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Fluent Fiction - Korean: Harmony on Namsan: A Festival of Tradition and Teamwork
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ๊ฐ์์ ์ฐธ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Autumn in Seoul was truly beautiful.
Ko: ๋์ฝ์ด ํ๋ คํ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ๋ ๋จ์ฐ์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ทธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The colorful leaves on Namsan Mountain added to its charm.
Ko: ์ด๊ณณ ๋จ์ฐ ์์ธํ์์์๋ ํ๊ต ์ถ์ ๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๋ ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ฌ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: At Namsan Seoul Tower, students were gathering to prepare for the school festival.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์ ์ค์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Among them, the main character was Joon.
Ko: ์ค์ ์กฐ์ฉํ๊ณ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ํ์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Joon was a quiet and creative student.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ํ๊ต ์ถ์ ์์ ๋ฉ์ง ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๊ธฐํํ๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He wanted to plan a wonderful performance for the school festival.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ค์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ์ ๋ถ์กฑํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, Joon always lacked confidence.
Ko: ๋ํ ํ๋์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There was also a student named Hana.
Ko: ํ๋์ ์์ ๊ฐ ๋์น๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ์ด ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Hana was full of confidence and had strong leadership skills.
Ko: ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ํ๋์ ๋นํด ์์ถ๋๊ณค ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Compared to Hana, Joon often felt intimidated.
Ko: ์ค์ ์ ์น ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ค์ ์ดํดํ๋ฉฐ ์์ํด ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Joon's close friend, Minji, understood and supported him.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ง๊ธ ํ์ฐฝ ์ถ์์ด๋ผ ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ ๋ฐ๋นด์ต๋๋ค.
En: But since it was currently Chuseok, Minji was busy with her family's expectations.
Ko: ๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ง์ง ์์ ์ค์ ๋์ฑ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The mismatched schedules of the two friends caused Joon even more to worry.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๋ , ์ค์ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: One day, Joon made a decision.
Ko: "ํ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ๋ฉด ๋ ์ข์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ."
En: "If I work with Hana, we can create a better performance."
Ko: ์ค์ ํ๋์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด์ต๋๋ค.
En: Joon went to Hana to talk.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ค์๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ํธ์ด๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He opened up about the feelings he had been hesitant to share.
Ko: "๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋นํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด," ์ค์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "I'd like it if we prepared together," Joon said quietly.
Ko: ํ๋์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋๋์ง๋ง ์ค์ ์ง์ฌ์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Hana was a little surprised, but she felt Joon's sincerity.
Ko: "์ข์, ๊ฐ์ด ํ์," ํ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Sure, let's do it together," Hana replied with a smile.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํจ๊ป ์์ด๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ ๋๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They began to gather ideas together.
Ko: ํํธ, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ฉฐ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Meanwhile, Minji also found inspiration for the performance while spending time with her family.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ด๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ต๋ก ๋์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She returned to school with her idea.
Ko: "์ถ์์ ์ ํต์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ด๋จ๊น?" ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ์ ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "How about a performance showcasing the traditions of Chuseok?" Minji suggested.
Ko: ์ค, ํ๋, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ํจ๊ป ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ค๋นํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Joon, Hana, and Minji prepared the performance together.
Ko: ์ต์ ์ ๋คํด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์๋ก ํ๋ ฅํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They worked their hardest and collaborated with each other.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ์ํฌ๋ ์๋ฒฝํ๊ณ , ์๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Their teamwork was perfect, and they learned and grew together.
Ko: ์ถ์ ๋ , ๋จ์ฐ ์์ธํ์์๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: On the day of the festival, many people gathered at Namsan Seoul Tower.
Ko: ์ค์ ํ์ ํ๋์ ์ ํต์ ์ ์กฐํ์ํจ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Joon's team presented a performance that harmonized modernity and tradition beautifully.
Ko: ๊ด๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ธ๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The sound of the audience's applause echoed through the tower.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ์ค์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. "ํจ๊ปํ๋ฉด ๋ ํฐ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์์ด."
En: At that moment, Joon realized, "We can achieve greater things together."
Ko: ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ ํต์ ์งํค๋ฉฐ ๊ฟ์ ์ด๋ค์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋์ ํ์ ์ง์ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: In this way, Joon gained confidence, Minji fulfilled her dream while honoring her family's traditions, and Hana became the true leader of the team.
Ko: ์ด๋ค์ ๋ ๋์ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํด ๋๊ฐ๊ณ , ์์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฐ์์ ์ถ์ต์ ๋จ๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They grew into better versions of themselves and created unforgettable autumn memories.
Vocabulary Words:
autumn: ๊ฐ์charm: ๋งค๋ ฅfestival: ์ถ์ performance: ๊ณต์ฐconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐintimidated: ์์ถ๋๋คmismatched: ๋ง์ง ์๋คhesitant: ๋ง์ค์ด๋คsincerity: ์ง์ฌinspiration: ์๊ฐtraditions: ์ ํตcollaborate: ํ๋ ฅํ๋คteamwork: ํ์ํฌharmonize: ์กฐํ์ํค๋คapplause: ๋ฐ์echoed: ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋คrealize: ๊นจ๋ซ๋คachieve: ์ด๋ฃจ๋คfulfill: ์ด๋ฃจ๋คhonoring: ์งํค๋คversions: ์์ unforgettable: ์์ง ๋ชปํ quiet: ์กฐ์ฉํ๋คcreative: ์ฐฝ์์ ์ด๋คplan: ๊ธฐํํ๋คdecision: ๊ฒฐ์ฌsuggested: ์ ์ํ๋คprepare: ์ค๋นํ๋คgather: ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ค๋คstudent: ํ์ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Turning Phone Time to Bonding Time at the Aquarium
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์ด๋์ด๋ ๋ , ์งํ์ ์์ค์ ์์กฑ๊ด์ ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: On a day when the autumn wind was gently blowing, Jihoo and Seoyoon went to the aquarium.
Ko: ์ด์น๋ฌ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ์ ์กฐ๋ช ์ด ์์กฑ๊ด ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋น์ถ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The entrance was lit by lights as bright as a crescent moon.
Ko: ์์ ๋ค์ด์๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Inside, many families bustled about.
Ko: ์๋ก ๋ฑ์ฅํ ์ ์ํ๋ ํ๋๊ฒ ๋น๋๊ณ , ํํ์์์ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์กฐ๋ฅผ ํค์์น๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ง์น ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: The newly unveiled exhibition glowed a brilliant blue, and the sight of colorful fish swimming in the tanks looked almost magical.
Ko: ์งํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ค ์๋ฌผํ์ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์ํ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋๋๋ค.
En: Jihoo loves marine biology and had been looking forward to this exhibition.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ๋ํ ์งํ์ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ, ์์ค์ ์ค๊ณง ํด๋ํฐ๋ง ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Unlike the excited Jihoo, Seoyoon was glued to his phone the entire time.
Ko: โ์์ค์, ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฌผ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ ๋?โ ์งํ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์์ง๋ง, ์์ค์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ง ์์๋ค.
En: "Seoyoon, want to check out the other creatures?" Jihoo asked, but Seoyoon didn't lift his head.
Ko: ์์ฌ์์ด ๋๊ปด์ง๋ ์๊ฐ, ์งํ๋ ์ข์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค.
En: Sensing a missed opportunity, Jihoo had a great idea.
Ko: โ์์ค์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ ํ ๊น?โ ์งํ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: โSeoyoon, how about we do a little mission?โ Jihoo asked with a smile.
Ko: ์์ค์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ์งํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ดค๋ค.
En: Seoyoon looked up at Jihoo.
Ko: โ๋ฌด์จ ๋ฏธ์ ์ธ๋ฐ?โ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ์ด ์๋ฆฐ ์ผ๊ตด์ด์๋ค.
En: "What kind of mission?" he asked with a face filled with anticipation.
Ko: โ์ ์๋ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ํ๋์ฉ ๋ง๋๋ณด๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋์๊ฒ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ์๋ ค์ค๊ฒ. ์ด๋?โ ์์ค์ ๋ง์ง๋ชปํด ๋์ํ๋ค.
En: "Let's find the fish on display and meet them one by one. Iโll tell you some fun facts about each fish. What do you think?" Seoyoon reluctantly agreed.
Ko: ๋์ ์ ์ํ ์ค์์ ์์นํ ์ฐํธ์ด ํฑํฌ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: They arrived at the coral reef tank, which was located in the center of the exhibition.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ํนํ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ค.
En: It was particularly beautiful.
Ko: ์์ค์ ๋์ด ๋ฐ์ง์๋ค.
En: Seoyoon's eyes sparkled.
Ko: โํ, ์ ๊ธฐ ์๋ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ญ์ผ?โ ์์ค์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ์์ ๋งค๋ฃ๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: "Hyung, what kind of fish is that?" Seoyoon asked, seemingly captivated by the variety of colors.
Ko: ์งํ๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ค๋ช ์ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Jihoo smiled and began to explain.
Ko: ์์ค์ ์ ์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํ๋ค.
En: Seoyoon started asking more and more questions.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์์ค์ ์ฐํธ์ด ํฑํฌ ์์์ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ค.
En: Jihoo and Seoyoon spent a long time in front of the coral reef tank.
Ko: ์์ค์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์์กฑ๊ด์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: It seemed like Seoyoon was truly starting to appreciate the aquarium's charm.
Ko: ์งํ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฟ๋ฏํจ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: Jihoo felt a sense of pride inside.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๊น์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: He felt their connection deepening.
Ko: ์ด์ ์งํ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ๋ ๋ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: Jihoo resolved to engage more creatively with his family in the future.
Ko: ์์กฑ๊ด์ ๋์๋ฉฐ, ์์ค์ ์งํ์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. โํ, ์ค๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์์ด. ๋ค์ ์ค์!โ
En: As they left the aquarium, Seoyoon said to Jihoo, โHyung, today was so much fun. Let's come again!โ
Ko: ์งํ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ก ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
En: Jihoo replied with a smile.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ ๊น์ด ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์์ง ์ฑ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The two headed home, feeling a deeper connection, and their heavy worries seemed lighter.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ค ์๋ฌผ์ ๋ํ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋ ์์ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ์๊ฐ์ด ์งํ์๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์๋ฏธ๋ก ๋จ์๋ค.
En: The time spent with Seoyoon, who had developed a love for marine life, held great meaning for Jihoo.
Vocabulary Words:
autumn: ๊ฐ์crescent: ์ด์น๋ฌbustled: ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ unveiled: ๋ฑ์ฅํmagical: ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์marine biology: ๋ฐ๋ค ์๋ฌผํglued: ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ mission: ๋ฏธ์ reluctantly: ๋ง์ง๋ชปํดcoral reef: ์ฐํธ์ดsparkled: ๋ฐ์ง์๋คcaptivated: ๋งค๋ฃ๋charm: ๋งค๋ ฅresolved: ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋คcreatively: ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธanticipated: ๊ธฐ๋๋๋คopportunity: ๊ธฐํanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐfascination: ํฅ๋ฏธremarkable: ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๋งํengage: ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋คdeepening: ๊น์ด์ง๋appreciate: ๊ฐ์ํ๋คexhibition: ์ ์ํreluctant: ๋ง์ง๋ชปํbright: ๋ฐ์unveiled: ๊ณต๊ฐ๋connect: ์ฐ๊ฒฐattachment: ์ ์ฐฉcontemplate: ์ฌ์ฌ์๊ณ ํ๋ค -
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Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Sip of Joy: Hyunsoo's Chuseok Coffee Quest
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์๋ ๋๋ญ์์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฌ๋ฅด๋ฅด ๋จ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Outside the window, leaves were gently falling in the autumn breeze.
Ko: ์ปคํผ ๋ก์คํฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค.
En: Inside the coffee roastery, it was warm.
Ko: ๊ตฌ์ํ ์ปคํผ ํฅ์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: The air was filled with the rich aroma of coffee.
Ko: ๋๋ฌด ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ๋๋ผ์ ์ปคํผ๊ฐ ์ง์ด๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: On the wooden shelves, coffees from various countries were displayed.
Ko: ํ์๋ ๊ธด์ฅ๋ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Hyunsoo stood with a tense expression.
Ko: ๊ณง ์ถ์์ด์๋ค.
En: Chuseok was approaching.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์๊ฒ ํน๋ณํ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌผํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: He wanted to gift his family a special coffee.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ปคํผ ์ข ๋ฅ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์๋ค.
En: However, there were too many types of coffee.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฌด์์ ๊ณจ๋ผ์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
En: He didn't know which one to choose.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ง์ฐ์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: Just then, Jiyeon approached.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ํน๋ณํ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋๋ก ๋์์ฃผ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: She was an expert who helped customers find special coffees.
Ko: "์๋ ํ์ธ์. ๋์๋๋ฆด๊น์?" ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: "Hello. May I help you?" she asked softly.
Ko: ํ์๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์ค์๋ค.
En: Hyunsoo hesitated for a moment.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ํ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋์์ ๋ฐ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: He didnโt usually seek others' help when making important decisions.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
En: But this time was different.
Ko: "๋ค, ๊ฐ์กฑ์๊ฒ ํน๋ณํ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌผํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ถ์ฒํด์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?"
En: "Yes, I want to gift my family a special coffee. Can you recommend one?"
Ko: ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Jiyeon nodded with a smile.
Ko: "๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ . ์ ๊ฐ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์."
En: "Of course. Let me introduce you to a few options."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ ์ปคํผ๋ฐฑ์ ๊บผ๋๋ค.
En: She took out a few coffee bags.
Ko: ๋์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ํํ๋ค.
En: The two of them tested various blends.
Ko: ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํฅ์ ๋งก๊ณ ๋ง์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: They brewed the coffee, smelled its aroma, and tasted it.
Ko: ํ์์ ์๋์๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๊ธฐ์ด์ด ๊ฐ๋์๋ค.
En: A gentle warmth spread through Hyunsooโs fingertips.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ง์ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค.
En: Jiyeon explained the harmony of different flavors.
Ko: ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ๋์ ๋ธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ๋ค.
En: Finally, they completed a blend.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊ตฌ์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ฌ์ฝคํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ์ด์ด ๊น์๋ค.
En: It was rich yet sweet, and had a profound aftertaste.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์ถ์์ ์ ์ทจ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: The flavor seemed to capture the essence of Chuseok.
Ko: ํ์๋ ๊ฐ์ด์ด ๋ฒ ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: Hyunsoo felt his heart swell.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ง์ฐ์ ํฅํด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์๋ค.
En: He bowed his head to Jiyeon.
Ko: "์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ปคํผ๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋ถ๋ช ๊ธฐ๋ปํ ๊ฑฐ์์."
En: "Thank you so much. My family will surely be delighted with this coffee."
Ko: ์ง์ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. ์ข์ ์ถ์ ๋ณด๋ด์ธ์."
En: Jiyeon replied with a smile, "Iโm glad too. Have a wonderful Chuseok."
Ko: ํ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒ๋ฅผ ๋์๋ฉฐ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: As Hyunsoo left the shop, he felt confident.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ปคํผ๋ฐฑ์ ๊ผญ ์ฅ์๋ค.
En: He held the coffee bag tightly.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ์ถ์์ ํน๋ณํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: This Chuseok would be special.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์ก๋ค.
En: He looked forward to the moments he would share with his family.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ดํ, ํ์๋ ๋ณํ๋ค.
En: After that day, Hyunsoo changed.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ ๋์์ด ํ์ํ ๋ ์ฃผ์ ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: He no longer hesitated to seek help when he needed it.
Ko: ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๊ณ , ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: He embraced new experiences and enjoyed collaborating with others.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ์ถ์, ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ์ฌํ ์ปคํผ๋ ๋จ์ง ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ์๋์๋ค.
