What image or emotion are the following colors assoicated with in your culture?

K-S. Park (2001) Conceptual metaphors involved in some color terms and body part terms of English and Korean. Discourse and Cognition 9.1, 69-83.

BLACK:

• The bad news we've been getting means that things look very black for us.
  
  
• You always look on the black side. cf. the bright side
  
  
• We are in his black book/list because we didn’t invite him to our party.
  
  
• They bought butter on the black market.
  
  
• the name Tatkenshi is on the black list of the Secret Police.
  
  
• I’m the black sheep of the family because my brother is a lawyer and my sister is a doctor but I decided to be an actor.
  
  
• black magic, black art, black humor, black comedy, be in the black
  
  
• Black sheep

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• hûkmak-i iss-ta 흑막이 있다 There’s a black curtain behind it.
  
  
• hûksim-ûl phum-ta 흑심을 품다 to be black-hearted (Lit. to embrace the black heart)
  
  
• kôm-ûn son 검은 손 a black hand
  
  
• sok-i sikkômôh-ta 속이 시꺼멓다 He is black-hearted (Lit. his inside is deep black)
  
  
• kôm-ûn ton 검은 돈 black money
  
  
• hûkca 흑자 the black ink [cf. côkca 적자 the red ink]
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WHITE:

• I told his mother a white lie and said that he was well and back at work.
  
  
• White magic, white witch, make one’s name white again
  

Red:

• He is no friend of mine --it makes me see red every time I hear his name.
  
  
• be in the red (적자), see the red light
  
  
• mi kûmli phara-n pul (미 금리 파란 불 US interest rate on the green light)
  yu-ka ppalka-n pul (유가 빨간 불 oil price on the red light)
  pandoch'e cu nola-n pul (반도체 주 노란 불 semi-conductor stocs on the yellow light) [조선일보 2000. 8.9]
  
  
• nola-n saek pôsû anjôn-ûn ppalga-n pul 노란 색 버스' 안전은 '빨간 불' (동아일보 2001. 4.13)
  The yellow bus, its safty is on the red light.
  
  
• ol such'ul mokp'yo-e ppalga-n pul 올 수출 목표에 빨간 불
  the red light on the goal of this year’s export
  
  
• cûnkwônsa kaekcang-ûi côngwang-p'an-i ont'ong ppalga-n pul 증권사 객장의 전광판이 온통 빨간 불
  Full of red lights on the electric board of the stock company’s floor.
  
  

Yellow, blue, and Green:

• I am feeling rather blue today.
  
  
• The government gave the green light to the minister’s plans for reducing unemployment.
  
  
• When she left school and started her first job, she was as green as grass.
  
  
• She’ll be green with envy when I tell her that I’ve bought myself a new car. Cf. green eye
  
  
  
• When he bought the house, everybody thought he was wasting his money. But he’s not as green as he’s cabbage-looking --that part of town is now very fashionable, and his house is worth far more than he paid for it.
  
  
• A man in his green old age, white paper yellows with age.
  
  
• In my salad days, when I was green in my judgement . . . (Antony and Cleopatra by shakespeare) (p.c. Janet Donley)
  
  
• sae-p'alah-ke côlm-ûn kôs-i mwô-l a-n-da-ko 새파랗게 젊은 것이 뭘 안다고.
  What do you the green youth know?
  
  
• chôngchun 청춘 youth, young days (Lit. green-spring)
  
  ssaksu-ka nolah-ta 싹수가 노랗다
  show no promise of success (Lit. the future of the shoot/bud is yellow)
  
  

Group work: Do some of these colors symbolize any specific idea, concept, or emotion? Give specific examples

• Black:
  
  
• White:
  
  
• Red:
  
  
• Yellow:
  
  
• Blue:
  
  
• Green: