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Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Shyness to Stardom: Minji's Artistic Awakening in Jeju
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ ๊ณต๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต์ ๊ต์ค์ ํ์๋ค์ ์๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: The classroom of the Seoul public high school was filled with the chatter of students.
Ko: ์ค๋์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ง๋ค ์๋ ์ ์ฃผ๋ ์ํ์ฌํ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
En: Today was the day for the school trip to Jeju Island, which happens every semester.
Ko: ๊ต์ค ํ์ชฝ์๋ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ์กฐ์ฉํ ์์ ์์ ๋ ธํธ์ ์ค์ผ์น๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: In one corner of the classroom, Minji was quietly sitting and sketching in a small notebook.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ทธ๋ ค์ ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌ ๋ฏธ์ ๋ํ์ ์ถํํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: She wanted to draw landscapes of Jeju Island and enter them in an upcoming art contest.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ด์ฑ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ถ์กฑํ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ ์ผ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค.
En: However, her introverted nature and lack of confidence made her hesitant to take on the challenge.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง์ ์์๋ ์ง์๊ฐ ์์ ์์๋ค.
En: Next to Minji sat Jisoo.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๊ณ ํ๋ฌํ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์๋ค.
En: Jisoo was popular among friends for her ever-bright and lively personality.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ฏผ์ง์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค, "๋ฏผ์ง์ผ, ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๊ธฐ๋๋ผ!
En: She said to Minji, "Minji, Iโm so excited to go to Jeju Island!
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฉ์ง ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์!
En: Let's create some amazing art there!"
Ko: " ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์์ง๋ง, ๋ง์ ์ ๊น์ ๊ณณ์์๋ ๋ถ์๊ฐ์ด ์ปค์ ธ๋ง ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Minji smiled and nodded, but deep down, she could feel her anxiety growing.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ๋์ฐฉํ ์ฒซ๋ , ํ์๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฐ์ผ์ถ๋ด์ ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: On the first day in Jeju Island, the students visited Seongsan Ilchulbong.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ถ๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์ธ ํ๋์ ๋ง๊ณ ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: The wind was refreshingly cool, and the winter sky was clear and blue.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ์๊ฐ์ ๊ธด์ฅ๋๋ค.
En: Yet, Minji felt nervous at the thought of drawing.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด๋ ์์ง์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: It was then that Seojin, who seemed to do everything with ease and was quite popular, approached her.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์ง์ผ, ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์ํ์์.
En: "Minji, you're good at drawing.
Ko: ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ฉ์ง ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ," ์์ง์ด ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: You can create something amazing here too," Seojin said gently.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๊ฐ ๋นํฉํ์ง๋ง, ์์ง์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ํ์ด ๋๋ค.
En: Minji was momentarily flustered, but Seojin's encouragement gave her a small boost of confidence.
Ko: ์ ๋ ์ด ๋๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์๋๋ฐญ์ ๋ชจ์ฌ ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
En: As evening came, the students gathered on the lawn in front of their accommodation to prepare for fireworks.
Ko: ์ํด ์ ์ผ๋ต๊ฒ ์ค๋ ๋ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋์๋ค.
En: The atmosphere was exciting, fitting the eve of the new year.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ฏผ์ง์๊ฒ ์์ญ์๋ค, "์ด๋ฒ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ค ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์ค๋ ฅ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค, ๋ฏผ์ง์ผ.
En: Jisoo whispered to Minji, "This is your chance to show everyone your drawing skills, Minji.
Ko: ๋ ํ ์ ์์ด.
En: You can do it."
Ko: "๋ง์นจ๋ด ์๊ฐ์ด ๋์, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋๋ค.
En: Finally, the time came, and Minji anxiously took out her art supplies.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ ๋์, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ํ๋์ ํฅํด ๋์ ๋ผ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: While the friends enjoyed the fireworks, Minji couldn't take her eyes off the sky.
Ko: ์์์ ๋ถ๊ฝ์ด ํ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ฐ์, ๋ฏผ์ง์ ์์ ์บ๋ฒ์ค ์์์ ๋ฉ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: As colorful fireworks filled the sky, her hands never stopped moving on the canvas.
Ko: ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๊ฐ ๋๋๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋ฏผ์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์๋ค.
En: When the fireworks ended, everyone came to see Minji's drawing.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ๋ฐคํ๋๊ณผ ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด์ ์ญ๋์ฑ์ด ๋ฏผ์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ด๊ฒจ ์์๋ค.
En: The dynamism of the Jeju Island night sky and the fireworks were vividly captured in her artwork.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐํํ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค๋ ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: Everyone admired it, and Minji felt prouder than ever.
Ko: ์์ธ๋ก ๋์์จ ํ, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์์ ์ ์ํ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๋ํ์ ์ถํํ๋ค.
En: After returning to Seoul, Minji entered her artwork in the art contest.
Ko: ์ง๊ธ, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: Now, she considered her effort and growth more important than the results.
Ko: ์ง์์ ์์ง๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo and Seojin sincerely supported her.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋ถ์์ ์ดํดํ๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ ๊น์ด์ก๋ค.
En: They came to understand each other's issues and anxieties, and their friendship grew deeper.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์์ ์ ํ๋๋ ๋๋ ค์์ ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ณ , ์ง์ ํ ์์ ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: Overcoming the fear that shook her, Minji found her true voice.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค์ํ์ง ์๊ณ , ์๊ธฐ๋ง์ ์๊น๋ก ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋๊ฐ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: She was now ready to paint the world with her own style, unafraid of othersโ evaluations.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฒจ ์์๋ค.
En: In her paintings was her story.
Ko: โ๏ธ๐ ๐๏ธ
En: โ๏ธ๐ ๐๏ธ
Vocabulary Words:
chatter: ์๋คsemester: ํ๊ธฐsketching: ์ค์ผ์นlandscapes: ํ๊ฒฝintroverted: ๋ด์ฑ์ hesitant: ์ฉ๊ธฐpersonality: ์ฑ๊ฒฉanxiety: ๋ถ์๊ฐrefreshingly: ์์ํ๊ฒencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คaccommodation: ์์dynamism: ์ญ๋์ฑvividly: ์์ํ๊ฒovercoming: ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ณ evaluation: ํ๊ฐendeavor: ๋ ธ๋ ฅflustered: ๋นํฉadmired: ๊ฐํcontest: ๋ฏธ์ ๋ํchallenges: ๋ฌธ์ growing: ์ฑ์ฅvibrant: ์ ๋ช ํunafraid: ๋๋ ค์ํ์งnature: ๋ณธ์ฑcanvas: ์บ๋ฒ์คmomentarily: ์๊ฐbrighter: ๋ฐ๊ณ bewildered: ํผ๋enthusiasm: ์ด์ depicts: ๋ด๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Canvas Dreams: A Winter Night's Revelation in Insadong
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-30-23-34-01-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ธ์ฌ๋์ ์ถ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ.
En: The cold winter streets of Insadong.
Ko: ๋์ด ์ด์ง ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Snow was gently falling.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๊บผ์ด ์ธํฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: People were wearing thick coats, enduring the cold.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๊ฐ์ด์ด ์ฝฉ๋ฅ์ฝฉ๋ฅ ๋ฐ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐํ๋๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Sojin was preparing her stall with her heart pounding.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ค๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ธ์ ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: She wanted to gain her family's approval today.
Ko: "์์ง์, ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋?" ์งํ์ด ๊ฐํ๋์ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: "Sojin, are you doing well?" Jinhyuk approached the stall.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ํผ๊ณคํด ๋ณด์์ง๋ง ๋์์ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์๊ฐ์ ๋ด์๋ค.
En: He looked tired, but he made time to support his younger sister.
Ko: "์ค๋น , ๊ณ ๋ง์. ์ข ๋จ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง ์ค๋น๋ ๋ค ํ์ด." ์์ง์ด ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์๋ค.
En: "Oppa, thank you. I'm a bit nervous, but I'm all set." Sojin smiled cautiously.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋ค์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ๋์๋ค.
En: She carefully placed her paintings on the table.
Ko: ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๋ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋๊ฐ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ๋ ํนํ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Each painting had a unique charm, blending tradition with modernity.
Ko: ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ด๋จธ๋, ๋ฏธ๋์จ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: Finally, her mother, Mina, appeared.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ธํ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋ค์ ์ดํผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐธ์๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: She looked over the paintings carefully, tilting her head.
Ko: "์ด๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ๊ทธ ์ผ์ด๋? ์ ๋ง๋ค์๊ตฌ๋." ๋ฏธ๋์จ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์์ฌ์ด ์์์ง๋ง.
En: "Is this the work you said you wanted to do? You've done well." There was a hint of doubt in Mina's voice.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๊ธด์ฅํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "๋ค, ์๋ง. ์ ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๋์ง ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์."
En: Sojin, though nervous, replied, "Yes, mom. I want to show you how hard I've worked."
Ko: ์ธ์ฌ๋์ ์ ์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: Insadong gradually filled with more people.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: People began to show interest in Sojin's paintings.
Ko: ์ด๋ด ์ฃผ์๋ ์นญ์ฐฌ ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: Soon, the surroundings were filled with words of praise.
Ko: "์ ๋ง ๋ฉ์ง๋ค์! ์ด๋ฐ ์ํ์ ์ฒ์ ๋ด์." ํ ๊ด๋๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐํํ๋ค.
En: "Really impressive! I've never seen work like this before." A spectator admired.
Ko: ์์ง์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค.
En: Sojin was happy.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋๋์ด ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์ด๊ฐ๋ ๋๋์ด์๋ค.
En: She finally felt she was gaining confidence.
Ko: ์ํด ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด์ด ์์๋์์ ๋, ์์ง์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: When the New Year's countdown started, Sojin unveiled her paintings.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋ํ๊ณ , ์งํ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋์จ๋ ๋๋ผ์์ ๊ฐ์ถ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
En: People were moved, and both Jinhyuk and Mina couldn't hide their surprise.
Ko: ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด์ด ๋๋๊ณ ์ํด๊ฐ ์์๋์๋ค. ๋ฏธ๋์จ๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋งํ๋ค. "์์ง์, ์๋ง๊ฐ ์๋ชป ์๊ฐํ๊ตฌ๋. ๋ค ๊ฟ์ ์กด์คํ ๊ฒ."
En: As the countdown ended and the New Year began, Mina quietly said, "Sojin, I was wrong. I will respect your dreams."
Ko: ์งํ์ ์์ง์ ํฌ์นํ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋์์, ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์์ฃผ ๋์์ค๊ฒ. ์ ๋ง ์๋์ค๋ฌ์."
En: Jinhyuk hugged Sojin and said, "Sister, I'll help you more often from now on. I'm really proud of you."
Ko: ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๋ค.
En: All conflicts were resolved, and the family came to understand each other.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ง์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ถํํ๋ฉฐ ์ํด๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ๋ง์๋ค.
En: They celebrated Sojin's success and welcomed the New Year together.
Ko: ์์ง์ ์ด์ ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ ์๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋์จ๋ ๋ธ์ ์ด์ ์ ์ธ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Sojin now felt more confident, and Mina came to appreciate her daughter's passion.
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ฐค ์ธ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ปํจ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: The winter night in Insadong was filled with warmth.
Vocabulary Words:
gently: ์ด์งenduring: ๊ฒฌ๋๊ณ stall: ๊ฐํ๋pounding: ์ฝฉ๋ฅ์ฝฉ๋ฅapproval: ์ธ์ tired: ํผ๊ณคํดnervous: ๋จ๋ฆฌ์ง๋งcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒunique: ๋ ํนํcharm: ๋งค๋ ฅblending: ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์งappeared: ๋ํ๋ฌ๋คtilting: ๊ฐธ์๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋คdoubt: ์์ฌgradually: ์ ์ confident: ์์ ๊ฐspectator: ๊ด๋๊ฐimpressive: ๋ฉ์ง๋ค์praise: ์นญ์ฐฌcountdown: ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ดunveiled: ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋คmoved: ๊ฐ๋ํ๊ณ surprise: ๋๋ผ์์resolved: ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ conflicts: ๊ฐ๋ฑpassion: ์ด์ warmth: ๋ฐ๋ปํจprepared: ์ค๋นํ๊ณ support: ์์ํ๊ธฐrespect: ์กด์คํ ๊ฒ -
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Fluent Fiction - Korean: Embracing Tradition and Change: A New Year's Tale
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-30-08-38-19-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ข ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ง๊ฒ ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
En: It was a winter day in Gyeongbokgung where the sound of a bell rang clearly.
Ko: ํ๋์์๋ ํฐ ๋์ด ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋ด๋ ค์๊ณ , ๋์ก์ด๊ฐ ๊ถ๊ถ์ ๊ธฐ์์ง๋ถ ์์ ์๋ณต์ด ์์๋ค.
En: White snow silently descended from the sky and snowflakes piled up neatly on the tiled roofs of the palace.
Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ ์์ ์๋ ฅ ์ค์ ์ค๋นํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ๋ถ์ฃผํ๋ค.
En: Inside the palace, people were busy preparing for the lunar New Year.
Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ ์งํธ, ๋ฏผ์ง, ๋์ ์ผํ์ ๋ ์์ธ๋ ์๋์๋ค.
En: The three siblings, Jiho, Minji, and Dongsoo, who lived there, were no exception.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์๋ฒ์ง์๊ฒ ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Jiho wanted to be recognized by his father.
Ko: ์ค๊ฐ ์์ด๋ก์ ๊ทธ๋ ํญ์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ๋ค.
En: As the middle child, he always wanted to prove something.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ์ค์ ์๋ฒฝํ ์์น๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ์ฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ ํต์ ์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ํ๋ค.
En: This New Year, he was determined to prepare a perfect feast and properly carry on the family tradition.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์ง, ๋์ฒญ์๋ ๋๋ฌ๋?" ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌป์, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋น์๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ค๋์ผ๋ฉฐ ์์๋ค.
En: "Minji, is the deep cleaning done?" Jiho asked, and Minji smiled as she put down the broom.
Ko: "๊ฑฐ์ ๋๋ฌ์ด, ์ค๋น ."
En: "Almost done, oppa."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ป๋ฐ์ ๋๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ๊พธ์๋ค.
En: However, an unexpected snowstorm changed everything.
Ko: ๋์ ์ ์ ๋ ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ธธ์ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: The snow fell more heavily, blocking the roads.
Ko: ์์ฅ์์ ์ฌ์ค๋ ค๋ ์ฌ๋ฃ๋ค์ด ๋์ฐฉํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
En: The ingredients they intended to buy from the market could not be delivered.
Ko: ๊ธด์ฅ๋ ์งํธ์ ์ด๋ง์๋ ๋์ด ๋งบํ๋ค.
En: Sweat formed on the tense Jiho's forehead.
Ko: "์ด ์ํฉ์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ค๋นํ ์ ์์๊น?" ๊ทธ๋ ๊น์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋น ์ก๋ค.
