My Khe beach, located on the coast of Da Nang, Vietnam. The ABC TV drama aired for four seasons over three years, from 1988 to 1991.
In the Hwanghae dialect there are nine vowels (ㅣ·ㅔ·ㅐ·ㅡ·ㅓ·ㅏ·ㅜ·ㅗ·ㅚ). Like the neighboring Pyongan dialect, the sound of 어(eo) and 으(eu) sounds closer to the 오(o) and 우(u). The medieval Korean vowel of ㆎ, as well as 의 is often pronounced as 에 (e.g. 나베, butterfly and 글페, two days after tomorrow).
six major jialect areas in Korea from National Geography Information Institute (2017) The National Atlas of Korea, Seoul: Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, p. 37 ; Yukchin in Korea: King, J. R. P. (1987), "An introduction to Soviet Korean", Language Research 23(2): 233–274, map on p. 237, reproduced from Kim Thay Kyun (1983), p. 34.
The Gyeonggi dialect (Korean: 경기 방언) or Seoul dialect (서울 사투리; 서울말) of the Korean language is the prestige dialect in South Korea, as well as the basis of the standardized form of the language in the country.
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