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  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Shyness to Stardom: Minji's Artistic Awakening in Jeju
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ ๊ณต๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต์˜ ๊ต์‹ค์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: The classroom of the Seoul public high school was filled with the chatter of students.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํ•™๊ธฐ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œ์ฃผ๋„ ์ˆ˜ํ•™์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Today was the day for the school trip to Jeju Island, which happens every semester.

    Ko: ๊ต์‹ค ํ•œ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์•‰์•„ ์ž‘์€ ๋…ธํŠธ์— ์Šค์ผ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In one corner of the classroom, Minji was quietly sitting and sketching in a small notebook.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค์„œ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ๋Œ€ํšŒ์— ์ถœํ’ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She wanted to draw landscapes of Jeju Island and enter them in an upcoming art contest.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—” ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, her introverted nature and lack of confidence made her hesitant to take on the challenge.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Next to Minji sat Jisoo.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ๊ณ  ํ™œ๋‹ฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo was popular among friends for her ever-bright and lively personality.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค, "๋ฏผ์ง€์•ผ, ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์— ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ผ!
    En: She said to Minji, "Minji, Iโ€™m so excited to go to Jeju Island!

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ž!
    En: Let's create some amazing art there!"

    Ko: " ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งˆ์Œ ์† ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์ปค์ ธ๋งŒ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Minji smiled and nodded, but deep down, she could feel her anxiety growing.

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ ์ฒซ๋‚ , ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ์„ฑ์‚ฐ์ผ์ถœ๋ด‰์— ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: On the first day in Jeju Island, the students visited Seongsan Ilchulbong.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์šธ ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋žฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The wind was refreshingly cool, and the winter sky was clear and blue.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๊ธด์žฅ๋๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, Minji felt nervous at the thought of drawing.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์„œ์ง„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: It was then that Seojin, who seemed to do everything with ease and was quite popular, approached her.

    Ko: "๋ฏผ์ง€์•ผ, ๋„ˆ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ์ž˜ํ•˜์ž–์•„.
    En: "Minji, you're good at drawing.

    Ko: ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋„ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ," ์„œ์ง„์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: You can create something amazing here too," Seojin said gently.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์„œ์ง„์˜ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํž˜์ด ๋๋‹ค.
    En: Minji was momentarily flustered, but Seojin's encouragement gave her a small boost of confidence.

    Ko: ์ €๋…์ด ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ์ˆ™์†Œ ์•ž ์ž”๋””๋ฐญ์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As evening came, the students gathered on the lawn in front of their accommodation to prepare for fireworks.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ „์•ผ๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ ˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๋Œ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The atmosphere was exciting, fitting the eve of the new year.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€์—๊ฒŒ ์†์‚ญ์˜€๋‹ค, "์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋„ค ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์‹ค๋ ฅ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜, ๋ฏผ์ง€์•ผ.
    En: Jisoo whispered to Minji, "This is your chance to show everyone your drawing skills, Minji.

    Ko: ๋„Œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด.
    En: You can do it."

    Ko: "๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์ž, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํ™”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, the time came, and Minji anxiously took out her art supplies.

    Ko: ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋–ผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: While the friends enjoyed the fireworks, Minji couldn't take her eyes off the sky.

    Ko: ์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ์ด ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์šฐ์ž, ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ์†์€ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค ์œ„์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As colorful fireworks filled the sky, her hands never stopped moving on the canvas.

    Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ณด๋Ÿฌ ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: When the fireworks ended, everyone came to see Minji's drawing.

    Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ๋ฐคํ•˜๋Š˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด์˜ ์—ญ๋™์„ฑ์ด ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์— ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The dynamism of the Jeju Island night sky and the fireworks were vividly captured in her artwork.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Everyone admired it, and Minji felt prouder than ever.

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ํ›„, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ๋Œ€ํšŒ์— ์ถœํ’ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After returning to Seoul, Minji entered her artwork in the art contest.

    Ko: ์ง€๊ธˆ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, she considered her effort and growth more important than the results.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜์™€ ์„œ์ง„๋„ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‘์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo and Seojin sincerely supported her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์™€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๋” ๊นŠ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: They came to understand each other's issues and anxieties, and their friendship grew deeper.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ”๋“œ๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚ด๊ณ , ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Overcoming the fear that shook her, Minji found her true voice.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์ž๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ์ƒ‰๊น”๋กœ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was now ready to paint the world with her own style, unafraid of othersโ€™ evaluations.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์†์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In her paintings was her story.

    Ko: โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ๏ธ
    En: โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ๏ธ


    Vocabulary Words:
    chatter: ์ˆ˜๋‹คsemester: ํ•™๊ธฐsketching: ์Šค์ผ€์น˜landscapes: ํ’๊ฒฝintroverted: ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ hesitant: ์šฉ๊ธฐpersonality: ์„ฑ๊ฒฉanxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐrefreshingly: ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ฒŒencouragement: ๊ฒฉ๋ คaccommodation: ์ˆ™์†Œdynamism: ์—ญ๋™์„ฑvividly: ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒovercoming: ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚ด๊ณ evaluation: ํ‰๊ฐ€endeavor: ๋…ธ๋ ฅflustered: ๋‹นํ™ฉadmired: ๊ฐํƒ„contest: ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ๋Œ€ํšŒchallenges: ๋ฌธ์ œgrowing: ์„ฑ์žฅvibrant: ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œunafraid: ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜์ง€nature: ๋ณธ์„ฑcanvas: ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šคmomentarily: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„brighter: ๋ฐ๊ณ bewildered: ํ˜ผ๋ž€enthusiasm: ์—ด์ •depicts: ๋‹ด๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Canvas Dreams: A Winter Night's Revelation in Insadong
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-30-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์˜ ์ถ”์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ.
    En: The cold winter streets of Insadong.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ์‚ด์ง ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Snow was gently falling.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ์™ธํˆฌ๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ  ์ถ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ๋””๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People were wearing thick coats, enduring the cold.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ์ฝฉ๋‹ฅ์ฝฉ๋‹ฅ ๋›ฐ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin was preparing her stall with her heart pounding.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She wanted to gain her family's approval today.

    Ko: "์†Œ์ง„์•„, ์ž˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ˆ?" ์ง„ํ˜์ด ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€์— ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: "Sojin, are you doing well?" Jinhyuk approached the stall.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€์ง€๋งŒ ๋™์ƒ์„ ์‘์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He looked tired, but he made time to support his younger sister.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น , ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ. ์ข€ ๋–จ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ ์ค€๋น„๋Š” ๋‹ค ํ–ˆ์–ด." ์†Œ์ง„์ด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Oppa, thank you. I'm a bit nervous, but I'm all set." Sojin smiled cautiously.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์„ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์— ๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: She carefully placed her paintings on the table.