En: "How can we prepare in this situation?" He fell into deep thought.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ๋์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: After much contemplation, Jiho came up with a new idea.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํต์ ์งํค๋ฉด์๋, ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋ ์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ์์๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: While honoring tradition, he decided to add an innovative element this time.
Ko: ์ผ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ ์กฐํ๋ฌผ์ ๋ํด ์์นซ ๋ฐ๋ฐํ ๋ปํ ์ถ์ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ด๋ฃ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: By adding sculptures made of ice, he planned to bring life to the festival that might have been dull otherwise.
Ko: "์ ๋ง ๊ด์ฐฎ์๊น์?" ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์์ง๋ง, ์งํธ๋ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ด ํ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
En: "Will it really be okay?" Dongsoo asked, but Jiho's determination was firm.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ ์ ์์ด. ์ ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
En: "We can do it. It'll turn out well."
Ko: ๋๋์ด ์ค๋ ๋ฐค, ๊ถ๊ถ์๋ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ด ๋ฐ์ง์๊ณ , ์ผ์ ์กฐํ๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์ฐฌ๋ํ๊ฒ ๋น๋ฌ๋ค.
En: Finally, on New Year's Eve, lanterns sparkled throughout the palace, and the ice sculptures shone brilliantly.
Ko: ์์์ ์ค๋นํ ์ ์์ด ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋, ์งํธ์ ํ์ ๋ค์ ์ ์ผ๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ๊ทน๋ณต๋๋ค.
En: The worries about being unable to prepare food were overcome through the hard efforts of Jiho and his siblings.
Ko: ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฑธ์ด์ค์ จ๋ค.
En: Their father approached.
Ko: ์ ์ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ํ๋ ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "์งํธ์ผ, ์ ๋ง ์ํ๊ตฌ๋. ์ ํต์ ์งํค๊ณ ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์๋๋ฅผ ํ๊ตฌ๋."
En: There was a brief moment of silence, but then he smiled and said, "Jiho, you did really well. You honored tradition and tried something new."
Ko: ์งํธ์ ๋ง์์ ๊ฐ๋์ผ๋ก ์ถฉ๋งํ๋ค.
En: Jiho's heart was filled with emotion.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์๊ณ , ์์ผ๋ก์ ๋์ ์๋ ์ ํต์ ์กด์คํ๋ฉฐ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค์ํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ค์งํ๋ค.
En: He gained confidence and resolved to respect tradition while not fearing change in future challenges.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค ๋ฌ๋น ์๋ ์์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ํ๋ณตํดํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์กฐ์ฉํ ์์๋ค.
En: That night, standing under the moonlight, Jiho quietly smiled as he watched his friends and family happily.
Ko: ์ ํต๊ณผ ์๋ก์์ด ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ์์น๋ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์๋ค.
En: The feast, which blended tradition and novelty, was successful.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์ธ์ ์์์ ํฌ๋ง์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ก์ด ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ค.
En: Filled with hope in his father's recognition, he welcomed the new year.
Ko: ์ด์ , ์งํธ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋์๋ค. ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ธ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ํต์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋ณํ ์์์ ์ง์ ํ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ.
En: Now, Jiho realized that embracing change does not mean losing tradition, and that true beauty can be found within that change.
Vocabulary Words:
descended: ๋ด๋ ค์๋คtiled roofs: ๊ธฐ์์ง๋ถintended: ์ฌ์ค๋ ค๋weariness: ๊ธด์ฅ๋contemplation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผinnovative: ๋ ์ฐฝ์ ์ธsculptures: ์กฐํ๋ฌผdull: ๋ฐ๋ฐํ sparkled: ๋ฐ์ง์๋คbrilliantly: ์ฐฌ๋ํ๊ฒovercome: ๊ทน๋ณต๋๋คhonored: ์งํค๊ณ ๋resolve: ๋ค์งํ๋คsilence: ์นจ๋ฌตfilled: ์ถฉ๋งํ๋คrecognition: ์ธ์ embracing: ๋ฐ์๋ค์ธ๋ค๋blended: ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์งunexpected: ๋ป๋ฐ์determination: ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ดacknowledged: ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ prepared: ์ค๋นํ๋ ค๋expression: ๋ฏธ์roads: ๊ธธconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐtradition: ์ ํตunexpected: ๋ป๋ฐ์recieve: ๋ฐ์๋ค์ธ๋ค๋beauty: ์๋ฆ๋ค์์change: ๋ณํ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Love in the Light: A Seoul Science Museum Encounter
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์ธ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ชฐ์์น๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The cold winter wind was whipping through the streets of Seoul.
Ko: ๊ณผํ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด ์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ณ , ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๋ก์ด ์ ์๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Inside the science museum, it was warm, and many people were enjoying the new exhibit.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋ก์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
En: Jiho needed inspiration for his new project.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ์ผ์์ ๋ฐ๋นด๋ค.
En: His daily life was busy.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ณต์กํ ์ผ์ ์์์ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ํน๋ณํ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ง๋๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์๋ฐํ ๋ฐ๋๋ ์์๋ค.
En: However, amid that hectic routine, he had a secret desire to meet someone special.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ์ํธ ์์ฉ ์ ์์ ๋งค๋ฃ๋์๋ค.
En: Jiho was fascinated by the interactive exhibit at the museum.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ๋ป์ด ๋น๊ณผ ์์ด ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ๋ง์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: He reached out to touch a device that blended light and color.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ๋, ์๋ฏผ์ด ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: Just then, Somin approached him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ํ๋ ์ดํฐ์๋ค.
En: She was the museum's curator.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณผํ๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ก์ด ์ ์ ์์ด๋์ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: She loved science and art and was looking for new exhibit ideas.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋๋ฃ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ์งํธ์๊ฒ ์๋ฏผ์ ์๊ฐํด์ฃผ์๋ค.
En: Her colleague, Minji, introduced Somin to Jiho.
Ko: โ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ์๋ฏผ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ์๊ฐํด์ค์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์์.โ
En: โHello, Iโm Somin. Nice to meet you through Minji,โ she said.
Ko: โ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์งํธ๋ผ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์ด ์ ์ ์์ฒญ ์ข์ํด์,โ ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์์ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: โHello, Iโm Jiho. I really like this exhibit,โ Jiho replied, with a slight tremble in his voice.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ํตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ํด๋ ๋ค.
En: He was not very good at communicating with people.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ค์ด๋ค๊ณ , ์ ๋ ์ด ๋์ ํ์ธต ๋ ์กฐ์ฉํด์ก๋ค.
En: As time passed, the number of visitors at the museum decreased, and by evening it had become quieter.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋ ๋์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๋จ์๋ค.
En: Jiho didnโt leave the museum.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฏผ์ด ์ ์๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: He watched Somin as she explained the exhibit.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฏผ์๊ฒ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Eventually, he quietly approached her.
Ko: โ์ด ์ ์๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์ธ์ ๊น๋ค์. ์ด๊ฑธ ํตํด ์ป๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?โ ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: โThis exhibit is really impressive. What do you hope to achieve with it?โ Jiho asked.
Ko: ์๋ฏผ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. โ๊ณผํ๊ณผ ์์ ์ด ํจ๊ปํ ๋์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
En: Somin smiled and responded, โI want to show the beauty of science and art together.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ฉด ํด์.โ
En: And I hope it inspires people.โ
Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊น์ด๊ฐ๊ณ , ๋๋ง์ ์ํด๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก๋ค.
En: Night deepened, and the much-anticipated New Year was nearing.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ ์ํด ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Everyone was outside, waiting for the New Year countdown.
Ko: ์งํธ์ ์๋ฏผ์ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ํ ์์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Jiho and Somin stood side by side by the window, watching the fireworks outside.
Ko: โ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ํ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ถ์ด์,โ ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: โI want to create works that connect people,โ Jiho said.
Ko: ์๋ฏผ์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Somin nodded.
Ko: โ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ๋ฉ์ง ๋ชฉํ๋ค์.
En: โThatโs a really wonderful goal.
Ko: ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ณผํ์ ํตํด ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ป๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ์,โ ์๋ฏผ์ด ๋ตํ๋ค.
En: I also hope people gain a new perspective through science,โ Somin replied.
Ko: ์์ ์ด ๋์ ํ๋์ ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๋ก ๋ฌผ๋ค์๋ค.
En: As midnight arrived, the sky was filled with fireworks.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ์งํธ์ ์๋ฏผ์ ๋ง์๊น์ง ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: That beauty warmed the hearts of Jiho and Somin.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋์ด ๋ง์ฃผ์ณค๋ค.
En: Their eyes met.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์งง์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ๊น์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: In that short moment, they felt a deep connection with each other.
Ko: โ์ํด ๋ณต ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ผ์ธ์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ, ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์์๊น์?โ ์งํธ๊ฐ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
En: โHappy New Year. Can we meet again?โ Jiho asked, mustering up his courage.
Ko: โ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ . ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด์.โ ์๋ฏผ์ด ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์๋ค.
En: โOf course. Letโs exchange contact information,โ Somin smiled.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์๋ฏผ์๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด์ ๋ง ์์๋์๋ค.
En: Jiho gave Somin his contact information, and their story had just begun.
Ko: ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ ์ ํด์ง ํ, ์งํธ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์๋ก์ด ํฌ๋ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: After the fireworks had quieted down, Jiho was filled with confidence and new hope.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: His heart pounded with anticipation for the future.
Vocabulary Words:
whipping: ํ๋ชฐ์์น๊ณ ์์๋คcurator: ํ๋ ์ดํฐinteractive: ์ํธ ์์ฉblended: ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์งfascinated: ๋งค๋ฃ๋์๋คinspiration: ์๊ฐhectic: ๋ณต์กํroutine: ์ผ์tremble: ๋จ๋ฆผcommunicating: ์ํตํ๋impressive: ์ธ์ ๊น์achieve: ์ป๊ณ ์ถ์anticipated: ๋๋ง์countdown: ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ดfireworks: ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ดperspective: ์๊ฐconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐconnect: ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ exhibit: ์ ์device: ์ฅ์นexplaining: ์ค๋ช ํ๋midnight: ์์ gained: ์ป๊ธธexchanged: ๊ตํhope: ๋ฐ๋warm: ๋ฐ๋ปํscenery: ์๋ฆ๋ค์heart: ๋ง์window: ์ฐฝ๊ฐ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Mystery of the Vanishing Artifact: A New Yearโs Quest
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-29-08-38-19-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณผํ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ถ์ ์์์๋ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ณค๋ค.
En: The Seoul National Science Museum was bustling with life even amidst the winter chill.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ํ๋ คํ ์ฅ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: The museum was filled with splendid decorations to welcome the New Year.
Ko: ํ๊ตญ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ํ ํน๋ณ ์ ์๊ด์๋ ์ด๊ตญ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ ๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์ ์๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: The special exhibition hall for Korean folk myths displayed exotic and captivating artifacts.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค, ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ๊ณ ๋ ํ์ด ๊น๋ค์ด ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ค์ด ์๋ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Among them was an artifact believed to harbor the ancient power of winter according to legend.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
En: However, that artifact had vanished.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด ์ธํด์ด์๋ค.
En: Jiwoo was an enthusiastic museum intern.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์ํ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ด ์์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด ์ ์ง์ ์ฑ์ฉ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ง๋ ์ค์ํ ์์๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: She believed the success of this exhibition would be a crucial factor in her becoming a permanent staff member at the museum.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์๋์ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ํํ์ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋ ์ฑ ์๊ฐ ๊ฐํ ํ๋ ์ดํฐ์๋ค.
En: On the other hand, Minseo was a curator with a strong sense of responsibility who worried about the museum's reputation.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ค์ข ์ด ์ํด ์ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ผ๋ คํ๋ค.
En: They were concerned that the disappearance of the artifact could ruin the New Year festivities.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋จ๋ชฐ๋ ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ฌํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Jiwoo began secretly investigating the documents.
Ko: ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ , ์ ์ํ ์ค๋น์ ๋ฐ๋นด๋ค.
En: The other staff members were unaware of her curiosity and were busy preparing for the exhibition.
Ko: ํํธ, ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ง์ฐ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ์์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋์ง๊ฐ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: Meanwhile, Minseo, although skeptical of Jiwoo's determination, felt a slight sense of camaraderie with her.
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์์ด ๋ฐค, ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ณด๊ด์์์ ๋น์ทํ ์ค์ข ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ค์ ์ฐพ์๋๋ค.
En: On a night when the winter wind was still harsh, Jiwoo found records of similar disappearance incidents in the museum archives.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ๊ตํ ํจํด์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ณ , ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ํน์ ์์ ์ค์ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์น์ฑ๋ค.
En: She discovered an intricate pattern and realized that the artifact would reappear during a specific ritual.
Ko: ์ํด ์ ์ผ, ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ๊ธด์ฅ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: On New Yearโs Eve, the museum was filled with tension.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋ฏผ์์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค.
En: Jiwoo explained her findings to Minseo.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ง์ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: Minseo decided to trust Jiwoo.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํจ๊ป ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์์ ํน์ ์์์ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
En: Together, they prepared a special ritual at the museum.
Ko: ์์์ด ์์๋์, ์ ์ค ์ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ๋น๋กญ๊ฒ๋ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋์์๋ค.
En: As the ritual began, the legendary artifact mysteriously returned to its place.
Ko: ์ํด๊ฐ ์์๋์๊ณ , ์ ์ํ๋ ์ฑ๊ณต๋ฆฌ์ ์งํ๋์๋ค.
En: The New Year began, and the exhibition proceeded successfully.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ง์ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ฅ์ ์ธ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด ์ ์ง์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
En: Minseo acknowledged Jiwoo's talents and offered her a permanent position at the museum.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ์์ด๋์ด์ ๊ด์ ์ ์กด์คํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Jiwoo gained confidence, and Minseo came to respect her new ideas and perspectives.
Ko: ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ ์ฐฌ๋ํ ๋น๋ฌ๋ค.
En: The artifact found its place, and the museum shone brilliantly.
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ๊ธด ๋ฐค์ ๋๋ฌ๊ณ , ์์ธ์ ์๋กญ๊ณ ํฌ๋ง์ฐฌ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ค.
En: The long winter night ended, and Seoul embraced a new and hopeful New Year.
Vocabulary Words:
bustling: ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์น๋splendid: ํ๋ คํcaptivating: ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธartifacts: ์ ๋ฌผ๋คharbor: ๊น๋ค๋คvanished: ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋คenthusiastic: ์ด์ ์ ์ธintern: ์ธํดcrucial: ์ค์ํreputation: ํํdisappearance: ์ค์ข ruin: ๋ง์น๋คcuriosity: ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌskeptical: ์์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ดcamaraderie: ๋์ง๊ฐintricate: ์ ๊ตํritual: ์์tension: ๊ธด์ฅproceeded: ์งํ๋์๋คacknowledged: ์ธ์ ํ๋คtalents: ์ฌ๋ฅperspectives: ๊ด์ brilliantly: ์ฐฌ๋ํembraced: ๋ง์ดํ๋คhopeful: ํฌ๋ง์ฐฌexhibition: ์ ์ํdecoration: ์ฅ์incident: ์ฌ๊ฑดspecific: ํน์ ํmysteriously: ์ ๋น๋กญ๊ฒ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jisoo's Magical New Year's Eve: Sparking Change and Hope
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ถ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ, ์ํด ์ ๋ ๋ฐค์ด์๋ค.
