[emodendroket]

My wife is Korean and often asks me questions and, while you aren't wrong, the rules are way more complicated than that.

[obituary_latte]

I'm trying to think of an example--do you have one by chance?

[emodendroket]

Sorry, I'm coming up short. But the theme, I think, is that there are a lot of cases where that sense of specificity isn't quite obvious to a learner, combined with the fact that in some cases the right choice is no article.