    Ko: ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Each painting had a unique charm, blending tradition with modernity.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, her mother, Mina, appeared.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํ”ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊ฐธ์›ƒ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: She looked over the paintings carefully, tilting her head.

    Ko: "์ด๊ฒŒ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ผ์ด๋‹ˆ? ์ž˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜." ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์”จ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์˜์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ.
    En: "Is this the work you said you wanted to do? You've done well." There was a hint of doubt in Mina's voice.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋„ค, ์—„๋งˆ. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”."
    En: Sojin, though nervous, replied, "Yes, mom. I want to show you how hard I've worked."

    Ko: ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์€ ์ ์  ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: Insadong gradually filled with more people.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ์ง„์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People began to show interest in Sojin's paintings.

    Ko: ์ด๋‚ด ์ฃผ์œ„๋Š” ์นญ์ฐฌ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: Soon, the surroundings were filled with words of praise.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋„ค์š”! ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ด์š”." ํ•œ ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Really impressive! I've never seen work like this before." A spectator admired.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin was happy.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She finally felt she was gaining confidence.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šด์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When the New Year's countdown started, Sojin unveiled her paintings.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ๋™ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ง„ํ˜๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์”จ๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ์›€์„ ๊ฐ์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People were moved, and both Jinhyuk and Mina couldn't hide their surprise.

    Ko: ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šด์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์”จ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์†Œ์ง„์•„, ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ๋„ค ๊ฟˆ์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ• ๊ฒŒ."
    En: As the countdown ended and the New Year began, Mina quietly said, "Sojin, I was wrong. I will respect your dreams."

    Ko: ์ง„ํ˜์€ ์†Œ์ง„์„ ํฌ์˜นํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋™์ƒ์•„, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์ž์ฃผ ๋„์™€์ค„๊ฒŒ. ์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ."
    En: Jinhyuk hugged Sojin and said, "Sister, I'll help you more often from now on. I'm really proud of you."

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ํ’€๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: All conflicts were resolved, and the family came to understand each other.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์†Œ์ง„์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งž์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They celebrated Sojin's success and welcomed the New Year together.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ์ด์ œ ๋” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์”จ๋Š” ๋”ธ์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin now felt more confident, and Mina came to appreciate her daughter's passion.

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐค ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The winter night in Insadong was filled with warmth.


    Vocabulary Words:
    gently: ์‚ด์งenduring: ๊ฒฌ๋””๊ณ stall: ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€pounding: ์ฝฉ๋‹ฅ์ฝฉ๋‹ฅapproval: ์ธ์ •tired: ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ดnervous: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒunique: ๋…ํŠนํ•œcharm: ๋งค๋ ฅblending: ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„appeared: ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹คtilting: ๊ฐธ์›ƒ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹คdoubt: ์˜์‹ฌgradually: ์ ์ confident: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐspectator: ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐimpressive: ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋„ค์š”praise: ์นญ์ฐฌcountdown: ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šดunveiled: ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹คmoved: ๊ฐ๋™ํ–ˆ๊ณ surprise: ๋†€๋ผ์›€์„resolved: ํ’€๋ฆฌ๊ณ conflicts: ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑpassion: ์—ด์ •warmth: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จprepared: ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ support: ์‘์›ํ•˜๊ธฐrespect: ์กด์ค‘ํ• ๊ฒŒ

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  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Embracing Tradition and Change: A New Year's Tale
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-30-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ข…์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง‘๊ฒŒ ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a winter day in Gyeongbokgung where the sound of a bell rang clearly.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์—์„œ๋Š” ํฐ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๊ณ , ๋ˆˆ์†ก์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ๊ธฐ์™€์ง€๋ถ• ์œ„์— ์†Œ๋ณต์ด ์Œ“์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: White snow silently descended from the sky and snowflakes piled up neatly on the tiled roofs of the palace.

    Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ ์•ˆ์€ ์Œ๋ ฅ ์„ค์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the palace, people were busy preparing for the lunar New Year.

    Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ, ๋ฏผ์ง€, ๋™์ˆ˜ ์‚ผํ˜•์ œ๋„ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The three siblings, Jiho, Minji, and Dongsoo, who lived there, were no exception.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho wanted to be recognized by his father.

    Ko: ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์•„์ด๋กœ์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the middle child, he always wanted to prove something.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ค์—” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์ž”์น˜๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ž˜ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This New Year, he was determined to prepare a perfect feast and properly carry on the family tradition.

    Ko: "๋ฏผ์ง€, ๋Œ€์ฒญ์†Œ๋Š” ๋๋‚ฌ๋‹ˆ?" ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌป์ž, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๋น—์ž๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“์œผ๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Minji, is the deep cleaning done?" Jiho asked, and Minji smiled as she put down the broom.

    Ko: "๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋๋‚ฌ์–ด, ์˜ค๋น ."
    En: "Almost done, oppa."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋œป๋ฐ–์˜ ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, an unexpected snowstorm changed everything.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์€ ์ ์  ๋” ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ธธ์€ ๋ง‰ํ˜”๋‹ค.
    En: The snow fell more heavily, blocking the roads.

    Ko: ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์˜ค๋ ค๋˜ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The ingredients they intended to buy from the market could not be delivered.

    Ko: ๊ธด์žฅ๋œ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์ด๋งˆ์—๋Š” ๋•€์ด ๋งบํ˜”๋‹ค.
    En: Sweat formed on the tense Jiho's forehead.

    Ko: "์ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?" ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์— ๋น ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: "How can we prepare in this situation?" He fell into deep thought.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ๋์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After much contemplation, Jiho came up with a new idea.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While honoring tradition, he decided to add an innovative element this time.

    Ko: ์–ผ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ์„ ๋”ํ•ด ์ž์นซ ๋ฐ‹๋ฐ‹ํ•  ๋ป”ํ•œ ์ถ•์ œ์— ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: By adding sculptures made of ice, he planned to bring life to the festival that might have been dull otherwise.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์„๊นŒ์š”?" ๋™์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์ด ํ™•๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Will it really be okay?" Dongsoo asked, but Jiho's determination was firm.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด. ์ž˜ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."
    En: "We can do it. It'll turn out well."

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์„ค๋‚  ๋ฐค, ๊ถ๊ถ์—๋Š” ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๊ณ , ์–ผ์Œ ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, on New Year's Eve, lanterns sparkled throughout the palace, and the ice sculptures shone brilliantly.

    Ko: ์Œ์‹์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋„, ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค์˜ ์• ์ผ๋˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทน๋ณต๋๋‹ค.
    En: The worries about being unable to prepare food were overcome through the hard efforts of Jiho and his siblings.

    Ko: ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฑธ์–ด์˜ค์…จ๋‹ค.
    En: Their father approached.