En: It was a cold winter night, the night before the New Year.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ปค๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ํ๊ด ์์ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Jisoo stood in front of the large town hall.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ฏผํธ์ ์์ง๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ๋ถ๋ ๋ค.
En: She had invited her friends Minho and Eunji to join her.
Ko: ์์ง๋ ์์ ์ปค๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ๋ค๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "์ด๊ฑฐ ์ข์ง?
En: Eunji, holding a large balloon, smiled and said, "Isn't this great?
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด ํ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข์ํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ!"
En: People will feel happy when they see this balloon!"
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ์ปค๋ค๋ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋์ด์๊ณ , ์ง์๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ข ์ด ์ฅ์๋ค์ ๋์ด๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Minho brought a large table, and Jisoo began to arrange sparkling paper decorations on it.
Ko: ์๋ก๋ฌ๋กํ ์กฐ๋ช ๊ณผ ํ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง์๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์๋ค.
En: Looking at the colorful lights and balloons, Jisoo smiled.
Ko: ์ด ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ง์ด ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ง ์์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: It seemed like not many people were expecting this election.
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ๋ค.
En: In winter, people want to spend time with their family and friends.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ง์๋ ์ด ์๊ฐ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: However, Jisoo thought this moment was important.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ํฌํ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: She wanted to make people aware of the importance of voting.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ์ํด ์ ๋ ํน๋ณํ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: Therefore, she decided to hold a special event on New Year's Eve.
Ko: ํ๊ด ์์ ์กฐ๊ธ ์ถ์ ๋ค.
En: Inside the hall, it was a bit cold.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ฅ์ ๋๋ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋๋์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
En: But thanks to the decorations, it felt warm.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์์ง์ ๋ฏผํธ์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ, ์ด์ฌํ ์ค๋นํ์.
En: Jisoo said to Eunji and Minho, "Let's prepare diligently.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ค๋๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ผ ํด."
En: We need to make it so more people come."
Ko: ์์ง๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ตํ๋ค. "๊ฑฑ์ ๋ง.
En: Eunji nodded and replied, "Don't worry.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
En: We'll succeed."
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ํ๋๋์ฉ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ค๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: As time went by, people began to gather one by one.
Ko: ์ฒ์์ ๋ช๋ช ์ฌ๋๋ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์ ์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ํํฐ ์์์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ฐพ์์๋ค.
En: At first, there were only a few, but more and more people came as they heard about the party.
Ko: ์์ด๋ค์ ์ข ์ด ๋ชจ์์ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์คํฑ์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐ์ด๋์๋ค.
En: Children ran around with paper hats and sparklers.
Ko: ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ฉฐ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Adults drank warm tea and chatted.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ปค๋ค.
En: Jisoo was pleased as she watched them.
Ko: ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์์ง์, ์ง์๋ ๋ฌด๋ ์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ฐ๋ค.
En: As midnight approached, Jisoo climbed onto the stage.
Ko: ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํ๋ คํ ์กฐ๋ช ๊ณผ ํ๋ คํ ์๊น๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: The surroundings were filled with bright lights and vibrant colors.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊น์ ์จ์ ์ฌ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: She took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, each one of us is important.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ ์ฌ๋ ํ ์ฌ๋์ ํ์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ธ์์ ๋ณํ์ํฌ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The power of each individual can come together to change the world.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋์น์ง ๋ง์ธ์."
En: Don't miss this chance."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ฐ์๋ฅผ ์น๋ฉฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Then the people applauded and cheered.
Ko: ์์ง๊ฐ ์์ ํญ์ฃฝ์ ํ๋๋ก ๋ ๋ฆฌ์, ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ํํธํ๋ค.
En: When Eunji sent a small firework into the sky, everyone cheered.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ์ง์๋ ์์ ์ด ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ผ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ๊ฐ์น ์๋์ง ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: In that moment, Jisoo felt how valuable her actions were.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค ์ง์๋ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: That night, Jisoo returned home, thinking of the lively crowd.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ค์ ํฌ๋ง์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: She now felt hopeful again.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ ์ด ํ ์์ ํ๋์ด ํฐ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์์์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: She realized that her small actions could bring about big changes.
Ko: ์ํด๋ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด์๊ณ , ์ง์๋ ๊ทธ ์์์ ํ์ง ์ด์ด์ ํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: The New Year was a new beginning, and Jisoo was able to open that beginning wide.
Vocabulary Words:
election: ์ ๊ฑฐimportance: ์ค์์ฑballoon: ํ์ decorations: ์ฅ์aware: ์๋ฆฌ๊ณ diligently: ์ด์ฌํexpecting: ๊ธฐ๋gather: ๋ชจ์ฌfirework: ํญ์ฃฝvibrant: ํ๋ คํsparkling: ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋surroundings: ์ฃผ๋ณopportunity: ๊ธฐํcheered: ํํธvaluable: ๊ฐ์น ์๋hopeful: ํฌ๋งbeginning: ์์invite: ๋ถ๋ ๋คapplauded: ๋ฐ์๋ฅผvivid: ์์ํventured: ๋์๊ฐ๋คdetermine: ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋คspectacular: ์ฅ๊ด์transition: ์ ํassemble: ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ค๊ธฐwhisper: ์์ญ์success: ์ฑ๊ณตmotivation: ๋๊ธฐconfident: ์์ ๊ฐ ์๋accomplish: ์ด๋ฃจ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Courage in the Cold: A Village's New Year Election Tale
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-28-08-38-20-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: 12์ 31์ผ, ์๋ฒฝ.
En: December 31st, early morning.
Ko: ๋ฐ์๋ ๋์ด ์๋ณต์ด ์์ฌ ์๋ค.
En: Snow was gently piling up outside.
Ko: ํฌํ์ ๊ทผ์ฒ๋ ์๋ก์ด ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํฌ์คํฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: Near the polling station, posters were everywhere, celebrating the coming of the new year.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๊บผ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ์ค ์ ์์๋ค.
En: People were lined up in thick winter coats.
Ko: ์จ์ ์ด ๋๋ง๋ค ํ์ ์ ๊น์ด ํ ๋ฒ์ก๋ค.
En: Every breath turned into a puff of white mist.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํฌํ์ ๋ฌธ ์์์ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค.
En: Minjun sighed in front of the polling station door.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ก์ปฌ ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ ์ง๋ณด์ ์ธ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
En: He hoped that the progressive candidate would win the local election.
Ko: ์ด ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ํฐ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ์๋ค.
En: This election was an opportunity to bring significant changes to his village.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ ๋ง์๋ค.
En: However, he was also worried.
Ko: ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ง์ญ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ์ง์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
En: There was an opposing candidate backed by a powerful local business group.
Ko: ๊ทธ ํ๋ณด๋ ๋ถ๋นํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ์ ๋ค์ง์์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋๋ ค์ ๋ค.
En: Minjun feared that this candidate might unfairly upset the outcome.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์, ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ๋ ํ๋ณด์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์ค์บ๋ค์ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ ๋, ๊ณค๋ํ ์ํฉ์ ๋์ด๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: When Minjun discovered a scandal related to the opposing candidate, he found himself in a difficult situation.
Ko: ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์จ๊ธธ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
En: He had to decide whether to reveal this information or keep it hidden.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ง์ค์ ์๋ฆด ์ฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
En: He needed the courage to tell the truth.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์์ ์ ํํ๊ณผ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง์น ์ง ๋๋ ค์ ๋ค.
En: However, he was afraid of how it would ruin his reputation and relationships.
Ko: ํฌํ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์, ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ง๋๋ฉฐ ์น์ํ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค.
En: As he entered the polling station, Minjun noticed a familiar face in the waiting line.
Ko: ์์์ด์๋ค.
En: It was So-young.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ํ์ ์ด๋ ฌํ ์ง์ง์์๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ค ์์ ๋ค๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๋ค.
En: She was a fervent supporter of the opposition and approached him, staring directly at him.
Ko: โ๋, ๊ทธ ์๋ฌธ ํผ๋จ๋ฆฐ ๊ฑฐ ๋ง์ง?โ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: "You spread that rumor, didn't you?" she asked.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํ์ฐธ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: Minjun stared into her eyes for a while before deciding.
Ko: โ์๋, ๋๋ ์ง์ค์ ๋ฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์์ ๋ฟ์ด์ผ. ๋ ๋์ ๋ง์์ ์ํด์.โ
En: "No, I just wanted to reveal the truth. I want a better village."
Ko: ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ง ํ์ฌ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ค๋ ค์๋ค.
En: The sound of an approaching year-end event echoed in the distance.
Ko: ๋ง์ ์ด๋ค์ด ํฌํ์๋ก ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋ค์๋ค.
En: Many people flocked to the polling station.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํ๋ ์ธ์์ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์๋ค.
En: Minjun believed it wouldn't be a futile fight.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ต์ ์ ๋คํด ์ธ์ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์์๋ค.
En: He fought with all his might, and he knew that was what mattered.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉฐ ํฌํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ฐํ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: As time passed, the election results began to be announced.
Ko: ์ง๋ณด์ ์ธ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋ง์ ์ง์ง๋ฅผ ์ป์๋ค๋ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋์๋ค.
En: The initial reports indicated that the progressive candidate had gained much support.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์๋์ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค.
En: Minjun sighed in relief.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ก๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์๋ถ์ฌ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: He had been courageous, and he felt proud of himself for it.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ , ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ์ ํ๊ณผ ์ง์ค์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ค์๊ธ ๊นจ๋ซ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: That evening, Minjun was reminded of the power of community and the value of integrity.
Ko: ์๋ก์ด ํด๊ฐ ์์๋๋ฉด, ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํฌ๋ง์ ์ธ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ์๋ก์ด ๊ณํ์ ์ธ์ธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: As the new year began, Minjun planned with hope in his heart.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ํ๋ ๊ณต๋์ฒด์ ํจ๊ป.
En: Along with the community he was proud of.
Ko: ํฌ์์ ๋์ด ์๋์๋ค.
En: The struggle was not over.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: He would continue to bring about change, even if only gradually.
Ko: ๋์ด ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ ์ฒ๋ผ, ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ทธ์ ๊ฟ์ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํค์ ๋๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Just like that snowy winter day, Minjun continued to nurture his dreams.
Vocabulary Words:
piling: ์์ฌpolling station: ํฌํ์posters: ํฌ์คํฐcoats: ์ฝํธbreath: ์จpuff: ์ ๊นprogressive: ์ง๋ณด์ ์ธcandidate: ํ๋ณดelection: ์ ๊ฑฐopportunity: ๊ธฐํsignificant: ํฐopposing: ๋ฐ๋backed: ์ง์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋business group: ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ทธ๋ฃนupset: ๋ค์ง์์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ฉดscandal: ์ค์บ๋คreveal: ๊ณต๊ฐํ courage: ์ฉ๊ธฐreputation: ํํrelationships: ๊ด๊ณfervent: ์ด๋ ฌํrumor: ์๋ฌธfutile: ํ๋might: ์ต์ integrity: ์ง์ค์ฑgradually: ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ์ด๋ผ๋nurture: ํค์ ๋๊ฐ๋คline: ์คdecide: ๊ฒฐ์ relief: ์๋์ ํ์จ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Snowy Nights and New Beginnings: A Family's Embrace of Change
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-27-23-34-02-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ฐค, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๊ณ ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ฆ๋ต์ต๋๋ค.
En: On a winter night, Gyeongbokgung is serene and beautiful.
Ko: ์๋ํ ๋ฌ๋น์ ๋น์น ๊ถ๊ถ์ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ฎ์ฌ ์๊ณ , ์ฐฌ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ ํด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด๊ฐ์ง๋ง ์ํด์ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: The palace, reflected in the cool moonlight, is covered with snow, and the cold air is filled with anticipation for the new year even though the sun has set.
Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์ ์ ํต ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ ๋ง์น ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ฏ ์ ์ฅํ ๋ชจ์ต์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ์์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
En: The traditional architecture of the palace becomes the grand backdrop as if turning back time for a family gathering.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ์์ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jaemin stands at the center of the family gathering.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฅ๋จ์ผ๋ก์์ ์ฑ ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He feels a sense of responsibility as the eldest son.
Ko: "๋ชจ๋ ์ ์ง๋์ง?" ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ฏธ์๋ก ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ๋ง์ดํฉ๋๋ค.
En: "Has everyone been well?" Jaemin greets his family with a warm smile.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๊ทธ์ ์์์ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Sujin is standing next to him, smiling awkwardly.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํด์ธ์์์ ์๋ก์ด ์ง์ฅ ์ ์์ ๋ฐ์์ง๋ง ์์ง ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ฐํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She has received a job offer abroad but has not yet shared this with her family.
Ko: "์์ง, ๋ฌด์จ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ์์ด ๋ณด์ฌ," ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ด ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌป์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Sujin, you look like something's bothering you," Jaemin cautiously asks.
Ko: ์์ง์ ์ ์ ๋จธ๋ญ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค ๋๋ตํฉ๋๋ค. "์ฌ์ค... ๋ ํด์ธ์์ ์ผํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ด."
En: Sujin hesitates for a moment before replying, "Actually... I've been offered a job opportunity overseas."
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ๋๋์ง๋ง ๊ณง ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ ๋๋ค.
En: Jaemin is surprised but soon nods.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ์๊ฒ ํฐ ๋ณํ๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๋ค๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฉด ์์ํ ๊ฒ."
En: "It will be a big change for our family, but if it's what you want, I'll support you."
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ, ํ์ฐ๋ ๊ณ ์ํ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: At that moment, Hyunwoo is staring silently at the snow.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ํ์ ์คํดํ ์ดํ๋ก ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค ์์ ์์ ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Ever since dropping out of university, he has found it challenging to find his place in the family.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋งํผ ๋์ฑ ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจ์ด ํ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: As such, he needed Jaemin's support more than ever.
Ko: "ํ์ฐ, ๋ ์ด๋ ๋?" ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ด ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌป์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Hyunwoo, how about you?" Jaemin gently asks.
Ko: ํ์ฐ๋ ์์งํ ๋ง์์ ๊บผ๋ ๋๋ค.
En: Hyunwoo expresses his honest feelings.
Ko: "ํ, ๋๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด."
En: "Hyung, I want to show that I can also do something."
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ํ์ฐ์ ๋ฑ์ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. "๋๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ธํดํ์ง ๋ง. ๋ค๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ต๋ํ ๋์์ค๊ฒ."
En: Jaemin places a hand on Hyunwoo's back and says, "Don't be too impatient. I'll help you as much as I can to find the path you want."
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ์์ ์ ํฅํ๊ณ , ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์ฒซ๋์ด ๋ด๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
En: Time gradually approaches midnight, and a magical first snow begins to fall.
Ko: ์ธ ํ์ ๋ ์ง ์ ๊ตฌ์์ ํจ๊ป ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ด ๋๊ธธ ์์ ๋จ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ฐค์ ์๋ก์ ์จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
En: The three siblings start walking together at the entrance of the house, leaving footprints on the snowy path, sharing each other's warmth on the cold winter night.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ์ด ์ง๋์, ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ ๋ง์์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์งํฉ๋๋ค. '๊ฐ์กฑ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ฌถ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ตฌ๋.'
En: And as midnight passes, Jaemin makes a vow to himself: 'Keeping the family together also means embracing change.'
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ํน๋ณํ ํ ํด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: With a smile, he looks forward to a special year.
Ko: ์ธ ํ์ ๋ ๋ ๋จ๋จํ๊ฒ, ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: The three siblings became stronger and closer.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ธธ์ ๊ฐ๋ฉด์๋ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์งํ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ฝ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They promised to support one another even as they each pursued their own paths.
Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์ถ๋ณตํ๋ ๋ฏ ๋๋ถ์๊ฒ ๋น๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Gyeongbokgung shone brightly, as if blessing their new beginning.
Vocabulary Words:
serene: ๊ณ ์ํreflected: ๋น์นanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐbackdrop: ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝresponsibility: ์ฑ ์๊ฐawkwardly: ์ด์ํ๊ฒhesitates: ๋จธ๋ญ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋คopportunity: ๊ธฐํabroad: ํด์ธimpatient: ์กฐ๊ธํembracing: ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋vow: ๋ค์งpursued: ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋คblessing: ์ถ๋ณตํ๋gathering: ๋ชจ์eldest: ์ฅ๋จshared: ๋ฐํ๋คcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒsurprised: ๋๋๋คsupport: ์์ํ ๊ฒchallenging: ์ด๋ ค์ ์ต๋๋คpatience: ์ธ๋ดmagical: ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์footprints: ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์warmth: ์จ๊ธฐtogether: ํจ๊ปsiblings: ํ์ stronger: ๋จ๋จํ๊ฒarchitecture: ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผeldest: ์ฅ๋จ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: New Year's Eve at Namsan: Jihyun's Journey to Her Calling
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-27-08-38-19-ko
Story Transcript:
Ko: ๋์ด ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ฐค, ๋จ์ฐ ํ์๋ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์กฐ๋ช ๊ณผ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ค๋ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: On a snowy winter night, Namsan Tower was filled with sparkling lights and the excitement of people.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์น๊ตฌ์ธ ์์ง์ ํจ๊ป ๋จ์ฐ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun visited Namsan Tower with her friend Eunji.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ํด ์ ์ผ์ ์ ์ฐธ์ํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์งํ์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์์ ํด์์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They were attending the New Year's Eve event, and Jihyun wanted to find peace of mind as she welcomed the new year.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ํ์ ์กธ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun had recently graduated from college.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ๋ํ ์ด์ ์ด ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ง์ ์ ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: She had a passion for journalism, but her family wanted her to have a stable job.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆผ๊ธธ์ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She stood at a crossroads of choice.
Ko: "๊ธฐ์์ ๋์ ํ ๊น, ์๋๋ฉด ์์ ํ ์ง์ ์ ์ฐพ์๊น?" ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋์์์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Should I pursue a career as a journalist, or should I find a safe job?" she constantly pondered.
Ko: ์์ง๋ ์งํ์๊ฒ "์ค๋ ๋ฐค์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์. ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ๋ง์ดํ์,"๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Eunji said to Jihyun, "Let's just enjoy tonight and welcome a new beginning."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ์ ๊ผญ๋๊ธฐ์์ ์์ธ์ ๋ฉ์ง ์ผ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: They looked at the beautiful night view of Seoul from the top of the tower.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋, ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ค ์์ ๋ค๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: At that moment, Minsu approached them.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ธ๋ก ์ด์ฌ ์จ ์ง ์ผ๋ง ๋์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He had recently moved to Seoul.
Ko: ๋ฌด๋ฆ๊น์ง ๋ฟ๋ ์ฝํธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He wore a coat that reached his knees and was holding a warm coffee.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ฒ์ ์์ด์," ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Hello, I'm here for the first time too," Minsu said.
Ko: ์งํ๊ณผ ์์ง๋ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun and Eunji smiled and greeted him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํจ๊ป ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They began to have a conversation together.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ํํธ์จ์ด ์์ง๋์ด์๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minsu was a software engineer who wanted to make new friends.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์ ์งํ๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์๋ ์๋ก์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: As time passed, Jihyun and Minsu shared their stories.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ํธ์ด๋์๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์๋ "๋๋ ์ฒ์์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ๋ง์์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ ์ ๋ฐ๋์ต๋๋ค"๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She revealed her concerns, and Minsu comforted her, saying, "I had a lot of worries at first too, but I followed my convictions."
Ko: "๊ณง ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด๊ฐ ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค," ์์ง๊ฐ ์ธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
En: "The fireworks are about to start," Eunji shouted.
Ko: ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ํ๋์ ์ฌ๋ ค๋ค๋ณด๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Many people were looking up at the sky.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๊น์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์๊ฒผ์์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun felt something emerge from deep within her chest.
Ko: '์๋ก์ด ์ง๋ก๋ฅผ ์์ํ ์ ์์ด. ์ด ๊ธธ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ณตํ๊ฒ ํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ'๋ผ๋ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: It was a realization: 'I can start a new career. This path will make me happy.'
Ko: ๋๋์ด ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด์ด ์์๋์๊ณ , ์์ธ์ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ๋ถ๊ฝ์ด ์ฑ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Finally, the countdown began, and the night sky of Seoul was filled with fireworks.
Ko: ์งํ์ "๋ด ์ด์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ๋์ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ,"๋ผ๊ณ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์์์ ๋ณด๋์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun resolved, "I will follow my passion. I will find my path." Minsu sent her warm encouragement.
Ko: ์ํด๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The new year dawned.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ค์๋ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์ธํด์ญ์ ์ ์ฒญํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihyun applied for the journalism internship she had hesitated about.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ๊ฟ์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: She decided to pursue her dreams over others' expectations.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ฏผ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ๊ด๊ณ์ ์์์ ์๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค.
En: And she and Minsu marked the start of a new relationship.
Ko: ์ด์ ์งํ์ ์ค์ค๋ก ์ถ์ ์ด๋์ด๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Now, Jihyun had gained the confidence and courage to lead her own life.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฏฟ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฌด์๊ณผ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์๋ ์์คํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The friendship and trust they developed, like family, was an invaluable experience that couldn't be traded for anything.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ฟ์ ๋ํ ์๋ก์ด ํด๋ต์ ์ฐพ์ ์งํ์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์ค๋นํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Having found a new answer to love and dreams, Jihyun prepared for a new beginning.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋จ์ฐ ํ์์์ ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: And it all started at Namsan Tower.
Vocabulary Words:
sparkling: ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋excitement: ์ค๋ attending: ์ฐธ์ํ๊ณ crossroads: ๊ฐ๋ฆผ๊ธธpondered: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ์ต๋๋คbeginning: ์์approached: ๋ค๊ฐ์์ต๋๋คrevealed: ํธ์ด๋์๊ณ comforted: ๋ค๋ ์์ต๋๋คconvictions: ์ ๋ fireworks: ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ดemerge: ์๊ฒผ์์realization: ๊นจ๋ฌ์resolve: ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋คinternship: ์ธํด์ญhesitated: ๋ง์ค์๋pursue: ์ถ๊ตฌํ๊ธฐ๋กconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐcourage: ์ฉ๊ธฐinvaluable: ์์คํexperience: ๊ฒฝํdawned: ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋คpassion: ์ด์ stable: ์์ ์ ์ธtrust: ๋ฏฟ์marked: ์๋ ธ์ต๋๋คfriendship: ์ฐ์ prepared: ์ค๋นํ์ต๋๋คdecision: ์ ํpath: ๊ธธ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Amid Seoul's Winter, Teamwork Unwraps A Festive Realization
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ฐฌ๋ฐ๋์ด ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ์์ ๋งค์ญ๊ฒ ๋ถ์ด์ค๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ฐค. ์์ธ์ ํ๋์ ์ธ ๊ณ ์ธต ๋น๋ฉ ์, ์ง์๊ณผ ์์์ ์ปดํจํฐ ์์ ์์ ํผ๊ณคํ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: On a winter night when the cold wind blew fiercely outside the window, Seoul's modern high-rise buildings housed Jiseok and Suwon, sitting in front of their computers with tired eyes, working on their reports.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ง์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋ฉด์ ํ์ฌ๋ ๋ฐ์๊ฒ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: As the end of the year approached, the company was buzzing with activity.
Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋๋จธ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋ ์์ธ์ ๋ฐค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ คํ ๋ถ๋น๊ณผ ๊ฒจ์ฐ๋ด ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ฎ์ฌ ์์๋ค.
En: Beyond the window, the night streets of Seoul were covered with dazzling lights and the snow that fell throughout winter.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ณ , ์ปดํจํฐ์ ๋ฎ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ ํ๊ด๋ฑ ๋ถ๋น์ด ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ์ฑ์ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The office was warm, filled with the low hum of computers and the light of fluorescent lamps.
Ko: ์ฑ ์ ์์๋ ์์ง๋ง ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ํธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์ฌ ์์๋ค.
En: Next to the desk was a small but sparkling Christmas tree.
Ko: ์ง์์ ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ฟ๊พธ๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ผ ๋ฆ๊ฒ๊น์ง ํ์ฌ์์ ์ผํ๋ค.
En: Jiseok dreamed of a promotion and worked late every day.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ์ผ๋ก์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์์ ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
En: As the breadwinner of a household with a newborn, he needed financial stability.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ์์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํด์ผ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ๊ณ ๊ท ํ ์กํ ์ถ์ ์ํ๋ค.
En: On the other hand, Suwon wanted to spend the holidays with his family and sought a balanced life.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค ๋ ๋ค ์์ฌ์ ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋์ ์ด๋ฐํ ๋ง๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Yet, both of them were under pressure from their boss's high expectations and tight deadlines.
Ko: "์ค๋์ ๋ฐค์ ์์์ผ ํ ์ง๋ ๋ชฐ๋ผ," ์ง์์ด ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๋์ ์ด๋ฏธ ํผ๊ณค์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: "We might have to stay up all night," Jiseok said quietly, his eyes already full of fatigue.
Ko: "์๊ฒ ์ด. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๋ด์ผ ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์ผ ํด," ์์์ ๋งํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋์ ํผ๊ณคํจ์ ๊ฐ์ถ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
En: "Got it, but I absolutely have to go see my son tomorrow," Suwon said, unable to hide the tiredness in his eyes.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ฐค์ ๋์์ด ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Time flowed on, and the night seemed endless.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ, ์ง์์ด ํฐ ์ค์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค.
En: However, at one point, Jiseok discovered a big mistake.
Ko: ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋น ์ ธ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: Important information was missing from the report.
Ko: "ํฐ์ผ์ด๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค์ํ์ด," ๊ทธ๋ ์์ญ์ด๋ฏ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "This is serious. We made a mistake," he whispered.
Ko: ์์์ ๋๋ผ์ด ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Suwon stared at the monitor with a look of surprise.
Ko: "์ด๊ฑธ ๋ฐ๋ก์ก์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ง์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ด."
En: "It's going to take a lot of time to fix this."
Ko: ๋์ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: From that moment on, the two began to collaborate.
Ko: ์๋ก์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ์ฉํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
En: They pooled their strengths to find and organize the necessary data again.
Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊น์ด๊ฐ์๋ก ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋์ ๋์ฑ ์ง์ค๋์๋ค.
En: As the night deepened, their focus intensified.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ํธ๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ๋ถ๋น๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: The small lights of the Christmas tree watched over their efforts.
Ko: ๋๋์ด ์๋ฒฝ๋ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ์๋ฒฝํ ์์ ํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Finally, as dawn approached, they were able to perfectly revise the report.
Ko: ์์ฌ์ ๊ฒํ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น ํ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ์ฌ ํ์์ค์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋ฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ณค๋ค.
En: After their boss reviewed it, they successfully delivered their presentation in the company's meeting room.
Ko: ์์ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅ ์ ์ ์ ์นญ์ฐฌํ๋ค.
En: The boss praised their effort and teamwork.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ธ์์์ ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์.
En: In that moment, Jiseok realized that both work and family were important in his life.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: He decided to treasure his time with his family more in the future.
Ko: ์์๋ ์กด์ค๋ฐ๋ ๋๋์ ๋ฐ์๊ณ , ๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค์ํ์ง ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Suwon also felt respected and learned the importance of cooperation with colleagues.
Ko: ๋ณด๊ณ ์ ์ ์ถ ํ, ๊ทธ ๋์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ถ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: After submitting the report, the two were able to enjoy the Christmas festival easily.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ง์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋๊ณ , ์์์ ์๋ค์ ํ๊ต ์ฐ๊ทน์ ์ ์ฌํ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์์๋ค.
En: Jiseok spent warm moments at home with his family, and Suwon watched his son's school play intently, smiling.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๋ฐ์ ์ธ์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฒจ์ธ ์, ์ถ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: The world outside the office was still in the midst of winter, filled with festivities and warm love.
Vocabulary Words:
fiercely: ๋งค์ญ๊ฒhigh-rise: ๊ณ ์ธตbuzzing: ๋ฐ์๊ฒdazzling: ํ๋ คํbreadwinner: ๊ฐ์ฅstability: ์์ balanced: ๊ท ํ ์กํpressure: ์๋ฐexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋deadlines: ๋ง๊ฐ ๊ธฐํfatigue: ํผ๊ณคmonitor: ๋ชจ๋ํฐsurprise: ๋๋ผ์collaborate: ํ๋ ฅpooled: ํ์ฉintensified: ์ง์ค๋์๋คrevise: ์์ ํ๋คreviewed: ๊ฒํ presentation: ๋ฐํpraised: ์นญ์ฐฌํ๋คtreasure: ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋คrespected: ์กด์ค๋ฐ๋cooperation: ํ๋ ฅsubmitted: ์ ์ถenjoy: ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋คintently: ์ ์ฌํmidst: ์festivities: ์ถ์ collaborating: ํ๋ ฅํ๊ธฐstrengths: ๊ฐ์ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Peace: Jinsu's Journey to Balance in Seoul's Rush
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ํ ๋๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค, ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ฐ์ ์๊ธฐ์ด๋ค.
En: At a large corporate office in Seoul, winter is always a busy time.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: The office is filled with a cheerful atmosphere, welcoming Christmas and the New Year.
Ko: ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ ๊ตฌ์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ฅ์๋ค์ด ๋น๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Sparkling lights and Christmas decorations were shining everywhere.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ง์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ๋ค.
En: However, Jinsu had other thoughts weighing him down.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ฑ์คํ ์ง์ฅ์ธ์ด๋ค.
En: Jinsu is a diligent worker.
Ko: ๋งค๋ ์ด๋ง๋์ฏค์ด ๋๋ฉด ๋ถ๋ด์ด ์ปค์ก๋ค.
