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    보고 웃다 can mean several different ideas. In your sentence, it can mean, for example, 1. that they are smiling while looking at the picture. 2. that they are smiling as they are looking at the picture. 3. they are smiling at the picture. As a Korean native speaker, I, personally, understand it as meaning 3, when I read the sentence. But it depends all on contexts, of course. In some cases, it could really mean to laugh at as you understood it. For example, in sentence such as "삐에로는 우릴 보고 웃지" (a lyric from an old song in Korea), it could mean, according to some interpretation, that a clown laugh at us. But generally 웃다 means to smile after all. It does not have to be negative. The expression for 'laugh at' would be 비웃다.
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    March 22, 2024
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    1. In many cases, yes, they have the same meaning. But technically they are different, of course. 살아 있다 means literally to be alive. It expresses the state of being alive. 목숨이 있다 is more literary or metaphoric expression of 살아 있다. See below number 3. 2. Yes. 3. Expressions related with 목숨 is originally metaphorical, because it means literally "breathe(숨) in throat(목)". 목숨이 있다 means literally, then, that there is breathe in (somone's) throat, meaning she is alive, is breathing. 목숨이 붙어 있다 expresses the same thing, let's say, more dramatically. 붙어 있다 means literally to be attached. In conceptual idea, something attached to something could be separate from it in any second after the moment, right? So 목숨이 붙어 있다 could mean that someone is 'still' alive (thinking that she should or could have died). It might be used in life-or-death situations but most likely in ordinary situation too. For example A: "이야, 오랜만이네! 잘 지내니?" "It's been a while. How do you do?" B: "목숨만 붙어 있지. 반갑다!" I think this shows just how sarcastic Korean people are. :)
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    March 22, 2024
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    Yes. You wrote it right. But you can express in the last sentence with alternative 조사, '은', the idea of contrast. "학교에 교실이 있어요. 은행이 없어요.", as you wrote it, would mean simple conjunction. But "학교에 교실이 있어요. 은행은 없어요." could mean that there is a classroom in school, but not a bank (in school). This "but", the idea of contrast, could be presented with '은'. 넌 여자친구가 있어. 남자친구는 없어. = 넌 여자친구는 있지만 남자친구는 없어. 나는 아침을 먹었어. 저녁은 안 먹었어. = 난 아침은 먹었지만 저녁은 안 먹었어.
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    March 22, 2024
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    You are absolutely right about the existence of the difference between them. ~을 닮다 means to look after somebody/something. So the sentence '나는 엄마를 닮았다' can be right, if I look after my mother. But, strictly speaking, you cannot say '엄마는 나를 닮았다', because my mother does not look after me but vice versa. (since she gave me a birth.) In the case of ~와 닮다, however, you can say both 나는 엄마와 닮았다 and 엄마는 나와 닮았다, because in this case it means basically I am simiiar to my mother and my mother is similar to me. Here, 닮다 means almost the same as 비슷하다, 유사하다. But in its original intrinsic meaning, 닮다 is to look after, take after someone (or something). The meaning of resemblance in 닮다 comes from this basic idea. In ordinary situations Korean does not much distinguish these different usages. But when they have to distinguish it, they do distinguish it. Of course, there are, in virtue of flexibility of language, some situations where it is not awkward to say 엄마는 나를 닮았다 or 넌 고양이를 닮았다. It all depends on the circumstances and context.
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    March 22, 2024
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