En: This Chuseok, the coffee he would present to his family was more than just a beverage.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ง๋๋ ๊ธฐ์จ์ ๋ง์ด์๋ค.
En: It was the taste of joy created together.
Vocabulary Words:
gentle: ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ดaroma: ํฅ๊ธฐdisplayed: ์ง์ด๋์ด ์์๋คtense: ๊ธด์ฅ๋approaching: ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋คexpression: ํ์ hesitated: ๋ง์ค์๋คrecommend: ์ถ์ฒํ๋คblend: ๋ธ๋ ๋brewed: ๋ด๋ ธ๋คprofound: ๊น์aftertaste: ์ฌ์ดcapture: ๋ด๋คessence: ์ ์ทจdelighted: ๊ธฐ๋ปํ๋คconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐembraced: ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋คcollaborating: ํ๋ ฅbeverage: ์๋ฃrich: ๊ตฌ์ํshelf: ์ ๋ฐvarious: ๋ค์ํexpert: ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐintroduce: ์๊ฐํ๋คoptions: ์ต์ explained: ์ค๋ช ํ๋คharmony: ์กฐํswelled: ๋ฒ ์ฐจ๋คbowed: ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์๋คpresent: ์ ์ฌํ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chasing Dreams: Jiho's Journey of Self-Discovery in Jeju
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ์์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ค.
En: Autumn in Jeju was beautiful.
Ko: ํ๋์ ๋๊ณ ํ๋๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋์ ์ ์ ํ๋ค.
En: The sky was high and blue, and the breeze was cool.
Ko: ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ๋ ์ธ ์งํธ์ ๋ฏผ์๋ ํ๊ต์์ ๋ง๋ จํ ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ์์ ์๋ จํ์ ์ฐธ๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: Jiho and Minseo, in their final year of high school, participated in a spiritual retreat organized by their school in Jeju.
Ko: ์๋ จํ๋ ์ถ์์ ๋ง์ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ์ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: The retreat was specially held during Chuseok.
Ko: ๊ธฐ์์ฌ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ ์ง์น ๊ณ ๋ฑํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์์์ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: The mountains and sea viewed from the dormitory were like a sanctuary for the weary high school students.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊น์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Jiho gazed out the window, lost in deep thought.
Ko: ๊ณง ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌ ๋ํ ์ ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๊ฝ ์ฑ์ ๋ค.
En: The upcoming college entrance exams filled his mind.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋๋๋ก ์๋์ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ ๊น, ์๋๋ฉด ๊ฟ๊พธ๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ ํด์ผ ํ ๊น, ๊ณ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค.
En: Should he follow his family's expectations and go to medical school, or pursue the art he dreamed of?
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค.
En: He was constantly pondering.
Ko: ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ์ง๋ง, ์งํธ์ ๋ง์์ ์ข ์ข ๋ถ์ ์ก๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: His parents wanted him to become a doctor, but Jiho often found his heart drawn to the paintbrush.
Ko: "์งํธ์ผ, ๋ฐ๋ ์ข ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋๊ฐ๋?" ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Jiho, want to go out for some fresh air?" Minseo approached and asked.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋ฐ๊ณ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ์๋ค.
En: Minseo was a bright and positive friend.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋ฏผ์์ ์ด๋ฐ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ํญ์ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ํ๋ค.
En: Jiho always envied this aspect of Minseo's personality.
Ko: ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์ฒ๊ธธ์ ๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: The two friends began to talk as they walked along the forest path.
Ko: "๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ข์ํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์," ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "You really seem to love art," Minseo said.
Ko: "๋ ์ ๋ง ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์์.
En: "You're really good at it.
Ko: ๊ณ์ ์๊ฐ ์ค์ด์ผ?
En: Are you still thinking about it?
Ko: ์์ ์ ๋งํ ๋๋ก ๋ฏธ์ ํ ๊ฑด์ง."
En: Whether to keep pursuing art as you mentioned before?"
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊น์ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค.
En: Jiho let out a deep sigh.
Ko: "๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์.
En: "That's why I'm more confused.
Ko: ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ .
En: My parents want me to become a doctor.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋... ๊ฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด."
En: But sometimes... I just want to paint."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Minseo nodded quietly.
Ko: "๋๋ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ด ๊ธฐ๋ํ์๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ณตํ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ค์ํด.
En: "My parents have expectations too, but I think it's more important for us to be happy.
Ko: ์ง๊ธ ์ถ์์ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ์์งํ๊ฒ ๋งํ ๊ธฐํ์์."
En: It's Chuseok now, and it's a chance to speak honestly with family."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค ์ถ์ ์์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป, ํน๋ณํ ์ถ์ ์์์ด ์ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: That night, after the festival meal, a special Chuseok ceremony was held.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ๋ฐค ํ๋์๋ ๋ฌ์ด ํํ๊ฒ ๋น๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The moon shone brightly in the Jeju night sky.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๋ฏผ์์ ๋ง์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: With a trembling heart, Jiho recalled Minseoโs words.
Ko: ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ ํ, ์งํธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ง์ฌ์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: After the meal, Jiho decided to express his true feelings to his family.
Ko: ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ ์์ ์์ ์์งํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋ถ๋ชจ๋, ๋ฏธ์ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
En: Standing before his parents, he spoke candidly, "Mom, Dad, I want to do art.
Ko: ์์ฌ๋ณด๋ค๋ ํ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์."
En: I'd rather be an artist than a doctor."
Ko: ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ๋๋๋ค.
En: His parents were surprised.
Ko: ํ๋์ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ์ด์ด์ก๋ค.
En: Silence lingered for a while.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ด ์ด๋จธ๋๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋ค๊ฐ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค๋ฉด ์์ํ ๊ฒ."
En: But soon, his mother smiled and said, "If you're happy, we'll support you."
Ko: ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๋ฉฐ ์งํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ๋ค.
En: His father nodded, encouraging Jiho as well.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋จ๊ฒ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌผ์ ํ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Jiho shed tears of gratitude.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ง์ง์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: He was thankful for his family's support.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ฟ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์๋ค.
En: He found the courage to pursue his dream.
Ko: ์ด์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ํ๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ ๋ค.
En: Now, his heart felt lighter.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ์ ํ๊ณ , ๋ฌ๋น์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค.
En: The breeze was still cool, and the moonlight was warm.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ์์ ์งํธ์๊ฒ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์๋ฏธํ๋ค.
En: Autumn in Jeju signified a new beginning for Jiho.
Vocabulary Words:
autumn: ๊ฐ์breeze: ๋ฐ๋participated: ์ฐธ๊ฐํ๋คspiritual: ์์ retreat: ์๋ จํdormitory: ๊ธฐ์์ฌsanctuary: ์์์ฒgazed: ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐupcoming: ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌentrance exams: ์ ์pondering: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋คexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋paintbrush: ๋ถenvied: ๋ถ๋ฌ์ํ๋คpursuing: ์๊ฐ ์ค์ด์ผconfused: ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์expectations: ๊ธฐ๋candidly: ์์งํ๊ฒlingered: ์ด์ด์ก๋คgratitude: ๊ฐ์ฌencouraging: ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ๋คgratitude: ๊ฐ์ฌcourage: ์ฉ๊ธฐsignified: ์๋ฏธํ๋คtrembling: ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋brightly: ํํ๊ฒthankful: ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋คdecided: ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋คshed: ํ๋ ธ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Sujin's Resolve: Pursuing Dreams Against Family's Odds
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ง์ ์ ์ฃผ์ ํธ๋ฅธ ํ๋ ์๋ ์์์๋ค.
En: Sujin stood under the blue sky of Jeju.
Ko: ํ๊ฐ๋ก์ด ๋งค๋ฏธ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ค์ค๊ณ , ์ ์ฃผ์ ํน์ ํ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์พํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: The leisurely sound of cicadas filled the air, and Jeju's distinctive breeze pleasantly wrapped around her hair.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์จ์ ๊น์ด ๋ค์ด๋ง์๋ฉฐ, ๋์์ ํผ์ณ์ง ์์ฐ์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ๊ฐํํ๋ค.
En: She breathed deeply, marveling at the natural beauty unfolding before her eyes.
Ko: ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ๊ณผํ ์ฌํ์ผ๋ก ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ผ์ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์์ ์๋ค.
En: She had come to Hallasan National Park with her friends for a high school science trip.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ ์ผ์ธ ์์ ์ ํญ์ ์์ฐ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ๋ ํน๋ณํ ๊ธฐํ์๋ค.
En: This field class was a special opportunity for someone like her, who had always been interested in nature.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์์ง์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๋ณต์กํ๋ค.
En: However, Sujin's mind was complicated.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ํ๊ณ ํด์ ์๋ฌผํ์๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ง์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
En: Although she loved nature and wanted to become a marine biologist, her family wanted her to have a stable career.
Ko: ๋ณํธ์ฌ ๋๋ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
En: They wished for her to become a lawyer or a doctor.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋์ ์์ ์ ๊ฟ ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ๊ฒช๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Sujin was conflicted, torn between her parents' expectations and her own dreams.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: Just then, Minu approached her.
Ko: "์์ง์, ๋ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ค ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ง?" ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์ฅ๋์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์์๋ค.
En: "Sujin, are you thinking about the ocean again?" Minu asked teasingly with a smile.
Ko: "๊ทธ๋, ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ผญ ํด์ ์๋ฌผํ์๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ," ์์ง์ด ๋๋ตํ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ก์ ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์์๋ค.
En: "Yes, someday I'll definitely become a marine biologist," Sujin replied, to which Minu shook his head and laughed.
Ko: "ํ๋ด."
En: "Hang in there."
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ง์ด ์น์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ๋์ฉ ๊ทธ์ ์ฅ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค์๋ค.
En: Sujin found Minu's words kind, but sometimes his teasing shook her confidence.
Ko: ์์ ์ด ์์๋์, ์ ์๋๊ป์ ์ผํ์ ์ด๋๊ณ ์ฐ๊ธธ์ ์๋ดํ๋ค.
En: When the class began, the teacher led the group along the mountain path.
Ko: ํ๋ผ์ฐ์ ์ ์ฅํ ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ์ ๋น๋ก์ด ์ฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ํ์ ์คฌ๋ค.
En: The grandeur of Hallasan and the mystical forest gave her strength.
Ko: ์์ ์ด ๋๋ ํ, ์์ง์ ์ ์๋๊ณผ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด๋ค.
En: After the class ended, Sujin spoke with her teacher.
Ko: "์ ์๋, ์ ์ ๋ง๋ก ํด์ ์๋ฌผํ์๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
En: "Teacher, I really want to become a marine biologist.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๋ํ์ธ์."
En: But my family opposes it."
Ko: ์ ์๋์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ง์ ์ด์๋ค. "์์ง์, ๋ค ์ธ์์ด๋๊น ๋ค ๊ฟ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ผ ํด.
En: The teacher nodded quietly and continued, "Sujin, it's your life, so you should pursue your dreams.
Ko: ์ด ์์ฐ์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ์งํค๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํด."
En: Preserving the beauty of nature is very important too."
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ์์ง์ ํฐ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์๋ค.
En: Those words gave Sujin great courage.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ๋ผ์ฐ ์์์ ๋ด๋ ค๋ค๋ณด์ด๋ ๋ฉ์ง ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ๊ตณํ๋ค.
En: She looked once more at the magnificent scenery from the top of Hallasan and resolved firmly.
Ko: ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ, ์์ง์ ๋ ์ด์ ์์ ์ ๊ฟ์ ์จ๊ธฐ์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: On the way back, Sujin decided not to hide her dream anymore.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐค, ๋ฌ๋น์ ๋น์น ๋ฐ๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์์ง์ ์ด๋ก๋น ๊ฟ์ ํ์๋ค.
En: During the night of Chuseok, under the moonlit sea, Sujin embraced her green-tinged dreams.
Ko: ๊ฐ์กฑ์๊ฒ ์์งํ๊ฒ ์์ ์ ๋ง์์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ง์ ๋จน์๋ค.
En: She made up her mind to honestly convey her feelings to her family.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: She chose to trust her own voice.
Ko: ์ด์ ์์ง์ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
En: Now, Sujin was ready.
Ko: ๊ฟ์ ํฅํด ์ฒซ ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋์ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
En: She was ready to take the first step toward her dream.
Vocabulary Words:
leisurely: ํ๊ฐ๋ก์ดbreeze: ๋ฐ๋distinctive: ํน์ ํmarveling: ๊ฐํํ๋คunfolding: ํผ์ณ์งcomplicated: ๋ณต์กํ๋คstable: ์์ ์ ์ธconflicted: ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ๊ฒช๊ณ ์์๋คteasingly: ์ฅ๋์ค๋ฝ๊ฒconfidence: ์์ ๊ฐgrandeur: ์ ์ฅํmystical: ์ ๋น๋ก์ดopposes: ๋ฐ๋ํ์ธ์pursue: ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ผ ํดpreserving: ์งํค๋courage: ์ฉ๊ธฐmagnificent: ๋ฉ์งresolved: ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ๊ตณํ๋คmoonlit: ๋ฌ๋น์ ๋น์นembraced: ํ์๋คconvey: ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋กhonestly: ์์งํ๊ฒtrust: ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋กleisurely: ํ๊ฐ๋ก์ดmarine biologist: ํด์ ์๋ฌผํ์opportunity: ๊ธฐํmountain path: ์ฐ๊ธธteacher: ์ ์๋voice: ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌchuseok: ํ๊ฐ์ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Moonlit Connections: A Heartwarming Tale at Chuseok Festival
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Ko: ํ๋์ด ๋ ธ๋๊ณ ๋ถ์ ๋จํ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์์ง ๊ฐ์๋ฐค, ๋จ์ฐ๊ณต์์ ์ถ์ ์ถ์ ๋ก ํ๊ธฐ์ฐผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: On an autumn night filled with yellow skies and red leaves, Namsan Park was bustling with the Chuseok festival.
Ko: ์ถ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋ฐํ๊ณ , ์ ํต ์์ ๋งค๋์์ ๋ฌ์ฝคํ ์กํธ ๋์๊ฐ ํ๋ฌ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Festival lanterns lit up the darkness, and the sweet scent of songpyeon wafted from the traditional food stalls.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ถ์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๊ณ , ๊ณต์ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์์๋ ์์์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: People enjoyed the festival performances, and the sound of laughter filled the park's every corner.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๋ฐ๋นด๋ ์ผ์์ ์ ์ ์๊ณ ์ด๊ณณ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon came here to momentarily forget his busy routine.
Ko: ์ง์ฅ์์์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ด๋๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He wanted to escape the stress of work.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฌ๋ง์ด ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He was looking forward to the moon-viewing event.
Ko: ๋ฌ๋น ์๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ์์ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ์๊ฒ๋ ํฐ ํด์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Sitting quietly under the moonlight was a great source of relaxation for him.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ก์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ถ์ ํ์ฅ์ ์ฐพ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: On the other hand, Mina came to the festival site seeking inspiration as an artist.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ค์ผ์นํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ง์๋จน์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She decided to sketch various people and landscapes.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ํตํด ์๋ก์ด ์ํ์ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She wanted to prepare new works through her drawings.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ , ๋ง๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ ๋ง์์ด ๊ธํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, she struggled to find inspiration easily, and the approaching deadline made her anxious.
Ko: ์ค๋๋ง์ ์์ ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์งํ์ ์ถ์ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Enjoying his first bit of freedom in a while, Jihoon wandered around the festival.
Ko: ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ฅธ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฌ๋ง์ด ํ์ฌ ์ฅ์๋ก ํฅํ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: As he relished the bright and unique sights, he headed to the moon-viewing event location.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋, ํ๋ คํ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๊ทธ์ ๋๊ธธ์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: At that moment, a painting with vibrant colors caught his eye.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์์์๋ ๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: In front of the painting, Mina was focused as she captured scenes of people.