En: Around this time every year, the pressure mounted.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ ์, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ง ํ์ฌ์ ์ค๋น๊น์ง, ํด์ผ ํ ์ผ์ด ์ฐ๋๋ฏธ์ฒ๋ผ ์์๋ค.
En: Year-end reports, along with preparations for the year-end events, created a mountain of tasks to deal with.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ผ์ ์ด์ฌํ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: Although Jinsu worked hard, he was worried about his health.
Ko: ํ์์ด ๋์ ๋ณ์์์๋ ์กฐ์ฌํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ์กฐ์ธ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋ ํ๋ถํฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๊น์ด์ก๋ค.
En: After hearing the doctor's advice at the hospital to be cautious because of high blood pressure, his worries grew deeply inside him.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๋ ์ง์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ์์์ ์ปดํจํฐ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ซ์ด์ง๊ฒ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: On this day as well, Jinsu was staring intently at the computer screen inside the office.
Ko: ๋ฐ๊นฅ์์๋ ๋์ด ๋ด๋ ค ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํจ์ด ๋์ฑ ๋๊ปด์ก์ง๋ง, ์ง์์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Although the snow falling outside made the warmth inside the office more perceptible, Jinsu's heart was not warm.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ข ์ข ์์ ์ ๊ฟ, ์ฆ ํํ๋กญ๊ณ ๋จ์ํ ์ถ์ ์์ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์๋ํ ๋จผ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค.
En: He often imagined his dream of a peaceful and simple life, which felt like a far-off story.
Ko: ํ์ ์ฑํธ๋ ์ง์๋ฅผ ์์์ฐจ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: His team member Seongho noticed Jinsu.
Ko: "์ง์ ํ, ์ผ๊ตด์ด ์ ์ข์ ๋ณด์ด๋ค์. ๋ฌด์จ ์ผ ์๋์?" ์ฑํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: "Hey, Jinsu hyung, you don't look well. Is something wrong?" Seongho asked.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ต์ง๋ก ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "์๋์ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ผ์ด ๋ง์์ ๊ทธ๋."
En: Jinsu forced a smile and replied, "No, it's just that there's a lot of work."
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์, ์ง์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์ ๋ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์์ก๋ค.
En: As time went on, Jinsu's head felt heavier and heavier.
Ko: ๊ฐ์์ค๋ฐ ์ด์ง๋ฌ์์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ ์์ ์ด๋ง์ ์น์๋ค.
En: Suddenly feeling dizzy, he briefly put his hand on his forehead.
Ko: ์ด๋ฌ๋ค ์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋ฉด ์ด์ฉ์ง ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ค์ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The thought of collapsing flashed through his mind.
Ko: ์ด๋๋ก๋ ์ ๋๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ ์ง์๋ ํฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Feeling this couldn't continue, Jinsu made a major decision.
Ko: ์ ์ฌ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋์, ์ง์๋ ๋งค๋์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ์์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: When lunchtime came, Jinsu spoke to his manager, Miyoung.
Ko: "๋ฏธ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ, ์ ํ ๋ง์ด ์์ด์." ๋ฏธ์์ ์ง์งํ ์ง์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ์ ์ ์ง์๋ค.
En: "Senior Miyoung, I have something to say." Miyoung looked at Jinsu's serious face with a worried expression.
Ko: "์ ๊ทธ๋, ์ง์ ์จ? ๋ฌด์จ ์ผ์ด์ผ?"
En: "What's up, Jinsu? What's the matter?"
Ko: "์์ฆ ํ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋ง์์. ์ผ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์," ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์์งํ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "I've been very worried about my blood pressure lately. I think I should cut back on work," he said honestly.
Ko: ๋ฏธ์์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ ๋ค์ด์ฃผ์๋ค.
En: Miyoung genuinely listened to him.
Ko: "์์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์, ์ง์ ์จ. ํ๋ฃจ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋? ๋๋จธ์ง ํ์์ด ๋ค ์ผ์ ๋ถ๋ดํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋์์ค๊ฒ." ์ง์๋ ๊ทธ ์ ์์ ๊น์ด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: "Thank you for coming to me, Jinsu. How about taking a day off? I'll help arrange for the rest of the team to share your workload." Jinsu felt deeply grateful for the suggestion.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐํ ์ผ์ ์ง์์ ์ฌ๋ฉฐ ์์ ์ ๋์๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Jinsu took the day as an opportunity to rest at home and reflect on himself.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋์ ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ์ค ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํ์ง๋ฅผ ๊น์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค.
En: During that time, he deeply contemplated which was more importantโwork or health.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: He made a decision.
Ko: ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด์๊น์ง ์ผํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ .
En: He would no longer work to the detriment of his health.
Ko: ์ํด๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ๋์์๋ค.
En: As the New Year approached, he returned to the office.
Ko: ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค, ๊ฐ์ ์ฅ์๋ค์ด ์์ง๋ง, ์ง์์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
En: The same office and the same decorations remained, but Jinsu's heart was different.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค์ํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ์ด์ ๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ถ์ ์งํค๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์คํ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: He realized how important he was, and was now firmly resolved to maintain a healthy life.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ธฐ์, ์ง์๋ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๋, ํ์ ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋ง์ ๊น์ด ํ์์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: Thus, when Jinsu went home and gazed at the white snow, he felt a deep peace within his heart.
Vocabulary Words:
corporate: ๋๊ธฐ์ cheerful: ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ดatmosphere: ๋ถ์๊ธฐdecorations: ์ฅ์diligent: ์ฑ์คํweighing: ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ดmounted: ์ปค์ก๋คintently: ๋ซ์ด์ง๊ฒperceptible: ๋๊ปด์ก์ง๋งimagined: ์์ํ๊ณ peaceful: ํํ๋กญ๊ณ simple: ๋จ์ํfar-off: ์๋ํ ๋จผexpression: ํ์ advice: ์กฐ์ธdizzy: ์ด์ง๋ฌ์forehead: ์ด๋ง์collapsing: ์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋ฉดarrange: ๋ถ๋ดํ contemplated: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋คdetriment: ์์ผ๋ฉด์๊น์งresolved: ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋คopportunity: ๊ธฐํreflection: ๋์๋ณด์๋คgazed: ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐsnow: ๋pressure: ์๋ฐgenuine: ์ง์ ์ผ๋กgrateful: ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋คmaintain: ์งํค๊ธฐ๋ก -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jiho's Christmas Miracle: Adventure at the Community Tree
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ๋ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ฒ์ดํธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ.
En: A snow-covered gated community in Seoul.
Ko: ์ง๋ง๋ค ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ๋ถ๋น๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ฅ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ ๊ณณ.
En: Every house is filled with sparkling lights and Christmas decorations.
Ko: ์ค์ฌ์๋ ์ปค๋ค๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ํธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
En: In the center stands a large Christmas tree.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋ ์ด ํธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค.
En: Everyone loves this tree.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ง๊ธ, ๊ทธ ํธ๋ฆฌ ์์ Jiho์ ์์คํ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ์๋ค.
En: But right now, on top of that tree is Jiho's precious gift.
Ko: Jiho๋ ๋ณธ๋ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ ๋ง์ ์๋ ์ด๋ค.
En: Jiho is naturally a curious boy.
Ko: ์ค๋, ๊ทธ๋ ํน๋ณํ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Today, he lost a special gift.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
En: That gift was meant for Christmas.
Ko: ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํด์์ธ์ง ๊ทธ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ํธ๋ฆฌ ๊ผญ๋๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Somehow, the gift ended up on top of the community tree.
Ko: Jiho๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋์๋ค.
En: Jiho felt worried.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ Sumin์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: He went to find Sumin.
Ko: โSumin, ํฐ์ผ ๋ฌ์ด! ์ ๋ฌผ์ด ํธ๋ฆฌ ๊ผญ๋๊ธฐ์ ์์ด!โ Jiho๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค.
En: โSumin, this is terrible! The gift is on top of the tree!โ Jiho said earnestly.
Ko: Sumin์ ์จ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ฌ์๋ค.
En: Sumin took a deep breath.
Ko: โ์ค๋น , ์ด๊ฑธ ์ด์ฉ์ง?โ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
En: โOlder brother, what should we do?โ she replied with a worried expression.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง Sumin์ ์ค์ฉ์ ์ด์๋ค. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ Minseok ์ค๋น ํํ ๋์์ ์ฒญํ์!"
En: However, Sumin was practical. "Let's ask our Minseok Oppa for help!"
Ko: ์ด์ด์ Jiho์ Sumin์ ์์ง์ Minseok์ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: Next, Jiho and Sumin went to find their neighbor Minseok.
Ko: Minseok์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ๋ฐ๋ช ๊ฐ์ด๋ค.
En: Minseok is an amusing inventor.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ํญ์ ๋ณ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์คํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฆ๊ธด๋ค.
En: He always enjoys creating and experimenting with quirky machines.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ทธ์ ์ง์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: They arrived at his house.
Ko: โMinseok ์ค๋น , ๋์์ฃผ์ธ์!โ Jiho๋ ๊ธํ๊ฒ ์ธ์ณค๋ค.
En: โMinseok Oppa, please help!โ Jiho shouted urgently.
Ko: Minseok์ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค, โ์ด๋ค ์ผ์ด์ง?โ
En: Minseok looked curious and asked, โWhat's going on?โ
Ko: Jiho๋ ์ํฉ์ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค.
En: Jiho explained the situation.
Ko: Minseok์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. โ์, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋ด๊ฐ ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ง๋ ๋๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋์ ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ.โ
En: Minseok smiled and said, โAh, for that, a tool I recently made might help.โ
Ko: Minseok์ ์ง์์ ์ด๋๊ฐ์์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋์ ์ง๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ฌ ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์๋ค.
En: Minseok brought out a grappling hook device he'd made somewhere in his house.
Ko: "์ด๊ฑด ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ง๋ ์ง๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ผ. ์ด๊ฑธ๋ก ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ก์ ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ!" Minseok์ ์ ๋๊ฒ ์ธ์ณค๋ค.
En: "This is a grappling launcher I made. We can use it to grab the gift!" Minseok exclaimed excitedly.
Ko: ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ปค๋ค๋ ํธ๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The three of them went to the large tree.
Ko: Jiho๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋์์ง๋ง ๋ฏฟ์์ ๊ฐ์ก๋ค.
En: Although Jiho was worried, he had faith.
Ko: Minseok์ ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
En: Minseok prepared the device.
Ko: โํ, ์ค ๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ !โ ๊ทธ๋ ์ธ์น๋ฉฐ ์ง๊ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: โWatch this!โ he shouted as he launched the grabber.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ฒ์์๋ ์กฐ์ค์ด ๋ง์ง ์์๋ค. ์์์ด ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋ค.
En: But at first, the aim was off. Laughter erupted.
Ko: ๋ค์ ์๋ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ์ก์๋ค.
En: They tried again. This time, they caught the gift precisely.
Ko: "์ก์์ด!" Jiho๋ ๊ธฐ๋ป ์๋ฆฌ์ณค๋ค.
En: "Got it!" Jiho exclaimed joyfully.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณค ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ง๊ฒ๋ก ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Then, carefully, they lowered the gift with the grabber.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ, ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ด ๋์์๋ค.
En: At that very moment, their parents returned.
Ko: Jiho์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Jiho and his friends hid the gift.
Ko: ์๋ฌด๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๋ค.
En: They saved Christmas without anyone knowing.
Ko: "์ ๋ง ๋คํ์ด๋ค!" Jiho๋ ์์ญ์๋ค.
En: "What a relief!" Jiho whispered.
Ko: ์ด ์ผ์ ํตํด Jiho๋ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ค. โ๋งํ์ง ์๊ณ ํผ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์ ๋ผ.โ
En: Through this experience, Jiho learned, โI shouldn't try to do everything alone without saying anything.โ
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ ์ป์๋ค.
En: He gained this realization.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ธฐ์ต ์์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋จ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: This Christmas will remain the most special in his memories.
Ko: ์ด ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ ๋๋ถ์ด๋ค.
En: Thanks to the efforts of these three friends.
Ko: ์๋ก ๋์ธ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ค.
En: Miracles happen when you help each other.
Vocabulary Words:
gated: ๊ฒ์ดํธprecious: ์์คํcurious: ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ ๋ง์earnestly: ๊ฐ์ ํ ์์ฑ์ผ๋กexpression: ํ์ practical: ์ค์ฉ์ amusing: ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋inventor: ๋ฐ๋ช ๊ฐexperimenting: ์คํํ๋quirky: ๋ณ๋grappling hook: ์ง๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ฌ ์ฅ์นlauncher: ๋ฐ์ฌ๊ธฐfaith: ๋ฏฟ์precisely: ์ ํํ๊ฒlowered: ๋ด๋ ธ๋คrealization: ๊นจ๋ฌ์miracles: ๊ธฐ์ relief: ๋คํnaturally: ๋ณธ๋breath: ์จurgent: ๊ธํ๊ฒsituation: ์ํฉsmiled: ์์ผ๋ฉฐcreated: ๋ง๋ค์ดaim: ์กฐ์คlaughter: ์์hidden: ์จ๊ฒผ๋คmemories: ๊ธฐ์ต ์์์efforts: ๋ ธ๋ ฅsparkling: ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Illuminating Self-Belief: Jiho's Lantern Transformation
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ดํธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ด ๋๋ฉด ๋์ฑ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ง๋๋ค.
En: The quiet gated community of Seoul becomes even more beautiful in the winter.
Ko: ๋์ด ์๋ณต์ด ์์ธ ์ง๋ค๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ๋ถ๋น๋ค์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ์ฅ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Houses blanketed in snow and the twinkling Christmas lights decorate the streets everywhere.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค์ฌ์๋ ๋ง์ ๊ณต์์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ๋งค๋ ์ด๊ณณ์์ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ ๋ฑ๋ถ ์ฅ์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๋๋ค.
En: At its center is a village park where every year the residents gather to hold a lantern decoration contest.
Ko: ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ฐธ์ฌํ ์ ์๋ ์ด ์ฝํ ์คํธ๋ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ํฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
En: This contest, open to everyone, brings great joy and anticipation to all.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ด ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ง๋ค ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
En: Jiho waits eagerly for this competition every year.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ด์ฑ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ฃผ๋ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ์๋ ค์ง์ง ์์ ์ ์์ด์ ๋๋ค.
En: He is a young man not well-known to those around him because of his introverted nature.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ๋ํ์์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฐ์นํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ๋ง์์ด ๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
En: He has a strong desire to win this year's competition.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์ฃ .
En: He wants to show others his worth.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์งํธ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ถ์กฑํฉ๋๋ค.
En: However, Jiho lacks confidence.
Ko: ์์ ์ ์์ง์ ์ฌ๋ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ๋ ์ธ์์ ์ธ ๋์์ธ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค.
En: This is because Minji, who lives next door, is always selected for her impressive designs.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๋ฅํ๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์ด์์ ๋๋ค.
