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  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Harmony on Namsan: A Festival of Tradition and Teamwork
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์ฐธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Autumn in Seoul was truly beautiful.

    Ko: ๋‚™์—ฝ์ด ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋“  ๋‚จ์‚ฐ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ทธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The colorful leaves on Namsan Mountain added to its charm.

    Ko: ์ด๊ณณ ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ์„œ์šธํƒ€์›Œ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•™๊ต ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At Namsan Seoul Tower, students were gathering to prepare for the school festival.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์€ ์ค€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Among them, the main character was Joon.

    Ko: ์ค€์€ ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Joon was a quiet and creative student.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•™๊ต ์ถ•์ œ์—์„œ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ๊ธฐํšํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to plan a wonderful performance for the school festival.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ค€์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Joon always lacked confidence.

    Ko: ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: There was also a student named Hana.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ๋„˜์น˜๊ณ  ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hana was full of confidence and had strong leadership skills.

    Ko: ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ํ•˜๋Š˜์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์œ„์ถ•๋˜๊ณค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Compared to Hana, Joon often felt intimidated.

    Ko: ์ค€์˜ ์ ˆ์นœ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ค€์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‘์›ํ•ด ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Joon's close friend, Minji, understood and supported him.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•œ์ฐฝ ์ถ”์„์ด๋ผ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์†์— ๋ฐ”๋นด์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But since it was currently Chuseok, Minji was busy with her family's expectations.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์ค€์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The mismatched schedules of the two friends caused Joon even more to worry.

    Ko: ์–ด๋Š ๋‚ , ์ค€์€ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One day, Joon made a decision.

    Ko: "ํ•˜๋Š˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."
    En: "If I work with Hana, we can create a better performance."

    Ko: ์ค€์€ ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Joon went to Hana to talk.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋˜ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He opened up about the feelings he had been hesitant to share.

    Ko: "๊ฐ™์ด ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด," ์ค€์€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I'd like it if we prepared together," Joon said quietly.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋งŒ ์ค€์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hana was a little surprised, but she felt Joon's sincerity.

    Ko: "์ข‹์•„, ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•˜์ž," ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Sure, let's do it together," Hana replied with a smile.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They began to gather ideas together.

    Ko: ํ•œํŽธ, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๊ณต์—ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Meanwhile, Minji also found inspiration for the performance while spending time with her family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๋“ค๊ณ  ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She returned to school with her idea.

    Ko: "์ถ”์„์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ณต์—ฐ์€ ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ?" ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "How about a performance showcasing the traditions of Chuseok?" Minji suggested.

    Ko: ์ค€, ํ•˜๋Š˜, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Joon, Hana, and Minji prepared the performance together.

    Ko: ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์„œ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They worked their hardest and collaborated with each other.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํŒ€์›Œํฌ๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์„œ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Their teamwork was perfect, and they learned and grew together.

    Ko: ์ถ•์ œ ๋‚ , ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ์„œ์šธํƒ€์›Œ์—๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the day of the festival, many people gathered at Namsan Seoul Tower.

    Ko: ์ค€์˜ ํŒ€์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ž˜ ์กฐํ™”์‹œํ‚จ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Joon's team presented a performance that harmonized modernity and tradition beautifully.

    Ko: ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํƒ€์›Œ๋ฅผ ์šธ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The sound of the audience's applause echoed through the tower.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ค€์€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ํฐ์ผ์„ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด."
    En: At that moment, Joon realized, "We can achieve greater things together."

    Ko: ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ค€์€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ฉฐ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ด๋ค˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ํŒ€์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    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: ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ž์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๊ณ , ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They grew into better versions of themselves and created unforgettable autumn memories.


    Vocabulary Words:
    autumn: ๊ฐ€์„charm: ๋งค๋ ฅfestival: ์ถ•์ œperformance: ๊ณต์—ฐconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐintimidated: ์œ„์ถ•๋˜๋‹คmismatched: ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š๋‹คhesitant: ๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹คsincerity: ์ง„์‹ฌinspiration: ์˜๊ฐtraditions: ์ „ํ†ตcollaborate: ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹คteamwork: ํŒ€์›Œํฌharmonize: ์กฐํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋‹คapplause: ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜echoed: ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋‹คrealize: ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋‹คachieve: ์ด๋ฃจ๋‹คfulfill: ์ด๋ฃจ๋‹คhonoring: ์ง€ํ‚ค๋‹คversions: ์ž์‹ unforgettable: ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ• quiet: ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๋‹คcreative: ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ด๋‹คplan: ๊ธฐํšํ•˜๋‹คdecision: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌsuggested: ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹คprepare: ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋‹คgather: ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค๋‹คstudent: ํ•™์ƒ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Turning Phone Time to Bonding Time at the Aquarium
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‚ด๋ž‘์ด๋Š” ๋‚ , ์ง€ํ›„์™€ ์„œ์œค์€ ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€์— ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: On a day when the autumn wind was gently blowing, Jihoo and Seoyoon went to the aquarium.

    Ko: ์ดˆ์Šน๋‹ฌ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ฐ์€ ์กฐ๋ช…์ด ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€ ์ž…๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The entrance was lit by lights as bright as a crescent moon.

    Ko: ์•ˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋‹ˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside, many families bustled about.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์ „์‹œํšŒ๋Š” ํŒŒ๋ž—๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ , ํ˜•ํ˜•์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์˜ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์กฐ๋ฅผ ํ—ค์—„์น˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The newly unveiled exhibition glowed a brilliant blue, and the sight of colorful fish swimming in the tanks looked almost magical.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo loves marine biology and had been looking forward to this exhibition.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ„ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์ง€ํ›„์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ, ์„œ์œค์€ ์ค„๊ณง ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ๋งŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Unlike the excited Jihoo, Seoyoon was glued to his phone the entire time.

    Ko: โ€œ์„œ์œค์•„, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ๋ฌผ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ• ๋ž˜?โ€ ์ง€ํ›„๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์„œ์œค์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: "Seoyoon, want to check out the other creatures?" Jihoo asked, but Seoyoon didn't lift his head.

    Ko: ์•„์‰ฌ์›€์ด ๋Š๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: Sensing a missed opportunity, Jihoo had a great idea.

    Ko: โ€œ์„œ์œค์•„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฏธ์…˜์„ ํ• ๊นŒ?โ€ ์ง€ํ›„๊ฐ€ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œSeoyoon, how about we do a little mission?โ€ Jihoo asked with a smile.

    Ko: ์„œ์œค์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ง€ํ›„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค๋‹ค.
    En: Seoyoon looked up at Jihoo.

    Ko: โ€œ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ฏธ์…˜์ธ๋ฐ?โ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ์ด ์„œ๋ฆฐ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "What kind of mission?" he asked with a face filled with anticipation.

    Ko: โ€œ์ „์‹œ๋œ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„๊ฒŒ. ์–ด๋•Œ?โ€ ์„œ์œค์€ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ชปํ•ด ๋™์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Let's find the fish on display and meet them one by one. Iโ€™ll tell you some fun facts about each fish. What do you think?" Seoyoon reluctantly agreed.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ์ „์‹œํšŒ ์ค‘์•™์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์‚ฐํ˜ธ์ดˆ ํƒฑํฌ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They arrived at the coral reef tank, which was located in the center of the exhibition.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: It was particularly beautiful.

    Ko: ์„œ์œค์˜ ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Seoyoon's eyes sparkled.

    Ko: โ€œํ˜•, ์ €๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ญ์•ผ?โ€ ์„œ์œค์ด ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ƒ‰์— ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋œ ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hyung, what kind of fish is that?" Seoyoon asked, seemingly captivated by the variety of colors.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo smiled and began to explain.

    Ko: ์„œ์œค์€ ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seoyoon started asking more and more questions.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›„์™€ ์„œ์œค์€ ์‚ฐํ˜ธ์ดˆ ํƒฑํฌ ์•ž์—์„œ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo and Seoyoon spent a long time in front of the coral reef tank.

    Ko: ์„œ์œค์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: It seemed like Seoyoon was truly starting to appreciate the aquarium's charm.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ•จ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo felt a sense of pride inside.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๊นŠ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He felt their connection deepening.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋” ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo resolved to engage more creatively with his family in the future.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์กฑ๊ด€์„ ๋‚˜์„œ๋ฉฐ, ์„œ์œค์€ ์ง€ํ›„์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œํ˜•, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด. ๋‹ค์‹œ ์˜ค์ž!โ€
    En: As they left the aquarium, Seoyoon said to Jihoo, โ€œHyung, today was so much fun. Let's come again!โ€

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›„๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoo replied with a smile.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์› ๋˜ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์›Œ์ง„ ์ฑ„ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The two headed home, feeling a deeper connection, and their heavy worries seemed lighter.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฌผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์„œ์œค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€ํ›„์—๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The time spent with Seoyoon, who had developed a love for marine life, held great meaning for Jihoo.


    Vocabulary Words:
    autumn: ๊ฐ€์„crescent: ์ดˆ์Šน๋‹ฌbustled: ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ unveiled: ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œmagical: ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์€marine biology: ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™glued: ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ mission: ๋ฏธ์…˜reluctantly: ๋งˆ์ง€๋ชปํ•ดcoral reef: ์‚ฐํ˜ธ์ดˆsparkled: ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹คcaptivated: ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋œcharm: ๋งค๋ ฅresolved: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คcreatively: ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธanticipated: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋๋‹คopportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐfascination: ํฅ๋ฏธremarkable: ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œengage: ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹คdeepening: ๊นŠ์–ด์ง€๋Š”appreciate: ๊ฐ์ƒํ•˜๋‹คexhibition: ์ „์‹œํšŒreluctant: ๋งˆ์ง€๋ชปํ•œbright: ๋ฐ์€unveiled: ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œconnect: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐattachment: ์• ์ฐฉcontemplate: ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์ˆ™๊ณ ํ•˜๋‹ค

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  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Sip of Joy: Hyunsoo's Chuseok Coffee Quest
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ์ด ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ์‚ฌ๋ฅด๋ฅด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Outside the window, leaves were gently falling in the autumn breeze.

    Ko: ์ปคํ”ผ ๋กœ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์•ˆ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the coffee roastery, it was warm.

    Ko: ๊ตฌ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ–ฅ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The air was filled with the rich aroma of coffee.

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์„ ๋ฐ˜์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์ปคํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์—ด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the wooden shelves, coffees from various countries were displayed.

    Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ๋œ ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hyunsoo stood with a tense expression.

    Ko: ๊ณง ์ถ”์„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Chuseok was approaching.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ฌผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to gift his family a special coffee.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ปคํ”ผ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: However, there were too many types of coffee.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๊ณจ๋ผ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: He didn't know which one to choose.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ง€์—ฐ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Just then, Jiyeon approached.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋„๋ก ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋Š” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: She was an expert who helped customers find special coffees.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”?" ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hello. May I help you?" she asked softly.

    Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Hyunsoo hesitated for a moment.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He didnโ€™t usually seek others' help when making important decisions.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: But this time was different.

    Ko: "๋„ค, ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ฌผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?"
    En: "Yes, I want to gift my family a special coffee. Can you recommend one?"

    Ko: ์ง€์—ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jiyeon nodded with a smile.

    Ko: "๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ . ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”."
    En: "Of course. Let me introduce you to a few options."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฐฑ์„ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She took out a few coffee bags.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ธ”๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two of them tested various blends.

    Ko: ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ–ฅ์„ ๋งก๊ณ  ๋ง›์„ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They brewed the coffee, smelled its aroma, and tasted it.

    Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜์˜ ์†๋์—๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ธฐ์šด์ด ๊ฐ๋Œ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: A gentle warmth spread through Hyunsooโ€™s fingertips.

    Ko: ์ง€์—ฐ์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ง›์˜ ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiyeon explained the harmony of different flavors.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ธ”๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, they completed a blend.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ตฌ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ์šด์ด ๊นŠ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was rich yet sweet, and had a profound aftertaste.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ง›์€ ์ถ”์„์˜ ์ •์ทจ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The flavor seemed to capture the essence of Chuseok.

    Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ๋ฒ…์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: Hyunsoo felt his heart swell.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€์—ฐ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ™์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: He bowed his head to Jiyeon.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ปคํ”ผ๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ„๋ช… ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”."
    En: "Thank you so much. My family will surely be delighted with this coffee."

    Ko: ์ง€์—ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์ €๋„ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์ถ”์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด์„ธ์š”."
    En: Jiyeon replied with a smile, "Iโ€™m glad too. Have a wonderful Chuseok."

    Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜์„œ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As Hyunsoo left the shop, he felt confident.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฐฑ์„ ๊ผญ ์ฅ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He held the coffee bag tightly.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ถ”์„์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: This Chuseok would be special.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: He looked forward to the moments he would share with his family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ดํ›„, ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After that day, Hyunsoo changed.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He no longer hesitated to seek help when he needed it.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: He embraced new experiences and enjoyed collaborating with others.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ถ”์„, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•  ์ปคํ”ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ์Œ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This Chuseok, the coffee he would present to his family was more than just a beverage.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์จ์˜ ๋ง›์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was the taste of joy created together.


    Vocabulary Words:
    gentle: ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šดaroma: ํ–ฅ๊ธฐdisplayed: ์ง„์—ด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹คtense: ๊ธด์žฅ๋œapproaching: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋‹คexpression: ํ‘œ์ •hesitated: ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋‹คrecommend: ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๋‹คblend: ๋ธ”๋ Œ๋“œbrewed: ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹คprofound: ๊นŠ์€aftertaste: ์—ฌ์šดcapture: ๋‹ด๋‹คessence: ์ •์ทจdelighted: ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•˜๋‹คconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐembraced: ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋‹คcollaborating: ํ˜‘๋ ฅbeverage: ์Œ๋ฃŒrich: ๊ตฌ์ˆ˜ํ•œshelf: ์„ ๋ฐ˜various: ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œexpert: ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€introduce: ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋‹คoptions: ์˜ต์…˜explained: ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹คharmony: ์กฐํ™”swelled: ๋ฒ…์ฐจ๋‹คbowed: ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ™์˜€๋‹คpresent: ์„ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chasing Dreams: Jiho's Journey of Self-Discovery in Jeju
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.org/chasing-dreams-jihos-journey-of-self-discovery-in-jeju

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Autumn in Jeju was beautiful.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋†’๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋ž—๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์„ ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The sky was high and blue, and the breeze was cool.

    Ko: ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ•™๋…„์ธ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•œ ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ์˜์  ์ˆ˜๋ จํšŒ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho and Minseo, in their final year of high school, participated in a spiritual retreat organized by their school in Jeju.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ จํšŒ๋Š” ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The retreat was specially held during Chuseok.

    Ko: ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง€์นœ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ์‹์ฒ˜ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The mountains and sea viewed from the dormitory were like a sanctuary for the weary high school students.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho gazed out the window, lost in deep thought.

    Ko: ๊ณง ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ž…์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์„ ๊ฝ‰ ์ฑ„์› ๋‹ค.
    En: The upcoming college entrance exams filled his mind.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜๋Œ€์— ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋˜ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ, ๊ณ„์† ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Should he follow his family's expectations and go to medical school, or pursue the art he dreamed of?

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was constantly pondering.

    Ko: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์ข…์ข… ๋ถ“์„ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: His parents wanted him to become a doctor, but Jiho often found his heart drawn to the paintbrush.

    Ko: "์ง€ํ˜ธ์•ผ, ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์ข€ ์ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ๋ž˜?" ๋ฏผ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Jiho, want to go out for some fresh air?" Minseo approached and asked.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐ๊ณ  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo was a bright and positive friend.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho always envied this aspect of Minseo's personality.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ˆฒ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two friends began to talk as they walked along the forest path.

    Ko: "๋„Œ ์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„," ๋ฏผ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "You really seem to love art," Minseo said.

    Ko: "๋„ˆ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ž–์•„.
    En: "You're really good at it.

    Ko: ๊ณ„์† ์ƒ๊ฐ ์ค‘์ด์•ผ?
    En: Are you still thinking about it?

    Ko: ์˜ˆ์ „์— ๋งํ•œ ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ํ•  ๊ฑด์ง€."
    En: Whether to keep pursuing art as you mentioned before?"

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho let out a deep sigh.

    Ko: "๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋” ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ.
    En: "That's why I'm more confused.

    Ko: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์…”.
    En: My parents want me to become a doctor.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚œ... ๊ฐ€๋” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด."
    En: But sometimes... I just want to paint."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo nodded quietly.

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋„ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์—” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด.
    En: "My parents have expectations too, but I think it's more important for us to be happy.

    Ko: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ถ”์„์ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ์ž–์•„."
    En: It's Chuseok now, and it's a chance to speak honestly with family."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค ์ถ•์ œ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ถ”์„ ์˜์‹์ด ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: That night, after the festival meal, a special Chuseok ceremony was held.

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ๋ฐค ํ•˜๋Š˜์—๋Š” ๋‹ฌ์ด ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The moon shone brightly in the Jeju night sky.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ๋ง์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: With a trembling heart, Jiho recalled Minseoโ€™s words.

    Ko: ์‹์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ํ›„, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After the meal, Jiho decided to express his true feelings to his family.

    Ko: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜ ์•ž์— ์„œ์„œ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜, ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
    En: Standing before his parents, he spoke candidly, "Mom, Dad, I want to do art.

    Ko: ์˜์‚ฌ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”."
    En: I'd rather be an artist than a doctor."

    Ko: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์€ ๋†€๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: His parents were surprised.

    Ko: ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ์ด์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Silence lingered for a while.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋‚ด ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‘์›ํ• ๊ฒŒ."
    En: But soon, his mother smiled and said, "If you're happy, we'll support you."

    Ko: ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: His father nodded, encouraging Jiho as well.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋œจ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์„ ํ˜๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho shed tears of gratitude.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ง€์ง€์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was thankful for his family's support.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐˆ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He found the courage to pursue his dream.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ํ•œ๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, his heart felt lighter.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์„ ์„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ฌ๋น›์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The breeze was still cool, and the moonlight was warm.

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Autumn in Jeju signified a new beginning for Jiho.


    Vocabulary Words:
    autumn: ๊ฐ€์„breeze: ๋ฐ”๋žŒparticipated: ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹คspiritual: ์˜์ retreat: ์ˆ˜๋ จํšŒdormitory: ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌsanctuary: ์•ˆ์‹์ฒ˜gazed: ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐupcoming: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌentrance exams: ์ž…์‹œpondering: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ๋‹คexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€paintbrush: ๋ถ“envied: ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹คpursuing: ์ƒ๊ฐ ์ค‘์ด์•ผconfused: ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€candidly: ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒlingered: ์ด์–ด์กŒ๋‹คgratitude: ๊ฐ์‚ฌencouraging: ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ–ˆ๋‹คgratitude: ๊ฐ์‚ฌcourage: ์šฉ๊ธฐsignified: ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ๋‹คtrembling: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š”brightly: ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒthankful: ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คdecided: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คshed: ํ˜๋ ธ๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Sujin's Resolve: Pursuing Dreams Against Family's Odds
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜ ์„œ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin stood under the blue sky of Jeju.

    Ko: ํ•œ๊ฐ€๋กœ์šด ๋งค๋ฏธ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์˜ค๊ณ , ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ํŠน์œ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ƒ์พŒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ๊ฒฐ์„ ํœ˜๊ฐ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The leisurely sound of cicadas filled the air, and Jeju's distinctive breeze pleasantly wrapped around her hair.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ˆจ์„ ๊นŠ์ด ๋“ค์ด๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ, ๋ˆˆ์•ž์— ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ์ž์—ฐ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์— ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She breathed deeply, marveling at the natural beauty unfolding before her eyes.

    Ko: ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๊ณผํ•™ ์—ฌํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ผ์‚ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›์— ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: She had come to Hallasan National Park with her friends for a high school science trip.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์•ผ์™ธ ์ˆ˜์—…์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ž์—ฐ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ๋˜ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: This field class was a special opportunity for someone like her, who had always been interested in nature.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜์ง„์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์€ ๋ณต์žกํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Sujin's mind was complicated.

    Ko: ์ž์—ฐ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ด์–‘ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ง์—…์„ ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although she loved nature and wanted to become a marine biologist, her family wanted her to have a stable career.

    Ko: ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋˜๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: They wished for her to become a lawyer or a doctor.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin was conflicted, torn between her parents' expectations and her own dreams.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋ฏธ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Just then, Minu approached her.

    Ko: "์ˆ˜์ง„์•„, ๋„ˆ ๋˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€?" ๋ฏธ๋ˆ„๋Š” ์žฅ๋‚œ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Sujin, are you thinking about the ocean again?" Minu asked teasingly with a smile.

    Ko: "๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ผญ ํ•ด์–‘ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ," ์ˆ˜์ง„์ด ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•˜์ž ๋ฏธ๋ˆ„๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์ €์œผ๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Yes, someday I'll definitely become a marine biologist," Sujin replied, to which Minu shook his head and laughed.

    Ko: "ํž˜๋‚ด."
    En: "Hang in there."

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ฏธ๋ˆ„์˜ ๋ง์ด ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€๋”์”ฉ ๊ทธ์˜ ์žฅ๋‚œ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ํ”๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin found Minu's words kind, but sometimes his teasing shook her confidence.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์—…์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์ž, ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ผํ–‰์„ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์‚ฐ๊ธธ์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When the class began, the teacher led the group along the mountain path.

    Ko: ํ•œ๋ผ์‚ฐ์˜ ์›…์žฅํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต๊ณผ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ์ˆฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ํž˜์„ ์คฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The grandeur of Hallasan and the mystical forest gave her strength.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์—…์ด ๋๋‚œ ํ›„, ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋‹ค.
    En: After the class ended, Sujin spoke with her teacher.

    Ko: "์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜, ์ € ์ •๋ง๋กœ ํ•ด์–‘ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
    En: "Teacher, I really want to become a marine biologist.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”."
    En: But my family opposes it."

    Ko: ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. "์ˆ˜์ง„์•„, ๋„ค ์ธ์ƒ์ด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋„ค ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด.
    En: The teacher nodded quietly and continued, "Sujin, it's your life, so you should pursue your dreams.

    Ko: ์ด ์ž์—ฐ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด."
    En: Preserving the beauty of nature is very important too."

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ง์— ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ํฐ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Those words gave Sujin great courage.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•œ๋ผ์‚ฐ ์œ„์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ตณํ˜”๋‹ค.
    En: She looked once more at the magnificent scenery from the top of Hallasan and resolved firmly.

    Ko: ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ, ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the way back, Sujin decided not to hide her dream anymore.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์œ„ ๋ฐค, ๋‹ฌ๋น›์— ๋น„์นœ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ดˆ๋ก๋น› ๊ฟˆ์„ ํ’ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: During the night of Chuseok, under the moonlit sea, Sujin embraced her green-tinged dreams.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She made up her mind to honestly convey her feelings to her family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She chose to trust her own voice.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.
    En: Now, Sujin was ready.

    Ko: ๊ฟˆ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ฒซ ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚ด๋”›์„ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.
    En: She was ready to take the first step toward her dream.


    Vocabulary Words:
    leisurely: ํ•œ๊ฐ€๋กœ์šดbreeze: ๋ฐ”๋žŒdistinctive: ํŠน์œ ํ•œmarveling: ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹คunfolding: ํŽผ์ณ์ง„complicated: ๋ณต์žกํ–ˆ๋‹คstable: ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธconflicted: ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹คteasingly: ์žฅ๋‚œ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐgrandeur: ์›…์žฅํ•œmystical: ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šดopposes: ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”pursue: ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ดpreserving: ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š”courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐmagnificent: ๋ฉ‹์ง„resolved: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ตณํ˜”๋‹คmoonlit: ๋‹ฌ๋น›์— ๋น„์นœembraced: ํ’ˆ์—ˆ๋‹คconvey: ์ „ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœhonestly: ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒtrust: ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋กœleisurely: ํ•œ๊ฐ€๋กœ์šดmarine biologist: ํ•ด์–‘ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์žopportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒmountain path: ์‚ฐ๊ธธteacher: ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜voice: ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌchuseok: ํ•œ๊ฐ€์œ„

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Moonlit Connections: A Heartwarming Tale at Chuseok Festival
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ๋…ธ๋ž—๊ณ  ๋ถ‰์€ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ง„ ๊ฐ€์„๋ฐค, ๋‚จ์‚ฐ๊ณต์›์€ ์ถ”์„ ์ถ•์ œ๋กœ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On an autumn night filled with yellow skies and red leaves, Namsan Park was bustling with the Chuseok festival.

    Ko: ์ถ•์ œ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ์–ด๋‘ ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ , ์ „ํ†ต ์Œ์‹ ๋งค๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•œ ์†กํŽธ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Festival lanterns lit up the darkness, and the sweet scent of songpyeon wafted from the traditional food stalls.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ถ•์ œ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๊ณ , ๊ณต์› ๊ณณ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People enjoyed the festival performances, and the sound of laughter filled the park's every corner.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฐ”๋นด๋˜ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ์ž ์‹œ ์žŠ๊ณ  ์ด๊ณณ์— ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon came here to momentarily forget his busy routine.

    Ko: ์ง์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to escape the stress of work.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋งž์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was looking forward to the moon-viewing event.

    Ko: ๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์•‰์•„ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํฐ ํœด์‹์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sitting quietly under the moonlight was a great source of relaxation for him.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ถ•์ œ ํ˜„์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Mina came to the festival site seeking inspiration as an artist.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ์Šค์ผ€์น˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She decided to sketch various people and landscapes.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She wanted to prepare new works through her drawings.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋งˆ๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ•œ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, she struggled to find inspiration easily, and the approaching deadline made her anxious.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์˜ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋˜ ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์ถ•์ œ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Enjoying his first bit of freedom in a while, Jihoon wandered around the festival.

    Ko: ๋ฐ๊ณ  ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋งž์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์žฅ์†Œ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As he relished the bright and unique sights, he headed to the moon-viewing event location.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์„ ๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, a painting with vibrant colors caught his eye.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์•ž์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In front of the painting, Mina was focused as she captured scenes of people.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ฐฌ์ฐฌํžˆ ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon cautiously approached to take a closer look at Mina's artwork.

    Ko: ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์˜ ์†์€ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์˜€๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ˆˆ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ์ •๋ผ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her hands moved busily, and her eyes were fixed on the figures in her painting.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์— ๋น ์ ธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์˜ ํŒ”๊ฟˆ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‚ด์ง ๊ฑด๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While Jihoon was absorbed in the artwork, he accidentally bumped Minaโ€™s elbow slightly.

    Ko: ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ผ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Startled, Mina looked up.

    Ko: "์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ์ง€ํ›ˆ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด๋„ค์š”."
    En: "Sorry," Jihoon said. "Your painting is really amazing."

    Ko: ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”. ์•„์ง ์™„์„ฑ ์ „์ด์—์š”."
    En: Mina smiled softly and replied, "Thank you. It's not finished yet."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They naturally fell into conversation.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์„ ์ƒ์ƒํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ›ˆ์ด ์ „ํ•ด์ค€ ๊ณต์›์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ๊ณผ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    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: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ ์  ํŽธ์•ˆํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As they shared these stories, they grew increasingly comfortable in each other's company.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ฐคํ•˜๋Š˜์˜ ๋‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Under the moonlit sky, they made a promise.

    Ko: ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์— ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They agreed to meet again and inspire each other's lives.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ํ’€๊ณ  ํ–‰๋ณต์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ›ˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์†์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon learned from Mina how to relax and find happiness again, while Mina discovered new stories among people through Jihoon.

    Ko: ๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ๋‘˜์€ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณต์›์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Smiling at each other, they walked out of the park under the moonlight.

    Ko: ์ƒ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ๋‚จ์‚ฐ๊ณต์›์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ถ•์ œ์˜ ์—ด๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์™ธ๋กญ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The vibrant Namsan Park was still filled with the festival's energy, but they no longer felt lonely.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์šฐ์ •์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘ ํ˜น์€ ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์ด ๋  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a moment shared that marked the beginning of a new friendship, or perhaps something more.


    Vocabulary Words:
    autumn: ๊ฐ€์„bustling: ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌlanterns: ๋“ฑ๋ถˆwafted: ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹คroutine: ์ผ์ƒescape: ํƒˆ์ถœํ•˜๋‹คrelaxation: ํœด์‹inspiration: ์˜๊ฐsketch: ์Šค์ผ€์น˜ํ•˜๋‹คlandscapes: ํ’๊ฒฝstruggled: ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถ„ํˆฌํ•˜๋‹คdeadline: ๋งˆ๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ•œanxious: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œwandered: ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋‹คrelished: ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋‹คcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒabsorbed: ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•˜๋‹คelbow: ํŒ”๊ฟˆ์น˜startled: ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ผ๋‹คamazing: ๋†€๋ผ์šดfinished: ์™„์„ฑ๋œimagine: ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๋‹คcharm: ๋งค๋ ฅcomfortable: ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œmoonlit: ๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜์˜friendship: ์šฐ์ •vibrant: ์ƒ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š”momentarily: ์ž ์‹œfigures: ์ธ๋ฌผcapture: ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Reunion: Mending Bonds in the Heart of Seoraksan
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊นŠ๊ณ  ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์‚ฐ์ด ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ์—์›Œ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์ฆˆ๋„‰ํ•œ ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰.
    En: A tranquil cabin surrounded by deep blue mountains.

    Ko: ์„ค์•…์‚ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The autumn of Seoraksan is always special.

    Ko: ์˜จํ†ต ๋ถ‰๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ž€ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“  ์ˆฒ๊ธธ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋™ํ™” ์† ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.
    En: The forest path, painted entirely in red and yellow foliage, looks like a scene from a fairy tale.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์˜ ๋„“์€ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์‚ฐ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ง‘์€ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค.
    En: The mountains visible through the cabin's large windows bring a breath of fresh air to the depths of one's heart.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์ด๊ณณ์— ์™”๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆด ์  ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo visited this place after a long time, planning to reconnect with childhood friends.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One of them was Minjun.

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์ผ์ƒ์— ์น˜์ด๊ณ  ๋ฐ”์œ ๋‚˜๋‚ ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š๋ผ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์€ ์ ์  ๋œธํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Life in Seoul was hectic, gradually diminishing her contact with friends.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ถ”์„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์–ด๋ฆด ์  ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์ƒˆ๋ก์ƒˆ๋ก ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: However, with Chuseok approaching, memories with childhood friends began to resurface.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ„์ ˆํžˆ ์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo deeply longed to see them.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์นซ ํ’€๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ๋„ ๋งˆ์Œ ํ•œ์ผ ์„ ์ง“๋ˆŒ๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: And, somewhat anxiously, unresolved past tensions weighed on her heart.

    Ko: ์ถ”์„ ์—ฐํœด ์ฒซ๋‚ , ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ฒค์น˜์— ์•‰์•„ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ•œ ์ž”์„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ์‚ฐ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    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•Œ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๊ฑธ์–ด์™”๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, Minjun approached from a distance.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์ด์•ผ, ์ง€์ˆ˜์•ผ," ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ํ™˜ํ•œ ์›ƒ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "It's been a while, Jisoo," Minjun greeted with a bright smile.

    Ko: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋‘ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋‹ค.
    En: Other friends arrived one by one, exchanging smiles as they greeted each other.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, a subtle tension lingered.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋จน๊ณ  ์ถ”์„ ๋ฐคํ•˜๋Š˜์˜ ๋‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They cooked and ate together, watching the Chuseok night sky's moon.

    Ko: ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ง๋“ค์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์— ๋งด๋Œ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: During their conversations, the inappropriate words shared between Jisoo and Minjun lingered in her mind.

    Ko: ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์™€์˜ ์„œ๋จนํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™” ์ดํ›„ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ๋ฒฝ์€ ์ ์  ๋†’์•„์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Since their awkward exchange, an invisible wall between their hearts had gradually grown taller.

    Ko: ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‚ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The next day, they went for a hike.

    Ko: ์‚ฐ์˜ ์ •์ƒ์—๋Š” ๋„“์€ ์ „๋ง๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At the top of the mountain was a wide viewing platform.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ง์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As they looked at the scenery, Jisoo decided to let go of her emotional burdens.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ์ข€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?" ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ž…์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Can we talk?" Jisoo spoke up.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์นซํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The friends paused for a moment.

    Ko: "๋ฏผ์ค€, ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ผ. ๋‚˜ ์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด," ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์— ์–นํ˜€ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ง์„ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Minjun, about what happened back then. I'm really sorry," Jisoo finally voiced what had been weighing heavily on her heart.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋™์•ˆ ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋žฌ์–ด. ์„œ๋กœ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด."
    En: After hesitating for a moment, Minjun replied, "I felt the same. I think we misunderstood each other. I'm sorry too."

    Ko: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋„ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์†๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Other friends also started to share their honest feelings.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋“ค๊ณผ ์˜คํ•ด๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ํ’€๋ ค๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Long-standing concerns and misunderstandings gradually unraveled.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์†์„ ์žก๊ณ  ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They held each other's hands and laughed together.

    Ko: ์ฐฌ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‚ด์ง ๋ถˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although the cool breeze gently blew, their hearts felt warm.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €๋…์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Returning to the cabin, they prepared dinner together.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฐ์ • ์—†์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์Œ์‹์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋‹ค.
    En: This time, they laughed and shared delicious food without hidden feelings.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์นจ๋Œ€์— ๋ˆ„์›Œ ๊ณฐ๊ณฐ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That night, lying in bed, Jisoo pondered deeply.

    Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ํ„ธ์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She felt grateful for the ability to shed past wounds and enjoy the present moment.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo was no longer afraid.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต ์†์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As she forged new beginnings from memories with her friends, she felt genuinely happy.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ๋‹จํ’์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ’์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ”ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Like the abundant and warm autumn foliage, their friendship blossomed anew.


    Vocabulary Words:
    tranquil: ๊ณ ์ฆˆ๋„‰ํ•œcabin: ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰surrounded: ์—์›Œ์‹ธ๊ณ foliage: ๋‹จํ’visible: ๋ณด์ด๋Š”reconnect: ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœhectic: ๋ฐ”์œdiminishing: ๋œจ๋ฉ”์กŒ๋‹คresurface: ์ƒˆ๋ก์ƒˆ๋ก ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹คlonged: ๊ฐ„์ ˆํžˆanxiously: ์ž์นซunresolved: ํ’€๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์€tensions: ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐsipping: ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐapproached: ๊ฑธ์–ด์™”๋‹คgreeted: ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คsubtle: ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œlinger: ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹คinappropriate: ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์€awkward: ์„œ๋จนํ•œinvisible: ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”burdens: ์งhesitating: ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹คunraveled: ํ’€๋ ค๊ฐ”๋‹คconcerns: ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๋“คgently: ์‚ด์งforged: ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐblossomed: ํ”ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ abundant: ํ’์„ฑํ•œshed: ํ„ธ์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ 

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rekindling Ties: A Sibling Reunion at Haeundae Beach
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ํ•ด๋ณ€์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ๋ณ๋‹ค.
    En: The beach was bustling with people.

    Ko: ํ•ด์šด๋Œ€์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: Summer in Haeundae was always lively.

    Ko: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์—ฐ์ž๋“ค์ด ์Œ์•…์„ ์—ฐ์ฃผํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์Œ์‹ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ์‹ค๋ ค ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Street performers played music, and the delicious smell of food wafted through the air.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๋ฉฐ ํ•œ ์†์— ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun was making his way through the crowd, holding an ice cream in one hand.

    Ko: ํ•ด๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Every time he went to the beach, he felt happy.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์—ฌ๋™์ƒ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.
    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: ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun and Hana had been close in their childhood.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, after Minjun started working at his company and Hana embarked on a world tour, their communication had dwindled.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ์˜คํ•ด๋„ ์Œ“์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As they led different lives, misunderstandings began to accumulate.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Nonetheless, Minjun still thought about Hana and wanted to repair their relationship this time.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ๊ฐ„ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun took a week off and went to Busan.

    Ko: ๊นœ์ง์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: He planned to surprise Hana by finding her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ•ด๋ณ€ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์˜ ์ž‘์€ ์ปคํ”ผ์ˆ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: He waited for her in a small cafรฉ near the beach.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ธด์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Imagining Hana's arrival, Minjun felt nervous.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‚ด์•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?
    En: Would they be able to talk about how they'd been all these years?

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด, ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: At last, Hana appeared.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€์„ ๋ณด์ž๋งˆ์ž ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
    En: The moment she saw Minjun, she beamed and ran over.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น !" ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: "Oppa!" Her voice was louder than the sound of the sea.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ์•ˆ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun smiled and hugged her tightly.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ํ•ด์•ˆ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They started walking along the shoreline.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์† ๋ชจ์Šต๊ณผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: Seeing Hana after such a long time, she looked different from how Minjun remembered.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ชจํ—˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to hear about her adventures but didn't know how to start.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ํ•ด์šด๋Œ€ ํ•ด๋ณ€์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด ์ถ•์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: That night, there was a fireworks festival at Haeundae Beach.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People looked up at the sky in awe.

    Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ์˜ ๋น›์ด ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋น„์ถ”์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The light from the fireworks illuminated Minjun and Hana's faces.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ์ด์ƒํ•ด," ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Oppa, it's strange how we've been apart for so long," Hana said.

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ํ•˜๋‚˜์•ผ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์นœํ–ˆ๋˜์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜?" ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I feel the same, Hana. Do you remember how close we were when we were young?" Minjun replied.

    Ko: ๋‘˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๊ธด ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ํ˜๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: A long silence passed between them.

    Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ๋…น์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์„๊นŒ?
    En: Had the fireworks melted away the fears in Hana's heart?

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค, "๋‚ด ์—ฌํ–‰์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐ”๋นด์–ด. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋„ ์žŠ์€ ์ ์€ ์—†์–ด."
    En: She spoke, "I've always been busy traveling, but I've never forgotten you."

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋„ ์ผ์—๋งŒ ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด. ๋Š˜ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑธ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด." ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    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: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์ด ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: Their gazes lingered on each other.

    Ko: ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์˜คํ•ด๋„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: In that moment, all misunderstandings and distances disappeared.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ํ•ด๋ณ€๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์œ„์— ์•‰์•„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They sat on the sand and shared their true feelings.

    Ko: "์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋” ์ž์ฃผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ž. ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์ž," ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Let's meet more often from now on. Let's share our lives," Minjun suggested.

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด, ์˜ค๋น . ์ค‘๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ž," ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I want that too, oppa. Let's meet midway," Hana said with a smile.

    Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊นŠ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: As the night deepened, people gradually started heading home.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•ด๋ณ€์— ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์œ„์— ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ์„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But Minjun and Hana stayed on the beach, leaving footprints in the sand as they walked together.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The wind was still warm.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They were now preparing for a new beginning.

    Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์˜คํ•ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Past misunderstandings had vanished, giving way to new understanding.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•จ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๊ณ , ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์„ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun realized the importance of family, and Hana recognized their differences.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๋งŒํผ ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They had grown as much as they had changed.

    Ko: ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋์ž๋ฝ์—์„œ, ํ•ด์šด๋Œ€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋Š” ํ˜•์ œ์˜ ํ™”ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: At the end of this summer, Haeundae's sea stood witness to the siblings' reconciliation.


    Vocabulary Words:
    bustling: ๋ถ๋ณ๋‹คlively: ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐผ๋‹คwafted: ์‹ค๋ ค ์™”๋‹คembarked: ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œdwindled: ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹คmisunderstandings: ์˜คํ•ดaccumulate: ์Œ“์ด๊ธฐnerveous: ๊ธด์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คbeamed: ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒshoreline: ํ•ด์•ˆfireworks: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ดilluminated: ๋น„์ถ”์—ˆ๋‹คlouder: ๋” ํฌ๊ฒŒignorant: ๋ฌด์ง€ํ•œconfessed: ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ–ˆ๋‹คshared: ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ๋‹คfootprints: ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญreconciliation: ํ™”ํ•ดstreet performers: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์—ฐ์ž๋“คcafรฉ: ์ปคํ”ผ์ˆadventures: ๋ชจํ—˜festive: ์ถ•์ œgleamed: ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹คchilly: ์Œ€์Œ€ํ•œrecognize: ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹คlead: ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œreveal: ๋ฐํžˆ๋‹คhesitant: ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹คconsistent: ์ผ๊ด€๋œdistant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Traditions and Friendship: A New Semester's Promise
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ์ ์  ๋ถ‰์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: The sky began to turn redder.

    Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ๋๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Summer was ending, and autumn was approaching.

    Ko: ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์บ ํผ์Šค๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ท€์— ๋‹ฟ์•˜์–ด์š”.
    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: ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ ํ•™๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํžˆ ์›€์ง์˜€๊ณ , ์บ ํผ์Šค๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์–ด์š”.
    En: Students were busily moving with the start of the new semester, and the campus was full of energy.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ ํ•™๊ธฐ์˜ ์ฒซ๋‚ , ๊ฐ•์˜์‹ค๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: On the first day of the new semester, Jisoo headed to the lecture hall.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: It was her first time starting college life far from her hometown.

    Ko: ์„ค๋ ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ถ”์„์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: She was excited but also filled with longing for her family as Chuseok approached.

    Ko: ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ, ๊ฐ™์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค๋˜ ์†กํŽธ, ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: She missed the warm atmosphere of her hometown, her family, and making songpyeon together.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ด๋ฏธ 2ํ•™๋…„์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Minjun was already a sophomore.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•™๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์  ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งŽ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: He had been worried about his grades from the last semester.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•™๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐ์˜ค๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: However, he was determined to start this semester with a fresh mindset.

    Ko: ํŠนํžˆ ํ•™๊ต ์‹ ๊ทœ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์„ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: He especially wanted to help the new students at school.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด ํ—ค๋งค๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ”์–ด์š”.
    En: Seeing Jisoo struggling to find her way, he approached her.

    Ko: โ€œ์ €๊ธฐ, ์–ด๋–ค ๋„์›€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์„ธ์š”?โ€
    En: โ€œExcuse me, do you need any help?โ€

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ์•„, ๋„ค! ๊ฐ•์˜์‹ค ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”โ€ฆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋‚˜์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”.
    En: Startled, Jisoo responded, โ€œOh, yes! I was looking for the lecture hallโ€ฆ Is this the right place?โ€

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ง€๋„ ์•ฑ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œ๋„ค, ์ €๋„ ๊ทธ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด์—์š”! ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€์š”,โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Minjun looked at his map app and smiled, โ€œYes, Iโ€™m headed that way too! Letโ€™s go together.โ€

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: As they walked together, the two naturally began to talk.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ์„ค๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šฌํ”„๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Jisoo shared that with Chuseok coming up, she felt both excited and sad.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋„ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€์–ด์š”.
    En: Minjun understood, having not seen his family for a long time either.

    Ko: โ€œ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ง์— ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ์ถ”์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์—ด๋ ค์š”. ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐˆ๋ž˜์š”?โ€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: โ€œThis weekend, the school is holding a Chuseok event. Would you like to join me?โ€ Minjun suggested.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ง์„ค์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ๊ฝค ์ข‹๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Jisoo hesitated but thought it was a good idea.

    Ko: ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ์บ ํผ์Šค๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋„˜์ณค์–ด์š”.
    En: In celebration of Chuseok, the campus was even more lively.

    Ko: ํ•™์ƒํšŒ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ์˜์ƒ์„ ์ž…๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต ๋†€์ด์™€ ์Œ์‹์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: The student council dressed in traditional attire and prepared various Korean traditional games and foods.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜์™€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์†กํŽธ๋„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒผ์–ด์š”.
    En: Jisoo and Minjun participated in the event, made songpyeon, and enjoyed games like jegichagi.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ €๋…, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์•‰์•„์„œ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์–ด์š”.
    En: That evening, the two sat down and shared their stories.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋…์„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Jisoo talked about her memories with her family, while Minjun talked about his worries and beliefs.

    Ko: โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•„. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—์„œ๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?โ€ ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋ ˆ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: โ€œI don't want to lose our traditions. Can we keep them alive here?โ€ Jisoo asked with concern.

    Ko: โ€œ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง€! ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋„ ์ž‘์€ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€์ž,โ€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ™•์‹ ์— ์ฐจ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: โ€œOf course! We create them ourselves. Even if it's just between us, let's continue our small traditions,โ€ Minjun replied confidently.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—์„œ ์œ„๋กœ์™€ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜์–ด์š”.
    En: They found comfort and courage in each other's words.

    Ko: ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ฆˆ์Œ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ง€์ˆ˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ์†กํŽธ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ค๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ด๊ฑด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด์•ผ. ์ถ”์„์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์ž. ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜์ธ ๊ฑธ๋กœ,โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    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 weโ€™re apart, our hearts will be together."

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์–ด์š”. โ€œ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ์ด์   ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์กŒ์–ด.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: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ง์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์ด ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋น›๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์–ด์š”.
    En: Hearing her words, Minjun realized that each culture and tradition can shine in its own place.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜์™€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ด์ œ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‘์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Jisoo and Minjun were no longer just college acquaintances but warm friends who understood and supported each other.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒˆ ํ•™๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋ง์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์–ด์š”.
    En: With the beginning of autumn, their new semester was filled with hope.


    Vocabulary Words:
    semester: ํ•™๊ธฐrustling: ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”excited: ์„ค๋ ˆ๋‹คlonging: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜๋‹คhometown: ๊ณ ํ–ฅapproaching: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋‹คChuseok: ์ถ”์„warm atmosphere: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐparticipated: ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹คtraditional: ์ „ํ†ตevent: ํ–‰์‚ฌlecture hall: ๊ฐ•์˜์‹คsophomore: 2ํ•™๋…„determined: ๊ฐ์˜คstruggling: ํ—ค๋งค๋‹คsuggested: ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹คhesitated: ๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹คcelebration: ๋งž์•„memories: ์ถ”์–ตbeliefs: ์‹ ๋…concern: ๊ฑฑ์ •create: ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹คlively: ํ™œ๊ธฐacquaintances: ๋™๋ฃŒcomfort: ์œ„๋กœcourage: ์šฉ๊ธฐwinding down: ๋๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ฆˆ์Œsongpyeon: ์†กํŽธattire: ์˜์ƒshine: ๋น›๋‚˜๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blooming Bonds: A Tale of Friendship and Hope in Seoul
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ณ‘์›์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ๋ณ๋‹ค.
    En: A summer hospital in Seoul was bustling with people.

    Ko: ๋ฐ–์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฝƒ์ด ์ค„์ง€์–ด ํ”ผ์–ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ณ‘์› ์•ˆ์€ ๋ƒ‰๋ฐฉ์ด ์ž˜ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Outside, lotus flowers were in full bloom, but inside the hospital, it was well air-conditioned.

    Ko: ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์‹ค์—์„œ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In the waiting room, Ji-ho and Min-seo sat side by side.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฒ€์ง„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Ji-ho was waiting for his health check-up results.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒ‰์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although his mind was uneasy, he quietly waited on the outside.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Min-seo observed Ji-ho's demeanor.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ์˜ค๋žœ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: She had been friends with him for a long time, but this time was a bit different.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ž๊พธ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์ด ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Unconsciously, her gaze kept returning to Ji-ho.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํž˜๋“ค์–ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She could sense his distress without him saying a word.

    Ko: "์ง€ํ˜ธ์•ผ, ์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„?" ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์‚ด๋ฉฐ์‹œ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Ji-ho, have you been okay lately?" Min-seo asked softly.

    Ko: โ€œ์‘, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„.โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์งง๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋–จ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: "Yeah, I'm okay," Ji-ho answered briefly. But his voice had a slight tremor.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ˜๋ €๋‹ค. ๋ณ‘์› ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์‹ค์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Time passed. The hospital waiting room was still bustling.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์šธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์‹ค์„ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People were rushing around, phones were ringing, and nurses moved back and forth across the room.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Ji-ho kept checking his phone repeatedly.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ „ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, a call came through.

    Ko: ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง‘์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์นซํ•œ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Hesitating momentarily, Ji-ho picked up the phone and answered it.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜†์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Min-seo sat quietly by his side.

    Ko: ํ†ตํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ์ง์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She couldn't hear the conversation, but she could guess everything from Ji-ho's expression.

    Ko: ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋Š์€ ํ›„, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฏผ์„œ์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: After ending the call, Ji-ho took a deep breath and turned his gaze to Min-seo.

    Ko: "๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”์–ด," ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "The results are in," Ji-ho said.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋ฌต๋ฌตํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋งํ• ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Min-seo waited silently, anticipating what Ji-ho would say.

    Ko: "๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Œ€. ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์•„์งˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜." ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ์˜ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์ด ๋ฌป์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹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: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์†์„ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค. "์ •๋ง ๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋‹ค, ์ง€ํ˜ธ์•ผ. ๋„ˆ ์ •๋ง ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ–ˆ์–ด."
    En: Min-seo smiled and took Ji-ho's hand. "I'm really glad, Ji-ho. I was so worried about you."

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค. ๋๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ ๋‘์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฑฑ์ •์„ ๋ฏผ์„œ์—๊ฒŒ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Ji-ho nodded. As he concluded, he confessed his hidden fears to Min-seo.

    Ko: "์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ •๋ง ๋ฌด์„œ์› ์–ด. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์ ๊นŒ ๋ด."
    En: "To be honest, I was really scared. Afraid that the results would be bad."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ, "ํž˜๋“ค ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ฐ™์ด ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์•ผ์ง€. ๋‚˜๋„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋„ˆ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์„๊ฒŒ."๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Min-seo nodded sympathetically. "When things are tough, we should share. I'll always be by your side," she said.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๋œ๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์„œ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In the end, Ji-ho relieved his heart's burden and opened up to Min-seo.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Their hearts grew closer to each other.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Ji-ho learned how to rely on someone else.

    Ko: ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜†์— ๋Š˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„.
    En: He realized how important it is to lean on someone at times and that this person had always been by his side.

    Ko: ๋ณ‘์› ๋ฐ–, ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Outside the hospital, the summer sun shone brightly.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๊ฝƒ์ด ๋”์šฑ๋” ์ƒ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ”ผ์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The lotus flowers bloomed more vibrantly.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ์˜†์—์„œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Ji-ho smiled next to Min-seo.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A new day was beginning.


    Vocabulary Words:
    bustling: ๋ถ๋น„๋‹คbloom: ํ”ผ๋‹คdemeanor: ๋ˆˆ์น˜uneasy: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹คtremor: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋‹คhesitating: ๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹คanticipating: ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋‹คrelief: ์•ˆ์‹ฌconfessed: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๋‹คsympathetically: ๋™์ •์ ์œผ๋กœlean: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋‹คvibrantly: ์ƒ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒrely: ์˜์ง€ํ•˜๋‹คdistress: ๊ณ ํ†ตconcluded: ๋๋‚ด๋‹คburden: ๋ถ€๋‹ดunconsciously: ์ž์‹ ๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒgaze: ๋ˆˆ๊ธธaffection: ์• ์ •momentarily: ์ž ์‹œnurses: ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋“คimprove: ์ข‹์•„์ง€๋‹คsense: ๋Š๋ผ๋‹คsympathize: ๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜๋‹คintuitively: ์ง๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœcheck-up: ๊ฒ€์ง„fortunately: ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆhidden: ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„quietly: ์กฐ์šฉํžˆobserved: ์‚ดํ”ผ๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Facing Fears and Friendship: A Rocky Mountain Journey
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋ง‘๊ณ  ์ฒญ๋ช…ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋‚ , ์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง€, ํ˜„์€ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋กํ‚ค ์‚ฐ๋งฅ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ’์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    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€ ์žฅ์—„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด‘ํ™œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The mountains were majestic and vast.

    Ko: ํŒŒ๋ž—๊ฒŒ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์ˆฒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์ง€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๊ธธ์€ ํƒํ—˜์˜ ์„ค๋ ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The rugged path cutting through the green forest under the blue sky was filled with the excitement of exploration.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์€ ๋งˆ์Œ ํ•œ๊ตฌ์„์ด ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: However, in one corner of his heart, Jin felt a flutter of anxiety.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋†’์€ ๊ณณ์ด ๋ฌด์„œ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: He was afraid of heights.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He hadn't told anyone.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ๋™์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Today, he wanted to impress his friends.

    Ko: ์ง„์˜ ๊ณ์—๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Beside Jin was Minji.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ฒ ์ €ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji was always practical and thoroughly prepared.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ์ง„์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: She looked at Jin with a concerned expression.

    Ko: "๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„? ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋ผ," ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Are you okay? Don't push yourself too hard," Minji said.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jin nodded with a smile.

    Ko: "๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„. ๋‚˜๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด," ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I'm fine. I can do this," he replied.

    Ko: ์‚ฐ์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์ฏค, ์ ์  ๊ธธ์€ ๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: About halfway up the mountain, the path became increasingly steep.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์‚ด๋ž‘์‚ด๋ž‘ ๋ถˆ์–ด์™”๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์ €๊ท์ด ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: A gentle breeze blew, and the chirping of birds could be heard.

    Ko: ํ˜„์€ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hyun walked on, feeling the heavy burden of responsibility.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: He hoped that all his classmates would finish the trip safely.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์†๋งˆ์Œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๋™์•ˆ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, deep down, he wished he could lay down that burden, if only for a moment.

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฐ ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ฅธ ๊ธธ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, they reached the steepest path leading to the mountain's peak.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ๋ฐœ์ด ๋•…์—์„œ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jin's feet seemed glued to the ground.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He shut his eyes tightly.

    Ko: "์ง„!" ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€ ํ˜„์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์–‘์˜†์— ์„œ์„œ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Jin!" Minji and Hyun said, standing on either side of him.

    Ko: "์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ํ•ด๋„ ๋ผ. ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„," ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์†์‚ญ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: "You can take it slow. It's alright," they whispered gently.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์ˆจ์„ ๋“ค์ด๋งˆ์…จ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin took a deep breath.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ๊ท€์— ๋‹ฟ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: His friends' encouragement reached his ears.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚ด๋”›์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He cautiously took a step forward.

    Ko: ํ•œ ๊ฑธ์Œ, ๋‘ ๊ฑธ์Œ, ์†์— ๋•€์ด ๋ฐฐ์–ด๋‚˜๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One step, then two, and although his hands were sweating, he kept walking.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ •์ƒ์— ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: And finally, he reached the peak together with them.

    Ko: ์ •์ƒ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ๊ด‘๊ฒฝ์€ ๋†€๋ผ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: The view unfolding below the summit was breathtaking.

    Ko: ๋„“๊ฒŒ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ๋กํ‚ค ์‚ฐ๋งฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: They could see the expansive Rocky Mountains and beyond.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ–‡์‚ด์— ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Everything was shining under the sunlight.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ง„์€ ์ž‘์€ ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•จ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: In that moment, Jin felt a small sense of accomplishment and realized the importance of his friends.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ง„์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„์€ ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji smiled at Jin, and Hyun fully enjoyed the moment.

    Ko: ์ด ์†Œํ’์€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: This field trip left an important lesson for everyone.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ํž˜์„ ์•Œ์•˜๋‹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 ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๋กํ‚ค ์‚ฐ๋งฅ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The three friends laughed together, understanding one another more, in a friendship as special as the Rocky Mountain scenery.


    Vocabulary Words:
    majestic: ์žฅ์—„ํ•œvast: ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•œrugged: ๊ฑฐ์นœflutter: ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹คanxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆpractical: ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธthoroughly: ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆconcerned: ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šดincreasingly: ์ ์ steep: ๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ฅธbreeze: ๋ฐ”๋žŒchirping: ์ง€์ €๊ทburden: ๋ถ€๋‹ดresponsibility: ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐreached: ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คtake it slow: ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ํ•ด๋„ ๋ผsteadfast: ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒaccomplishment: ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐunfolding: ํŽผ์ณ์ง„expansive: ๋„“๊ฒŒsummit: ์ •์ƒbreathtaking: ๋†€๋ผ์šดencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คlet go: ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๋‹คappreciate: ๋Š๋ผ๋‹คvalue: ๊ฐ€์น˜facing: ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๋Š”understanding: ์ดํ•ดspecial: ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Seoul's Reunion: Siblings Rediscover Family at Gyeongbokgung
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ๋‚ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a day when the summer sun warmly shone down on Seoul, Gyeongbokgung Palace was bustling with tourists.

    Ko: ์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์›…์žฅํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ทธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์„œ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The grand buildings from the Joseon Dynasty still proudly stood, showcasing their beauty.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Today was a special day.

    Ko: ์„ธ ๋‚จ๋งค, ์ง€ํ›ˆ, ์ˆ˜์˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ค€, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The three siblings, Jihoon, Sooyoung, and Minjun, were meeting at Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon arrived first.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ถ๊ถ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Quietly walking around the palace, he became lost in deep thought.

    Ko: ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ์ดํ˜ผ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๋งค๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After their parents divorced during childhood, the siblings were separated.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ฌถ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Now an adult, Jihoon wanted to unite his family once more.

    Ko: ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์•ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ์ˆ˜์˜์ด ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: With a heavy heart, he saw Sooyoung coming from afar.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น !" ์ˆ˜์˜์ด ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ์†์„ ํ”๋“ค๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: "Oppa!" Sooyoung cheerfully waved her hand and approached.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์˜์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ค‘์žฌ์ž ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๊ฐ€ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: She always played the role of mediator in the family, wishing everyone to be happy.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น , ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์ด์•ผ!" ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Oppa, it's been a while!" she said with a bright smile.

    Ko: "๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์ •๋ง ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘๋‹ค." ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Yeah, it's really great to see you," Jihoon replied with a smile.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ํ•œํŽธ์—๋Š” ์•„์ง ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, there was still an unspoken story lingering in a corner of their hearts.

    Ko: ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํ›„, ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ข€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ๊ฑธ์–ด์™”๋‹ค.
    En: A little later, Minjun arrived, maintaining some distance as he walked over.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฌป์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A hint of anxiety was visible on his face.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ์ดํ˜ผ ํ›„๋กœ ๋” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun had been independent from a young age and became even more distant after their parents' divorce.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํŽธํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์ด ์ด์–ด์ง„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although he found comfort in distance, deep down, he longed for a connection.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•." ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์งง๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hi," Minjun greeted shortly.

    Ko: ํ˜•๊ณผ ๋ˆ„๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์—๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: His siblings understood his demeanor, knowing how important this moment was to him.

    Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ์ •์›์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‹๋ฉฐ, ์ง€ํ›ˆ์ด ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์„ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Strolling through the palace gardens, Jihoon was the first to speak.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ... ์˜ˆ์ „ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ•ด๋ณผ๊นŒ?" ๊ทธ๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Shall we... talk about the past?" he said cautiously.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์˜์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Sooyoung nodded.

    Ko: "๋„ค, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์š”. ์•„๋น ์™€ ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ์š”."
    En: "Yes, we do remember those times. Dad and Mom always loved us."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์นซํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun hesitated for a moment.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋‚˜๋Š”... ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์–ด.
    En: Taking a deep breath, he said, "Back then, everything was so confusing to me.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋„ˆํฌ์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋’€์–ด."
    En: That's why I distanced myself from you both."

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์ดํ•ด์˜ ๋ˆˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋™์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon looked at his brother with understanding eyes.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์ž–์•„.
    En: "If we can't be together, the meaning of family is lost.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด."
    En: Now, I want us to understand each other."

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์˜์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฏผ์ค€์˜ ์†์„ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Sooyoung warmly took Minjun's hand.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด์ž. ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด."
    En: "Let's start anew. Family is always together."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun hesitated briefly, then nodded.

    Ko: "๋ฏธ์•ˆํ–ˆ์–ด. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ. ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด."
    En: "I'm sorry. And thank you. I need family too."

    Ko: ์„ธ ๋‚จ๋งค๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ •์› ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.
    En: The three siblings became one again in the beautiful gardens of Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์ด์ œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฎ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Their hearts were now ready to move beyond past wounds and towards the future.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์†์„ ์žก๊ณ  ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Holding each other's hands and smiling brightly, they promised a new beginning.

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ์›…์žฅํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์žฌํšŒ์™€ ํ™”ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ถ•๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The magnificent architecture of Gyeongbokgung seemed to bless their reunion and reconciliation.


    Vocabulary Words:
    bustling: ๋ถ์ ์ด๋Š”grand: ์›…์žฅํ•œproudly: ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐsibling: ๋‚จ๋งคdivorced: ์ดํ˜ผunite: ๋ฌถ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹คmediate: ์ค‘์žฌ์žlingering: ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š”anxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐindependent: ๋…๋ฆฝ์ demeanor: ํƒœ๋„strolling: ๊ฑฐ๋‹๋ฉฐcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒunderstanding: ์ดํ•ด์˜reconciliation: ํ™”ํ•ดmagnificent: ์›…์žฅํ•œconfusing: ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์–ดdistant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋‹คcomfort: ํŽธํ–ˆ๋‹คmediator: ์ค‘์žฌ์žgesture: ์†์ง“murmur: ์†์‚ญ์ž„compromise: ํƒ€ํ˜‘blessing: ์ถ•๋ณตhesitated: ๋ง์„ค์ด๋‹คapproached: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹คdistant: ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋‹คprofound: ๊นŠ์€separated: ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คpromise: ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Love and Craft: How Art United Two Souls in Insadong
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋‚  ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์˜ ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์˜ค์ „, ์ง„์€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค.
    En: On a sunny summer morning in Insadong, Jin stepped onto the street with a mix of emotions.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณง ์žˆ์„ ์ „์‹œํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์ด ํ•˜์–˜์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He needed to prepare for an upcoming exhibition, but his mind had gone blank.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๊ณณ์ด ๋”ฑ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In such moments, a lively place like Insadong was perfect.

    Ko: ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ๊ณต์˜ˆํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง„์€ ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The streets of Insadong were vibrant with traditional crafts, and Jin hoped to find some special inspiration there.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ชฝ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the opposite side, Soo was walking down the street.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™” ์œ ์‚ฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ฑ…์„ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๊ผญ ํƒํ—˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was writing a book about Korean cultural heritage, and Insadong was a place she absolutely had to explore.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋„์ž๊ธฐ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As she researched the history of pottery, she sought out the stories each piece held.

    Ko: ์ง„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚ , ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์ž‘์€ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ ์ƒ์  ์•ž์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋‹ค.
    En: Jin and Soo both stopped in front of a small pottery shop at the same time, on the same day.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์•ž์— ์„œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They happened to stand before the same pottery piece.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ํŒŒ๋ž€์ƒ‰์„ ๋ ๊ณ , ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฌผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The piece was a deep blue, shining like a tranquil river.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ฐํƒ„์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฑ‰์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They both uttered words of admiration simultaneously.

    Ko: ์ง„์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์ด ๋„์ž๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๋„ค์š”. ์ด ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์€ ์ •๋ง ๋…ํŠนํ•ด์š”."
    En: Jin said, "This pottery is truly beautiful. The form and the color are really unique."

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์”จ์ต ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋งž์•„์š”, ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์•„๋งˆ ์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ •๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋„ค์š”."
    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: ์ง„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋„์ž๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin and Soo began discussing the pottery.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์—ด์ •๊ณผ ์ง€์‹์— ๊ฐ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They were impressed by each other's passion and knowledge.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ, ๋‘˜์€ ๊ทธ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, they decided to collaborate on a project centered around the pottery.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฑ…์— ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Jin would create a new piece inspired by it, and Soo would document the process to include it in her book.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: As they helped each other focus on their respective projects, they naturally grew closer.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ์ˆ˜์˜ ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ง„์˜ ์ฐฝ์˜๋ ฅ์„ ์กด๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin learned from Soo's flexible approach, while Soo came to admire Jin's creativity.

    Ko: ๋„์ž๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ด์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Their collaboration through pottery exceeded their expectations.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ง„์€ ์ „์‹œํšŒ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์„ ์ถœํŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, Jin successfully held his exhibition, and Soo published her book.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์„ฑ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They attended each other's events, celebrating their achievements.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์ธ์ƒ์— ํฌ๋‚˜ํฐ ์ „ํ™˜์ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They realized that the time spent together had become a significant turning point in each of their lives.

    Ko: ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ง„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์šฐ์ •์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.
    En: Thus, Jin and Soo's friendship that began in Insadong blossomed into love.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์‚ถ ์†์— ๊นŠ์ˆ™์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: They inspired each other and became deeply involved in each other's lives.

    Ko: ๋„์ž๊ธฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Their relationship was as solid and beautiful as pottery.


    Vocabulary Words:
    exhibition: ์ „์‹œํšŒinspiration: ์˜๊ฐheritage: ์œ ์‚ฐpottery: ๋„์ž๊ธฐtranquil: ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œadmiration: ๊ฐํƒ„unique: ๋…ํŠนํ•œinfluences: ์˜ํ–ฅfascinating: ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šดpassion: ์—ด์ •knowledge: ์ง€์‹collaborate: ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹คcentered: ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œflexible: ์œ ์—ฐํ•œapproach: ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹creativity: ์ฐฝ์˜๋ ฅexceeded: ์ดˆ๊ณผํ–ˆ๋‹คexpectations: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€achievements: ์„ฑ์ทจsignificant: ํฌ๋‚˜ํฐturning point: ์ „ํ™˜์ blossomed: ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹คinvolved: ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹คsolid: ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•œemotions: ๋งˆ์Œblank: ํ•˜์–˜์ง€๋Š”vibrant: ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”crafts: ๊ณต์˜ˆํ’ˆdocument: ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋‹คeventually: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Stormy Journey: Embracing Collaboration and Recognition
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์„ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo stared out the window, lost in deep thought.

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฒˆํ™”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—… ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค, ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๋“ค์ด ์ฆ๋น„ํ•œ ๋„์‹œ ์ „๋ง์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์‹œ์•ผ์— ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค.
    En: The bustling corporate offices of Seoul, with skyscrapers lined up, filled his view.

    Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์ฐฝ์— ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ๋˜์–ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋น›์„ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The hot summer sun reflected off the window, casting a warm light into the office.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜†์ž๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์†Œ์—ฐ์ด ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๊ฐ“ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ž…์‚ฌํ•œ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋œ ์ธ์žฌ๋กœ, ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seoyeon sat next to him, a newly recruited talent in the company, always brimming with fresh ideas.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That day was the day they were to represent the company on a business trip to Busan.

    Ko: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฏธํŒ…์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ์ค€๋น„ ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: An important business meeting was scheduled, and Seoyeon was preparing a new project proposal.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Jinwoo felt as if his achievements were not being recognized.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ผํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Despite working hard, he felt unnoticed and weighed down.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆด๊นŒ ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was worried that Seoyeon's proposal might overshadow his efforts.

    Ko: ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ฐจ ์•ˆ, ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํญํ’์ด ๋ชฐ์•„์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: On the train to Busan, a summer storm raged outside.

    Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ๋ฌด์„œ์šด ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The rain and wind howled loudly.

    Ko: ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฐ”๋žŒ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋Šฆ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Because of the storm, the train was delayed.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo sighed.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He knew Seoyeon's proposal would bring significant changes to the company.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์‹œ๋ ๊นŒ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: However, he was concerned that his contributions might be overlooked.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ, ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally arriving in Busan, the meeting room was already set up.

    Ko: ํšŒ์˜๋Š” ๊ณง ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The meeting soon began.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์—ด์ •์ด ๋ฌป์–ด๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: Seoyeon confidently presented her proposal, her voice full of passion.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํ”๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo's heart wavered as he listened to her.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was clear that Seoyeon's ideas would greatly benefit the company.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ์ •์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: The moment of decision arrived.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ด์ต์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: After a brief hesitation, Jinwoo realized that Seoyeon's proposal could also be beneficial to him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜ ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He stood up and expressed his support for Seoyeon's ideas.

    Ko: "์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."
    En: "Seoyeon's idea will bring positive changes for our entire team. I will actively support it."

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ง์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์„ญ๊ฒŒ, ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์—๋Š” ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: As soon as he finished speaking, applause and praise erupted in the meeting room.

    Ko: ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ํ›„, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์†Œ์—ฐ๊ณผ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: After the meeting, Jinwoo met eyes with Seoyeon.

    Ko: "๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”, ์ง„์šฐ ์”จ. ๋•๋ถ„์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”." ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ๋ค ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Thank you, Jinwoo. I couldn't have succeeded without you," she said with a smiling face.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ํ™”๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo returned her smile.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŒ€์›Œํฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He realized the importance of teamwork.

    Ko: ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Cooperation could make individual efforts shine even brighter.

    Ko: ์ด๋‚  ์ดํ›„ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋” ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: From that day on, Jinwoo became more open-minded about collaborating with others.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ, ๋น„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ„ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That summer day, the journey of the two, pushing through the storm, became a valuable experience for both.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์—ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo finally received recognition, and his relationship with Seoyeon grew much stronger.

    Ko: ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์„ ๋‚˜์„œ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ๋‘˜์€ ๋” ํฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As they left the meeting room, the two were ready to move towards larger goals.


    Vocabulary Words:
    bustling: ๋ฒˆํ™”ํ•œskyscrapers: ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๋“คreflect: ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ๋˜๋‹คbrimming: ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจrepresent: ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋‹คproposal: ์ œ์•ˆovershadow: ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋‹คstorm: ํญํ’raged: ๋ชฐ์•„์ณค๋‹คdelayed: ๋Šฆ์–ด์ง€๋‹คsignificant: ํฐoverlooked: ๋ฌด์‹œ๋˜๋‹คpassion: ์—ด์ •wavered: ํ”๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹คbenefit: ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋‹คhesitation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผsupport: ์ง€์ง€applause: ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜praise: ์ฐฌ์‚ฌrecognition: ์ธ์ •collaborating: ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š”valuable: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œexperience: ๊ฒฝํ—˜unnoticed: ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”weighed down: ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šดhowled: ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹คpassionately: ์—ด์ •์ด ๋ฌป์–ด๋‚˜๋‹คentire: ๋ชจ๋‘expressed: ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹คcooperation: ํ˜‘๋ ฅ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Hidden Allergies and Friendship: A Day at the Flower Farm
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    fluentfiction.org/hidden-allergies-and-friendship-a-day-at-the-flower-farm

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฝƒ ๋†์žฅ์€ ์ƒ‰๊น”์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The flower farm is a world of colors.

    Ko: ๋ฌด์ง€๊ฐœ ๊ฐ™์ด ์˜ˆ์œ ๊ฝƒ๋“ค์ด ๋•… ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ํŽผ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: Beautiful flowers like a rainbow stretch out to the horizon.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ํ‘ธ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํƒœ์–‘์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The sky is blue, and the sun is warm.

    Ko: ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์ ˆ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด๊ณณ์— ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On Korea's Liberation Day, I came here with my friend Minho.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho and I have been friends since childhood.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‹๋ฌผํ•™์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho works here, and I am a botanist.

    Ko: ๊ฝƒ๋“ค์€ ๋‚˜์˜ ์—ด์ •์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด ์†์— ์ˆจ์€ ์ ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฝƒ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Flowers are my passion, but I have a hidden enemy within me: a pollen allergy.

    Ko: ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์•ฝ์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Since morning, I've been carrying allergy medication.

    Ko: ๋ฌธ์ œ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: I thought it would be fine.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ , ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I wanted to spend time with Minho and collect samples for my research.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋‚ด ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์‹ซ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho doesn't know about my allergy, so I didn't want to mention it.

    Ko: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์™„๋ฒฝํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
    En: At first, everything was perfect.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์›ƒ๊ณ , ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: We laughed and talked.

    Ko: ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฝƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: We marveled at the beautiful flowers.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚ ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ฝ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ„์ง€๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But as time went on, my nose started to itch.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ด ๋‚˜์™”์–ด์š”.
    En: Tears came to my eyes.

    Ko: ๋‚˜์˜ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์•…ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: My condition worsened.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Still, I decided not to tell Minho.

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I kept enduring it.

    Ko: ๊ตฌ์„์— ํฌ๊ท€ํ•œ ๊ฝƒ์ด ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In the corner, I spotted a rare flower.

    Ko: ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ๋˜ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๊ฝƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was exactly what I had been searching for.

    Ko: ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
    En: I had been waiting for this moment.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ˆˆ์€ ์ ์  ๋ถ€์–ด์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But my eyes were swelling, and it became hard to breathe.

    Ko: ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋„ ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ์›€์ง์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”.
    En: My mind was telling me to run, but my legs and heart wouldn't move.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, Minho found me.

    Ko: "์ง€์ˆ˜์•ผ, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„?" ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ • ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Jisoo, are you okay?" he asked with a worried look.

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ €์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I shook my head vigorously.

    Ko: "๊ฝƒ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ... ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด..." ๋‚ด ์ž…์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Pollen... sorry..." were the words that came out of my mouth.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ์žฌ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋Š˜๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์•ฝ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ค์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho quickly moved me to the shade of a tree and handed me water and medicine.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ์‰ฌ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: We rested for a while.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด.
    En: Minho looked at me and smiled, saying, "You should've told me.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ์ž–์•„.
    En: We're friends.

    Ko: ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„."
    En: It's okay."

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•ˆ๋„๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I felt a mixture of regret and relief.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์˜ ๋„์›€์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ˜ํ”Œ์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Thanks to Minho's help, I was able to safely collect the samples.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: And I learned an important lesson:

    Ko: ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์•ฝ์ ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋„์›€์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .
    En: sometimes, acknowledging your weaknesses and asking for help is the strongest choice you can make.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๋” ๊นŠ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Our friendship grew deeper.

    Ko: ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ณ  ๊ฝƒ ๋†์žฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The sun set, and the flower farm remained beautiful.

    Ko: ๋‚ด์ผ์€ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‚ ์ด๊ฒ ์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ, ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ์†์— ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋‚จ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ต์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Tomorrow will be another day, but today will remain a lasting memory in my heart.


    Vocabulary Words:
    botanist: ์‹๋ฌผํ•™์žhorizon: ๋•… ๋allergy: ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐmedication: ์•ฝsamples: ์ƒ˜ํ”Œitch: ๊ฐ„์ง€๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง€๋‹คswelling: ๋ถ€์–ด์˜ค๋ฅด๋‹คbreathe: ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๋‹คvigorous: ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒacknowledge: ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋‹คweaknesses: ์•ฝ์ shade: ๊ทธ๋Š˜regret: ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•จendure: ์ฐธ๋‹คrare: ํฌ๊ท€ํ•œremained: ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆhidden: ์ˆจ์€enemy: ์ passion: ์—ด์ •marveled: ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹คcondition: ์ƒํƒœmixture: ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋ฌผrelief: ์•ˆ๋„๊ฐdiscovered: ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹คclimax: ์ ˆ์ •allergy medication: ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์•ฝcollect: ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋‹คsafe: ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒmoment: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„lesson: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Friendship in the Shadows of an Underground Bunker
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ง€ํ•˜ ๋ฒ™์ปค์˜ ๋ฌธ์ด ์ฒ ์ปฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The door of the underground bunker clicked open.

    Ko: ํ–‡๋น› ํ•œ ์คŒ ์—†๋Š” ๊ณณ, ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๋“ค์ˆจ๊ณผ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆจ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a place devoid of any sunlight, filled only with the quiet sounds of breathing.

    Ko: ์ง€์Šน๋ Œ๋“œ์ง€์›์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•ด, ์ˆ˜์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์บ ํ”„ ์ค€๋น„๋ผ๋„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ๋„๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹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: ์ง€์ง€์›์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ์žก์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon wanted to gather various things to quell the anxiety in his heart.

    Ko: ์นจ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ชฉ๋ก์„ ๊บผ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ, ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์•„.
    En: He calmly took out a list and murmured, "We have a lot to prepare.

    Ko: ๋น„์ƒ์‹๋Ÿ‰, ๋ฌผ, ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ, ์‘๊ธ‰์ฒ˜์น˜ ์ƒ์ž..." ํ•˜๊ณ  ์Š์กฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—” ์ง„์ง€ํ•จ์ด ์„œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Emergency food, water, batteries, first aid kit..." His face bore a serious expression.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์›ƒ์Œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  "์ง€๊ธˆ์ด '์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋'์ด ์˜จ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์ž–์•„.
    En: However, Sujin maintained her smile, saying playfully, "It's not like the 'end of the world' has arrived.

    Ko: ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ด.
    En: Try to think a little more relaxed.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ฒ™์ปค์— ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€!" ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฅ๋‚œ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: We're in a bunker, so we're safe, right?"

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์›์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—์„œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, something burst inside Jiwon.

    Ko: "์ˆ˜์ง„, ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋†๋‹ด๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ.
    En: "Sujin, this isn't a joke.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด.
    En: We need to prepare seriously.

    Ko: ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜์–ด?"
    En: Who could have known things would turn out like this?"

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ง์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin was momentarily at a loss for words.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์ง€์›, ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ๋‹ค ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ.
    En: Watching them, Minho gently spoke, "Jiwon, it's important to prepare everything, but don't worry too much.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ ๋•๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ์•ผ."
    En: The reason we're here is to help each other."

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon realized something profound at that moment.

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์˜ ๋ง์€ ์ข€ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ดํ•ด๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho's words resonated deeply with him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He had thought he had to handle everything on his own, but he could rely on his friends.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: His mind calmed.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก๊ณ  ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์งฐ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, the three of them took their places and reorganized their plan.

    Ko: ํ•„์š” ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ œ์ณ๋‘๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ณจ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: They set aside what was unnecessary and selected what was important.

    Ko: ์ง€์ง€์›์€ ์ˆจ์„ ๋“ค์ด์‰ฐ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon took a deep breath.

    Ko: "๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด, ์ˆ˜์ง„.
    En: "I'm sorry, Sujin.

    Ko: ๋„ˆ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋„ ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์–ด.
    En: We needed your approach too.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด."
    En: We all need each other."

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ "๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„, ๋˜๋‹ค์‹œ ๋†๋‹ดํ•  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ!"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll joke again!"

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹ธ๋ฉฐ "์ข‹์•„, ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์ž."๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: With his arms around both friendsโ€™ shoulders, Minho said, "Alright, let's move on to the next step."

    Ko: ์ง€ํ•˜ ๋ฒ™์ปค์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ €๋ฌผ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Though the day in the underground bunker faded away, their friendship grew stronger.

    Ko: ์ง€์ง€์›์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon was grateful to have someone to share his inner anxieties with.

    Ko: ์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•œ ์œ ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The three friends acknowledged and accepted each other's differences, building another solid bond under this sky.

    Ko: ์ด๋กœ์จ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ค€๋น„๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Thus, even if their preparations weren't perfect, they could feel reassured.


    Vocabulary Words:
    underground: ์ง€ํ•˜bunker: ๋ฒ™์ปคdevoid: ์—†๋Š”quell: ์žก์œผ๋ ค๊ณ anxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆmurmured: ์Š์กฐ๋ ธ๋‹คemergency: ๋น„์ƒbatteries: ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌfirst aid kit: ์‘๊ธ‰์ฒ˜์น˜ ์ƒ์žserious: ์ง„์ง€ํ•จplayfully: ์žฅ๋‚œ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒburst: ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹คprofound: ์‹ค๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹คresonated: ์ดํ•ด๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คrely: ์˜์ง€ํ• reorganized: ๋‹ค์‹œ ์งฐ๋‹คset aside: ์ œ์ณ๋‘๋‹คunnecessary: ํ•„์š” ์—†๋Š”acknowledged: ์ธ์ •accepted: ์ˆ˜์šฉdifferences: ์ฐจ์ดsolid: ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•œbond: ์œ ๋Œ€reassured: ์•ˆ์‹ฌfaded: ์ €๋ฌผ์—ˆgrateful: ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คinner: ๋งˆ์Œ์†calmly: ์นจ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ฒŒmomentarily: ์ž ์‹œhandle: ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ 

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Uniting Hearts: A Search for Family in the Korean DMZ
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋‚ , ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋น„๋ฌด์žฅ์ง€๋Œ€์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์•ผ์ „ ๋ณ‘์›์€ ์†Œ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a rainy summer day, the field hospital located in the Korean Demilitarized Zone was bustling with activity.

    Ko: ์ฒœ๋ง‰์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์€ ์ง„ํ™์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The tents swayed in the wind, and the ground was slippery with mud.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์„ ๋Œ๋ณด๋Š๋ผ ๋ฐ”์œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun, who was volunteering there, was having a busy day taking care of patients.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ ํ˜•์ œ์™€๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ์†์—์„œ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He stood quietly among friends who were like brothers to him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ํ•œ ์ผ ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋˜ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฐ„์ ˆํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Deep in his heart, he harbored a longing to find his grandfather, who had been separated from the family.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ง‰ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์‹ ์ฐธ์ž์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon was a newcomer who had just begun volunteering there.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€๋งŒํผ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋•๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ด์ •์€ ๋„˜์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although she didn't have as much experience as Minjun, she was filled with a passion to help the world.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She pondered over what she could do and wanted to find that purpose.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ์œ„๋กœ์™€ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her bright smile provided small comfort and hope to those around her.

    Ko: ์–ด๋Š ๋‚ , ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํญํ’์ด ๋“ค์ด๋‹ฅ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One day, a strong storm hit.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฑฐ์„ธ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The wind grew fiercer, and everyone in the hospital was tense.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์†Œ์—ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, Minjun confided his secret to Soyeon in a careful voice.

    Ko: "๋‚ด ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด.
    En: "I want to find my grandfather.

    Ko: ์ „์Ÿ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ์–ด.
    En: We were separated because of the war."

    Ko: "์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งˆ์Œ ๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ๋™๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon was surprised but deeply moved.

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋„ ๋„์šธ๊ฒŒ," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Iโ€™ll help you," she said.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค ๋‘˜์€ ๋ฌด์ž‘์ • ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two decided to act on their mutual trust.

    Ko: ํญ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ํ•œ์ชฝ ๊ตฌ์„์— ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•œ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    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: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋„˜์–ด์งˆ ๋“ฏ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two, swaying as if about to fall, looked around.

    Ko: ๊ณง ์–ด๋‘์šด ์ฐฝ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์„์— ์ž‘์€ ์ƒ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soon, they discovered small boxes piled up in a dark corner of the storage.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ƒ์ž๋“ค ์†์—๋Š” ํ—ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์˜ค๋žœ ์„ธ์›”์„ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ›์€ ํŽธ์ง€์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside these boxes were letters and records exchanged over the years by separated families.

    Ko: "์—ฌ๊ธฐ์•ผ!
    En: "Here it is!"

    Ko: " ์†Œ์—ฐ์ด ์™ธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon exclaimed.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์ž ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์—ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: With trembling hands, Minjun opened one of the boxes.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside, he found an old letter sent by his grandfather.

    Ko: ํŽธ์ง€ ์†์—๋Š” ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›€์ด ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The letter was filled with his grandfather's love and longing.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋งˆ์Œ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ฒ…์ฐจ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun felt a surge of emotions deep inside.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ํ’ˆ์–ด์˜จ ์Šฌํ””๊ณผ ๊ถ๊ธˆ์ฆ์ด ํ’€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๊ณ , ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He felt the sorrow and curiosity he had been harboring begin to unravel, and he could finally understand his family's history.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํž˜์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He nodded vigorously.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏผ์ค€์˜ ์˜†์— ์„œ์„œ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์— ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon stood next to Minjun, smiling, lost in thought.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋•๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒ๋ด‰์„ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She realized that helping people like Minjun and reuniting families was the path she wanted to follow.

    Ko: ๋น„๋Š” ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ์†์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The rain did not stop, but the hospital's landscape reflected the new future that had taken root in their hearts.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋” ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ตณ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They thanked each other and firmly resolved to make the world a bit brighter.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์•ˆ์‹์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun found peace for his family, and Soyeon found her path.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A new story was now beginning for them.


    Vocabulary Words:
    rainy: ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋Š”bustling: ์†Œ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คtent: ์ฒœ๋ง‰slippery: ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คvolunteering: ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผharbored: ํ’ˆ์–ด์˜จlonging: ๊ฐ„์ ˆํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒnewcomer: ์‹ ์ฐธ์žpassion: ์—ด์ •pondered: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋ฉฐpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ storm: ํญํ’fiercer: ๊ฑฐ์„ธ๊ธฐconfided: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คtentative: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šดmutual: ์„œ๋กœ์˜trust: ์‹ ๋ขฐstorage: ์ฐฝ๊ณ swaying: ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐdocuments: ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋“คcorner: ๊ตฌ์„discovered: ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คrecords: ๊ธฐ๋ก๋“คtrembling: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š”surge: ๋ฒ…์ฐจ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š”emotions: ๊ฐ์ •unravel: ํ’€๋ฆฌ๋Š”vigorously: ํž˜์ฐจ๊ฒŒresolution: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌreflected: ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ 

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Perseverance in Permafrost: A Tale of Arctic Resilience
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.org/perseverance-in-permafrost-a-tale-of-arctic-resilience

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์•„๋“ํ•œ ๋ถ๊ทน์˜ ํˆฐ๋“œ๋ผ.
    En: The distant tundra of the Arctic.

    Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ , ํ•ด๋Š” ๋์—†์ด ์ˆ˜ํ‰์„  ์œ„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Though it's summer, the wind is cold and the sun lingers endlessly on the horizon.

    Ko: ๋“œ๋„“์€ ์„ค์›์ด ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ•œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ ๋‹ค.
    En: A vast snowy field stretches out, still permeated by a chill.

    Ko: ์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.
    En: In the distance, Jin and Minji can be seen.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›์ด๋‹ค.
    En: They are researchers studying climate change here.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์—ด๋ง์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin is filled with a desire to achieve conclusive results from his research.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํญํ’์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ฐ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ ์•ž์— ์–ผ์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ํ˜„์‹ค์ด ๋‹ฅ์ณ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: However, a storm has delayed their efforts, and now a reality as cold as ice stands before him.

    Ko: "์ง„, ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•ด ๋ณด์—ฌ.
    En: "Jin, it looks too dangerous today.

    Ko: ๊ธฐ์˜จ์ด ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด," ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The temperature is dropping rapidly," Minji said, her expression filled with concern.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘์ด ์•„์ง ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ด. ์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด, ๋ฏผ์ง€," ์ง„์€ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: "We still lack data. We need this last bit of information, Minji," Jin replied, not stopping as he continued to walk forward.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•๊ฐ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was deeply burdened by the pressure that his research had to succeed.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์˜ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji was confused but felt she had to respect Jin's resolve.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘, ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋”์šฑ ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์˜จ์€ ๋” ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Suddenly, the wind blew more fiercely, and the temperature plummeted further.

    Ko: ์ง„์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผ์„œ๋ฅผ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์ด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ์žƒ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While installing the data sensor, Jin felt his fingers losing sensation.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋™์ƒ์— ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: He had already developed frostbite.

    Ko: "์ง„!" ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: "Jin!" Minji shouted, noticing his condition.

    Ko: ์ง„์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์€ ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ชธ์€ ๋–จ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jin's face was pale, and his body couldn't stop trembling.

    Ko: "์šฐ์„  ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด. ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด."
    En: "We need to go back. Safety is the most important."

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ง„์€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, Jin collapsed.

    Ko: ํ”ผ๋กœ์™€ ์ถ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Exhaustion and cold had seized him.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์žฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํŒ”์„ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Minji quickly approached and grabbed his arm.

    Ko: "์ด์ œ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ๊ฒŒ. ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„, ๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์–ด."
    En: "I'll take you back now. Trust me."

    Ko: ์บ ํ”„๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ง„์„ ๋ถ€์ถ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the way back to camp, Minji carefully supported Jin.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ์€ ๋ˆˆ ์œ„์— ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ์•˜๊ณ , ์ˆจ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ผ์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ณต๊ธฐ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Their footprints left a deep trail in the snow, and their breaths vanished into the ice-cold air.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ์บ ํ”„์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, they reached the base camp safely.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ง„์˜ ๋™์ƒ ๋ถ€์ƒ์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji immediately treated Jinโ€™s frostbite injuries.

    Ko: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ ํ•œ ์ž”์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์†์— ์žกํžˆ์ž, ์ง„์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ, ๋ฏผ์ง€.
    En: As a warm cup of tea reached his hands, Jin nodded and said, "Thank you, Minji.

    Ko: ๋‚œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด."
    En: I was pushing it too far."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด.
    En: Minji replied with a smile, "Next time, we need a plan together.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ž–์•„."
    En: Our safety is the most important."

    Ko: ์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์†์„ ๊ผญ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jin and Minji tightly held each other's hands.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They resolved to come up with a better safety plan for their next expedition.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ, ์ง„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin now understood not to push himself too hard for his goals and grasped the importance of collaboration that Minji had emphasized.

    Ko: ๋ถ๊ทน์˜ ๊ธด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐค์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ž”์ž”ํžˆ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The long Arctic summer night quietly passed by in this way.

    Ko: ํ•จ๊ป˜๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ถ”์œ„๋„ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Together, they knew there was no cold they couldn't endure.


    Vocabulary Words:
    distant: ์•„๋“ํ•œtundra: ํˆฐ๋“œ๋ผlingers: ๋์—†์ด ์žˆ๋‹คhorizon: ์ˆ˜ํ‰์„ permeated: ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ ๋‹คvast: ๋“œ๋„“์€field: ์„ค์›conclusive: ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€storm: ํญํ’reality: ํ˜„์‹คdangerous: ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•ดrapidly: ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆlacks: ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ดconfused: ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์ง€๋งŒfiercely: ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒplummeted: ๋” ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋‹คsensation: ๊ฐ๊ฐfrostbite: ๋™์ƒcondition: ์ƒํƒœpale: ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ–ˆ๊ณ exhaustion: ํ”ผ๋กœseized: ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜๋‹คsupported: ๋ถ€์ถ•ํ–ˆ๋‹คvanished: ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹คtrail: ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญtreats: ์น˜๋ฃŒํ–ˆ๋‹คcollaboration: ํ˜‘๋ ฅemphasized: ๋งํ–ˆ๋˜expedition: ์—ฌํ–‰endure: ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Breathing New Life: Jiho's Creative Restoration Journey
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋กœ ๊ธˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์˜ ๋จผ์ง€๋“ค์ด ์ถค์„ ์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Golden sunlight streamed through the fading window, making the dust in the warehouse appear to dance.

    Ko: ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๊ณ , ์ž‘์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์—๋„ ๋ผˆ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The warehouse was filled with old furniture, and even the slightest breeze made the frames creak.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: In that place were Jiho and Minseo.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณต์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Together, they were restoring old furniture.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚ก์€ ์•คํ‹ฐํฌ ์˜์ž์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: However, their most important task at the moment was an antique chair.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๋Œ€์— ์„œ์„œ ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho stood at the workbench, gazing at the chair.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ณต์›๊ฐ€์˜€๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ํ•ญ์ƒ ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น„๊ต๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋” ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‹ค.
    En: He was a meticulous restorer, but he always questioned his own skills, especially when compared to his peers.

    Ko: ์˜์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋„์ „์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The chair was a significant challenge for him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋ณต์›ํ•ด ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์ „์‹œํšŒ์— ์ถœํ’ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wished to restore it well and exhibit it at a renowned local art show.

    Ko: "๋ฏผ์„œ์•ผ, ์ด ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด," ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Minseo, I don't know what to do with this chair," Jiho said.

    Ko: ์˜์ž๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The chair was continually collapsing.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์˜ ๋นˆ๊ณคํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค๋กœ ์ด ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: He was worried about completing the task with the meager tools in the warehouse.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค์˜ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑด๋„ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo offered words of encouragement to Jiho.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด.
    En: "We can come up with another method.

    Ko: ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด๋•Œ?"
    En: How about trying something creative?"

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์˜์ž ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho took some hope from her words and looked around the chair.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. '์ด๊ฒƒ์ €๊ฒƒ ์กฐํ•ฉํ•ด๋ณด์ž.'
    En: He began examining the other items in the warehouse and thought, 'Let's combine this and that.'

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ฒœ๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์ณ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He decided to use old fabric and wood scraps from the surroundings to fix the chair.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ๋„์™€์ค„ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo, seeing Jiho's enthusiasm, was ready to lend a helping hand.

    Ko: ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งž๋Œ„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์˜์ž๋Š” ์ ์  ์•ˆ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Together, they put their heads together, and the chair gradually became more stable.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ ์ „์‹œํšŒ ์ „๋‚ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Time passed, and the day before the exhibition arrived.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho was nervous, but he was satisfied with the results.

    Ko: ์˜์ž๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ ์„ธ์›”์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํž˜์„ ์–ป์€ ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The chair retained its timeless essence while seeming newly invigorated.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์†์—์„œ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฐฝ์˜๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐ์ž„์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Within this process, Jiho realized that his creativity was his greatest asset.

    Ko: ์ „์‹œํšŒ ๋‹น์ผ, ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the day of the exhibition, many people marveled at Jiho's chair.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์— ๋†€๋ผ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They were impressed by his creative solution.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho gained confidence and began to trust in his unique abilities.

    Ko: ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Through this process, he discovered his true essence.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ดํ›„, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์˜์‹ฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: From that day on, Jiho no longer doubted his abilities.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: He carried the lessons learned in the warehouse in his heart and moved forward to his next project.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ์žŠ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That summer became an unforgettable time of growth for Jiho.


    Vocabulary Words:
    streamed: ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐfading: ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„warehouse: ์ฐฝ๊ณ furniture: ๊ฐ€๊ตฌcreak: ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌmeticulous: ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œrestorer: ๋ณต์›๊ฐ€exhibit: ์ถœํ’ˆํ•˜๋‹คrenowned: ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œantique: ์•คํ‹ฐํฌmeager: ๋นˆ๊ณคํ•œencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คcreative: ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธenthusiasm: ์—ด์ •invigorated: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํž˜์„ ์–ป์€essence: ๋ณธ์งˆmarveled: ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹คsolution: ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…confidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐtrust: ๋ฏฟ๋‹คunique: ๋…ํŠนํ•œabilities: ๋Šฅ๋ ฅincomparable: ๋น„๊ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”examine: ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ธฐcollapsing: ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๊ณ timeless: ์˜ค๋žœ ์„ธ์›”์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๋‹คasset: ์ž์‚ฐprocess: ๊ณผ์ •breeze: ๋ฐ”๋žŒbeyond: ๋„ˆ๋จธ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Courage in Jeju's Storm: Sojin's Unplanned Leadership
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: The summer in Jeju was beautiful.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ œ์ฃผ๋„๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin and Jiho had traveled to Jeju with their friends.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…๋‚ , ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ง‘์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: On the day everyone had been looking forward to the hike, the weather was initially clear.

    Ko: ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ๋ง‘์€ ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊น”๊น” ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์‚ฐ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Under the green mountains and the clear sky, they laughed heartily as they walked along the mountain path.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ชจํ—˜์‹ฌ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์•ž์žฅ์„œ์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Œ๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin always had a strong sense of adventure, so she led the way and guided her friends.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ๋ณ€๋•์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: But suddenly, the sky turned unpredictable.

    Ko: ๊ฒ€์€ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค์˜ค๊ณ  ๋น—๋ฐฉ์šธ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Dark clouds gathered, and raindrops began to fall.

    Ko: ๊ณง ํญํ’์ด ๋ชฐ์•„์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: Soon, a storm hit.

    Ko: ์Šฌ์Šฌ ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ˆˆ๋น›๋“ค์ด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋ฒˆ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Gradually, the laughter faded, and worried expressions spread among her friends.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํŒ๋‹จํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin had to make a quick decision.

    Ko: ๊ธธ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฌผ์— ์ –๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: The path was already wet and slippery.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ์ง€ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was concerned about her friends' safety.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์˜ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ GPS๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํฌ๋ง์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin's phone GPS was their last hope, but the battery was low.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง€๋„๋ณด๋‹ค ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She believed that her friends' safety was more important than the map.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ GPS๋ฅผ ์ผฐ๊ณ , ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: So she turned on the GPS and tried to find the way.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋น„์™€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ GPS๋„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, the rain and wind interfered with the GPS as well.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์„ฐ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin paused for a moment.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her friends looked anxious.

    Ko: ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, she decided to trust herself.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ณ ์ณ๋จน๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin gathered her thoughts and surveyed the surroundings.

    Ko: ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ์•ž์— ๋ฐ”์œ„ ์•„๋ž˜ ์ž‘์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Fortunately, she found a small space under a rock ahead.

    Ko: "์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ข€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์ž," ์†Œ์ง„์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Let's wait here for a while," Sojin said.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ๋ฐ”์œ„ ์•„๋ž˜์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Everyone gathered under the rock.

    Ko: ๋น—์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ ๋“ค๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They could hear only the sound of rain and wind, but they were safe.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์ง„์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, Sojin chatted with her friends, and gradually, they began to feel more at ease.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํญํ’์€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, the storm passed.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง‘์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์„œ์„œํžˆ ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋น„์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: The sky cleared again, and the sun slowly shone through.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฐ๊ธธ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin led her friends safely down the mountain path.

    Ko: ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ๋๋‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The trip was over, but from this experience, she gained greater confidence.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋‚  ์ดํ›„ ์†Œ์ง„์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋Š˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: From that day on, Sojin became a trusted leader among her friends.

    Ko: ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ธ๋„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šด ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: It was a day she learned to trust herself and guide them safely.

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ์†Œ์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: The summer in Jeju left Sojin with a valuable lesson.


    Vocabulary Words:
    hike: ์‚ฐ์ฑ…initially: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š”heartily: ๊น”๊น”sense of adventure: ๋ชจํ—˜์‹ฌunpredictable: ๋ณ€๋•์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹คgathered: ๋ชฐ๋ ค์˜ค๊ณ slippery: ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹คinterfered: ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹คconcerned: ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คanxious: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹คsurveyed: ์‚ดํˆ๋‹คspace: ๊ณต๊ฐ„valuable: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œstrong: ๊ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹คthoughts: ๋งˆ์Œ์„expressions: ๋ˆˆ๋น›๋“คdecision: ํŒ๋‹จgathered: ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹คpassed: ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹คcleared: ๋ง‘์•„์ง€๊ณ confidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐtrusted: ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฐ›๋Š”guide: ์ด๋ˆ๋‹คpause: ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์„ฐ๋‹คbattery: ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌsurroundings: ์ฃผ๋ณ€path: ๊ธธstorm: ํญํ’moment: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„hesitate: ๋ง์„ค์ด์ง€