Ko: ์งํ์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ฐฌ์ฐฌํ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon cautiously approached to take a closer look at Mina's artwork.
Ko: ๋ฏธ๋์ ์์ ๋ถ์ฃผํ๊ฒ ์์ง์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ณ ์ ๋ผ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Her hands moved busily, and her eyes were fixed on the figures in her painting.
Ko: ์งํ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋น ์ ธ์๋ ๋์, ์ค์๋ก ๋ฏธ๋์ ํ๊ฟ์น๋ฅผ ์ด์ง ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค.
En: While Jihoon was absorbed in the artwork, he accidentally bumped Minaโs elbow slightly.
Ko: ๋ฏธ๋๋ ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Startled, Mina looked up.
Ko: "์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค." ์งํ์ด ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค. "์ ๋ง ๋ฉ์ง ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด๋ค์."
En: "Sorry," Jihoon said. "Your painting is really amazing."
Ko: ๋ฏธ๋๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค. "๊ณ ๋ง์์. ์์ง ์์ฑ ์ ์ด์์."
En: Mina smiled softly and replied, "Thank you. It's not finished yet."
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: They naturally fell into conversation.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ์์ํ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์งํ์ด ์ ํด์ค ๊ณต์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํจ๊ณผ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon imagined the stories of the people in Mina's painting, and Mina felt the warmth and charm of the park that Jihoon described.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ฉฐ, ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์๋ก์ ํ์ฌ์ ์ ์ ํธ์ํด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: As they shared these stories, they grew increasingly comfortable in each other's company.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ๋ฌ์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ฝ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Under the moonlit sky, they made a promise.
Ko: ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๊ณ , ์๋ก์ ์ผ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ง์ ๋๋ค.
En: They agreed to meet again and inspire each other's lives.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๋ฏธ๋์๊ฒ์ ๊ธด์ฅ์ ํ๊ณ ํ๋ณต์ ๋ค์ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋๋ ์งํ์ ํตํด ์ฌ๋๋ค ์์์ ์๋ก์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Jihoon learned from Mina how to relax and find happiness again, while Mina discovered new stories among people through Jihoon.
Ko: ๋ฌ๋น ์๋ ๋์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณต์์ ๊ฑธ์ด ๋๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Smiling at each other, they walked out of the park under the moonlight.
Ko: ์๊ธฐ ๋์น๋ ๋จ์ฐ๊ณต์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ถ์ ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ ์ด์ ์ธ๋กญ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The vibrant Namsan Park was still filled with the festival's energy, but they no longer felt lonely.
Ko: ์๋ก์ด ์ฐ์ ์ ์์ ํน์ ๊ทธ ์ด์์ด ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
En: It was a moment shared that marked the beginning of a new friendship, or perhaps something more.
Vocabulary Words:
autumn: ๊ฐ์bustling: ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌlanterns: ๋ฑ๋ถwafted: ํ๋ฌ๋์ค๋คroutine: ์ผ์escape: ํ์ถํ๋คrelaxation: ํด์inspiration: ์๊ฐsketch: ์ค์ผ์นํ๋คlandscapes: ํ๊ฒฝstruggled: ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถํฌํ๋คdeadline: ๋ง๊ฐ ๊ธฐํanxious: ๋ถ์ํwandered: ๋์๋ค๋๋คrelished: ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋คcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒabsorbed: ๋ชฐ๋ํ๋คelbow: ํ๊ฟ์นstartled: ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๋คamazing: ๋๋ผ์ดfinished: ์์ฑ๋imagine: ์์ํ๋คcharm: ๋งค๋ ฅcomfortable: ํธ์ํmoonlit: ๋ฌ๋น ์๋์friendship: ์ฐ์ vibrant: ์๊ธฐ ๋์น๋momentarily: ์ ์figures: ์ธ๋ฌผcapture: ํฌ์ฐฉํ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Reunion: Mending Bonds in the Heart of Seoraksan
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Ko: ๊น๊ณ ํธ๋ฅธ ์ฐ์ด ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ์์์ธ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ณ ์ฆ๋ํ ์ค๋๋ง.
En: A tranquil cabin surrounded by deep blue mountains.
Ko: ์ค์ ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ํน๋ณํ๋ค.
En: The autumn of Seoraksan is always special.
Ko: ์จํต ๋ถ๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ๋จํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฒ๊ธธ์ ๋ง์น ๋ํ ์ ํ ์ฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The forest path, painted entirely in red and yellow foliage, looks like a scene from a fairy tale.
Ko: ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋์ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋๋จธ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ฐ์ ๋ง์์ ๊น์ ๊ณณ๊น์ง ๋ง์ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ด๋ฃ๋๋ค.
En: The mountains visible through the cabin's large windows bring a breath of fresh air to the depths of one's heart.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ค๋๋ง์ ์ด๊ณณ์ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฆด ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo visited this place after a long time, planning to reconnect with childhood friends.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค ํ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ค์ด์๋ค.
En: One of them was Minjun.
Ko: ์์ธ์์ ์ผ์์ ์น์ด๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ๋๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋๋ผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ ์ ์ ๋ธํด์ก๋ค.
En: Life in Seoul was hectic, gradually diminishing her contact with friends.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ถ์์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋ฉด์ ์ด๋ฆด ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ์๋ก์๋ก ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค.
En: However, with Chuseok approaching, memories with childhood friends began to resurface.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ด๋ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Jisoo deeply longed to see them.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์นซ ํ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ๋ ๋ง์ ํ์ผ ์ ์ง๋๋ ๋ค.
En: And, somewhat anxiously, unresolved past tensions weighed on her heart.
Ko: ์ถ์ ์ฐํด ์ฒซ๋ , ์ง์๋ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ฒค์น์ ์์ ์ปคํผ ํ ์์ ๋ง์๋ฉฐ ์ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: On the first day of the Chuseok holiday, Jisoo arrived at the cabin and sat on a warm bench, sipping coffee while gazing at the mountains.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๊ฑธ์ด์๋ค.
En: At that moment, Minjun approached from a distance.
Ko: "์ค๋๋ง์ด์ผ, ์ง์์ผ," ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ํํ ์์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: "It's been a while, Jisoo," Minjun greeted with a bright smile.
Ko: ๋ค๋ฅธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๋ ํ๋๋์ฉ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด๋ค.
En: Other friends arrived one by one, exchanging smiles as they greeted each other.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋จ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Yet, a subtle tension lingered.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋จน๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ๋ฌ์ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: They cooked and ate together, watching the Chuseok night sky's moon.
Ko: ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ๋์, ์ง์๋ ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ ๋๋ด๋ ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅด์ง ์์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๋งด๋์๋ค.
En: During their conversations, the inappropriate words shared between Jisoo and Minjun lingered in her mind.
Ko: ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์์ ์๋จนํ ๋ํ ์ดํ ์๋ก์ ๋ง์์ ๋ฒฝ์ ์ ์ ๋์์ก๋ค.
En: Since their awkward exchange, an invisible wall between their hearts had gradually grown taller.
Ko: ๋ค์ ๋ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ฑ ์ ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: The next day, they went for a hike.
Ko: ์ฐ์ ์ ์์๋ ๋์ ์ ๋ง๋๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
En: At the top of the mountain was a wide viewing platform.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์ง์๋ ๋ง์์ ์ง์ ๋ด๋ ค๋๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: As they looked at the scenery, Jisoo decided to let go of her emotional burdens.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ์ข ํ ์ ์์๊น?" ์ง์๊ฐ ์ ์ ์ด์๋ค.
En: "Can we talk?" Jisoo spoke up.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์นซํ๋ค.
En: The friends paused for a moment.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์ค, ๊ทธ๋ ์ผ. ๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ฏธ์ํด," ์ง์๋ ๋ง์์ ๊น์ ๊ณณ์ ์นํ ์๋ ๋ง์ ๊บผ๋๋ค.
En: "Minjun, about what happened back then. I'm really sorry," Jisoo finally voiced what had been weighing heavily on her heart.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ ์ ๋์ ๋จธ๋ญ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ด. ์๋ก ์๋ชป ์ดํดํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์. ๋ฏธ์ํด."
En: After hesitating for a moment, Minjun replied, "I felt the same. I think we misunderstood each other. I'm sorry too."
Ko: ๋ค๋ฅธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๋ ์์ ๋ค์ ์๋ง์์ ๊บผ๋๋ค.
En: Other friends also started to share their honest feelings.
Ko: ์ค๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋ค๊ณผ ์คํด๋ค์ด ํ๋์ฉ ํ๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Long-standing concerns and misunderstandings gradually unraveled.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ ์์ ์ก๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: They held each other's hands and laughed together.
Ko: ์ฐฌ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์ด์ง ๋ถ์์ง๋ง ๋ง์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค.
En: Although the cool breeze gently blew, their hearts felt warm.
Ko: ์ค๋๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋์์จ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํจ๊ป ์ ๋ ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
En: Returning to the cabin, they prepared dinner together.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๊ฐ์ ์์ด ํจ๊ป ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์๋ ์์์ ๋๋ด๋ค.
En: This time, they laughed and shared delicious food without hidden feelings.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค, ์ง์๋ ์นจ๋์ ๋์ ๊ณฐ๊ณฐ์ด ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: That night, lying in bed, Jisoo pondered deeply.
Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ํธ์ด๋ด๊ณ ํ์ฌ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: She felt grateful for the ability to shed past wounds and enjoy the present moment.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋๋ ค์ํ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Jisoo was no longer afraid.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ถ์ต ์์์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ณตํ๋ค.
En: As she forged new beginnings from memories with her friends, she felt genuinely happy.
Ko: ๊ฐ์ ๋จํ์ฒ๋ผ ํ์ฑํ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ค์ ํผ์ด๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Like the abundant and warm autumn foliage, their friendship blossomed anew.
Vocabulary Words:
tranquil: ๊ณ ์ฆ๋ํcabin: ์ค๋๋งsurrounded: ์์์ธ๊ณ foliage: ๋จํvisible: ๋ณด์ด๋reconnect: ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ๋กhectic: ๋ฐ์diminishing: ๋จ๋ฉ์ก๋คresurface: ์๋ก์๋ก ๋ ์ฌ๋๋คlonged: ๊ฐ์ ํanxiously: ์์นซunresolved: ํ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์tensions: ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐsipping: ๋ง์๋ฉฐapproached: ๊ฑธ์ด์๋คgreeted: ์ธ์ฌํ๋คsubtle: ๋ฏธ๋ฌํlinger: ๋จ์ ์์๋คinappropriate: ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅด์ง ์์awkward: ์๋จนํinvisible: ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋burdens: ์งhesitating: ๋จธ๋ญ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋คunraveled: ํ๋ ค๊ฐ๋คconcerns: ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋คgently: ์ด์งforged: ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐblossomed: ํผ์ด๋๊ณ abundant: ํ์ฑํshed: ํธ์ด๋ด๊ณ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rekindling Ties: A Sibling Reunion at Haeundae Beach
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ํด๋ณ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ๋ถ๋ณ๋ค.
En: The beach was bustling with people.
Ko: ํด์ด๋์ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐผ๋ค.
En: Summer in Haeundae was always lively.
Ko: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์ฐ์๋ค์ด ์์ ์ ์ฐ์ฃผํ๊ณ , ๋ง์๋ ์์ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ค๋ ค ์๋ค.
En: Street performers played music, and the delicious smell of food wafted through the air.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ฌ๋๋ค ์ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง๋์น๋ฉฐ ํ ์์ ์์ด์คํฌ๋ฆผ์ ๋ค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Minjun was making his way through the crowd, holding an ice cream in one hand.
Ko: ํด๋ณ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ทธ๋ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค.
En: Every time he went to the beach, he felt happy.
Ko: ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ํน๋ณํ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์๋ค. ์ค๋๋ง์ ์ฌ๋์ ํ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
En: This time, there was a special reason: he was going to meet his younger sister Hana for the first time in a long while.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ ํ๋๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ค.
En: Minjun and Hana had been close in their childhood.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ํ๋๋ ์ธ๊ณ ์ฌํ์ ๋ ๋๋ฉด์ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ด ์ค์ด๋ค์๋ค.
En: However, after Minjun started working at his company and Hana embarked on a world tour, their communication had dwindled.
Ko: ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ถ์ ์ด๋ฉด์ ์คํด๋ ์์ด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: As they led different lives, misunderstandings began to accumulate.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณตํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Nonetheless, Minjun still thought about Hana and wanted to repair their relationship this time.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ๊ฐ ํด๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ๋ถ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Minjun took a week off and went to Busan.
Ko: ๊น์ง์ผ๋ก ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์๋ค.
En: He planned to surprise Hana by finding her.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ํด๋ณ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์์ ์ปคํผ์์์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
En: He waited for her in a small cafรฉ near the beach.
Ko: ํ๋๊ฐ ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ธด์ฅ๋์๋ค.
En: Imagining Hana's arrival, Minjun felt nervous.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ด์๋์ง ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ ์ ์์๊น?
En: Would they be able to talk about how they'd been all these years?
Ko: ๋๋์ด, ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: At last, Hana appeared.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋ณด์๋ง์ ํํ๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ ค์๋ค.
En: The moment she saw Minjun, she beamed and ran over.
Ko: "์ค๋น !" ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ท์๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
En: "Oppa!" Her voice was louder than the sound of the sea.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ์์๋ค.
En: Minjun smiled and hugged her tightly.
Ko: ๋์ ํด์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: They started walking along the shoreline.
Ko: ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ณด๋ ํ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ธฐ์ต ์ ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ๋ง์ด ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
En: Seeing Hana after such a long time, she looked different from how Minjun remembered.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ชจํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
En: He wanted to hear about her adventures but didn't know how to start.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค, ํด์ด๋ ํด๋ณ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ด ์ถ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: That night, there was a fireworks festival at Haeundae Beach.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ ๋ง๋ค ํ๋์ ์ฌ๋ ค๋ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐํํ๋ค.
En: People looked up at the sky in awe.
Ko: ๋ถ๊ฝ์ ๋น์ด ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ ํ๋์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋น์ถ์๋ค.
En: The light from the fireworks illuminated Minjun and Hana's faces.
Ko: "์ค๋น , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ค๋ ๋จ์ด์ ธ ์์๋ ๊ฒ ์ด์ํด," ํ๋๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Oppa, it's strange how we've been apart for so long," Hana said.
Ko: "๋๋ ๊ทธ๋, ํ๋์ผ. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆด ๋ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์นํ๋์ง ๊ธฐ์ต๋?" ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
En: "I feel the same, Hana. Do you remember how close we were when we were young?" Minjun replied.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ธด ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ํ๋ ๋ค.
En: A long silence passed between them.
Ko: ๋ถ๊ฝ์ด ํ๋์ ๋ง์์ ๋๋ ค์์ ๋ น์ฌ์ฃผ์์๊น?
En: Had the fireworks melted away the fears in Hana's heart?
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋งํ๋ค, "๋ด ์ฌํ์ด ํญ์ ๋ฐ๋นด์ด. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ ์์ ์ ์ ์์ด."
En: She spoke, "I've always been busy traveling, but I've never forgotten you."
Ko: "๋๋ ์ผ์๋ง ๋งค๋ฌ๋ ค ์์์ด. ๋ ์ข ๋ ์ํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ด. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ค์ํ ๊ฑธ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด." ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ๋ค.
En: "I was always caught up in work, thinking I needed to do better. But in doing so, I lost something important," Minjun confessed.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋๊ธธ์ด ์๋ก์๊ฒ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ค.
En: Their gazes lingered on each other.