En: Minji is a pleasant and lively neighbor.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํ๋ คํ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์ฌ๋ก์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: Her splendid lanterns always captivate the attention of people.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผ์ง๋ฅผ ์์ํ ์๋ก ์งํธ๋ ๋์ฑ ๋ถ์ํด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: The more Jiho is aware of Minji, the more anxious he becomes.
Ko: ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํด์ผ ๋ฏผ์ง๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธธ ์ ์์์ง ์ ์ ์์์ฃ .
En: He doesn't know how to surpass her.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ , ์งํธ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ด์์ธ ํ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์๊ฒ ํธ์ด๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Then one day, Jiho confided his concerns to his nearby neighbor, Grandpa Hyun.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ง์์์ ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ๋ ์ด๋ฅธ์ผ๋ก, ๋ง์ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์๊ฒ ์กฐ์ธ๊ณผ ์งํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋๋ค.
En: He is a respected elder in the village, offering advice and wisdom to many residents.
Ko: ํ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ์งํธ์๊ฒ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ํต ๋ฑ์ ์ฌ์ฉํด ๋ณด๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ์กฐ์ธํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Grandpa Hyun suggested to Jiho that he try using traditional Korean lanterns.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ธฐ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ผ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He encouraged him by saying that he could express his individuality in this way.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ ํต ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jiho started brainstorming various ideas and began crafting traditional lanterns.
Ko: ์กฐ์์ ์งํ์ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๊ฒฐํฉํ๋ ค๋ ์๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: It was an attempt to merge the wisdom of his ancestors with modern creativity.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋์ ์งํธ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ์ ์ ์์ฑ๋์ด ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
En: As time passed, Jiho's lantern gradually took shape.
Ko: ๋๋์ด ๋ํ ๋ ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The day of the competition finally arrived.
Ko: ์จ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ณต์์ ๋ชจ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The whole village gathered at the park.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ, ๋ฏผ์ง์ ๋ฑ๋ถ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฐฌ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: As everyone showcased their lanterns, Minji's lantern also received much admiration.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ ์ ํ๋ค๋ ธ์ง๋ง, ์์ ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ๋ฏฟ์ด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jiho was momentarily shaken but decided to trust in his own lantern.
Ko: ์ฝ์๋ ์ ํต๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ์กฐํฉ์ ๋ฏฟ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He believed in the blend of tradition and creativity he had promised.
Ko: ์ฌ์ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ฐํ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The judging results were announced.
Ko: ์งํธ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ๊ทธ ๋ ํนํจ๊ณผ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ผ๋ก ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ์ฐฌ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jiho's lantern received high praise for its uniqueness and traditional beauty.
Ko: ๋น๋ก 1๋ฑ์ ์๋์์ง๋ง, ํน๋ณ์์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ ์ธ์ ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Though it wasn't first place, he received a special award and earned the recognition of the community.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ํฐ ๊ฐ๋์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jiho was deeply moved.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค์ํ ๊ตํ๋ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ , ๋์์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๋ง์์ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He also learned an important lesson: the importance of believing in oneself and opening up to those who can offer help.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ฐ์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด์ฃผ๋ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Smiling, Jiho watched as the residents gave him warm applause.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ ์์ ์ด ๋จ์ํ ํ ๋ช ์ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ง์์ ์์คํ ํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๋ผ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Now he felt confident that he was not merely another resident, but an integral part of the village.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ด ๋ง์์ ๋์ฑ ํํ๊ฒ ๋น์ถ๋ฏ์ด, ์งํธ์ ๋ง์๋ ํํ๊ฒ ๋ฐํ์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: Just as the Christmas lights illuminated the village more brightly, Jiho's heart was also brightly lit.
Vocabulary Words:
gated: ๊ฒ์ดํธcommunity: ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐblanketed: ์๋ณต์ด ์์ธtwinkling: ๋ฐ์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋decorated: ์ฅ์๋anticipation: ๊ธฐ๋introverted: ๋ด์ฑ์ ์ธlacks: ๋ถ์กฑํ๋คconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐimpressive: ์ธ์์ ์ธanxious: ๋ถ์ํsurpass: ์ด๊ธฐ๋คconfide: ํธ์ด๋๋คrespected: ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ๋express: ๋๋ฌ๋ด๋คindividuality: ๊ฐ์ฑbrainstorming: ๊ตฌ์crafting: ๋ง๋ค๋คmerge: ๊ฒฐํฉํ๋คancestors: ์กฐ์creativity: ์ฐฝ์์ฑshowcased: ์ ๋ณด์ด๋admiration: ์ฐฌ์ฌtrust: ๋ฏฟ๋คblend: ์กฐํฉuniqueness: ๋ ํนํจrecognition: ์ธ์ integral: ์์คํilluminated: ๋น์ถ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Amid the Snowstorm: Soyeong's Unexpected Christmas Journey
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ธ์ฒ๊ตญ์ ๊ณตํญ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ฒ ๋์ด ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ํ๊ฒฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: Incheon International Airport was filled with a Christmas scene of falling snow typical of winter.
Ko: ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ํธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ฅ์๋ค์ด ๊ณตํญ์ ํํ๊ฒ ๋น์ถ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Christmas trees and sparkling decorations were lighting up the airport brightly everywhere.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ํฉ์ ๊น๋ค๋ก์ ๋ค.
En: However, looking out the window, the situation was more complicated.
Ko: ๊ฑฐ์ผ ๋๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ ๋ถ์ด๋ฅ์ณ ๋ชจ๋ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ง์ฐ๋์๋ค.
En: A fierce snowstorm had swept in, causing all flights to be delayed.
Ko: ์์์ ์ด์กฐํ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Soyeong was waiting anxiously for her flight.
Ko: ๊ณ ํฅ์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ง๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์์ด ์ปธ๋ค.
En: She had a strong desire to meet her family and spend Christmas in her hometown.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋๋ณด๋ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋นํ๊ธฐ ์ง์ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์๋ค.
En: But the flight delays due to the snowstorm were making her anxious.
Ko: ์์์ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค. ๊ณตํญ ์ง์์๊ฒ ๋์์ ์ฒญํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: Soyeong made a decision: she would seek help from the airport staff.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณตํญ ์๋น์ค ์นด์ดํฐ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: She approached the airport service counter.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์, ํน์ ์ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ์ถ๋ฐํ ์ง ์ ์ ์์๊น์?" ์์์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: "Hello, could I possibly find out when my flight will depart?" Soyeong asked cautiously.
Ko: ์ง์ ์งํธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
En: The staff member, Jiho, smiled and responded to her.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์. ํ์ฌ๋ ์์ธกํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ต๋ํ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค."
En: "Hello. It's currently difficult to predict. But I will provide you with information as soon as possible."
Ko: ์งํธ์ ์น์ ํ ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์์ ์กฐ๊ธ ์์ฌํ ์์์ ๊ณตํญ ๋ผ์ด์ง๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ์ฎ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Slightly reassured by Jiho's kind words and smile, Soyeong moved to the airport lounge.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ง์๋ค.
En: It was crowded with people waiting, just like her.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค ํ ์ฌ๋, ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๋์ ๋ค์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ธํธ๋ถ ์์ ์์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋ชฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Among them, someone caught her eyeโMinjun sat engrossed in something on his laptop.
Ko: ์์์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ด ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Gathering her courage, Soyeong approached him.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ๋นํ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ด์. ํผ์ ์์ผ๋ ์ฌ๋ํด์์."
En: "Hello, I'm waiting for a flight too. It's unsettling being alone."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ์์์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋น๊ทธ๋ ์์๋ค.
En: Minjun looked up at her and smiled warmly.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋์. ๋๋ณด๋ผ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ค๋ค ํ๋ค๊ฒ ๋ค์."
En: "Hello, me too. Everyone must be having a hard time because of the snowstorm."
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: The two began to talk.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ธ๊ณ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ์ฌํํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ฉฐ ์์์๊ฒ ์์ ์์์ ์ฃผ์๋ค.
En: Minjun shared his experiences of traveling around the world, providing Soyeong with some comfort.
Ko: ๋ํ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๋ก์ ๊ฑฑ์ ๊ณผ ํฌ๋ง์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฌ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The conversation naturally flowed into sharing their worries and hopes.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ค, ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ ๋์ฑ ์ฌํด์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: During their conversation, they noticed the snowstorm outside worsening.
Ko: ๋ถ์ํ ๋ง์์ ์์์ ๋ฏผ์ค์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. "ํน์ ๋ชป ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋กํ์ฃ ?"
En: With an anxious heart, Soyeong said to Minjun, "What if we can't go?"
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "์ฌํ์ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ์์ ์ ์์ฃ . ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ด ๋์ผ์๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ข์ ์ผ์ด ์๊ธธ ๊ฑฐ์์."
En: Minjun replied quietly, "Traveling is never without worries. But in times like this, waiting might bring something good."
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ ์์์ ๋ง์์ด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ฐจ๋ถํด์ก๋ค.
En: His words calmed Soyeong's heart a little more.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์งํธ๊ฐ ํด ์ค ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ๋ณด์ ๋ํด ๋ฌผ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: She decided to spend some time asking Jiho about other information.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ผ๋ง ์ง๋์ง ์์์ ๊ณตํญ ๋ฐฉ์ก์ด ๋ค๋ ค์๋ค. "๋ชจ๋์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ณง ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ฅํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋๋ค."
En: Soon, an airport announcement could be heard: "Thank you for your attention. Flights will soon be ready for takeoff."
Ko: ์์์ ์๋์ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค.
En: Soyeong let out a sigh of relief.
Ko: ๋น๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ์ด ๊ธธ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ค.
En: Though the wait was long, her conversation with Minjun had offered her a new perspective.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฅ๋น๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ฒจ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ด๋ํ๋ค.
En: As the time approached, she gathered her belongings and headed to the plane.
Ko: ๊ณตํญ์ ๋ ๋๋ฉด์ ์์์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋จ์ง ๋ชฉ์ ์ง์ ๋์ฐฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
En: As she departed from the airport, Soyeong thought, this journey wasn't just about reaching the destination.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณํํ์ง ์์๋ ๋ง๋จ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ก ์ธํด ๊ฒฝํํ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: She found herself cherishing the unexpected encounters and the warm moments she experienced.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์์ค๋ฅด๊ณ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ด๋ธ์ ๋ณ์ด ๋ฐ์ง์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๋, ์์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ ํ์ ํ๋ค.
En: As the plane flew toward her hometown and the Christmas Eve stars began to twinkle, Soyeong was confident of reuniting with her family.
Ko: ๋๋ณด๋ผ ์์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Even amid the snowstorm, she came to value the new connections and experiences.
Vocabulary Words:
scene: ํ๊ฒฝsparkling: ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋fierce: ๊ฑฐ์ผanxiously: ์ด์กฐํcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒreassured: ์์ฌํengrossed: ๋ชฐ๋ํunsettling: ์ฌ๋ํwarmly: ๋น๊ทธ๋ ์๋คexperiences: ๊ฒฝํconversation: ๋ํworsening: ๋์ฑ ์ฌํด์ง๋anxious: ๋ถ์ํpredict: ์์ธกdeparture: ์ถ๋ฐdelayed: ์ง์ฐ๋staff: ์ง์lounge: ๋ผ์ด์งtwinkle: ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋คconnections: ์ฐ๊ฒฐencounters: ๋ง๋จperspective: ์๊ฐvaluable: ์์คํcherishing: ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋คrelief: ์๋destination: ๋ชฉ์ ์งsituation: ์ํฉgathering: ์์งannouncement: ๋ฐฉ์กbelongings: ์ฅ๋น -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Homeward Bound: A Winter Journey of Family and Hope
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ธ์ฒ๊ตญ์ ๊ณตํญ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Incheon International Airport was filled with the cold air of winter.
Ko: ๊ณตํญ์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ฅ์์ผ๋ก ํํ๊ฒ ๋น๋๊ณ , ์์ํ ์บ๋กค์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The airport was brightly lit with Christmas decorations, and gentle carols were playing.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ฌํ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๊ฝ ์ก๊ณ ์ฒดํฌ์ธ ์นด์ดํฐ ์์ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Jinsu stood in front of the check-in counter, gripping his suitcase tightly.
Ko: ๋ค์ ํ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฌํ๋ฅผ ์๋๊ณ ์ค๋ ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: He was excited about reuniting with his loving family.
Ko: ์๋ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๋ชป ๋ณธ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด๋ผ ๊ธฐ์๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: Having not seen them for such a long time, he felt joy but was also filled with concerns.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ณํ์ง๋ ์์์๊น ํ๋ ๋ถ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋กญํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The anxiety that their relationships might have changed over time troubled him.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ชจ์ด๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ด๋ธ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
En: Jinsu wanted to be home just in time for Christmas Eve when the whole family gathered.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋์ด ์์ฌ ๋นํ์ด ์ง์ฐ๋๋ค๋ ์๋ด ๋ฐฉ์ก์ด ๋ช ์ฐจ๋ก ํ๋ฌ๋์๋ค.
En: However, announcements kept broadcasting that flights were delayed due to accumulated snow.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์๋ก ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์์ก๋ค.
En: As time passed, his heart grew heavier.
Ko: ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋น ์ก๋ค.
En: He picked up his phone and fell into contemplation.
Ko: ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ง์ ๊ฐ ์ ์์์ง ์ฐพ์๋ณด๋ ค ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ณง ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ง์ง ๋ต์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: He considered finding another way to get home, but soon realized that this wasn't the real solution to the problem.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ ค์์ ํผํ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ง์ ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ทน๋ณตํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ค์งํ๋ค.
En: He resolved to confront and overcome his fears rather than avoid them.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋, ๊ทธ์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฉ์์ง ํ๋๊ฐ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: Just then, a message arrived on his phone.
Ko: ์ฌ๋์ ์ํฌ์๊ฒ์ ์จ ๋ฌธ์์๋ค.
En: It was a text from his younger sister, Eun-hee.
Ko: "์ค๋น , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ ์ค๋น ๊ฐ ์ค๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ด.
En: "Oppa, we're all waiting for you.
Ko: ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๋ผ!
En: We're really excited!"
Ko: " ๊ทธ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ง์๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํจ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: Reading the message, Jinsu felt warmth.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ๋์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋จ๋จํ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์์์ ํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: He was reassured that the bond with his family was still strong and intact.
Ko: ์กฐ๊ธ ํ, ๋์ ๋ฉ์ถ๊ณ , ๋นํ๊ธฐ์ ํ์นํ๋ผ๋ ์๋ด๊ฐ ๋์๋ค.
En: A little later, the snow stopped, and an announcement was made to board the plane.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๊ฒ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: Jinsu gathered his belongings and walked towards the gate.
Ko: ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ ๋ค.
En: His steps were light.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ์ฃผ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ธ ์ค๋ฅผ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: As the plane skidded up the runway, he felt a renewed courage.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋จ์ ์์์ ๊นจ๋ซ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: He realized that his relationship with his family remained strong despite the passage of time.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ๋๋ก ๋ ์ค๋ฅด์, ์ง์๋ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๋ฎ์ธ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ดค๋ค.