    Ko: ์ž ์‹œ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ํ˜๋ €์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์ง€ํ˜ธ์•ผ, ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ํ–ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ ๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜."
    En: There was a brief moment of silence, but then he smiled and said, "Jiho, you did really well. You honored tradition and tried something new."

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๊ฐ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋งŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho's heart was filled with emotion.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๊ณ , ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๋„์ „์—๋„ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He gained confidence and resolved to respect tradition while not fearing change in future challenges.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค ๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ์„œ์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That night, standing under the moonlight, Jiho quietly smiled as he watched his friends and family happily.

    Ko: ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์›€์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ์ž”์น˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The feast, which blended tradition and novelty, was successful.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ์ธ์ • ์†์—์„œ ํฌ๋ง์„ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Filled with hope in his father's recognition, he welcomed the new year.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์žƒ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์†์—์„œ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ.
    En: Now, Jiho realized that embracing change does not mean losing tradition, and that true beauty can be found within that change.


    Vocabulary Words:
    descended: ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋‹คtiled roofs: ๊ธฐ์™€์ง€๋ถ•intended: ์‚ฌ์˜ค๋ ค๋˜weariness: ๊ธด์žฅ๋œcontemplation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผinnovative: ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธsculptures: ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผdull: ๋ฐ‹๋ฐ‹ํ• sparkled: ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹คbrilliantly: ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•˜๊ฒŒovercome: ๊ทน๋ณต๋๋‹คhonored: ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ ๋„resolve: ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹คsilence: ์นจ๋ฌตfilled: ์ถฉ๋งŒํ–ˆ๋‹คrecognition: ์ธ์ •embracing: ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค๋Š”blended: ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„unexpected: ๋œป๋ฐ–์˜determination: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์ดacknowledged: ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ prepared: ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ ค๋˜expression: ๋ฏธ์†Œroads: ๊ธธconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐtradition: ์ „ํ†ตunexpected: ๋œป๋ฐ–์˜recieve: ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค๋Š”beauty: ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„change: ๋ณ€ํ™”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Love in the Light: A Seoul Science Museum Encounter
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-29-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํœ˜๋ชฐ์•„์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The cold winter wind was whipping through the streets of Seoul.

    Ko: ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์•ˆ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the science museum, it was warm, and many people were enjoying the new exhibit.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฐ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho needed inspiration for his new project.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋นด๋‹ค.
    En: His daily life was busy.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ์€๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, amid that hectic routine, he had a secret desire to meet someone special.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉ ์ „์‹œ์— ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho was fascinated by the interactive exhibit at the museum.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†์„ ๋ป—์–ด ๋น›๊ณผ ์ƒ‰์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He reached out to touch a device that blended light and color.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ์†Œ๋ฏผ์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Just then, Somin approached him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: She was the museum's curator.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „์‹œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She loved science and art and was looking for new exhibit ideas.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ๋ฏผ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her colleague, Minji, introduced Somin to Jiho.

    Ko: โ€œ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฏผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด์ค˜์„œ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์›Œ์š”.โ€
    En: โ€œHello, Iโ€™m Somin. Nice to meet you through Minji,โ€ she said.

    Ko: โ€œ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ ์ด ์ „์‹œ ์—„์ฒญ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”,โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์—๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ๋–จ๋ฆผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œHello, Iโ€™m Jiho. I really like this exhibit,โ€ Jiho replied, with a slight tremble in his voice.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์„œํˆด๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: He was not very good at communicating with people.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๊ณ , ์ €๋…์ด ๋˜์ž ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ์กฐ์šฉํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, the number of visitors at the museum decreased, and by evening it had become quieter.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋– ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์— ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho didnโ€™t leave the museum.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฏผ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He watched Somin as she explained the exhibit.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, he quietly approached her.

    Ko: โ€œ์ด ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ๋„ค์š”. ์ด๊ฑธ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ฐ”๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œThis exhibit is really impressive. What do you hope to achieve with it?โ€ Jiho asked.

    Ko: ์†Œ๋ฏผ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ณผํ•™๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ๋•Œ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
    En: Somin smiled and responded, โ€œI want to show the beauty of science and art together.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•ด์š”.โ€
    En: And I hope it inspires people.โ€

    Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ง์˜ ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Night deepened, and the much-anticipated New Year was nearing.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์ƒˆํ•ด ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šด์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Everyone was outside, waiting for the New Year countdown.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ์†Œ๋ฏผ์€ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€์— ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์„œ์„œ ๋ฐ–์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho and Somin stood side by side by the window, watching the fireworks outside.

    Ko: โ€œ์ €๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์„œ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”,โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œI want to create works that connect people,โ€ Jiho said.

    Ko: ์†Œ๋ฏผ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Somin nodded.

    Ko: โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋„ค์š”.
    En: โ€œThatโ€™s a really wonderful goal.

    Ko: ์ €๋„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ณผํ•™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์š”,โ€ ์†Œ๋ฏผ์ด ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I also hope people gain a new perspective through science,โ€ Somin replied.

    Ko: ์ž์ •์ด ๋˜์ž ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As midnight arrived, the sky was filled with fireworks.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ์†Œ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์ŒŒ๋‹ค.
    En: That beauty warmed the hearts of Jiho and Somin.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: Their eyes met.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์งง์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In that short moment, they felt a deep connection with each other.

    Ko: โ€œ์ƒˆํ•ด ๋ณต ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ, ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œHappy New Year. Can we meet again?โ€ Jiho asked, mustering up his courage.

    Ko: โ€œ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ . ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด์š”.โ€ ์†Œ๋ฏผ์ด ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œOf course. Letโ€™s exchange contact information,โ€ Somin smiled.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋ง‰ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho gave Somin his contact information, and their story had just begun.

    Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๊ฐ€ ์ž ์ž ํ•ด์ง„ ํ›„, ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํฌ๋ง์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After the fireworks had quieted down, Jiho was filled with confidence and new hope.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: His heart pounded with anticipation for the future.


    Vocabulary Words:
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  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Mystery of the Vanishing Artifact: A New Yearโ€™s Quest
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-29-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณผํ•™๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ์ถ”์œ„ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: The Seoul National Science Museum was bustling with life even amidst the winter chill.

    Ko: ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The museum was filled with splendid decorations to welcome the New Year.

    Ko: ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฏผ์† ์‹ ํ™” ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ „์‹œ๊ด€์—๋Š” ์ด๊ตญ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์œ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์ „์‹œ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The special exhibition hall for Korean folk myths displayed exotic and captivating artifacts.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค‘, ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ํž˜์ด ๊นƒ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „์„ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๋ฌผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Among them was an artifact believed to harbor the ancient power of winter according to legend.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์œ ๋ฌผ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: However, that artifact had vanished.

