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Old 17-Oct-2005, 14:40
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Default Trying to correct someone else's writing

Today I visited this Korean web forum I go and answer questions occasionally.

And I noticed this text introducing Korea's traditional clothing.

Quote:
I'll talk about korean clothes.
Korean clothes 'Hanbok' is traditional clothes of korea.
People had korean clothes on long time ago.
But now, we were korean clothes on special days. Because most of korean clothes are uncomfortable for act.
So people made 'sanghwalhanbok' for korean who don't like to wear and uncomfortable with Hanbok.
Korean clothes are gorgeous but simple too.
There are many different kinds of style in Korean clothes. Such as 'Dopo', 'Dang-ui', etc..
Most of all, Korean clothes's line is very elegant and good.
Korean -including me- are proud of these beautiful clothes.
And I thought, hey, this is easy enough, I'll correct it. As I actually strated correcting it I realized I'm not good enough for it.

I started like this: "I'd like to talk about a traditional Korean clothing, Hanbok."
And that's when I got myself confused. Should I use a or the, or should I not use any articles at all? what would be the difference between clothes and clothing?"

There are a lot of things in the original text I can correct. At the same time if I get confused with such basics, I haven't been studying English right.

Could you correct the original text for me? thanks in advance!
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