En: As the plane ascended into the sky, Jinsu gazed out at the snow-covered landscape.
Ko: ์ด์ ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์์ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ์ฌํ๋ฅผ ํฅํ ์ค๋ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: Now, he was filled with newfound confidence and anticipation for the reunion with his family.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ด๋ธ์ ์ถ์ต์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Memories of Christmas Eve awaited him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข๊ฒ ์์๋์๋ค.
En: And so, his new beginning pleasantly commenced.
Vocabulary Words:
cold air: ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณต๊ธฐdecorations: ์ฅ์carols: ์บ๋กคgripping: ๊ฝ ์ก๊ณ reuniting: ์ฌํanxiety: ๋ถ์๊ฐaccumulated: ์์ฌcontemplation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผbond: ๋intact: ๋จ๋จํ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ดbelongings: ๊ฐ๋ฐฉskidded: ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ธ ์ฌ๋ผrenewed: ์๋ก์ดcourage: ์ฉ๊ธฐascended: ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋คconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋commenced: ์์๋์๋คfilled: ๊ฐ๋๊ณ gathered: ๋ชจ์ด๋broadcasting: ๋ฐฉ์กresolved: ๋ค์งํ๋คarrived: ๋์ฐฉํ๋คreassured: ํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋คannouncement: ์๋ดgate: ๊ฒ์ดํธlandscape: ํ๊ฒฝnewfangled: ์๋ก์ดtroubled: ๊ดด๋กญํ๊ณ passage: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋๋ผ๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Winter's Miracle: Healing Migraine with Tradition
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๋์ด ์๋ณต์ด ๋ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ํ์ ์ท์ ์ ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: On a winter day with gently falling snow, Gyeongbokgung was dressed in white.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์์ ์ญ์ฌ ํด์ค๊ฐ๋ก ์ผํ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon was working as a history guide at Gyeongbokgung.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ ํ์ผ ์๋ ํญ์ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต ์ํ์ ๋ํ ์ด์ ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There was always a passion for Korean traditional medicine in a corner of his heart.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๋ , ๊ทธ์ ์ฌ์ด ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๋จผ ๋๋ผ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: One day, his cousin Minseo came to visit him from a distant country.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ฌํ ํธ๋ํต์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ง๋ง, ํ๋ ์ํ์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ซ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minseo was suffering from severe migraines, but modern medicine had not been able to heal her.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ฒ์์ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ์น๋ฃ๋ฒ์ ๋ํด ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Initially, Minseo was skeptical about traditional treatments.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง, ์งํ์ ๋ฏผ์๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, Jihoon wanted to help her.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๋ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ฆ ์ฐ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์๋ฅผ ํ ๋ช ์ ์น๊ตฌ์๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He decided to introduce her to a friend despite the opposition from their family.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ถ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์ฌ๋ ์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: That friend was Granny Eunji, who lived near the palace.
Ko: ์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ์ฝ์ด ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก, ์งํ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ๋ ์ธ์ฐ์ด ์๋ ๋ถ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Granny Eunji was an expert in herbs and had a connection with Jihoon's family.
Ko: "์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋, ๋ฏผ์๋ฅผ ๋์์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?" ์งํ์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Granny Eunji, could you help Minseo?" Jihoon asked cautiously.
Ko: ์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ๋ฏธ์๋ก ๋๋ตํ์ต๋๋ค. "๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง. ์๋ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ ์๊ฐ ์์๋."
En: Granny Eunji replied with a gentle smile, "Of course. You never know unless you try."
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ ์คํ, ๋ฏผ์๋ ์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋์ ์์์ ์ฝ์ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: That afternoon, Minseo received herbal tea from Granny Eunjiโs hands.
Ko: ์ฒ์์๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๊ฐํด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ณ์ ์๋ํด ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: At first, the strong smell made her shake her head, but she decided to keep trying.
Ko: ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๋ ๋ฎ์ธ ์ ์์ ์ฐ์ฑ ํ๋ ์ค, ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋๋ผ์ด ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: While sipping the tea and strolling through the snow-covered gardens of Gyeongbokgung, Minseo felt an amazing change.
Ko: ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ด์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ณ , ๋ง์์ด ํ๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: The heavy feeling in her head disappeared, and her heart felt noticeably lighter.
Ko: "์ ๋ง ๋ฏฟ์ ์ ์์ด, ์งํ!" ๋ฏผ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
En: "I can't believe it, Jihoon!" Minseo exclaimed with joy.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ์ต๋๋ค. "์ ํต์ ํ์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ปค."
En: Jihoon smiled and replied, "The power of tradition is that strong."
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Christmas was approaching.
Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๋ ํ๋ณต์ ์ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Gyeongbokgung was filled with people in hanbok preparing for Christmas.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์์ ํธ๋ํต์ด ๋์์ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผ, ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ์น๋ฃ๋ฒ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ฌํจ์ ๋๋ผ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: As Minseo's migraines improved, the family began to feel grateful for traditional treatments.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์์ ์ ๋ณธ๋ฅ๊ณผ ์ ํต์ ๋ํ ์๋ก์ด ํ์ ์ ์ป๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon gained a new confidence in his instincts and tradition.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ์ด์ด์ฃผ๋ ์์ ๋ง์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon discovered his own new purpose in connecting history and culture.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ข์ํ๋ ์ญ์ฌ ์์ ์ ํต์ ์ด์ ์๋ก์ด ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He began to view the tradition within his beloved history with new eyes.
Ko: ์์ง ํ ๋จธ๋์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ์ ๋ง์์ ์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์งํ์ ๋ฏผ์์๊ฒ ์์ญ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Expressing gratitude to Granny Eunji, Jihoon whispered to Minseo.
Ko: "๊ฐ๋์ ์ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐํ ๋๊ฐ ์์ง."
En: "Sometimes, the old can be stronger than the new."
Ko: ๋์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๋ง๋น์ ๋ฎ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณ ์ํ ์ ์ ์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The snow still covered Gyeongbokgung's courtyard, and a serene silence signaling a new beginning flowed around.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์๋ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ก๊ณ , ์งํ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ ๋ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: A smile spread across Minseo's face, and Jihoon found a new belief.
Ko: ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: This winter, Gyeongbokgung was the backdrop for a new miracle.
Vocabulary Words:
gently: ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒdressed: ์ ๊ณ ์๋passion: ์ด์ skeptical: ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์treatments: ์น๋ฃ๋ฒcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒherbal: ์ฝ์ดsip: ๋ง์๋คstrolling: ์ฐ์ฑ ํ๋คamazing: ๋๋ผ์ดmigraine: ํธ๋ํตinstincts: ๋ณธ๋ฅdiscovered: ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋คgratitude: ๊ฐ์ฌserene: ๊ณ ์ํmiracle: ๊ธฐ์ expert: ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐconnection: ์ธ์ฐinitially: ์ฒ์์opposition: ๋ฐ๋improved: ๋์์ง๋คhealed: ๋ซ๋คpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ approaching: ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋คbelief: ์ ๋ notably: ํ์ ํintroduced: ์๊ฐํ๋คbackdrop: ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝwhispered: ์์ญ์ด๋คnew beginning: ์๋ก์ด ์์ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jinwoo's Redemption: Healing an Ancient City
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ณ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๋์๊ฐ ๊ฒจ์ธ ํ๋ ์๋ ๋์ฌ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: An ancient Greek city lay beneath the winter sky.
Ko: ๋งค์ผ๋งค์ผ ๋จ๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ์์ฅ๊ณผ ๋๋ก ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ด์ ๋ณ์ ๋ํ ๋ถ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The bustling markets and stone streets that were lively every day were now filled with anxiety over a sickness.
Ko: ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ค ์๊ธ ๋์์ ํจ๊ป ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ถ์ ์ค๋น์ ์ฌ๋ ์ด ์๋ ๋ณต์กํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ๋ค๋ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The cold winter wind carried the scent of sea salt and the bustling sounds of Christmas festival preparations.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ์ด ๋จผ ๋ ์ ๋์ฐฉํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo had arrived in this distant land.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์น์ ์ฌ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He was a healer.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ์ ์ฌํ์๋ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, his journey had a hidden purpose.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ตฌํ์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์์ฃ์ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He was seeking a path to atonement, recalling the experience of being unable to save someone he loved in the past.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ํน๋ณํ ์ฝ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ฝ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์์๋ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ๊ทํ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo brought with him special herbsโprecious ones that couldn't be found elsewhere.
Ko: ๋์๋ ๊ณ ์ด์ ๋ณ์ผ๋ก ํผ๋์ ๋น ์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: The city was in chaos due to a feverish illness.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด ์ง๋ณ์ ์น๋ฃํ๊ณ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He intended to cure this disease.
Ko: ๋ํ, ๊ทธ๋ ์ง์ญ ์ฌํ์ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ป๊ณ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์คํจ์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Furthermore, he wanted to earn the trust of the local community and move past his previous failure.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์น๋ฃ์ฌ๋ค, ์์์ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํฌํจํ ์ด๋ค์ ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์ ์ฝ์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, other healers in the city, including Eunseo and Minjun, doubted Jinwoo's methods and his herbs.
Ko: ๋ณ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํผ์ง๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ํํ ์๊ฐ์กฐ์ฐจ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The disease was spreading rapidly, leaving no time for trials.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo was troubled.
Ko: ์์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ง์์ ์๋ ค์ค์ง ์๋๋ฉด ์นจ๋ฌตํ ์ง ์ ํํด์ผ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He had to choose whether to share all his knowledge or remain silent.
Ko: ๋๋ก๋ ๋จ๋ค์ด ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฅผ๊น ๋๋ ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He was sometimes afraid that others would call him a wizard.
Ko: ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ง์ฐ๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋์ถ์ ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ ์์ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Finally, Jinwoo decided to conduct a public demonstration during the winter festival.
Ko: ๋ช ์ฑ์ ๊ฑธ๊ณ ํ ๋ฒ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ป๊ณ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He risked his reputation to gain a single chance.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ทธ์ ์์ฐ์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: People watched his demonstration closely.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ์ ์น๋ฃ๋ฒ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๊ณผํ์ฌ ์ข์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo's treatment exceeded expectations and showed good results.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์ํ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์๊ณ ๋ณ์ ์์ํ ์ง์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Gradually, people began to accept his methods, and the disease slowly subsided.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ป๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo gained the trust of the cityโs people.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ชฉ์ ๋ ์ฐพ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He also found a new purpose.
Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์คํจ์์๋ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He gained confidence, freeing himself from his past failure.
Ko: ์ง๊ทธ์ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋ ์์์ ๋ค์ ํ์จ์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: As he gently closed his eyes, he felt peace again in the cold wind.
Ko: ๋์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ด์ ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฏฟ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The people of the city now believed in Jinwoo's capabilities.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋๋งํผ์ด๋ ํ๊ณ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: This belief was as firm as the cold winter wind.
Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ง์์ ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์จ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinwoo's heart, now freed from the shadows of the past, was filled with a warm glow.
Vocabulary Words:
ancient: ๊ณ ๋sky: ํ๋stone: ๋anxiety: ๋ถ์scent: ๋์distant: ๋จผhealer: ์น์ ์ฌatonement: ์์ฃrecalling: ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐfurthermore: ๋ํreputation: ๋ช ์ฑdemonstration: ์์ฐexceeded: ์ด๊ณผํ์ฌsubside: ์ง์ ๋๋คconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐshadows: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์glow: ์จ๊ธฐbustling: ๋ณต์กํfeverish: ๊ณ ์ดtrials: ์ํtroubled: ๊ณ ๋ฏผwizard: ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌgradually: ์์ํover: ๊ฑธ๊ณ conduct: ๊ฒฐ์ฌtreatment: ์น๋ฃ๋ฒgain: ์ป๊ฒpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ firm: ํ๊ณ frenzy: ์น์ ์ฌ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Isolation to Reunion: A Seoul Christmas Tale
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ปคํผ์ ํ๋ คํ ์กฐ๋ช ์ด ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: Winter in Seoul was filled with warm coffee and streets adorned with dazzling lights.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์์ง์ ๋ง์์ ์ผ์ด๋ถ์ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: However, Seojin's heart felt frozen.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ํฝ ๋์์ด๋๋ก์ ์คํ๋์ค์์ ๋ฐค๋ฎ์์ด ์ผํ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋๋ค. ๊ป์ง ์์ ๊ฐํ ๋ฌํฝ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ์ธ์๊ณผ ๋จ์ ๋ ์ฑ๋ก ๋ง์ด๋ค.
En: As a freelance graphic designer, she spent her days and nights busy working in the studio, detached from the world like a snail trapped in its shell.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์คํ๋์ค๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์กฐ๋ช ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋๋จธ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋น๋๋ ๋์ก์ด๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์์ง๋ง, ์์ง์ ๋ง์์ ๋ง์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Her studio was filled with warm lighting and sparkling snowflakes visible through the windows, but Seojin's heart wasn't clear.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Christmas was approaching.
Ko: ๋งค๋ ์ด๋ง๋๋ฉด ์์ง์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณค ํ๋ค.
En: Every year at this time, Seojin used to enjoy happy times with her family.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ฌํด๋ ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
En: But this year was different.
Ko: ์ธ๋ ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์ ๋คํผ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์์ง์ ํผ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Because of a quarrel with her sister Minkyung, Seojin was alone.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋์ด๋ ์ ๋ฌด์๋ง ๋ชฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: So, she immersed herself in her increasing workload.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ด๋ธ ์์นจ์ ์์ง์ ๋ญ๊ฐ ์ด์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: However, on Christmas Eve morning, Seojin felt that something was amiss.
Ko: ์คํ๋์ค์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์กฐ๋ช ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ง์์ ๋ น์ผ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: The studio's warm lights couldn't thaw her heart.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋, ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด๋๋ก๋ ์ ๋๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
En: Suddenly, she realized that things couldn't go on like this.
Ko: "๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์์คํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ," ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํผ์ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: "Family is precious," she muttered to herself.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: She made a bold decision.
Ko: ์ผ์ ๋ด๋ ค๋๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๋ง๋๋ฌ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: She would put aside work and go to meet her family.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋๊บผ์ด ์ธํฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ , ์์ ์ ๋ฌผ ๊พธ๋ฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Seojin donned a thick coat and packed a small bundle of gifts.
Ko: ์๋ก๋ฌ๋กํ ๋ฉํ์ง๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์์ ๋ฐ์ง์๋ค.
En: The colorful wrapping paper sparkled in her hands.
Ko: ํ์์ ์ฌ๋ผํ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ์์ฐ๋ค.
En: As she got into the taxi, she felt a wave of worry.
Ko: ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์ ์ด์ํ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ๊ฑฑ์ ๋์๋ค.
En: She was concerned about the awkward silence with Minkyung.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ง์์์ผ๋ก ๋๋์๋ค, "๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํจ๊ปํด์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
En: But she closed her eyes and repeated in her heart, "Family ultimately needs to be together."
Ko: ํ์๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ธธ์ ๋ฌ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: The taxi moved slowly along the snow-covered roads.