Ko: ์ด ์๊ฐ, ์คํด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
En: In that moment, all misunderstandings and distances disappeared.
Ko: ๋์ ํด๋ณ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ ์์ ์ง์ฌ์ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: They sat on the sand and shared their true feelings.
Ko: "์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ ์์ฃผ ๋ง๋์. ์๋ก์ ์ถ์ ๋๋์," ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Let's meet more often from now on. Let's share our lives," Minjun suggested.
Ko: "๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด, ์ค๋น . ์ค๊ฐ์์ ๋ง๋์," ํ๋๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "I want that too, oppa. Let's meet midway," Hana said with a smile.
Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊น์์๋ก ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ํ๋๋์ฉ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: As the night deepened, people gradually started heading home.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ ํ๋๋ ํด๋ณ์ ๋จ์๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ์์ ๋ฐ์๊ตญ์ ๋จ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ํจ๊ป ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: But Minjun and Hana stayed on the beach, leaving footprints in the sand as they walked together.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค.
En: The wind was still warm.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: They were now preparing for a new beginning.
Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์คํด๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ์ดํด๊ฐ ์๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Past misunderstandings had vanished, giving way to new understanding.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์์คํจ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๊ณ , ํ๋๋ ์๋ก์ ๋ค๋ฆ์ ์ธ์ ํ๋ค.
En: Minjun realized the importance of family, and Hana recognized their differences.
Ko: ๋์ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋งํผ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค.
En: They had grown as much as they had changed.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ๋์๋ฝ์์, ํด์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ ํ์ ์ ํํด๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: At the end of this summer, Haeundae's sea stood witness to the siblings' reconciliation.
Vocabulary Words:
bustling: ๋ถ๋ณ๋คlively: ํ๊ธฐ์ฐผ๋คwafted: ์ค๋ ค ์๋คembarked: ๋ ๋๋ฉด์dwindled: ์ค์ด๋ค์๋คmisunderstandings: ์คํดaccumulate: ์์ด๊ธฐnerveous: ๊ธด์ฅ๋์๋คbeamed: ํํ๊ฒshoreline: ํด์fireworks: ๋ถ๊ฝ๋์ดilluminated: ๋น์ถ์๋คlouder: ๋ ํฌ๊ฒignorant: ๋ฌด์งํconfessed: ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ๋คshared: ๋๋์๋คfootprints: ๋ฐ์๊ตญreconciliation: ํํดstreet performers: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์ฐ์๋คcafรฉ: ์ปคํผ์adventures: ๋ชจํfestive: ์ถ์ gleamed: ๋ฐ์ง์๋คchilly: ์์ํrecognize: ์ธ์ ํ๋คlead: ์ด๋ฉด์reveal: ๋ฐํ๋คhesitant: ๋จธ๋ญ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋คconsistent: ์ผ๊ด๋distant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Traditions and Friendship: A New Semester's Promise
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ํ๋์ด ์ ์ ๋ถ์ด์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ด์.
En: The sky began to turn redder.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ๋๋๊ฐ๊ณ , ๊ฐ์์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๊ณ ์์์ด์.
En: Summer was ending, and autumn was approaching.
Ko: ๋ํ๊ต ์บ ํผ์ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋จํ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋์ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋ญ์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ท์ ๋ฟ์์ด์.
En: The university campus was filled with the colors of fall leaves, and the sound of leaves rustling in the wind reached their ears.
Ko: ํ์๋ค์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ถ์ง๋ฐํ ์์ง์๊ณ , ์บ ํผ์ค๋ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ์ด์.
En: Students were busily moving with the start of the new semester, and the campus was full of energy.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ์ฒซ๋ , ๊ฐ์์ค๋ก ํฅํ์ด์.
En: On the first day of the new semester, Jisoo headed to the lecture hall.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ณ ํฅ์์ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋จ์ด์ ธ ์ฒ์ ๋ํ๊ต ์ํ์ ์์ํ์ด์.
En: It was her first time starting college life far from her hometown.
Ko: ์ค๋ ์ง๋ง, ์ถ์์ ์๋๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ํ๋ ๋ง์์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ์ด์.
En: She was excited but also filled with longing for her family as Chuseok approached.
Ko: ๊ณ ํฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ, ๊ฐ์ด ๋ง๋ค๋ ์กํธ, ๋ชจ๋ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์์ด์.
En: She missed the warm atmosphere of her hometown, her family, and making songpyeon together.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ด๋ฏธ 2ํ๋ ์ด์์ด์.
En: Minjun was already a sophomore.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ง๋ ํ๊ธฐ ์ฑ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ง์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ์ด์.
En: He had been worried about his grades from the last semester.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฒ ํ๊ธฐ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฐ์ค๋ก ์์ํ์ด์.
En: However, he was determined to start this semester with a fresh mindset.
Ko: ํนํ ํ๊ต ์ ๊ท ํ์๋ค์ ๋์์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์์ด์.
En: He especially wanted to help the new students at school.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ง์๊ฐ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์ง ๋ชปํด ํค๋งค๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ์ด์.
En: Seeing Jisoo struggling to find her way, he approached her.
Ko: โ์ ๊ธฐ, ์ด๋ค ๋์ ํ์ํ์ธ์?โ
En: โExcuse me, do you need any help?โ
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ์, ๋ค! ๊ฐ์์ค ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์์ด์โฆ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๋์?โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ดค์ด์.
En: Startled, Jisoo responded, โOh, yes! I was looking for the lecture hallโฆ Is this the right place?โ
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ง๋ ์ฑ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, โ๋ค, ์ ๋ ๊ทธ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์ด์์! ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์,โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ด์.
En: Minjun looked at his map app and smiled, โYes, Iโm headed that way too! Letโs go together.โ
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํจ๊ป ๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ฒ ๋์์ด์.
En: As they walked together, the two naturally began to talk.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์ถ์์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์ ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์ฌํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํ์ด์.
En: Jisoo shared that with Chuseok coming up, she felt both excited and sad.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ง์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ณต๊ฐํ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ ์ํ์์ด์.
En: Minjun understood, having not seen his family for a long time either.
Ko: โ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ํ๊ต์์ ์ถ์ ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ ค์. ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋์?โ ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ์ ์ํ์ด์.
En: โThis weekend, the school is holding a Chuseok event. Would you like to join me?โ Minjun suggested.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ง์ค์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์ ์์ด ๊ฝค ์ข๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ด์.
En: Jisoo hesitated but thought it was a good idea.
Ko: ์ถ์์ ๋ง์ ์บ ํผ์ค๋ ๋์ฑ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋์ณค์ด์.
En: In celebration of Chuseok, the campus was even more lively.
Ko: ํ์ํ๋ ์ ํต ์์์ ์ ๊ณ , ๋ค์ํ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต ๋์ด์ ์์์ ์ค๋นํ์ด์.
En: The student council dressed in traditional attire and prepared various Korean traditional games and foods.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ ์กํธ๋ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒผ์ด์.
En: Jisoo and Minjun participated in the event, made songpyeon, and enjoyed games like jegichagi.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ , ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์์์ ์๋ก์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด์ด์.
En: That evening, the two sat down and shared their stories.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ์ถ์ต์ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์ ๋ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ์ด์.
En: Jisoo talked about her memories with her family, while Minjun talked about his worries and beliefs.
Ko: โ๋๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ํต์ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์์๋ ํ ์ ์์๊น?โ ์ง์๊ฐ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ ๋ฌผ์์ด์.
En: โI don't want to lose our traditions. Can we keep them alive here?โ Jisoo asked with concern.
Ko: โ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง! ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋ ์์ ์ ํต์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ์,โ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํ์ ์ ์ฐจ ๋๋ตํ์ด์.
En: โOf course! We create them ourselves. Even if it's just between us, let's continue our small traditions,โ Minjun replied confidently.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ ๋ง์์์์ ์๋ก์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์์ด์.
En: They found comfort and courage in each other's words.
Ko: ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๋๊ฐ ์ฆ์, ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ง์์๊ฒ ์์ ์กํธ์ ๊ฑด๋ค๋ฉฐ โ์ด๊ฑด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ด์ผ. ์ถ์์ด ๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ด ๋ง๋ค์. ๋จ์ด์ ธ ์์ด๋ ๋ง์์ ํจ๊ป์ธ ๊ฑธ๋ก,โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ด์.
En: As the event was winding down, Minjun handed Jisoo a small songpyeon and said, "This is the beginning for us. Let's make them together for Chuseok. Even if weโre apart, our hearts will be together."
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์์ด์. โ๊ทธ๋, ๋๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์. ์ด์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ก์ด.โ
En: Jisoo smiled and nodded. "Yes, it feels like I've found a new family here. I'm feeling a bit better now."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋ง๋ค์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ ํต์ด ์ ๋ง๋ค์ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ๋น๋ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ด์.
En: Hearing her words, Minjun realized that each culture and tradition can shine in its own place.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ด์ ๋ํ๊ต์์ ๋จ์ํ ๋๋ฃ๊ฐ ์๋, ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์์ํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋์์ด์.
En: Jisoo and Minjun were no longer just college acquaintances but warm friends who understood and supported each other.
Ko: ๊ฐ์์ ์์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํฌ๋ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ์ด์.
En: With the beginning of autumn, their new semester was filled with hope.
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semester: ํ๊ธฐrustling: ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋excited: ์ค๋ ๋คlonging: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ํ๋คhometown: ๊ณ ํฅapproaching: ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋คChuseok: ์ถ์warm atmosphere: ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐparticipated: ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋คtraditional: ์ ํตevent: ํ์ฌlecture hall: ๊ฐ์์คsophomore: 2ํ๋ determined: ๊ฐ์คstruggling: ํค๋งค๋คsuggested: ์ ์ํ๋คhesitated: ๋ง์ค์ด๋คcelebration: ๋ง์memories: ์ถ์ตbeliefs: ์ ๋ concern: ๊ฑฑ์ create: ๋ง๋ค๋คlively: ํ๊ธฐacquaintances: ๋๋ฃcomfort: ์๋กcourage: ์ฉ๊ธฐwinding down: ๋๋๊ฐ ์ฆ์songpyeon: ์กํธattire: ์์shine: ๋น๋๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blooming Bonds: A Tale of Friendship and Hope in Seoul
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ํ ์ฌ๋ฆ ๋ณ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ๋ถ๋ณ๋ค.
En: A summer hospital in Seoul was bustling with people.
Ko: ๋ฐ์๋ ์ฐ๊ฝ์ด ์ค์ง์ด ํผ์ด ์์ง๋ง, ๋ณ์ ์์ ๋๋ฐฉ์ด ์ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Outside, lotus flowers were in full bloom, but inside the hospital, it was well air-conditioned.
Ko: ๋ณ์์ ๋๊ธฐ์ค์์ ์งํธ์ ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋๋ํ ์์ ์์๋ค.
En: In the waiting room, Ji-ho and Min-seo sat side by side.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ง ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Ji-ho was waiting for his health check-up results.
Ko: ๋ง์์ด ๋ถ์ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Although his mind was uneasy, he quietly waited on the outside.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์งํธ์ ๋์น๋ฅผ ์ดํ๋ค.
En: Min-seo observed Ji-ho's demeanor.
Ko: ์งํธ์ ์ค๋ ์น๊ตฌ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฌ๋๋ค.
En: She had been friends with him for a long time, but this time was a bit different.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์์ ๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์๊พธ ์งํธ์๊ฒ ๋๊ธธ์ด ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Unconsciously, her gaze kept returning to Ji-ho.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ํ๋ค์ดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์จ ๋ง์ ํ์ง ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: She could sense his distress without him saying a word.
Ko: "์งํธ์ผ, ์์ฆ ๊ด์ฐฎ์?" ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ด๋ฉฐ์ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
En: "Ji-ho, have you been okay lately?" Min-seo asked softly.
Ko: โ์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์.โ ์งํธ๋ ์งง๊ฒ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋จ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: "Yeah, I'm okay," Ji-ho answered briefly. But his voice had a slight tremor.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ ๋ค. ๋ณ์ ๋๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ถ์ฃผํ๋ค.
En: Time passed. The hospital waiting room was still bustling.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์ด๋ค๋๊ณ , ์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋ค์ด ๋๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ค๊ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: People were rushing around, phones were ringing, and nurses moved back and forth across the room.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํธ๋ํฐ์ ํ์ธํ๋ค.
En: Ji-ho kept checking his phone repeatedly.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋์ด ์ ํ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
En: Finally, a call came through.
Ko: ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ด๋ค๊ณ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์นซํ ์งํธ๋ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ํตํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
En: Hesitating momentarily, Ji-ho picked up the phone and answered it.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์์ ์์๋ค.
En: Min-seo sat quietly by his side.
Ko: ํตํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ค์ ์ ์์์ง๋ง, ์งํธ์ ํ์ ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ง์ํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: She couldn't hear the conversation, but she could guess everything from Ji-ho's expression.
Ko: ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋์ ํ, ์งํธ๋ ๊น์ ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค. ๋๊ธธ์ ๋ฏผ์์๊ฒ ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
En: After ending the call, Ji-ho took a deep breath and turned his gaze to Min-seo.
Ko: "๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋์์ด," ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "The results are in," Ji-ho said.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋ฌต๋ฌตํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ ๋งํ ์ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์ค์ด์๋ค.
En: Min-seo waited silently, anticipating what Ji-ho would say.
Ko: "๋คํํ ์ฌ๊ฐํ์ง ์๋. ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด ์ข์์ง ๊ฑฐ๋." ์งํธ๋ ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์กฐ๊ธ์ ์์ฌ์ด ๋ฌป์ด ์์๋ค.
En: "Thankfully, it's nothing serious. With a little more care, it should improve," Ji-ho said. There was a hint of relief in his voice.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ์งํธ์ ์์ ์ก์๋ค. "์ ๋ง ๋คํ์ด๋ค, ์งํธ์ผ. ๋ ์ ๋ง ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ด."
En: Min-seo smiled and took Ji-ho's hand. "I'm really glad, Ji-ho. I was so worried about you."
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ๋๋ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์จ๊ฒจ ๋์๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ ๋ฏผ์์๊ฒ ํธ์ด๋์๋ค.
En: Ji-ho nodded. As he concluded, he confessed his hidden fears to Min-seo.
Ko: "์ฌ์ค ์ ๋ง ๋ฌด์์ ์ด. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋์ ๊น ๋ด."
En: "To be honest, I was really scared. Afraid that the results would be bad."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๋ฉฐ, "ํ๋ค ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ด ๋๋ ์ผ์ง. ๋๋ ํญ์ ๋ ์์ ์์๊ฒ."๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: Min-seo nodded sympathetically. "When things are tough, we should share. I'll always be by your side," she said.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์งํธ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ถ๋ด์ ๋๊ณ ๋ฏผ์์๊ฒ ๋ง์์ ์ด์๋ค.
En: In the end, Ji-ho relieved his heart's burden and opened up to Min-seo.
Ko: ์๋ก์ ๋ง์์ด ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก๋ค.
En: Their hearts grew closer to each other.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์์งํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ค.
En: Ji-ho learned how to rely on someone else.
Ko: ๋๋ก๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค์ํ์ง ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์์ ์ ์์ ๋ ์์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ๋.
En: He realized how important it is to lean on someone at times and that this person had always been by his side.
Ko: ๋ณ์ ๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋ฆ ํ์ด์ด ํํ๊ฒ ๋น์น๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Outside the hospital, the summer sun shone brightly.
Ko: ์ฐ๊ฝ์ด ๋์ฑ๋ ์๊ธฐ ์๊ฒ ํผ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: The lotus flowers bloomed more vibrantly.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๋ฏผ์์ ์์์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์๋ค.
En: Ji-ho smiled next to Min-seo.
Ko: ์๋ก์ด ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ์์๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: A new day was beginning.
