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Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on January 11, 2011 at 4:35am

Thanks for the posting.

I'll come back later to see if the questions have been answered by others, but KBC members will just have to indulge me on this little video that came to mind when I read this posting. My kids and niece made it last winter: "The Warriors Who Saved Santa Claus" (who is apparently in the shape of a snowman)...

http://seongpodong.koreanconsulting.com/2010/09/the-warriors-who-sa...

Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on January 20, 2011 at 10:39am

I'll go ahead and answer the questions:

1. University of Alaska

2. Looks like 설인자 (with 설 standing for the Chinese character for snow) is a play on words with 살인자. Considering that there's nothing murderous about the story, it doesn't seem like all that great of a pun.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Hales on January 20, 2011 at 11:48am

You got the first one right, of course. The second question seems to have a little more to it though as far as I can tell. 설 does seem to be the snow character. 인 seems to be 사람 인. Putting those two characters together you get 설인, which is another word for snowman or the abominable snowman. 자 seems to be just added on to make it look like a name, and a lot of women have names that end in 자.