How do you say popcorn in Korean?

On Saturdays we participate in two language classes held at our church building. The first is a Korean class. The young missionaries teach American members of our branch basic Korean. We attend this class to try to increase our own Korean Skills. The missionaries do a great job of teaching. We learn a little each week, but basically our most useful phrases still are:

--"Hangook mal chogum bak-geh mot habneeedah. (Korean language little only can't do)

--"Chun-chunhee mal hae-jusaeyo". (Slowly speak do please.)

I love the Korean language. It is fascinating to me. I love the written alphabet. The symbols are attractive and mostly easy to use. It's really a case of  "the mind is willing..." but the hearing, tongue and memory are weak! Often after we have attended class I let my discouragement take over. I usually say I need to pray to see if Heavenly Father really wants me to learn Korean! Well, this last Saturday I took a big step forward. I didn't let myself get discouraged. I will continue to study and learn what I can. I will stumble my way through conversations using whatever Korean words I can. I want to demonstrate to those I meet my willingness to learn their language in their country. I hope it will be a show of respect to them. I have also noticed they laugh a lot when I talk, so if nothing else I am a source of entertainment.

The second class of the day is English. Missionaries throughout our entire mission offer English classes as a service to the Korean people. The classes are free. The classes may help them with college, with employment or just fulfill a desire to learn English. Each class also includes a short spiritual thought. We hope to introduce them to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and its message of peace and love. Elder Fairhurst and I really enjoy helping with the English class.

Last Saturday our lesson was on food. We gathered a few American foods we could share to help reinforce English words describing foods. It was a blast. We had mac & cheese, jerky, popcorn, chocolate cookies and other treats. We also had root beer and lemonade. We taught the words for the food and some polite words you would use at a meal. I think it was a huge success. The most popular foods were the macaroni and beef jerky. Not everyone liked the food, but they were all good sports. The funniest  comment came at the end of sampling lots of food, which included mostly junk food. In typical broken English, a young Korean man asked if we ate all of this at each meal. YIKES!!! Something got lost in the introduction where we tried to explain this was just a sampling of common American foods. We tried very hard to correct his misunderstanding. I am afraid he may still believe
Americans have chips, skittles and M&M's at every meal! By the way, the Korean word for popcorn is... popcorn. What else would it be?