Vocabulary Words:
bustling: ๋ถ๋น๋คbloom: ํผ๋คdemeanor: ๋์นuneasy: ๋ถ์ํ๋คtremor: ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋คhesitating: ๋ง์ค์ด๋คanticipating: ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋คrelief: ์์ฌconfessed: ํธ์ด๋๋คsympathetically: ๋์ ์ ์ผ๋กlean: ๊ธฐ๋๋คvibrantly: ์๊ธฐ ์๊ฒrely: ์์งํ๋คdistress: ๊ณ ํตconcluded: ๋๋ด๋คburden: ๋ถ๋ดunconsciously: ์์ ๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒgaze: ๋๊ธธaffection: ์ ์ momentarily: ์ ์nurses: ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋คimprove: ์ข์์ง๋คsense: ๋๋ผ๋คsympathize: ๊ณต๊ฐํ๋คintuitively: ์ง๊ด์ ์ผ๋กcheck-up: ๊ฒ์งfortunately: ๋คํํhidden: ์จ๊ฒจ์งquietly: ์กฐ์ฉํobserved: ์ดํผ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Facing Fears and Friendship: A Rocky Mountain Journey
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๋ง๊ณ ์ฒญ๋ช ํ ์ฌ๋ฆ๋ , ์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง, ํ์ ํ๊ต์์ ๋กํค ์ฐ๋งฅ์ผ๋ก ์ํ์ ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: On a clear and bright summer day, Jin, Minji, and Hyun set off from school on a field trip to the Rocky Mountains.
Ko: ์ฐ์ ์ฅ์ํ๊ณ ๊ดํํ๋ค.
En: The mountains were majestic and vast.
Ko: ํ๋๊ฒ ํผ์ณ์ง ํ๋ ์๋ ๋ น์ ์ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ธธ์ ํํ์ ์ค๋ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: The rugged path cutting through the green forest under the blue sky was filled with the excitement of exploration.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ง์ ๋ง์ ํ๊ตฌ์์ด ๋๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: However, in one corner of his heart, Jin felt a flutter of anxiety.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋์ ๊ณณ์ด ๋ฌด์์ ๋ค.
En: He was afraid of heights.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ๋ ๋งํ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: He hadn't told anyone.
Ko: ์ค๋์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋์ํค๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Today, he wanted to impress his friends.
Ko: ์ง์ ๊ณ์๋ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
En: Beside Jin was Minji.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ํญ์ ํ์ค์ ์ด๊ณ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ์ฒ ์ ํ๋ค.
En: Minji was always practical and thoroughly prepared.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ์ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: She looked at Jin with a concerned expression.
Ko: "๊ด์ฐฎ์? ๋๋ฌด ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด ์ ๋ผ," ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Are you okay? Don't push yourself too hard," Minji said.
Ko: ์ง์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Jin nodded with a smile.
Ko: "๊ด์ฐฎ์. ๋๋ ํ ์ ์์ด," ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
En: "I'm fine. I can do this," he replied.
Ko: ์ฐ์ ์ค๊ฐ์ฏค, ์ ์ ๊ธธ์ ๊ฐํ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
En: About halfway up the mountain, the path became increasingly steep.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ ์ด๋์ด๋ ๋ถ์ด์๊ณ , ์๋ค์ ์ง์ ๊ท์ด ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
En: A gentle breeze blew, and the chirping of birds could be heard.
Ko: ํ์ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด ์ฑ ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: Hyun walked on, feeling the heavy burden of responsibility.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ฌํ์ ๋ง์น๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
En: He hoped that all his classmates would finish the trip safely.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์๋ง์์์๋ ์ ์ ๋์์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ด์ ๋ด๋ ค๋๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Yet, deep down, he wished he could lay down that burden, if only for a moment.
Ko: ๋๋์ด, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ ๊ผญ๋๊ธฐ๋ก ํตํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐํ๋ฅธ ๊ธธ์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ค.
En: Finally, they reached the steepest path leading to the mountain's peak.
Ko: ์ง์ ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ์์ ๋จ์ด์ง์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Jin's feet seemed glued to the ground.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋์ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: He shut his eyes tightly.
Ko: "์ง!" ๋ฏผ์ง์ ํ์ด ๊ทธ์ ์์์ ์์ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Jin!" Minji and Hyun said, standing on either side of him.
Ko: "์ฒ์ฒํ ํด๋ ๋ผ. ๊ด์ฐฎ์," ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์กฐ์ฉํ ์์ญ์๋ค.
En: "You can take it slow. It's alright," they whispered gently.
Ko: ์ง์ ๊น๊ฒ ์จ์ ๋ค์ด๋ง์ จ๋ค.
En: Jin took a deep breath.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๊ฐ ๊ท์ ๋ฟ์๋ค.
En: His friends' encouragement reached his ears.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋์๋ค.
En: He cautiously took a step forward.
Ko: ํ ๊ฑธ์, ๋ ๊ฑธ์, ์์ ๋์ด ๋ฐฐ์ด๋๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: One step, then two, and although his hands were sweating, he kept walking.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์นจ๋ด, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค.
En: And finally, he reached the peak together with them.
Ko: ์ ์ ์๋๋ก ํผ์ณ์ง ๊ด๊ฒฝ์ ๋๋ผ์ ๋ค.
En: The view unfolding below the summit was breathtaking.
Ko: ๋๊ฒ ํผ์ณ์ง ๋กํค ์ฐ๋งฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๋๋จธ๊น์ง ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: They could see the expansive Rocky Mountains and beyond.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ์ด์ ๋น๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Everything was shining under the sunlight.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ, ์ง์ ์์ ์ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์์คํจ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: In that moment, Jin felt a small sense of accomplishment and realized the importance of his friends.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ง์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์์๊ณ , ํ์ ์จ์ ํ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Minji smiled at Jin, and Hyun fully enjoyed the moment.
Ko: ์ด ์ํ์ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์ค์ํ ๊ตํ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: This field trip left an important lesson for everyone.
Ko: ์ง์ ๋๋ ค์์ ์ง๋ฉดํ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ ํ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Jin gained confidence in facing his fears, Minji learned the power of friendship, and for the first time, Hyun appreciated the value of letting go and being part of a team.
Ko: ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ ์ดํดํ๋ฉฐ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋กํค ์ฐ๋งฅ์ ํ๊ฒฝ๋งํผ์ด๋ ํน๋ณํ๋ค.
En: The three friends laughed together, understanding one another more, in a friendship as special as the Rocky Mountain scenery.
Vocabulary Words:
majestic: ์ฅ์ํvast: ๊ดํํrugged: ๊ฑฐ์นflutter: ๋๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋คanxiety: ๋ถ์practical: ํ์ค์ ์ธthoroughly: ์ฒ ์ ํconcerned: ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ดincreasingly: ์ ์ steep: ๊ฐํ๋ฅธbreeze: ๋ฐ๋chirping: ์ง์ ๊ทburden: ๋ถ๋ดresponsibility: ์ฑ ์๊ฐreached: ๋๋ฌํ๋คtake it slow: ์ฒ์ฒํ ํด๋ ๋ผsteadfast: ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒaccomplishment: ์ฑ์ทจ๊ฐunfolding: ํผ์ณ์งexpansive: ๋๊ฒsummit: ์ ์breathtaking: ๋๋ผ์ดencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คlet go: ๋ด๋ ค๋๋คappreciate: ๋๋ผ๋คvalue: ๊ฐ์นfacing: ์ง๋ฉดํ๋understanding: ์ดํดspecial: ํน๋ณํ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Seoul's Reunion: Siblings Rediscover Family at Gyeongbokgung
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์์ธ์ ์ฌ๋ฆ ํ์ด์ด ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ฒ ๋น์ถ๋ ๋ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์ฌํ๊ฐ๋ค๋ก ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: On a day when the summer sun warmly shone down on Seoul, Gyeongbokgung Palace was bustling with tourists.
Ko: ์กฐ์ ์๋์ ์ ์ฅํ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ๋ค์ ์ง๊ธ๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ์๋ํ๋ฉฐ ์ ์๋ค.
En: The grand buildings from the Joseon Dynasty still proudly stood, showcasing their beauty.
Ko: ์ค๋์ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
En: Today was a special day.
Ko: ์ธ ๋จ๋งค, ์งํ, ์์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ค, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
En: The three siblings, Jihoon, Sooyoung, and Minjun, were meeting at Gyeongbokgung.
Ko: ์งํ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: Jihoon arrived first.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ถ๊ถ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊น์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Quietly walking around the palace, he became lost in deep thought.
Ko: ์ด๋ฆด ๋ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ์ดํผ์ผ๋ก ๋จ๋งค๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: After their parents divorced during childhood, the siblings were separated.
Ko: ์ด์ ๋ ์ฑ์ธ์ด ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋๋ก ๋ฌถ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Now an adult, Jihoon wanted to unite his family once more.
Ko: ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ง์์ ์๊ณ , ์งํ์ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ด ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: With a heavy heart, he saw Sooyoung coming from afar.
Ko: "์ค๋น !" ์์์ด ํ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒ ์์ ํ๋ค๋ฉฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: "Oppa!" Sooyoung cheerfully waved her hand and approached.
Ko: ์์์ ์ธ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ ์ฌ์ด์์ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ญํ ์ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด๊ฐ ํ๋ณตํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
En: She always played the role of mediator in the family, wishing everyone to be happy.
Ko: "์ค๋น , ์ค๋๋ง์ด์ผ!" ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์ ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: "Oppa, it's been a while!" she said with a bright smile.
Ko: "๊ทธ๋, ์ ๋ง ๋ฐ๊ฐ๋ค." ์งํ์ ๋ฏธ์๋ก ๋ตํ๋ค.
En: "Yeah, it's really great to see you," Jihoon replied with a smile.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ง์ ํํธ์๋ ์์ง ๋งํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์๋ค.
En: However, there was still an unspoken story lingering in a corner of their hearts.
Ko: ์กฐ๊ธ ํ, ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ข ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ๊ฑธ์ด์๋ค.
En: A little later, Minjun arrived, maintaining some distance as he walked over.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ฌป์ด ์์๋ค.
En: A hint of anxiety was visible on his face.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ด๋ฆด ๋๋ถํฐ ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ ์ด์๊ณ , ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ์ดํผ ํ๋ก ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Minjun had been independent from a young age and became even more distant after their parents' divorce.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํธํ์ง๋ง, ๋ง์์ ๊น์ด ์ด์ด์ง ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ํ๋ค.
En: Although he found comfort in distance, deep down, he longed for a connection.
Ko: "์๋ ." ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์งง๊ฒ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
En: "Hi," Minjun greeted shortly.
Ko: ํ๊ณผ ๋๋๋ ๊ทธ์ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๋ค. ์ด ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฏผ์ค์๊ฒ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค์ํ์ง ์๊ณ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค.
En: His siblings understood his demeanor, knowing how important this moment was to him.
Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์ ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ฉฐ, ์งํ์ด ๋จผ์ ๋ง์ ๊บผ๋๋ค.
En: Strolling through the palace gardens, Jihoon was the first to speak.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ... ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฒ ํด๋ณผ๊น?" ๊ทธ๋ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Shall we... talk about the past?" he said cautiously.
Ko: ์์์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Sooyoung nodded.
Ko: "๋ค, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ตํด์. ์๋น ์ ์๋ง๊ฐ ํญ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ์."
En: "Yes, we do remember those times. Dad and Mom always loved us."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์นซํ๋ค.
En: Minjun hesitated for a moment.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊น์ ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋๋... ๊ทธ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ด.
En: Taking a deep breath, he said, "Back then, everything was so confusing to me.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ํฌ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ด."
En: That's why I distanced myself from you both."
Ko: ์งํ์ ์ดํด์ ๋๋น์ผ๋ก ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Jihoon looked at his brother with understanding eyes.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํจ๊ปํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์์์.
En: "If we can't be together, the meaning of family is lost.
Ko: ์ด์ ๋ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด."
En: Now, I want us to understand each other."
Ko: ์์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ฒ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์์ ์ก์๋ค.
En: Sooyoung warmly took Minjun's hand.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ค์ ์์ํด๋ณด์. ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ํจ๊ปํด."
En: "Let's start anew. Family is always together."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์ ์ ๋ง์ค์ด๋ค๊ฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
En: Minjun hesitated briefly, then nodded.
Ko: "๋ฏธ์ํ์ด. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ง์. ๋๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ํ์ํด."
En: "I'm sorry. And thank you. I need family too."
Ko: ์ธ ๋จ๋งค๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ์ ์ ์์์ ๋ค์ ํ๋๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
En: The three siblings became one again in the beautiful gardens of Gyeongbokgung.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ง์์ ์ด์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๋์๊ฐ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์๋ค.
En: Their hearts were now ready to move beyond past wounds and towards the future.
Ko: ์๋ก์ ์์ ์ก๊ณ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ด ์์์ ์ฝ์ํ๋ค.
En: Holding each other's hands and smiling brightly, they promised a new beginning.
Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์ ์ฅํ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฌํ์ ํํด๋ฅผ ์ถ๋ณตํ๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: The magnificent architecture of Gyeongbokgung seemed to bless their reunion and reconciliation.
Vocabulary Words:
bustling: ๋ถ์ ์ด๋grand: ์ ์ฅํproudly: ์๋ํ๋ฉฐsibling: ๋จ๋งคdivorced: ์ดํผunite: ๋ฌถ๊ณ ์ถ๋คmediate: ์ค์ฌ์lingering: ๋จ์์๋anxiety: ๋ถ์๊ฐindependent: ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ demeanor: ํ๋strolling: ๊ฑฐ๋๋ฉฐcautiously: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒunderstanding: ์ดํด์reconciliation: ํํดmagnificent: ์ ์ฅํconfusing: ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ดdistant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋คcomfort: ํธํ๋คmediator: ์ค์ฌ์gesture: ์์งmurmur: ์์ญ์compromise: ํํblessing: ์ถ๋ณตhesitated: ๋ง์ค์ด๋คapproached: ๋ค๊ฐ์๋คdistant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋คprofound: ๊น์separated: ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด๊ฒ ๋์๋คpromise: ์ฝ์ํ๋ค -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Love and Craft: How Art United Two Souls in Insadong
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฆ๋ ์ธ์ฌ๋์ ํด๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ค์ , ์ง์ ๋ณต์กํ ๋ง์์ ์๊ณ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋์ฐ๋ค.
En: On a sunny summer morning in Insadong, Jin stepped onto the street with a mix of emotions.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ณง ์์ ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํด์ผ ํ์ง๋ง ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ด ํ์์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ด์๋ค.
En: He needed to prepare for an upcoming exhibition, but his mind had gone blank.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์๋ ์ธ์ฌ๋์ฒ๋ผ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๊ณณ์ด ๋ฑ์ด์๋ค.
En: In such moments, a lively place like Insadong was perfect.
Ko: ์ธ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ ํต ๊ณต์ํ๋ค์ด ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ฐํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์ง์ ์ด๊ณณ์์ ํน๋ณํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: The streets of Insadong were vibrant with traditional crafts, and Jin hoped to find some special inspiration there.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ชฝ์์๋ ์๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑท๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: On the opposite side, Soo was walking down the street.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ ์ ์ฐ์ ๊ดํ ์ฑ ์ ์ฐ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ์ธ์ฌ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๊ผญ ํํํด์ผ ํ ๊ณณ์ด์๋ค.
En: She was writing a book about Korean cultural heritage, and Insadong was a place she absolutely had to explore.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋์๊ธฐ์ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ ์ํ์ด ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: As she researched the history of pottery, she sought out the stories each piece held.
Ko: ์ง๊ณผ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ , ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋์๊ธฐ ์์ ์์์ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค.
