candiankyosa

A few points here that are untrue or simple erroneous: A) The proper pronunciation for dojang is toejawng unless you wish to tell native Korean tsd master Ho S(h)ik Pak he is wrong? B) Nim is, slightly, akin to -san in Japanese. The Korean everyday term -ss(h)i is closer. Nim, closer to -sama, is, typically, only applied to titles. C) G(K)yosa (Kyosa and NOT Gyo Sa) is not a title. It is, in actuality, a position. The term is used when speaking about a person indirectly. Sonsaeng is the proper term when addressing a teacher. The two syllables are not two words even though kyo- is also used in kyobok. D) Sabeom, in simplicity, means teacher just as sensei is said to mean teacher but is applied to any person senior to you except for the owner of a company, etc due to it meaning "one who comes before". E)) Kwan Ja(w)ng simply means any school owner whether a martial artist or not. F) Yes, sa- means fourth in Sino-Korean numerals but just because it is used as a syllable in sabeom does not indicate it means the same. Most non-East Asians tend to hear sounds in our own language. This is why words like dobok (this is the way it is romanized but the grammar rules make it more toeboek (toebak is gamble) just as 2 is tool not dool, 5 is tawsoeht not dawsut, and 10 is yul and not yool, etc but those initial sounds can change depending on what comes before the single word.