Korean Expressions in Rainy Season 장마 Changma

If you are studying Korean, here are 10 expressions for the rainy season, 10 useful expressions about umbrellas, and 10 expressions to listen out for in sad rainy day k-pop songs!

And here are 10 expressions about umbrellas. (Have you listened to the Korean song called Umbrella?) Some of these expressions are useful to describe forgetting or losing things. It’s not the end of the world if you leave your umbrella somewhere I suppose, but I got stressed out once when I left my bag on the subway train. With all my worldly goods inside.

In that unfortunate situation I needed to say 가방을 지하철에 두고 내렸어요. I had to go to the lost property office at another station but I DID get my bag back in the end! But since then I never put my bag up on the luggage racks, no matter how heavy it is. Lesson Learned…

And finally it’s time for heartbreak. Since the rainy season tends to bring out feelings of nostalgia and heartache I’ve been reviewing some expressions to describe these emotions that crop up in these songs. So here’s a lost of expressions to look out for in songs about heartbreak.