En: Jin and Soo both stopped in front of a small pottery shop at the same time, on the same day.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ฐํ ๊ฐ์ ๋์๊ธฐ ์ํ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: They happened to stand before the same pottery piece.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋์๊ธฐ๋ ๊น์ ํ๋์์ ๋ ๊ณ , ๊ณ ์ํ ๊ฐ๋ฌผ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋ฌ๋ค.
En: The piece was a deep blue, shining like a tranquil river.
Ko: ๋์ ๋์์ ๊ฐํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฑ์๋ค.
En: They both uttered words of admiration simultaneously.
Ko: ์ง์ด ๋งํ๋ค. "์ด ๋์๊ธฐ๋ ์ ๋ง ์๋ฆ๋ต๋ค์. ์ด ํํ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ง ๋ ํนํด์."
En: Jin said, "This pottery is truly beautiful. The form and the color are really unique."
Ko: ์๋ ์จ์ต ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ตํ๋ค. "๋ง์์, ์ด ์ํ์ ์๋ง ์กฐ์ ์๋์ ์ํฅ์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๊ทธ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ์ ๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋ค์."
En: Soo smiled and replied, "Yes, it seems to have influences from the Joseon era. It's fascinating because I've been studying pottery from that period."
Ko: ์ง๊ณผ ์๋ ๋์๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Jin and Soo began discussing the pottery.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ์ง์์ ๊ฐ๋ช ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
En: They were impressed by each other's passion and knowledge.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์, ๋์ ๊ทธ ๋์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: As time passed, they decided to collaborate on a project centered around the pottery.
Ko: ์ง์ ์ด ์ํ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ก์ด ์ํ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์๋ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ฌ ์ฑ ์ ํฌํจํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
En: Jin would create a new piece inspired by it, and Soo would document the process to include it in her book.
Ko: ์๋ก๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์ง์คํ๋๋ก ๋๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊น์์ก๋ค.
En: As they helped each other focus on their respective projects, they naturally grew closer.
Ko: ์ง์ ์์ ์ ์ฐํ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ , ์๋ ์ง์ ์ฐฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์กด๊ฒฝํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: Jin learned from Soo's flexible approach, while Soo came to admire Jin's creativity.
Ko: ๋์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํตํ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด์์ด์๋ค.
En: Their collaboration through pottery exceeded their expectations.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ง์ ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์๊ณ , ์๋ ์ฑ ์ ์ถํํ๋ค.
En: Eventually, Jin successfully held his exhibition, and Soo published her book.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ฐ์์ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฐธ์ํ๋ฉฐ ์๋ก์ ์ฑ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ถํํ๋ค.
En: They attended each other's events, celebrating their achievements.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํจ๊ป ํ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์์ ์ธ์์ ํฌ๋ํฐ ์ ํ์ ์ด ๋์์์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: They realized that the time spent together had become a significant turning point in each of their lives.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ง๊ณผ ์๋ ์ธ์ฌ๋์์ ์์๋ ์ฐ์ ์ ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ ์์ผฐ๋ค.
En: Thus, Jin and Soo's friendship that began in Insadong blossomed into love.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ก์ ์ถ ์์ ๊น์์ด ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
En: They inspired each other and became deeply involved in each other's lives.
Ko: ๋์๊ธฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋จ๋จํ๊ณ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๊ด๊ณ์๋ค.
En: Their relationship was as solid and beautiful as pottery.
Vocabulary Words:
exhibition: ์ ์ํinspiration: ์๊ฐheritage: ์ ์ฐpottery: ๋์๊ธฐtranquil: ๊ณ ์ํadmiration: ๊ฐํunique: ๋ ํนํinfluences: ์ํฅfascinating: ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ดpassion: ์ด์ knowledge: ์ง์collaborate: ํ๋ ฅํ๋คcentered: ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํflexible: ์ ์ฐํapproach: ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์creativity: ์ฐฝ์๋ ฅexceeded: ์ด๊ณผํ๋คexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋achievements: ์ฑ์ทจsignificant: ํฌ๋ํฐturning point: ์ ํ์ blossomed: ๋ฐ์ ์์ผฐ๋คinvolved: ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋คsolid: ๋จ๋จํemotions: ๋ง์blank: ํ์์ง๋vibrant: ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ฐํ๊ณ ์๋crafts: ๊ณต์ํdocument: ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋คeventually: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Stormy Journey: Embracing Collaboration and Recognition
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊น์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: Jinwoo stared out the window, lost in deep thought.
Ko: ์์ธ์ ๋ฒํํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค, ๊ณ ์ธต ๋น๋ฉ๋ค์ด ์ฆ๋นํ ๋์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๊ทธ์ ์์ผ์ ๋ค์ด์๋ค.
En: The bustling corporate offices of Seoul, with skyscrapers lined up, filled his view.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ํ์ด์ด ์ฐฝ์ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋น์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ฌ๋ณด๋๋ค.
En: The hot summer sun reflected off the window, casting a warm light into the office.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ์์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์์ฐ์ด ์์ ์์๋ค. ์์ฐ์ ๊ฐ ํ์ฌ์ ์ ์ฌํ ์ง ์ผ๋ง ์ ๋ ์ธ์ฌ๋ก, ํญ์ ์๋ก์ด ์์ด๋์ด๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์์๋ค.
En: Seoyeon sat next to him, a newly recruited talent in the company, always brimming with fresh ideas.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ํํ์ฌ ๋ถ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ฅ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ ์ด์๋ค.
En: That day was the day they were to represent the company on a business trip to Busan.
Ko: ์ค์ํ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๋ฏธํ ์ด ์์ ๋์ด ์์๊ณ , ์์ฐ์ ์๋ก์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์ ์์ ์ค๋น ์ค์ด์๋ค.
En: An important business meeting was scheduled, and Seoyeon was preparing a new project proposal.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ง์ฐ๋ ์์ ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
En: On the other hand, Jinwoo felt as if his achievements were not being recognized.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ์ง๋ง, ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ๋ค.
En: Despite working hard, he felt unnoticed and weighed down.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ์์ฐ์ ์ ์์ด ์์ ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆด๊น ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ ๋์๋ค.
En: He was worried that Seoyeon's proposal might overshadow his efforts.
Ko: ๋ถ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์, ์ฌ๋ฆ ํญํ์ด ๋ชฐ์์ณค๋ค.
En: On the train to Busan, a summer storm raged outside.
Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๋น๋ฐ๋์ ๋ฌด์์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The rain and wind howled loudly.
Ko: ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋ ๋น๋ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ฆ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Because of the storm, the train was delayed.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ํ์จ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Jinwoo sighed.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์์ฐ์ ์ ์์ด ํ์ฌ์ ํฐ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์๋ค.
En: He knew Seoyeon's proposal would bring significant changes to the company.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์๋ ๊น ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: However, he was concerned that his contributions might be overlooked.
Ko: ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋์ฐฉํ ๋ถ์ฐ, ํ์์ค์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ค๋น๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: Finally arriving in Busan, the meeting room was already set up.
Ko: ํ์๋ ๊ณง ์์๋์๋ค.
En: The meeting soon began.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ ์์ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ฌป์ด๋ฌ๋ค.
En: Seoyeon confidently presented her proposal, her voice full of passion.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์์ด ํ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Jinwoo's heart wavered as he listened to her.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ์์ด๋์ด๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ช ํ๋ค.
En: It was clear that Seoyeon's ideas would greatly benefit the company.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์๋ค.
En: The moment of decision arrived.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค๊ฐ, ์์ฐ์ ์ ์์ด ์์ ์๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ต์ด ๋ ์ ์์์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: After a brief hesitation, Jinwoo realized that Seoyeon's proposal could also be beneficial to him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ์ผ์ด๋ ์์ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ์์ ์ ์ง์ง๋ฅผ ํ๋ช ํ๋ค.
En: He stood up and expressed his support for Seoyeon's ideas.
Ko: "์์ฐ์ ์์ด๋์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง์ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค."
En: "Seoyeon's idea will bring positive changes for our entire team. I will actively support it."
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ด ๋๋๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์ญ๊ฒ, ํ์์ค์๋ ์ฐฌ์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋ค.
En: As soon as he finished speaking, applause and praise erupted in the meeting room.
Ko: ํ์๊ฐ ๋๋ ํ, ์ง์ฐ๋ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ๋์ ๋ง์ฃผ์ณค๋ค.
En: After the meeting, Jinwoo met eyes with Seoyeon.
Ko: "๊ณ ๋ง์์, ์ง์ฐ ์จ. ๋๋ถ์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ ์ ์์์ด์." ์์ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๋ค ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Thank you, Jinwoo. I couldn't have succeeded without you," she said with a smiling face.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ก ํ๋ตํ๋ค.
En: Jinwoo returned her smile.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ํ์ํฌ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: He realized the importance of teamwork.
Ko: ํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ๋์ฑ ๋น๋๊ฒ ํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Cooperation could make individual efforts shine even brighter.
Ko: ์ด๋ ์ดํ ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ๋ง์์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
En: From that day on, Jinwoo became more open-minded about collaborating with others.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ํ๋ฃจ, ๋น๋ฐ๋์ ๋ซ๊ณ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ์์คํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๋์๋ค.
En: That summer day, the journey of the two, pushing through the storm, became a valuable experience for both.
Ko: ์ง์ฐ๋ ๋น๋ก์ ์ธ์ ์ ๋ฐ์๊ณ , ์์ฐ๊ณผ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํด์ก๋ค.
En: Jinwoo finally received recognition, and his relationship with Seoyeon grew much stronger.
Ko: ํ์์ค์ ๋์๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ๋์ ๋ ํฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๋์๊ฐ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์๋ค.
En: As they left the meeting room, the two were ready to move towards larger goals.
Vocabulary Words:
bustling: ๋ฒํํskyscrapers: ๊ณ ์ธต ๋น๋ฉ๋คreflect: ๋ฐ์ฌ๋๋คbrimming: ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจrepresent: ๋ํํ๋คproposal: ์ ์overshadow: ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋คstorm: ํญํraged: ๋ชฐ์์ณค๋คdelayed: ๋ฆ์ด์ง๋คsignificant: ํฐoverlooked: ๋ฌด์๋๋คpassion: ์ด์ wavered: ํ๋ค๋ ธ๋คbenefit: ๋์์ด ๋๋คhesitation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผsupport: ์ง์งapplause: ๋ฐ์praise: ์ฐฌ์ฌrecognition: ์ธ์ collaborating: ํ๋ ฅํ๋valuable: ์์คํexperience: ๊ฒฝํunnoticed: ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋weighed down: ๋ง์์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ดhowled: ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋คpassionately: ์ด์ ์ด ๋ฌป์ด๋๋คentire: ๋ชจ๋expressed: ํ๋ช ํ๋คcooperation: ํ๋ ฅ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Hidden Allergies and Friendship: A Day at the Flower Farm
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๊ฝ ๋์ฅ์ ์๊น์ ์ธ์์ ๋๋ค.
En: The flower farm is a world of colors.
Ko: ๋ฌด์ง๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๊ฝ๋ค์ด ๋ ๋๊น์ง ํผ์ณ์ ธ ์์ด์.
En: Beautiful flowers like a rainbow stretch out to the horizon.
Ko: ํ๋์ ํธ๋ฅด๊ณ ํ์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํฉ๋๋ค.
En: The sky is blue, and the sun is warm.
Ko: ํ๊ตญ์ ํด๋ฐฉ์ , ๋๋ ์น๊ตฌ ๋ฏผํธ์ ํจ๊ป ์ด๊ณณ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: On Korea's Liberation Day, I came here with my friend Minho.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ๋ถํฐ ๋์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ๋๋ค.
En: Minho and I have been friends since childhood.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ผํ๊ณ , ๋๋ ์๋ฌผํ์์ ๋๋ค.
En: Minho works here, and I am a botanist.
Ko: ๊ฝ๋ค์ ๋์ ์ด์ ์ด์ง๋ง, ๋ด ์์ ์จ์ ์ ์ด ํ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฝ๊ฐ๋ฃจ ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ค.
En: Flowers are my passion, but I have a hidden enemy within me: a pollen allergy.
Ko: ์์นจ๋ถํฐ ๋๋ ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ ์ง๋๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Since morning, I've been carrying allergy medication.
Ko: ๋ฌธ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ด์.
En: I thought it would be fine.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ , ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ํ์ ๋ชจ์ผ๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: I wanted to spend time with Minho and collect samples for my research.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ๋ด ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ซ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minho doesn't know about my allergy, so I didn't want to mention it.
Ko: ์ฒ์์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ฒฝํ์ด์.
En: At first, everything was perfect.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๊ณ , ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: We laughed and talked.
Ko: ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๊ฝ์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐํํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: We marveled at the beautiful flowers.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋ ์๋ก ๋๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฌ์์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: But as time went on, my nose started to itch.
Ko: ๋๋ฌผ์ด ๋์์ด์.
En: Tears came to my eyes.
Ko: ๋์ ์ํ๊ฐ ์ ํ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: My condition worsened.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผํธ์๊ฒ๋ ๋งํ์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Still, I decided not to tell Minho.
Ko: ๋๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: I kept enduring it.
Ko: ๊ตฌ์์ ํฌ๊ทํ ๊ฝ์ด ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: In the corner, I spotted a rare flower.
Ko: ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ๊ฝ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: It was exactly what I had been searching for.
Ko: ์ด ์๊ฐ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ์ด์.
En: I had been waiting for this moment.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋์ ๋์ ์ ์ ๋ถ์ด์ค๋ฅด๊ณ ์จ์ฌ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: But my eyes were swelling, and it became hard to breathe.
Ko: ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์์๋ ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ์ง๋ง, ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์๋ ์์ง์ด์ง ์์์ด์.
En: My mind was telling me to run, but my legs and heart wouldn't move.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๋ฏผํธ๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Eventually, Minho found me.
Ko: "์ง์์ผ, ๊ด์ฐฎ์?" ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ๊ฐ๋ํ ์ผ๊ตด๋ก ๋ฌผ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Jisoo, are you okay?" he asked with a worried look.
Ko: ๋๋ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: I shook my head vigorously.
Ko: "๊ฝ๊ฐ๋ฃจ... ๋ฏธ์ํด..." ๋ด ์ ์์ ๋์ค๋ ์๋ฆฌ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Pollen... sorry..." were the words that came out of my mouth.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ์ฌ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ฝ์ ๊ฑด๋ค์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minho quickly moved me to the shade of a tree and handed me water and medicine.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์ ์ฌ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: We rested for a while.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค. "๋งํ์ด์ผ ํด.
En: Minho looked at me and smiled, saying, "You should've told me.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ์์.
En: We're friends.
Ko: ๊ด์ฐฎ์."
En: It's okay."
Ko: ๋๋ ๋ฏธ์ํ ๋ง์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์๋๊ฐ์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: I felt a mixture of regret and relief.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ๋๋ ์ํ์ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์์งํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Thanks to Minho's help, I was able to safely collect the samples.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค์ํ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค.
En: And I learned an important lesson:
Ko: ๋๋ก๋ ์์ ์ ์ฝ์ ์ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ๋์์ ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐํ ์ ํ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .
En: sometimes, acknowledging your weaknesses and asking for help is the strongest choice you can make.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ ๊น์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: Our friendship grew deeper.
Ko: ํด๊ฐ ์ง๊ณ ๊ฝ ๋์ฅ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The sun set, and the flower farm remained beautiful.
Ko: ๋ด์ผ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ ์ด๊ฒ ์ฃ . ํ์ง๋ง ์ค๋ ํ๋ฃจ, ๋์ ๋ง์ ์์ ์ค๋ ๋จ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ์ก์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Tomorrow will be another day, but today will remain a lasting memory in my heart.
Vocabulary Words:
botanist: ์๋ฌผํ์horizon: ๋ ๋allergy: ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐmedication: ์ฝsamples: ์ํitch: ๊ฐ์ง๋ฌ์์ง๋คswelling: ๋ถ์ด์ค๋ฅด๋คbreathe: ์จ์ฌ๋คvigorous: ๊ฐํ๊ฒacknowledge: ์ธ์ ํ๋คweaknesses: ์ฝ์ shade: ๊ทธ๋regret: ๋ฏธ์ํจendure: ์ฐธ๋คrare: ํฌ๊ทํremained: ์ฌ์ ํhidden: ์จ์enemy: ์ passion: ์ด์ marveled: ๊ฐํํ๋คcondition: ์ํmixture: ํผํฉ๋ฌผrelief: ์๋๊ฐdiscovered: ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋คclimax: ์ ์ allergy medication: ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์ฝcollect: ์์งํ๋คsafe: ์์ ํ๊ฒmoment: ์๊ฐlesson: ๊นจ๋ฌ์ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Friendship in the Shadows of an Underground Bunker
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์งํ ๋ฒ์ปค์ ๋ฌธ์ด ์ฒ ์ปฅํ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ ธ๋ค.
En: The door of the underground bunker clicked open.
Ko: ํ๋น ํ ์ค ์๋ ๊ณณ, ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋ค์จ๊ณผ ๋์ค๋ ์จ์๋ฆฌ๋ง์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฑ์ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: It was a place devoid of any sunlight, filled only with the quiet sounds of breathing.
Ko: ์ง์น๋ ๋์ง์์ ๋น๋กฏํด, ์์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏผํธ๊ฐ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์น ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์บ ํ ์ค๋น๋ผ๋ ํ๋ ๋ฏ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ๋๋ ค ์๋ค.
En: The area where Jisoo Jiwon, Sujin, and Minho gathered looked as if they were preparing for a full-fledged camp, with items scattered here and there.
Ko: ์ง์ง์์ ๋ง์์ ๋ถ์์ ์ก์ผ๋ ค๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Jiwon wanted to gather various things to quell the anxiety in his heart.
Ko: ์นจ์ฐฉํ๊ฒ ๋ชฉ๋ก์ ๊บผ๋ด๋ฉฐ "์ฐ๋ฆฌ, ์ค๋นํ ๊ฒ ๋ง์.
En: He calmly took out a list and murmured, "We have a lot to prepare.
Ko: ๋น์์๋, ๋ฌผ, ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ, ์๊ธ์ฒ์น ์์..." ํ๊ณ ์์กฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ง์งํจ์ด ์๋ ธ๋ค.
En: Emergency food, water, batteries, first aid kit..." His face bore a serious expression.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์์ง์ ์์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์ง ์๊ณ "์ง๊ธ์ด '์ธ์์ ๋'์ด ์จ ๊ฑด ์๋์์.
En: However, Sujin maintained her smile, saying playfully, "It's not like the 'end of the world' has arrived.
Ko: ์กฐ๊ธ ํธํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด๋ด.
En: Try to think a little more relaxed.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ฒ์ปค์ ์์ผ๋๊น ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ง!" ํ๊ณ ์ฅ๋์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: We're in a bunker, so we're safe, right?"
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ์ง์์ ๋ง์์์์ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋ค.
En: At that moment, something burst inside Jiwon.
Ko: "์์ง, ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋๋ด๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋์ผ.
En: "Sujin, this isn't a joke.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ์ค๋นํด์ผ ํด.
En: We need to prepare seriously.
Ko: ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ค ์์์ด?"
En: Who could have known things would turn out like this?"
Ko: ์์ง์ ์ ์ ๋ง์ ์์๋ค.
En: Sujin was momentarily at a loss for words.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ง์ผ๋ณด๋ค ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. "์ง์, ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ค ์ค๋นํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ค์ํ์ง๋ง, ๋๋ฌด ๊ฑฑ์ ํ์ง ๋ง.
En: Watching them, Minho gently spoke, "Jiwon, it's important to prepare everything, but don't worry too much.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์๋ ์ด์ ๋ ์๋ก ๋๊ธฐ ์ํด์์ผ."
En: The reason we're here is to help each other."
Ko: ์ง์์ ์๊ฐ ์ค๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: Jiwon realized something profound at that moment.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ์ ๋ง์ ์ข ๋ ๊น์ด ์ดํด๋์๋ค.
En: Minho's words resonated deeply with him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ ํผ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋นํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ์์งํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: He had thought he had to handle everything on his own, but he could rely on his friends.
Ko: ๋ง์์ด ์ฐจ๋ถํด์ก๋ค.
En: His mind calmed.
Ko: ์ด์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ฐ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ๊ณํ์ ๋ค์ ์งฐ๋ค.
En: Now, the three of them took their places and reorganized their plan.
Ko: ํ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ์ณ๋๊ณ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๊ณจ๋๋ค.
En: They set aside what was unnecessary and selected what was important.
Ko: ์ง์ง์์ ์จ์ ๋ค์ด์ฐ๋ค.
En: Jiwon took a deep breath.
Ko: "๋ฏธ์ํด, ์์ง.
En: "I'm sorry, Sujin.
Ko: ๋์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ ํ์ํ์ด.
En: We needed your approach too.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ํ์ํด."
En: We all need each other."
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋ฏธ์์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ "๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๋๋ค์ ๋๋ดํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ!"๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: Sujin smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll joke again!"
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๋ ๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ธ๋ฉฐ "์ข์, ์ด์ ๋ค์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ์."๋ผ๊ณ ํ์๋ค.
En: With his arms around both friendsโ shoulders, Minho said, "Alright, let's move on to the next step."
Ko: ์งํ ๋ฒ์ปค์ ํ๋ฃจ๋ ์ ๋ฌผ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋์ฑ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํด์ก๋ค.
En: Though the day in the underground bunker faded away, their friendship grew stronger.
Ko: ์ง์ง์์ ๋ง์์ ๋ถ์์ ๋๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: Jiwon was grateful to have someone to share his inner anxieties with.
Ko: ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์๋ก์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ฉํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํ๋ ์๋์์ ๋ ํ๋์ ๋จ๋จํ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ์์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The three friends acknowledged and accepted each other's differences, building another solid bond under this sky.
Ko: ์ด๋ก์จ ๋ชจ๋ ์ค๋น๋ ์๋ฒฝํ์ง ์์๋, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ฌํ ์ ์์๋ค.
En: Thus, even if their preparations weren't perfect, they could feel reassured.
Vocabulary Words:
underground: ์งํbunker: ๋ฒ์ปคdevoid: ์๋quell: ์ก์ผ๋ ค๊ณ anxiety: ๋ถ์murmured: ์์กฐ๋ ธ๋คemergency: ๋น์batteries: ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌfirst aid kit: ์๊ธ์ฒ์น ์์serious: ์ง์งํจplayfully: ์ฅ๋์ค๋ฝ๊ฒburst: ํฐ์ ธ ๋์๋คprofound: ์ค๊ฐํ๋คresonated: ์ดํด๋์๋คrely: ์์งํ reorganized: ๋ค์ ์งฐ๋คset aside: ์ ์ณ๋๋คunnecessary: ํ์ ์๋acknowledged: ์ธ์ accepted: ์์ฉdifferences: ์ฐจ์ดsolid: ๋จ๋จํbond: ์ ๋reassured: ์์ฌfaded: ์ ๋ฌผ์grateful: ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋คinner: ๋ง์์calmly: ์นจ์ฐฉํ๊ฒmomentarily: ์ ์handle: ๊ฐ๋นํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Uniting Hearts: A Search for Family in the Korean DMZ
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ๋น๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฆ๋ , ํ๊ตญ ๋น๋ฌด์ฅ์ง๋์ ์์นํ ์ผ์ ๋ณ์์ ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: On a rainy summer day, the field hospital located in the Korean Demilitarized Zone was bustling with activity.
Ko: ์ฒ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๋์ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์งํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The tents swayed in the wind, and the ground was slippery with mud.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ์์๋ด์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ํ์๋ค์ ๋๋ณด๋๋ผ ๋ฐ์ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minjun, who was volunteering there, was having a busy day taking care of patients.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ค๋ ํ์ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ์์์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He stood quietly among friends who were like brothers to him.
Ko: ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์ ํ ์ผ ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ๋จ์ด์ก๋ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Deep in his heart, he harbored a longing to find his grandfather, who had been separated from the family.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ๋ง ์์๋ด์ฌ๋ฅผ ์์ํ ์ ์ฐธ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soyeon was a newcomer who had just begun volunteering there.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฏผ์ค๋งํผ ์ค๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์์์ง๋ง, ์ธ์์ ๋๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
En: Although she didn't have as much experience as Minjun, she was filled with a passion to help the world.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฌด์์ ํ ์ ์์์ง ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: She pondered over what she could do and wanted to find that purpose.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ ์๋ก์ ํฌ๋ง์ ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Her bright smile provided small comfort and hope to those around her.
Ko: ์ด๋ ๋ , ๊ฐํ ํญํ์ด ๋ค์ด๋ฅ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
En: One day, a strong storm hit.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ ๋์ฑ ๊ฑฐ์ธ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๊ณ , ๋ณ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ๊ธด์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The wind grew fiercer, and everyone in the hospital was tense.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์์ฐ์๊ฒ ์์ ์ ๋น๋ฐ์ ํธ์ด๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: At that moment, Minjun confided his secret to Soyeon in a careful voice.
Ko: "๋ด ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ถ์ด.
En: "I want to find my grandfather.
Ko: ์ ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ๋จ์ด์ก์ด.
En: We were separated because of the war."
Ko: "์์ฐ์ ๊น์ง ๋๋์ง๋ง, ๋ง์ ๊น์ด ๊ฐ๋๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soyeon was surprised but deeply moved.
Ko: "๋๋ ๋์ธ๊ฒ," ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: "Iโll help you," she said.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค ๋์ ๋ฌด์์ ์๋ก์ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: The two decided to act on their mutual trust.
Ko: ํญ์ฐ๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ณ์์ ํ์ชฝ ๊ตฌ์์ ์ค๋๋ ์๋ฅ๋ค์ ๋ณด๊ดํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ ์ฎ๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Amidst the pouring rain, they made their way to a storage area on one side of the hospital where old documents were kept.
Ko: ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋์ด์ง ๋ฏ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The two, swaying as if about to fall, looked around.
Ko: ๊ณง ์ด๋์ด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๊ตฌ์์ ์์ ์์๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๋ ์์ฌ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soon, they discovered small boxes piled up in a dark corner of the storage.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์์๋ค ์์๋ ํค์ด์ง ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ์ค๋ ์ธ์์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ํธ์ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ค์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Inside these boxes were letters and records exchanged over the years by separated families.
Ko: "์ฌ๊ธฐ์ผ!
En: "Here it is!"
Ko: " ์์ฐ์ด ์ธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soyeon exclaimed.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์์ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: With trembling hands, Minjun opened one of the boxes.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ๊ทธ๋ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ธ ์ค๋๋ ํธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Inside, he found an old letter sent by his grandfather.
Ko: ํธ์ง ์์๋ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์์ด ๋ด๊ฒจ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The letter was filled with his grandfather's love and longing.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๋ง์ ๊น์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ฒ ์ฐจ์ค๋ฅด๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋๊ผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minjun felt a surge of emotions deep inside.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋์ ํ์ด์จ ์ฌํ๊ณผ ๊ถ๊ธ์ฆ์ด ํ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๊ณ , ๋น๋ก์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He felt the sorrow and curiosity he had been harboring begin to unravel, and he could finally understand his family's history.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ํ์ฐจ๊ฒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: He nodded vigorously.
Ko: ์์ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏผ์ค์ ์์ ์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒผ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Soyeon stood next to Minjun, smiling, lost in thought.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฏผ์ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๊ณ , ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์๋ด์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ ์ด ์ํ๋ ๊ธธ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: She realized that helping people like Minjun and reuniting families was the path she wanted to follow.
Ko: ๋น๋ ๊ทธ์น์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ๋ณ์์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ง์ ์์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋น์ถ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: The rain did not stop, but the hospital's landscape reflected the new future that had taken root in their hearts.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์์ ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋๋ง ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ๊ตณ๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
En: They thanked each other and firmly resolved to make the world a bit brighter.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์์์ ์ฐพ์๊ณ , ์์ฐ์ ์์ ์ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minjun found peace for his family, and Soyeon found her path.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ ์๋ก์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์๋๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
En: A new story was now beginning for them.
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rainy: ๋น๊ฐ ์์์ง๋bustling: ์๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ต๋๋คtent: ์ฒ๋งslippery: ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ์ต๋๋คvolunteering: ์์๋ด์ฌ๋ฅผharbored: ํ์ด์จlonging: ๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ฐ๋newcomer: ์ ์ฐธ์passion: ์ด์ pondered: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ฉฐpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ storm: ํญํfiercer: ๊ฑฐ์ธ๊ธฐconfided: ํธ์ด๋์์ต๋๋คtentative: ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ดmutual: ์๋ก์trust: ์ ๋ขฐstorage: ์ฐฝ๊ณ swaying: ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐdocuments: ์๋ฅ๋คcorner: ๊ตฌ์discovered: ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋คrecords: ๊ธฐ๋ก๋คtrembling: ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋surge: ๋ฒ ์ฐจ์ค๋ฅด๋emotions: ๊ฐ์ unravel: ํ๋ฆฌ๋vigorously: ํ์ฐจ๊ฒresolution: ๊ฒฐ์ฌreflected: ๋น์ถ๊ณ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Perseverance in Permafrost: A Tale of Arctic Resilience
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์๋ํ ๋ถ๊ทน์ ํฐ๋๋ผ.
En: The distant tundra of the Arctic.
Ko: ์ฌ๋ฆ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ณ , ํด๋ ๋์์ด ์ํ์ ์์ ์๋ค.
En: Though it's summer, the wind is cold and the sun lingers endlessly on the horizon.
Ko: ๋๋์ ์ค์์ด ํผ์ณ์ง๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ์ ํ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ ๋ค.
En: A vast snowy field stretches out, still permeated by a chill.
Ko: ์ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค.
En: In the distance, Jin and Minji can be seen.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด๊ณณ์์ ๊ธฐํ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ด๋ค.
En: They are researchers studying climate change here.
Ko: ์ง์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ด๋ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ ์๋ค.
En: Jin is filled with a desire to achieve conclusive results from his research.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ํญํ์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐ์์ผฐ๊ณ , ์ง๊ธ ๊ทธ ์์ ์ผ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ํ์ค์ด ๋ฅ์ณ์๋ค.
En: However, a storm has delayed their efforts, and now a reality as cold as ice stands before him.
Ko: "์ง, ์ค๋์ ๋๋ฌด ์ํํด ๋ณด์ฌ.
En: "Jin, it looks too dangerous today.
Ko: ๊ธฐ์จ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ ๋ฎ์์ง๊ณ ์์ด," ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค.
En: The temperature is dropping rapidly," Minji said, her expression filled with concern.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ์์ง์ด ์์ง ๋ถ์กฑํด. ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง ์ ๋ณด๊ฐ ํ์ํด, ๋ฏผ์ง," ์ง์ ๋ฉ์ถ์ง ์๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ์ด ๋๊ฐ๋ค.
En: "We still lack data. We need this last bit of information, Minji," Jin replied, not stopping as he continued to walk forward.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ง์์ ๊น์ด ์์ ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฑ๊ณตํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ์๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: He was deeply burdened by the pressure that his research had to succeed.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ง๋ง, ์ง์ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ ์กด์คํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: Minji was confused but felt she had to respect Jin's resolve.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ค, ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋์ฑ ๋งค์ญ๊ฒ ๋ถ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์จ์ ๋ ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค.
En: Suddenly, the wind blew more fiercely, and the temperature plummeted further.
Ko: ์ง์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ์ผ์๋ฅผ ์ค์นํ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค.
En: While installing the data sensor, Jin felt his fingers losing sensation.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋์์ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: He had already developed frostbite.
Ko: "์ง!" ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์์์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ฆฌ์ณค๋ค.
En: "Jin!" Minji shouted, noticing his condition.
Ko: ์ง์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ๊ณ , ๋ชธ์ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ๋ฉ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Jin's face was pale, and his body couldn't stop trembling.
Ko: "์ฐ์ ๋์๊ฐ์ผ ํด. ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํด."
En: "We need to go back. Safety is the most important."
Ko: ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ, ์ง์ ๋ฌด๋์ก๋ค.
En: At that moment, Jin collapsed.
Ko: ํผ๋ก์ ์ถ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ก์ก์๋ค.
En: Exhaustion and cold had seized him.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ํ์ ์ก์๋ค.
En: Minji quickly approached and grabbed his arm.
Ko: "์ด์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฒ. ๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๋๋ง ๋ฏฟ์ด."
En: "I'll take you back now. Trust me."
Ko: ์บ ํ๋ก ๋์์ค๋ ๊ธธ, ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ง์ ๋ถ์ถํ๋ค.
En: On the way back to camp, Minji carefully supported Jin.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์๊ตญ์ ๋ ์์ ๊น๊ฒ ๋จ์๊ณ , ์จ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ผ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
En: Their footprints left a deep trail in the snow, and their breaths vanished into the ice-cold air.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ฌํ ๋ฒ ์ด์ค ์บ ํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: Eventually, they reached the base camp safely.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ฆ์ ์ง์ ๋์ ๋ถ์์ ์น๋ฃํ๋ค.
En: Minji immediately treated Jinโs frostbite injuries.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ฐจ ํ ์์ด ๊ทธ์ ์์ ์กํ์, ์ง์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "๊ณ ๋ง์, ๋ฏผ์ง.
En: As a warm cup of tea reached his hands, Jin nodded and said, "Thank you, Minji.
Ko: ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ํํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์์ด."
En: I was pushing it too far."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "๋ค์์๋ ํจ๊ป ์ธ์ฐ๋ ๊ณํ์ด ํ์ํด.
En: Minji replied with a smile, "Next time, we need a plan together.
Ko: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ์์."
En: Our safety is the most important."
Ko: ์ง๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์๋ก์ ์์ ๊ผญ ์ก์๋ค.
En: Jin and Minji tightly held each other's hands.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ค์ ์ฌํ์ ์ํด ๋ ๋์ ์์ ๊ณํ์ ์ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๋ค.
En: They resolved to come up with a better safety plan for their next expedition.
Ko: ์ด์ , ์ง์ ์์ ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ํด ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ง๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ์ดํดํ๋ค.
En: Jin now understood not to push himself too hard for his goals and grasped the importance of collaboration that Minji had emphasized.
Ko: ๋ถ๊ทน์ ๊ธด ์ฌ๋ฆ๋ฐค์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์์ํ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The long Arctic summer night quietly passed by in this way.
Ko: ํจ๊ป๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์๋ ์ถ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Together, they knew there was no cold they couldn't endure.
Vocabulary Words:
distant: ์๋ํtundra: ํฐ๋๋ผlingers: ๋์์ด ์๋คhorizon: ์ํ์ permeated: ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ ๋คvast: ๋๋์field: ์ค์conclusive: ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์ถ์storm: ํญํreality: ํ์คdangerous: ์ํํดrapidly: ๊ธ๊ฒฉํlacks: ๋ถ์กฑํดconfused: ํผ๋์ค๋ฌ์ ์ง๋งfiercely: ๋งค์ญ๊ฒplummeted: ๋ ๋จ์ด์ก๋คsensation: ๊ฐ๊ฐfrostbite: ๋์condition: ์ํpale: ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ๊ณ exhaustion: ํผ๋กseized: ์ฌ๋ก์ก์๋คsupported: ๋ถ์ถํ๋คvanished: ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋คtrail: ๋ฐ์๊ตญtreats: ์น๋ฃํ๋คcollaboration: ํ๋ ฅemphasized: ๋งํ๋expedition: ์ฌํendure: ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์๋ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Breathing New Life: Jiho's Creative Restoration Journey
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ํ์ด์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ์ฌ์ด๋ก ๊ธ๋น์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฌ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๋จผ์ง๋ค์ด ์ถค์ ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Golden sunlight streamed through the fading window, making the dust in the warehouse appear to dance.
Ko: ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ ์ค๋๋ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐผ๊ณ , ์์ ๋ฐ๋์๋ ๋ผ๋๊ฐ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.
En: The warehouse was filled with old furniture, and even the slightest breeze made the frames creak.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์งํธ์ ๋ฏผ์์๋ค.
En: In that place were Jiho and Minseo.
Ko: ๋์ ํจ๊ป ์ค๋๋ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณต์ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Together, they were restoring old furniture.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ง๊ธ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ก์ ์คํฐํฌ ์์์๋ค.
En: However, their most important task at the moment was an antique chair.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์์ ๋์ ์์ ์์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Jiho stood at the workbench, gazing at the chair.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ธ์ฌํ ๋ณต์๊ฐ์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํญ์ ์๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ์ก๋ค. ํนํ ๋๋ฃ๋ค๋ณด๋ค ๋น๊ต๋์์ ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค.
En: He was a meticulous restorer, but he always questioned his own skills, especially when compared to his peers.
Ko: ์์๋ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ํฐ ๋์ ์ด์๋ค.
En: The chair was a significant challenge for him.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด ์์๋ฅผ ์ ๋ณต์ํด ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ช ํ ๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ํ์ ์ถํํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: He wished to restore it well and exhibit it at a renowned local art show.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์์ผ, ์ด ์์๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด," ์งํธ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Minseo, I don't know what to do with this chair," Jiho said.
Ko: ์์๋ ๊ณ์ ๋ฌด๋์ง๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The chair was continually collapsing.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๋น๊ณคํ ๋๊ตฌ๋ค๋ก ์ด ์์ ์ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ ์ ์์์ง ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: He was worried about completing the task with the meager tools in the warehouse.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์งํธ์๊ฒ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค์ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๋ธ๋ค.
En: Minseo offered words of encouragement to Jiho.
Ko: "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ ์๊ฐํด๋ณผ ์ ์์ด.
En: "We can come up with another method.
Ko: ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋?"
En: How about trying something creative?"
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ํฌ๋ง์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ๋์๋ณด์๋ค.
En: Jiho took some hope from her words and looked around the chair.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋ค์ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. '์ด๊ฒ์ ๊ฒ ์กฐํฉํด๋ณด์.'
En: He began examining the other items in the warehouse and thought, 'Let's combine this and that.'
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ์ค๋๋ ์ฒ๊ณผ ๋๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ค์ ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ์์๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์ณ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: He decided to use old fabric and wood scraps from the surroundings to fix the chair.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์งํธ์ ์ด์ ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ๋์์ค ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
En: Minseo, seeing Jiho's enthusiasm, was ready to lend a helping hand.
Ko: ํจ๊ป ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์์๋ ์ ์ ์์ ๋์๋ค.
En: Together, they put their heads together, and the chair gradually became more stable.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ํ๋ฌ ์ ์ํ ์ ๋ ์ด ๋์๋ค.
En: Time passed, and the day before the exhibition arrived.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ๊ธด์ฅํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: Jiho was nervous, but he was satisfied with the results.
Ko: ์์๋ ์ค๋ ์ธ์์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๊ฐ์งํ๋ฉด์๋ ์๋ก์ด ํ์ ์ป์ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: The chair retained its timeless essence while seeming newly invigorated.
Ko: ๊ทธ ์์์ ์งํธ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ฐฝ์๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์์ฐ์์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
En: Within this process, Jiho realized that his creativity was his greatest asset.
Ko: ์ ์ํ ๋น์ผ, ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์งํธ์ ์์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ฐํํ๋ค.
En: On the day of the exhibition, many people marveled at Jiho's chair.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์งํธ์ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ ์ ๋๋ผ์ํ๋ค.
En: They were impressed by his creative solution.
Ko: ์งํธ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์๋ค. ์ด์ ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ ํนํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฏฟ์๋ค.
En: Jiho gained confidence and began to trust in his unique abilities.
Ko: ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์ ํตํด ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: Through this process, he discovered his true essence.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ดํ, ์งํธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ์์ ์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ์์ฌํ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: From that day on, Jiho no longer doubted his abilities.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ๊ตํ์ ๋ง์์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ๋ค์ ์ํ์ ํฅํด ๋์๊ฐ๋ค.
En: He carried the lessons learned in the warehouse in his heart and moved forward to his next project.
Ko: ์งํธ์๊ฒ ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ์์ ์ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋์๋ค.
En: That summer became an unforgettable time of growth for Jiho.
Vocabulary Words:
streamed: ํ๋ฌ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐfading: ์ฌ๋ผ์งwarehouse: ์ฐฝ๊ณ furniture: ๊ฐ๊ตฌcreak: ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌmeticulous: ์ธ์ฌํrestorer: ๋ณต์๊ฐexhibit: ์ถํํ๋คrenowned: ์ ๋ช ํantique: ์คํฐํฌmeager: ๋น๊ณคํencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คcreative: ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธenthusiasm: ์ด์ invigorated: ์๋ก์ด ํ์ ์ป์essence: ๋ณธ์งmarveled: ๊ฐํํ๋คsolution: ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ confidence: ์์ ๊ฐtrust: ๋ฏฟ๋คunique: ๋ ํนํabilities: ๋ฅ๋ ฅincomparable: ๋น๊ตํ ์ ์๋examine: ์ดํด๋ณด๊ธฐcollapsing: ๋ฌด๋์ง๊ณ timeless: ์ค๋ ์ธ์์ ๊ฐ์งํ๋คasset: ์์ฐprocess: ๊ณผ์ breeze: ๋ฐ๋beyond: ๋๋จธ -
Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Courage in Jeju's Storm: Sojin's Unplanned Leadership
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Story Transcript:
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ค.
En: The summer in Jeju was beautiful.
Ko: ์์ง๊ณผ ์งํธ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ ์ฃผ๋๋ก ์ฌํ์ ์๋ค.
En: Sojin and Jiho had traveled to Jeju with their friends.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ ์ฐ์ฑ ๋ , ๋ ์จ๋ ์ฒ์์๋ ๋ง์๋ค.
En: On the day everyone had been looking forward to the hike, the weather was initially clear.
Ko: ๋ น์ ์ฐ๊ณผ ๋ง์ ํ๋ ์๋, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊น๊น ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๊ธธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Under the green mountains and the clear sky, they laughed heartily as they walked along the mountain path.
Ko: ์์ง์ ํญ์ ๋ชจํ์ฌ์ด ๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์์ฅ์์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์ด๋๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์๋ค.
En: Sojin always had a strong sense of adventure, so she led the way and guided her friends.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ํ๋์ด ๋ณ๋์ค๋ฌ์์ก๋ค.
En: But suddenly, the sky turned unpredictable.
Ko: ๊ฒ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค์ค๊ณ ๋น๋ฐฉ์ธ์ด ๋จ์ด์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
En: Dark clouds gathered, and raindrops began to fall.
Ko: ๊ณง ํญํ์ด ๋ชฐ์์ณค๋ค.
En: Soon, a storm hit.
Ko: ์ฌ์ฌ ์์์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ค์ด๋ค๊ณ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋๋น๋ค์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ ๋ฒ์ก๋ค.
En: Gradually, the laughter faded, and worried expressions spread among her friends.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํ๋จํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
En: Sojin had to make a quick decision.
Ko: ๊ธธ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ๋ค.
En: The path was already wet and slippery.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์์ ํ์ง ๊ฑฑ์ ๋์๋ค.
En: She was concerned about her friends' safety.
Ko: ์์ง์ ํธ๋ํฐ GPS๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ํฌ๋ง์ด์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง ๋จ์ง ์์๋ค.
En: Sojin's phone GPS was their last hope, but the battery was low.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ง๋๋ณด๋ค ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์์ ์ด ๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: She believed that her friends' safety was more important than the map.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋์ GPS๋ฅผ ์ผฐ๊ณ , ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: So she turned on the GPS and tried to find the way.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ๋น์ ๋ฐ๋์ GPS๋ ๋ฐฉํดํ๋ค.
En: However, the rain and wind interfered with the GPS as well.
Ko: ์์ง์ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ฐ๋ค.
En: Sojin paused for a moment.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ํ์ ์ ๋ถ์ํ๋ค.
En: Her friends looked anxious.
Ko: ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค.
En: At that moment, she decided to trust herself.
Ko: ์์ง์ ๋ง์์ ๊ณ ์ณ๋จน๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ์ดํ๋ค.
En: Sojin gathered her thoughts and surveyed the surroundings.
Ko: ๋คํํ ์์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค.
En: Fortunately, she found a small space under a rock ahead.
Ko: "์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ข ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์," ์์ง์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Let's wait here for a while," Sojin said.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋๋ ๋ฐ์ ์๋์ ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ค์๋ค.
En: Everyone gathered under the rock.
Ko: ๋น์๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ง ๋ค๋ ธ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ ํ๋ค.
En: They could hear only the sound of rain and wind, but they were safe.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๊ณ , ์์ง์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: As time passed, Sojin chatted with her friends, and gradually, they began to feel more at ease.
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํญํ์ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค.
En: Eventually, the storm passed.
Ko: ํ๋์ด ๋ค์ ๋ง์์ง๊ณ ์์ํ ํด๊ฐ ๋น์ณค๋ค.
En: The sky cleared again, and the sun slowly shone through.
Ko: ์์ง์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์ด๋๊ณ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ธธ์ ๋ด๋ ค์๋ค.
En: Sojin led her friends safely down the mountain path.
Ko: ์ฌํ์ ๋๋ฌ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฒฝํ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ ํฐ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ป์๋ค.
En: The trip was over, but from this experience, she gained greater confidence.
Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ ์ดํ ์์ง์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์ ๋ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋์๋ค.
En: From that day on, Sojin became a trusted leader among her friends.
Ko: ๋๊ตฌ๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ์ธ๋ํ ์ ์์์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํ๋ฃจ์๋ค.
En: It was a day she learned to trust herself and guide them safely.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ์์ง์๊ฒ ์์คํ ๊ตํ์ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
En: The summer in Jeju left Sojin with a valuable lesson.
Vocabulary Words:
hike: ์ฐ์ฑ initially: ์ฒ์์๋heartily: ๊น๊นsense of adventure: ๋ชจํ์ฌunpredictable: ๋ณ๋์ค๋ฌ์์ก๋คgathered: ๋ชฐ๋ ค์ค๊ณ slippery: ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ๋คinterfered: ๋ฐฉํดํ๋คconcerned: ๊ฑฑ์ ๋์๋คanxious: ๋ถ์ํ๋คsurveyed: ์ดํ๋คspace: ๊ณต๊ฐvaluable: ์์คํstrong: ๊ฐํ๋คthoughts: ๋ง์์expressions: ๋๋น๋คdecision: ํ๋จgathered: ๋ชจ์ฌ๋ค์๋คpassed: ์ง๋๊ฐ๋คcleared: ๋ง์์ง๊ณ confidence: ์์ ๊ฐtrusted: ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฐ๋guide: ์ด๋๋คpause: ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ฐ๋คbattery: ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌsurroundings: ์ฃผ๋ณpath: ๊ธธstorm: ํญํmoment: ์๊ฐhesitate: ๋ง์ค์ด์ง - Mostrar más