Ko: ์ง์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋์ฐฉํ์ ๋, ๋๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์์ ์ต๋๋ฅผ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: As they neared home, Seojin couldn't suppress her racing heart.
Ko: ์ง ์์ ๋์ฐฉํ์๋ง์ ์์ง์ ํ๋์ ์์ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋์ด๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค.
En: Upon reaching the house, she couldn't bring herself to get out of the car for a moment.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์ ๋ฌธ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Yet, before she knew it, her hand was on the door handle.
Ko: ๋ฌธ์ด ์ด๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋๋ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ์ ์์๋ค.
En: When the door opened, Minkyung stood there with a surprised expression.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ์ ๋ง์์ด ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: They looked at each other in silence for a moment.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ง์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ง์, ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๋ ์์์ ๋ ๋ฉฐ ์์ง์ ๊ปด์์๋ค.
En: As a small smile spread across Seojin's face, Minkyung also smiled and hugged her.
Ko: "์ด์ ์, ์์ง์," ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Welcome, Seojin," Minkyung said.
Ko: ์ํ ์์๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ ํต ์์์ด ์ค๋น๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Warm traditional dishes were prepared on the dining table.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์์ง์ ํ์ํ๋ฉฐ ํจ๊ป ์๊ณ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: The family welcomed Seojin as they laughed and enjoyed together.
Ko: ํ ํด์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ๊ณผ ์คํด๋ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ๋ น์๋ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: The year's conflicts and misunderstandings melted away there.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๊ฐ์ด ๊น์์ด ์จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: Seojin felt warmth deep in her heart.
Ko: ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์คํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: Her family felt so precious to her.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ฐค, ์์ง์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค. ์ผ๋งํผ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์.
En: That night, Seojin realized that time spent with family is just as important as work.
Ko: ๋ฐ์ ์ผ์ ์์์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ง์๋จน์๋ค.
En: She resolved to cherish time with her family even amidst a busy life.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ ์ด ์ธ์ ๋ ์ํ๋ ๋ฐ์คํจ๊ณผ ์์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ์ฑ ์ ๋ค์๋ค.
En: She fell asleep feeling the warmth and sense of belonging she had always wanted.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค์ ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐค์ด์๋ค.
En: It was a magical Christmas night.
Vocabulary Words:
adorned: ํ๋ คํdazzling: ๋น๋๋frozen: ์ผ์ด๋ถ์freelance: ํ๋ฆฌ๋์detached: ๋จ์ ๋snail: ๋ฌํฝ์ดapproaching: ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๊ณ quarrel: ๋คํผimmerse: ๋ชฐ๋ํ๋คthaw: ๋ น์ด๋คmuttered: ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋คbold: ๊ณผ๊ฐํdonned: ์ ๋คbundle: ๊พธ๋ฌ๋ฏธsparkled: ๋ฐ์ง์๋คawkward: ์ด์ํsuppress: ์ต๋๋ฅด๋คhandle: ๋ฌธ๊ณ ๋ฆฌembrace: ๊ปด์๋คtraditional: ์ ํตmisunderstandings: ์คํดcherish: ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋คbelonging: ์์๊ฐmagical: ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์wrapped: ๋ฉํ์งwave: ๊ฑฑ์ silence: ์นจ๋ฌตprecious: ์์คํresolved: ๋ง์๋จน๋คsparkling: ๋น๋๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Illuminating Tradition: A Seoul Christmas Market Story
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ๋ฐ์๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋์ฌ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์ ๋ถ์ด ํ์ฅ ๋ง์์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Nestled within the busy and vibrant heart of Seoul, Bukchon Hanok Village exudes a special charm even in winter.
Ko: ์ข๊ณ ์๋ํ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ์ ํต ๊ธฐ์์ง์ด ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ถ์ต์ ํฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The scenes created by its narrow, cozy alleys and traditional tile-roofed houses hold a fragrance of nostalgia.
Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ ํต ๋ง์ผ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ ์ง์, ํ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There, preparing for the Christmas traditional market are Jinsu, Hyejin, and Minjae.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ ํต ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ณด์กด์ ์ด์ฌํ ์ค์ฒํ๋ ์์๋ด์ฌ์์ ๋๋ค.
En: Jinsu is a volunteer devoted to preserving traditional culture.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ๋ง์ผ์ ์ด์ด ์ ํต ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He wants to open a Christmas market to showcase traditional Korean culture.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ํ์ง์ ์ ๊ณ ์ด์ ์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฒคํธ ๊ธฐํ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ๋์ ์ธ ์์๋ ๊ฐ์กฐํด ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ๋์ด๋ค์ด๊ณ ์ถ์ดํฉ๋๋ค.
En: However, Hyejin, an enthusiastic young event planner, wishes to emphasize modern elements to attract more visitors.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ฌ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฅ์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ ์๋ ์์ ์ ์ํ๋ค๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Minjae is a skilled artisan who seeks recognition for his works that will be on display.
Ko: โ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ์ด์ฐ๋ฅผ๊น?โ ์ง์๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋น ์ง๋๋ค.
En: "How can we best blend tradition and modernity?" Jinsu wonders.
Ko: ํ์ง์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ๋ คํ ์ฅ์๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Hyejin plans to prepare extravagant decorations and music to create a Christmas atmosphere.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ๋ฐฉ์์ด ์ง์์๊ฒ๋ ์ ํต์ ์ด์ง ์๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ปด์ง๋๋ค.
En: Yet, this approach doesn't feel traditional to Jinsu.
Ko: ๋ง์ผ ์คํ ๋ ์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The day of the market opening approaches.
Ko: ์ค๋น๋ ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์งํ๋ผ ๋ณด์์ง๋ง ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ด ์ผ์ด๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The preparations seem to be proceeding smoothly, but suddenly there is a power outage.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ๋๋ ์ด๋์ ๊ณ , ๋ง์ผ์ ์นจ๋ฌต ์์ ๋น ์ ธ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค.
En: That day, the sky was also dark, and the market fell into silence.
Ko: ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ค๋งํด ๋์๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Visitors started to leave, disappointed.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ธด๊ธํ๊ฒ ๊ฒฐ๋จ์ ๋ด๋ ค์ผ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinsu had to make an urgent decision.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏผ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ฅ์์ ๋ง๋ ์ ํต ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ์๊ฐํด๋์ต๋๋ค.
En: He thought of the traditional lanterns made in Minjae's workshop.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏผ์ฌ์๊ฒ ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ ๋์์ ์์ฒญํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: He rushed over to Minjae and asked for help.
Ko: ๊ณง ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ๋ฑ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๋ง์ผ์ ๋น์ถ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soon, colorful lanterns began to light up the market.
Ko: ์๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ฑ๋ถ ์๋์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ฐจ์ ๋ง์๋ ์ ํต ์์๋ค์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Under the lantern glow, many people started to enjoy warm tea and delicious traditional foods.
Ko: ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋๊ฐ ํ๋๊ฐ ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: It was a moment where tradition and modernity came together as one.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค, ์ง์๋ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋๊ฐ ์๋ก ๋ณด์ํ๋ฉด ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋์ด๋ค์ผ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์.
En: That night, Jinsu realized that complementing tradition with modern elements could attract more people.
Ko: ๋ฑ๋ถ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ฐํ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ํ๋๋ก ๋ชจ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The lanterns illuminated the darkness and brought everyone together.
Ko: ๋ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ค์ ๋์์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ตด์๋ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Those who had begun leaving returned, their faces full of smiles.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ง์, ํ์ง, ๋ฏผ์ฌ๋ ํจ๊ป ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์ ํต ๋ง์ผ์ ๋ง๋ค์์ต๋๋ค.
En: In this way, Jinsu, Hyejin, and Minjae successfully created a Christmas traditional market together.
Ko: ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ํต์ ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋์์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ ๋ง๋ฝํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Customers felt Korean tradition while simultaneously enjoying the delights of Christmas.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋์ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๋ธ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jinsu was grateful for discovering the harmony between tradition and modernity.
Ko: ์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ทธ ์์ ์๊ฒ ํฐ ๋ฐฐ์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: This experience was a great learning moment for him.
Vocabulary Words:
nestled: ์๋ฆฌ ์ก๋คvibrant: ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌexudes: ๋ฐ์ฐํ๋คfragrance: ํฅ๊ธฐnostalgia: ์ถ์ตvolunteer: ์์๋ด์ฌ์devoted: ์ด์ฌํpreserving: ๋ณด์กดshowcase: ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋คenthusiastic: ์ด์ ์ ์ธemphasize: ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋คartisan: ์ฅ์ธrecognition: ์ธ์ blend: ์ด์ฐ๋ฅด๋คextravagant: ํ๋ คํproceeding: ์งํpower outage: ์ ์ urgent: ๊ธด๊ธํlanterns: ๋ฑ๋ถilluminated: ๋น์ถ๋คcomplementing: ๋ณด์harmony: ์กฐํattract: ๋์ด๋ค์ด๋คmoment: ์๊ฐsuddenly: ๊ฐ์๊ธฐdisappointed: ์ค๋งํsmoothly: ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒdecorations: ์ฅ์urgently: ๊ธด๊ธํ๊ฒdelicious: ๋ง์๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Capturing Timeless Moments at Wintry Gyeongbokgung
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ฒจ์ธ์ด ๊น์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Winter was deepening.
Ko: ํ์ฅ ์ง๋ถ ์๋ก ๋์ด ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ์์ฌ ์์๋ค.
En: Snow was piling up layer by layer on the hanok roof.
Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์์ธ์ ํ๋์ ์ธ ํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๋์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ์ ํ ํ์จํจ์ ์์๋ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Gyeongbokgung contrasted with Seoul's modern landscape, exuding a unique tranquility.
Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ๊ถ๊ถ ์ฃผ๋ณ์๋ ์ฐ๋ง ์ฅ์๋ค์ด ๊ฑธ์ณ์ ธ ์์์ผ๋ ์ ํต์ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋ณํจ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Around the palace, year-end decorations were hung for Christmas, yet the weight of tradition remained unchanged.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ฌ์ง๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ์ด๊นจ์ ๋ฉ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: Minji arrived at Gyeongbokgung with her camera bag slung over her shoulder.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ก์ง์ฌ์์ ๋ณด๋ธ ์๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ํํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
En: She had to complete an assignment given by the magazine company.
Ko: ํ๋์ ์ถ๊ณผ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ์๋ฒฝํ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ชฉํ์๋ค.
En: Her goal was to capture a perfect photograph that blended modern life and historical charm.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋ ์จ๋ ๊ฐํนํ๊ณ ๋ง๊ฐ ์๊ฐ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: However, the winter weather was harsh, and the deadline was quickly approaching.
Ko: ์์ฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ๋์ฑ ์์ฒญ๋ฌ๊ณ , ์ ํต์ ์ฅ์์ ์ฐ๋ง ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์๋ด๋ผ๋ ์๊ตฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ์๋ฐํ๋ค.
En: Her boss's expectations were immense, and the demand to capture a year-end atmosphere at a traditional site pressured her.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์์ง๋ง, ์ต๊ณ ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋์น๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Minji knew she was short on time, but she didn't want to miss the best moment.
Ko: ๋ง์์ ๊น์ ๊ณณ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ์ ๋ด๊ธธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์๋ค.
En: Deep in her heart, she believed that such a moment would be captured by her camera.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ์๋ผ๋ ๋ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋ค.
En: So she decided to stay a little longer.
Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์ ๋์๋ณด๋ ์ค ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด์ ์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋ค.
En: While wandering around the palace, Minji heard someone's passionate voice.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์, ๊ถ๊ถ์ ์๋ด๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ณ ์๋ ์ง์์ ๋๋ค!
En: "Hello, I am Jisoo, your guide to the palace!"
Ko: " ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฏผ์ง์ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๋์๋ค.
En: The voice caught Minji's attention.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋ํ ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐฌ ์ผ๊ตด์ด์๋ค.
En: Jisoo's face was filled with a love for history.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ์์ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ถ๊ถ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํ ๋, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ๋งค๋ฃ๋์๋ค.
En: When he gestured to explain the structure of the palace, Minji was momentarily captivated by him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์๋ค.
En: It was at that moment.
Ko: ๋์ก์ด๊ฐ ์ง์์ ์ ์์ ๋ด๋ ค์์๋ค.
En: A snowflake landed on Jisooโs hand.
Ko: ํ์ ๋ ์์ ์ํฑ ๋์ ๋ถ์์์ด ์ ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๋น๋ฌ๋ค.
En: The red at the tip of his fingernails shone vividly against the white snow.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ ํฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ๋ค.
En: Minji swiftly pressed the shutter.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋, ๊ฒจ์ธ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ง์ ์กฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ์ฐฐ๋์๋ค.
En: That instant was a perfect blend of tradition and modernity, winter and the year-end.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ง์ ํ์ฌ๋ก ๋ณด๋๊ณ , ๊ณง ์๋ํฐ์๊ฒ ์นญ์ฐฌ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
En: Minji sent that photo to her company and soon received praise from her editor.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฐ๋ง์ ๋ฉ์ง ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ต๋๋ฅด์ง ์๊ณ , ์์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ด์๋ธ ์์ ์ ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ํ๋ค.
En: She took pride in having freely captured the delightful moments of the year-end in her photographs.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์์์ ์งง์ ์๊ฐ์ ํตํ์ฌ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ด ์ด๋์์๋ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์์์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: Minji realized through her brief moment at Gyeongbokgung that beauty could be discovered anywhere.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ์ฐ๋ง์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์์ ์ ์ผ์ ๋์ฑ ์๋์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ฌ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Now, with a sense of the year-end, she felt more proud of her work.
Ko: ๊ฐํน ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋๋ผ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์์์น ๋ชปํ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ค์๊ธ ๋ง์์ ์๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: She reminded herself once again that sometimes the most astonishing moments are found in unexpected places.
Ko: ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋์ด, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๊ฒจ์ธ ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๋ค.
En: Crossing the boundaries of tradition and modernity, Minji concluded her winter story with new discoveries.
Vocabulary Words:
deepening: ๊น์ด๊ฐ๊ณ piling up: ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ์์ฌcontrasted: ๋์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐexuding: ์์๋ด๊ณ trapped: ๋งค๋ฃ๋์๋คharsh: ๊ฐํนํgestured: ์์ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผswiftly: ์ฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌpressed: ๋๋ฅด๋คcapture: ๋ด๋คpraise: ์นญ์ฐฌastonishing: ๋๋ผ์ดunexpected: ์์์น ๋ชปํslung: ๋ฉ๊ณ assignment: ์๋ฌดblend: ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋คdeadline: ๋ง๊ฐ ์๊ฐexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋pressured: ์๋ฐํ๋คwandering: ๋์๋ณด๋คpassionate: ์ด์ ์ ์ธattention: ์ฃผ์captivated: ๋งค๋ฃ๋์๋คsnowflake: ๋์ก์ดvividly: ์ ๋ช ํ๊ฒblend: ์กฐํfreely: ์์ ๋กญ๊ฒrealized: ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋คastonishing: ๋๋ผ์ดdiscoveries: ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ - Mehr anzeigen