    Ko: ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ธํ„ด์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwoo was an enthusiastic museum intern.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œํšŒ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ •์ง์› ์ฑ„์šฉ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ง“๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋ผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She believed the success of this exhibition would be a crucial factor in her becoming a permanent staff member at the museum.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋ฏผ์„œ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ํ‰ํŒ์„ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Minseo was a curator with a strong sense of responsibility who worried about the museum's reputation.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์œ ๋ฌผ์˜ ์‹ค์ข…์ด ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ผ๋ คํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They were concerned that the disappearance of the artifact could ruin the New Year festivities.

    Ko: ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ๋‚จ๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwoo began secretly investigating the documents.

    Ko: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ , ์ „์‹œํšŒ ์ค€๋น„์— ๋ฐ”๋นด๋‹ค.
    En: The other staff members were unaware of her curiosity and were busy preparing for the exhibition.

    Ko: ํ•œํŽธ, ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์šฐ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ์˜์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋™์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Meanwhile, Minseo, although skeptical of Jiwoo's determination, felt a slight sense of camaraderie with her.

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งค์„œ์šด ๋ฐค, ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ณด๊ด€์†Œ์—์„œ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์‹ค์ข… ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a night when the winter wind was still harsh, Jiwoo found records of similar disappearance incidents in the museum archives.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ •๊ตํ•œ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์œ ๋ฌผ์ด ํŠน์ • ์˜์‹ ์ค‘์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ˆˆ์น˜์ฑ˜๋‹ค.
    En: She discovered an intricate pattern and realized that the artifact would reappear during a specific ritual.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ „์•ผ, ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ๊ธด์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On New Yearโ€™s Eve, the museum was filled with tension.

    Ko: ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์„œ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwoo explained her findings to Minseo.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์šฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo decided to trust Jiwoo.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์—์„œ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์˜์‹์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Together, they prepared a special ritual at the museum.

    Ko: ์˜์‹์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์ž, ์ „์„ค ์† ์œ ๋ฌผ์€ ์‹ ๋น„๋กญ๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ž์‹  ์ž๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
    En: As the ritual began, the legendary artifact mysteriously returned to its place.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ „์‹œํšŒ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต๋ฆฌ์— ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The New Year began, and the exhibition proceeded successfully.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์šฐ์˜ ์žฌ๋Šฅ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ •์ง์›์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo acknowledged Jiwoo's talents and offered her a permanent position at the museum.

    Ko: ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์™€ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwoo gained confidence, and Minseo came to respect her new ideas and perspectives.

    Ko: ์œ ๋ฌผ์€ ์ œ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํžˆ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The artifact found its place, and the museum shone brilliantly.

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ๊ธด ๋ฐค์€ ๋๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ์„œ์šธ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ณ  ํฌ๋ง์ฐฌ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The long winter night ended, and Seoul embraced a new and hopeful New Year.


    Vocabulary Words:
    bustling: ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š”splendid: ํ™”๋ คํ•œcaptivating: ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธartifacts: ์œ ๋ฌผ๋“คharbor: ๊นƒ๋“ค๋‹คvanished: ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹คenthusiastic: ์—ด์ •์ ์ธintern: ์ธํ„ดcrucial: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œreputation: ํ‰ํŒdisappearance: ์‹ค์ข…ruin: ๋ง์น˜๋‹คcuriosity: ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌskeptical: ์˜์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šดcamaraderie: ๋™์งˆ๊ฐintricate: ์ •๊ตํ•œritual: ์˜์‹tension: ๊ธด์žฅproceeded: ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คacknowledged: ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹คtalents: ์žฌ๋Šฅperspectives: ๊ด€์ brilliantly: ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํžˆembraced: ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹คhopeful: ํฌ๋ง์ฐฌexhibition: ์ „์‹œํšŒdecoration: ์žฅ์‹incident: ์‚ฌ๊ฑดspecific: ํŠน์ •ํ•œmysteriously: ์‹ ๋น„๋กญ๊ฒŒ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jisoo's Magical New Year's Eve: Sparking Change and Hope
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-28-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ถ”์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ, ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ „๋‚  ๋ฐค์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a cold winter night, the night before the New Year.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ๋งˆ์„ ํšŒ๊ด€ ์•ž์— ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo stood in front of the large town hall.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์™€ ์€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ถˆ๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: She had invited her friends Minho and Eunji to join her.

    Ko: ์€์ง€๋Š” ์†์— ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํ’์„ ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์ด๊ฑฐ ์ข‹์ง€?
    En: Eunji, holding a large balloon, smiled and said, "Isn't this great?

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ด ํ’์„  ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ!"
    En: People will feel happy when they see this balloon!"

    Ko: ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํƒ์ž๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด์™”๊ณ , ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์ข…์ด ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์„ ๋Š˜์–ด๋†“๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minho brought a large table, and Jisoo began to arrange sparkling paper decorations on it.

    Ko: ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ณผ ํ’์„ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Looking at the colorful lights and balloons, Jisoo smiled.

    Ko: ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.
    En: It seemed like not many people were expecting this election.

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•œ๋‹ค.
    En: In winter, people want to spend time with their family and friends.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Jisoo thought this moment was important.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She wanted to make people aware of the importance of voting.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ „๋‚  ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์—ด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Therefore, she decided to hold a special event on New Year's Eve.

    Ko: ํšŒ๊ด€ ์•ˆ์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ถ”์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the hall, it was a bit cold.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์žฅ์‹ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But thanks to the decorations, it felt warm.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์€์ง€์™€ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์šฐ๋ฆฌ, ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์ž.
    En: Jisoo said to Eunji and Minho, "Let's prepare diligently.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์˜ค๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด."
    En: We need to make it so more people come."

    Ko: ์€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ฑฑ์ • ๋งˆ.
    En: Eunji nodded and replied, "Don't worry.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."
    En: We'll succeed."

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time went by, people began to gather one by one.

    Ko: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋งŒ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์ฐพ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
    En: At first, there were only a few, but more and more people came as they heard about the party.

    Ko: ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์ข…์ด ๋ชจ์ž์™€ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์Šคํ‹ฑ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋›ฐ์–ด๋†€์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Children ran around with paper hats and sparklers.

    Ko: ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Adults drank warm tea and chatted.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ปค๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo was pleased as she watched them.

    Ko: ์ž์ •์ด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€์ž, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์œ„์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ์„ฐ๋‹ค.
    En: As midnight approached, Jisoo climbed onto the stage.

    Ko: ์ฃผ๋ณ€์€ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ณผ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊น”๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The surroundings were filled with bright lights and vibrant colors.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ฌ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, each one of us is important.

    Ko: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ํž˜์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The power of each individual can come together to change the world.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”."
    En: Don't miss this chance."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์น˜๋ฉฐ ์‘์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Then the people applauded and cheered.

    Ko: ์€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์€ ํญ์ฃฝ์„ ํ•˜๋Š˜๋กœ ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ์ž, ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ™˜ํ˜ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When Eunji sent a small firework into the sky, everyone cheered.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In that moment, Jisoo felt how valuable her actions were.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: That night, Jisoo returned home, thinking of the lively crowd.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํฌ๋ง์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She now felt hopeful again.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ํ–‰๋™์ด ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She realized that her small actions could bring about big changes.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ํ™œ์ง ์—ด์–ด์ –ํž ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The New Year was a new beginning, and Jisoo was able to open that beginning wide.


    Vocabulary Words:
    election: ์„ ๊ฑฐimportance: ์ค‘์š”์„ฑballoon: ํ’์„ decorations: ์žฅ์‹aware: ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ diligently: ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆexpecting: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€gather: ๋ชจ์—ฌfirework: ํญ์ฃฝvibrant: ํ™”๋ คํ•œsparkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š”surroundings: ์ฃผ๋ณ€opportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒcheered: ํ™˜ํ˜ธvaluable: ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š”hopeful: ํฌ๋งbeginning: ์‹œ์ž‘invite: ๋ถˆ๋ €๋‹คapplauded: ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผvivid: ์ƒ์ƒํ•œventured: ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹คdetermine: ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹คspectacular: ์žฅ๊ด€์˜transition: ์ „ํ™˜assemble: ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค๊ธฐwhisper: ์†์‚ญ์ž„success: ์„ฑ๊ณตmotivation: ๋™๊ธฐconfident: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š”accomplish: ์ด๋ฃจ๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Courage in the Cold: A Village's New Year Election Tale
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-28-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: 12์›” 31์ผ, ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ.
    En: December 31st, early morning.

    Ko: ๋ฐ–์—๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์ด ์†Œ๋ณต์ด ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Snow was gently piling up outside.

    Ko: ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํฌ์Šคํ„ฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Near the polling station, posters were everywhere, celebrating the coming of the new year.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ ์ฝ”ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ  ์ค„ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People were lined up in thick winter coats.

    Ko: ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ด ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•˜์–€ ์ž…๊น€์ด ํ™• ๋ฒˆ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Every breath turned into a puff of white mist.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ ๋ฌธ ์•ž์—์„œ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun sighed in front of the polling station door.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋กœ์ปฌ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์ง„๋ณด์ ์ธ ํ›„๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: He hoped that the progressive candidate would win the local election.

    Ko: ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์„์— ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: This election was an opportunity to bring significant changes to his village.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: However, he was also worried.

    Ko: ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: There was an opposing candidate backed by a powerful local business group.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํŒ์„ ๋’ค์ง‘์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋‘๋ ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun feared that this candidate might unfairly upset the outcome.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ณด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์Šค์บ”๋“ค์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ณค๋ž€ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋†“์ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When Minjun discovered a scandal related to the opposing candidate, he found himself in a difficult situation.

    Ko: ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ˆจ๊ธธ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He had to decide whether to reveal this information or keep it hidden.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง„์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๋ฆด ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He needed the courage to tell the truth.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ‰ํŒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ง์น ์ง€ ๋‘๋ ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: However, he was afraid of how it would ruin his reputation and relationships.

    Ko: ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์ž, ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค„์„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•œ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As he entered the polling station, Minjun noticed a familiar face in the waiting line.

    Ko: ์†Œ์˜์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was So-young.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŒŒ์˜ ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œ ์ง€์ง€์ž์˜€๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ค€ ์•ž์— ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ง์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was a fervent supporter of the opposition and approached him, staring directly at him.

    Ko: โ€œ๋„ˆ, ๊ทธ ์†Œ๋ฌธ ํผ๋œจ๋ฆฐ ๊ฑฐ ๋งž์ง€?โ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "You spread that rumor, didn't you?" she asked.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ•œ์ฐธ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun stared into her eyes for a while before deciding.

    Ko: โ€œ์•„๋‹ˆ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์„ ๋ฟ์ด์•ผ. ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋งˆ์„์„ ์›ํ•ด์„œ.โ€
    En: "No, I just wanted to reveal the truth. I want a better village."

    Ko: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐˆ ์—ฐ๋ง ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
    En: The sound of an approaching year-end event echoed in the distance.

    Ko: ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Many people flocked to the polling station.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ—›๋œ ์‹ธ์›€์€ ์•„๋‹ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun believed it wouldn't be a futile fight.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ์‹ธ์› ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•Œ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He fought with all his might, and he knew that was what mattered.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ํˆฌํ‘œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, the election results began to be announced.

    Ko: ์ง„๋ณด์ ์ธ ํ›„๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: The initial reports indicated that the progressive candidate had gained much support.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์•ˆ๋„์˜ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun sighed in relief.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He had been courageous, and he felt proud of himself for it.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ €๋…, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ํž˜๊ณผ ์ง„์‹ค์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That evening, Minjun was reminded of the power of community and the value of integrity.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํฌ๋ง์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: As the new year began, Minjun planned with hope in his heart.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜.
    En: Along with the community he was proud of.

    Ko: ํˆฌ์Ÿ์€ ๋์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The struggle was not over.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: He would continue to bring about change, even if only gradually.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๊ทธ ๊ฒจ์šธ๋‚ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ‚ค์›Œ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Just like that snowy winter day, Minjun continued to nurture his dreams.


    Vocabulary Words:
    piling: ์Œ“์—ฌpolling station: ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œposters: ํฌ์Šคํ„ฐcoats: ์ฝ”ํŠธbreath: ์ˆจpuff: ์ž…๊น€progressive: ์ง„๋ณด์ ์ธcandidate: ํ›„๋ณดelection: ์„ ๊ฑฐopportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒsignificant: ํฐopposing: ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€backed: ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š”business group: ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃนupset: ๋’ค์ง‘์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋ฉดscandal: ์Šค์บ”๋“คreveal: ๊ณต๊ฐœํ• courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐreputation: ํ‰ํŒrelationships: ๊ด€๊ณ„fervent: ์—ด๋ ฌํ•œrumor: ์†Œ๋ฌธfutile: ํ—›๋œmight: ์ตœ์„ integrity: ์ง„์‹ค์„ฑgradually: ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ์ด๋ผ๋„nurture: ํ‚ค์›Œ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹คline: ์ค„decide: ๊ฒฐ์ •relief: ์•ˆ๋„์˜ ํ•œ์ˆจ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Snowy Nights and New Beginnings: A Family's Embrace of Change
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐค, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a winter night, Gyeongbokgung is serene and beautiful.

    Ko: ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ๋น›์— ๋น„์นœ ๊ถ๊ถ์€ ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฎ์—ฌ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ฐฌ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ €๋ฌผ์–ด๊ฐ”์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒˆํ•ด์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The palace, reflected in the cool moonlight, is covered with snow, and the cold air is filled with anticipation for the new year even though the sun has set.

    Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ์Šฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋“ฏ ์›…์žฅํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ์ž„์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The traditional architecture of the palace becomes the grand backdrop as if turning back time for a family gathering.

    Ko: ์žฌ๋ฏผ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ์ž„์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์„œ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jaemin stands at the center of the family gathering.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์žฅ๋‚จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He feels a sense of responsibility as the eldest son.

    Ko: "๋ชจ๋‘ ์ž˜ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์ง€?" ์žฌ๋ฏผ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์„ ๋งž์ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Has everyone been well?" Jaemin greets his family with a warm smile.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜†์—์„œ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง“๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin is standing next to him, smiling awkwardly.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง์žฅ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She has received a job offer abroad but has not yet shared this with her family.

    Ko: "์ˆ˜์ง„, ๋ฌด์Šจ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์—ฌ," ์žฌ๋ฏผ์ด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌป์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Sujin, you look like something's bothering you," Jaemin cautiously asks.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์‚ฌ์‹ค... ๋‚˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ์ผํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด."
    En: Sujin hesitates for a moment before replying, "Actually... I've been offered a job opportunity overseas."

    Ko: ์žฌ๋ฏผ์€ ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณง ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jaemin is surprised but soon nods.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฉด ์‘์›ํ• ๊ฒŒ."
    En: "It will be a big change for our family, but if it's what you want, I'll support you."

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ํ˜„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, Hyunwoo is staring silently at the snow.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™์„ ์ค‘ํ‡ดํ•œ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค ์†์— ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Ever since dropping out of university, he has found it challenging to find his place in the family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋”์šฑ ์žฌ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As such, he needed Jaemin's support more than ever.

    Ko: "ํ˜„์šฐ, ๋„Œ ์–ด๋– ๋‹ˆ?" ์žฌ๋ฏผ์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌป์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hyunwoo, how about you?" Jaemin gently asks.

    Ko: ํ˜„์šฐ๋Š” ์†”์งํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊บผ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hyunwoo expresses his honest feelings.

    Ko: "ํ˜•, ๋‚˜๋„ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด."
    En: "Hyung, I want to show that I can also do something."

    Ko: ์žฌ๋ฏผ์€ ํ˜„์šฐ์˜ ๋“ฑ์— ์†์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ. ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋„์™€์ค„๊ฒŒ."
    En: Jaemin places a hand on Hyunwoo's back and says, "Don't be too impatient. I'll help you as much as I can to find the path you want."

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ ์  ์ž์ •์„ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฒซ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Time gradually approaches midnight, and a magical first snow begins to fall.

    Ko: ์„ธ ํ˜•์ œ๋Š” ์ง‘ ์ž…๊ตฌ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์ด ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ ์œ„์— ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐค์— ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The three siblings start walking together at the entrance of the house, leaving footprints on the snowy path, sharing each other's warmth on the cold winter night.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์ •์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์ž, ์žฌ๋ฏผ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฌถ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜.'
    En: And as midnight passes, Jaemin makes a vow to himself: 'Keeping the family together also means embracing change.'

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: With a smile, he looks forward to a special year.

    Ko: ์„ธ ํ˜•์ œ๋Š” ๋” ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The three siblings became stronger and closer.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They promised to support one another even as they each pursued their own paths.

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์ถ•๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Gyeongbokgung shone brightly, as if blessing their new beginning.


    Vocabulary Words:
    serene: ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œreflected: ๋น„์นœanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐbackdrop: ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝresponsibility: ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐawkwardly: ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒhesitates: ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹คopportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒabroad: ํ•ด์™ธimpatient: ์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•œembracing: ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š”vow: ๋‹ค์งpursued: ์ถ”๊ตฌํ–ˆ๋‹คblessing: ์ถ•๋ณตํ•˜๋Š”gathering: ๋ชจ์ž„eldest: ์žฅ๋‚จshared: ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹คcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒsurprised: ๋†€๋ž๋‹คsupport: ์‘์›ํ• ๊ฒŒchallenging: ์–ด๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คpatience: ์ธ๋‚ดmagical: ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์€footprints: ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œwarmth: ์˜จ๊ธฐtogether: ํ•จ๊ป˜siblings: ํ˜•์ œstronger: ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒarchitecture: ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผeldest: ์žฅ๋‚จ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: New Year's Eve at Namsan: Jihyun's Journey to Her Calling
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    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-27-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐค, ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ํƒ€์›Œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์กฐ๋ช…๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์„ค๋ ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a snowy winter night, Namsan Tower was filled with sparkling lights and the excitement of people.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ธ ์€์ง€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ํƒ€์›Œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun visited Namsan Tower with her friend Eunji.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ „์•ผ์ œ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ํœด์‹์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They were attending the New Year's Eve event, and Jihyun wanted to find peace of mind as she welcomed the new year.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋Œ€ํ•™์„ ์กธ์—…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun had recently graduated from college.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ €๋„๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ง์—…์„ ์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She had a passion for journalism, but her family wanted her to have a stable job.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆผ๊ธธ์— ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She stood at a crossroads of choice.

    Ko: "๊ธฐ์ž์— ๋„์ „ํ• ๊นŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์ง์—…์„ ์ฐพ์„๊นŒ?" ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Should I pursue a career as a journalist, or should I find a safe job?" she constantly pondered.

    Ko: ์€์ง€๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜„์—๊ฒŒ "์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค์€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ž. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜์ž,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Eunji said to Jihyun, "Let's just enjoy tonight and welcome a new beginning."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํƒ€์›Œ ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์•ผ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They looked at the beautiful night view of Seoul from the top of the tower.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋“ค ์˜†์— ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, Minsu approached them.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์„œ์šธ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He had recently moved to Seoul.

    Ko: ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ฟ๋Š” ์ฝ”ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ , ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wore a coat that reached his knees and was holding a warm coffee.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์™”์–ด์š”," ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hello, I'm here for the first time too," Minsu said.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„๊ณผ ์€์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun and Eunji smiled and greeted him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They began to have a conversation together.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด์˜€๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minsu was a software engineer who wanted to make new friends.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ ์ง€ํ˜„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, Jihyun and Minsu shared their stories.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š” "๋‚˜๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ๋งŽ์•˜์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๋”ฐ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋…์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She revealed her concerns, and Minsu comforted her, saying, "I had a lot of worries at first too, but I followed my convictions."

    Ko: "๊ณง ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ์€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์™ธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "The fireworks are about to start," Eunji shouted.

    Ko: ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Many people were looking up at the sky.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ๊ฐ€์Šด ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ์Œ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun felt something emerge from deep within her chest.

    Ko: '์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง„๋กœ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด. ์ด ๊ธธ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ'๋ผ๋Š” ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a realization: 'I can start a new career. This path will make me happy.'

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šด์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฐคํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ์ด ์ฑ„์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, the countdown began, and the night sky of Seoul was filled with fireworks.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ "๋‚ด ์—ด์ •์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‘์›์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun resolved, "I will follow my passion. I will find my path." Minsu sent her warm encouragement.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The new year dawned.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋˜ ์ €๋„๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ์ธํ„ด์‹ญ์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihyun applied for the journalism internship she had hesitated about.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She decided to pursue her dreams over others' expectations.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€์™€ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: And she and Minsu marked the start of a new relationship.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์‚ถ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, Jihyun had gained the confidence and courage to lead her own life.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡๊ณผ๋„ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The friendship and trust they developed, like family, was an invaluable experience that couldn't be traded for anything.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ฟˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๋‹ต์„ ์ฐพ์€ ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Having found a new answer to love and dreams, Jihyun prepared for a new beginning.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ํƒ€์›Œ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: And it all started at Namsan Tower.


    Vocabulary Words:
    sparkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š”excitement: ์„ค๋ ˜attending: ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ณ crossroads: ๊ฐˆ๋ฆผ๊ธธpondered: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คbeginning: ์‹œ์ž‘approached: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คrevealed: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๊ณ comforted: ๋‹ค๋…์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คconvictions: ์‹ ๋…fireworks: ๋ถˆ๊ฝƒ๋†€์ดemerge: ์ƒ๊ฒผ์Œ์„realization: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œresolve: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คinternship: ์ธํ„ด์‹ญhesitated: ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋˜pursue: ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐcourage: ์šฉ๊ธฐinvaluable: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œexperience: ๊ฒฝํ—˜dawned: ๋ฐ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คpassion: ์—ด์ •stable: ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธtrust: ๋ฏฟ์Œmarked: ์•Œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คfriendship: ์šฐ์ •prepared: ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คdecision: ์„ ํƒpath: ๊ธธ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Amid Seoul's Winter, Teamwork Unwraps A Festive Realization
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-26-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ฐฌ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ์–ด์˜ค๋˜ ์–ด๋Š ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐค. ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ ์•ˆ, ์ง€์„๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์›์€ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์•ž์— ์•‰์•„ ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•œ ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a winter night when the cold wind blew fiercely outside the window, Seoul's modern high-rise buildings housed Jiseok and Suwon, sitting in front of their computers with tired eyes, working on their reports.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๋ง์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the end of the year approached, the company was buzzing with activity.

    Ko: ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฐค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋ถˆ๋น›๊ณผ ๊ฒจ์šฐ๋‚ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฎ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Beyond the window, the night streets of Seoul were covered with dazzling lights and the snow that fell throughout winter.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ , ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ์˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ˜•๊ด‘๋“ฑ ๋ถˆ๋น›์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The office was warm, filled with the low hum of computers and the light of fluorescent lamps.

    Ko: ์ฑ…์ƒ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์ž‘์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Next to the desk was a small but sparkling Christmas tree.

    Ko: ์ง€์„์€ ์ง„๊ธ‰์„ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ผ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiseok dreamed of a promotion and worked late every day.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹ ์ƒ์•„๋ฅผ ๋‘” ๊ฐ€์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์•ˆ์ •์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the breadwinner of a household with a newborn, he needed financial stability.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜์›์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํœด์ผ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์‚ถ์„ ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Suwon wanted to spend the holidays with his family and sought a balanced life.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋“ค ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ƒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ์ด‰๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๋งˆ๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ•œ์œผ๋กœ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, both of them were under pressure from their boss's high expectations and tight deadlines.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ฐค์„ ์ƒˆ์›Œ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ," ์ง€์„์ด ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ”ผ๊ณค์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
    En: "We might have to stay up all night," Jiseok said quietly, his eyes already full of fatigue.

    Ko: "์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋‚ด์ผ ์•„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด," ์ˆ˜์›์€ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ˆˆ์— ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Got it, but I absolutely have to go see my son tomorrow," Suwon said, unable to hide the tiredness in his eyes.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ฐค์€ ๋์—†์ด ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Time flowed on, and the night seemed endless.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์–ด๋Š ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ง€์„์ด ํฐ ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, at one point, Jiseok discovered a big mistake.

    Ko: ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์˜ ์ค‘์š” ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋น ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Important information was missing from the report.

    Ko: "ํฐ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์–ด," ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†์‚ญ์ด๋“ฏ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "This is serious. We made a mistake," he whispered.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์›์€ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Suwon stared at the monitor with a look of surprise.

    Ko: "์ด๊ฑธ ๋ฐ”๋กœ์žก์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์–ด."
    En: "It's going to take a lot of time to fix this."

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: From that moment on, the two began to collaborate.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They pooled their strengths to find and organize the necessary data again.

    Ko: ๋ฐค์ด ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ˆˆ์€ ๋”์šฑ ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the night deepened, their focus intensified.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ๋ถˆ๋น›๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The small lights of the Christmas tree watched over their efforts.

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ๋…˜, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฒฝํžˆ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, as dawn approached, they were able to perfectly revise the report.

    Ko: ์ƒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์นœ ํ›„, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: After their boss reviewed it, they successfully delivered their presentation in the company's meeting room.

    Ko: ์ƒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ •์‹ ์„ ์นญ์ฐฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The boss praised their effort and teamwork.

    Ko: ์ง€์„์€ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„.
    En: In that moment, Jiseok realized that both work and family were important in his life.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋” ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He decided to treasure his time with his family more in the future.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์›๋„ ์กด์ค‘๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋Š๋‚Œ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Suwon also felt respected and learned the importance of cooperation with colleagues.

    Ko: ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ์ œ์ถœ ํ›„, ๊ทธ ๋‘˜์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After submitting the report, the two were able to enjoy the Christmas festival easily.

    Ko: ์ง€์„์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜์›์€ ์•„๋“ค์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์—ฐ๊ทน์„ ์œ ์‹ฌํžˆ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiseok spent warm moments at home with his family, and Suwon watched his son's school play intently, smiling.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ๋ฐ–์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ ์†, ์ถ•์ œ์™€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The world outside the office was still in the midst of winter, filled with festivities and warm love.


    Vocabulary Words:
    fiercely: ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒhigh-rise: ๊ณ ์ธตbuzzing: ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒdazzling: ํ™”๋ คํ•œbreadwinner: ๊ฐ€์žฅstability: ์•ˆ์ •balanced: ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒpressure: ์••๋ฐ•expectations: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€deadlines: ๋งˆ๊ฐ ๊ธฐํ•œfatigue: ํ”ผ๊ณคmonitor: ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐsurprise: ๋†€๋ผ์›€collaborate: ํ˜‘๋ ฅpooled: ํ™œ์šฉintensified: ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คrevise: ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋‹คreviewed: ๊ฒ€ํ† presentation: ๋ฐœํ‘œpraised: ์นญ์ฐฌํ–ˆ๋‹คtreasure: ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹คrespected: ์กด์ค‘๋ฐ›๋Š”cooperation: ํ˜‘๋ ฅsubmitted: ์ œ์ถœenjoy: ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋‹คintently: ์œ ์‹ฌํžˆmidst: ์†festivities: ์ถ•์ œcollaborating: ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ธฐstrengths: ๊ฐ•์ 

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Peace: Jinsu's Journey to Balance in Seoul's Rush
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-26-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค, ๊ฒจ์šธ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: At a large corporate office in Seoul, winter is always a busy time.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค์™€ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The office is filled with a cheerful atmosphere, welcoming Christmas and the New Year.

    Ko: ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์ „๊ตฌ์™€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์ด ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sparkling lights and Christmas decorations were shining everywhere.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Jinsu had other thoughts weighing him down.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„ฑ์‹คํ•œ ์ง์žฅ์ธ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu is a diligent worker.

    Ko: ๋งค๋…„ ์ด๋ง˜๋•Œ์ฏค์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Around this time every year, the pressure mounted.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ์—ฐ๋ง ํ–‰์‚ฌ์˜ ์ค€๋น„๊นŒ์ง€, ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ์ด ์‚ฐ๋”๋ฏธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์Œ“์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Year-end reports, along with preparations for the year-end events, created a mountain of tasks to deal with.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Although Jinsu worked hard, he was worried about his health.

    Ko: ํ˜ˆ์••์ด ๋†’์•„ ๋ณ‘์›์—์„œ๋„ ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋‚œ ํ›„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๊นŠ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: After hearing the doctor's advice at the hospital to be cautious because of high blood pressure, his worries grew deeply inside him.

    Ko: ์ด๋‚ ๋„ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๋šซ์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On this day as well, Jinsu was staring intently at the computer screen inside the office.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๊นฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์•ˆ์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์ด ๋”์šฑ ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์ˆ˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Although the snow falling outside made the warmth inside the office more perceptible, Jinsu's heart was not warm.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ, ์ฆ‰ ํ‰ํ™”๋กญ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ์ƒ์ƒํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋“ํžˆ ๋จผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: He often imagined his dream of a peaceful and simple life, which felt like a far-off story.

    Ko: ํŒ€์› ์„ฑํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ง„์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„์ฐจ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: His team member Seongho noticed Jinsu.

    Ko: "์ง„์ˆ˜ ํ˜•, ์–ผ๊ตด์ด ์•ˆ ์ข‹์•„ ๋ณด์ด๋„ค์š”. ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?" ์„ฑํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hey, Jinsu hyung, you don't look well. Is something wrong?" Seongho asked.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์–ต์ง€๋กœ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ผ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜."
    En: Jinsu forced a smile and replied, "No, it's just that there's a lot of work."

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ, ์ง„์ˆ˜์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ ์  ๋” ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: As time went on, Jinsu's head felt heavier and heavier.

    Ko: ๊ฐ‘์ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฐ ์–ด์ง€๋Ÿฌ์›€์— ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ์†์„ ์ด๋งˆ์— ์–น์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Suddenly feeling dizzy, he briefly put his hand on his forehead.

    Ko: ์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋ฉด ์–ด์ฉŒ์ง€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ์Šค์ณ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The thought of collapsing flashed through his mind.

    Ko: ์ด๋Œ€๋กœ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๋‚€ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํฐ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Feeling this couldn't continue, Jinsu made a major decision.

    Ko: ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์ž, ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €์ธ ๋ฏธ์˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When lunchtime came, Jinsu spoke to his manager, Miyoung.

    Ko: "๋ฏธ์˜ ์„ ๋ฐฐ, ์ € ํ•  ๋ง์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”." ๋ฏธ์˜์€ ์ง„์ง€ํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ˜์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ‘œ์ •์„ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Senior Miyoung, I have something to say." Miyoung looked at Jinsu's serious face with a worried expression.

    Ko: "์™œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์ง„์ˆ˜ ์”จ? ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด์•ผ?"
    En: "What's up, Jinsu? What's the matter?"

    Ko: "์š”์ฆ˜ ํ˜ˆ์•• ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ์ผ์„ ์ค„์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”," ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์†”์งํžˆ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I've been very worried about my blood pressure lately. I think I should cut back on work," he said honestly.

    Ko: ๋ฏธ์˜์€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ง์„ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Miyoung genuinely listened to him.

    Ko: "์™€์ค˜์„œ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ, ์ง„์ˆ˜ ์”จ. ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์‰ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด๋•Œ? ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ํŒ€์›์ด ๋„ค ์ผ์„ ๋ถ„๋‹ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋„์™€์ค„๊ฒŒ." ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ œ์•ˆ์— ๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Thank you for coming to me, Jinsu. How about taking a day off? I'll help arrange for the rest of the team to share your workload." Jinsu felt deeply grateful for the suggestion.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์‚ผ์•„ ์ง‘์—์„œ ์‰ฌ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu took the day as an opportunity to rest at home and reflect on himself.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋™์•ˆ ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ค‘ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊นŠ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: During that time, he deeply contemplated which was more importantโ€”work or health.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He made a decision.

    Ko: ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์žƒ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ .
    En: He would no longer work to the detriment of his health.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์— ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
    En: As the New Year approached, he returned to the office.

    Ko: ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค, ๊ฐ™์€ ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์ˆ˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: The same office and the same decorations remained, but Jinsu's heart was different.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He realized how important he was, and was now firmly resolved to maintain a healthy life.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ์—, ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ, ํ•˜์–€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์Œ ๊นŠ์ด ํ‰์•ˆ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Thus, when Jinsu went home and gazed at the white snow, he felt a deep peace within his heart.


    Vocabulary Words:
    corporate: ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…cheerful: ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šดatmosphere: ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐdecorations: ์žฅ์‹diligent: ์„ฑ์‹คํ•œweighing: ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šดmounted: ์ปค์กŒ๋‹คintently: ๋šซ์–ด์ง€๊ฒŒperceptible: ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ์ง€๋งŒimagined: ์ƒ์ƒํ–ˆ๊ณ peaceful: ํ‰ํ™”๋กญ๊ณ simple: ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œfar-off: ์•„๋“ํžˆ ๋จผexpression: ํ‘œ์ •advice: ์กฐ์–ธdizzy: ์–ด์ง€๋Ÿฌ์›€forehead: ์ด๋งˆ์—collapsing: ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋ฉดarrange: ๋ถ„๋‹ดํ• contemplated: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ๋‹คdetriment: ์žƒ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๊นŒ์ง€resolved: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คopportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒreflection: ๋Œ์•„๋ณด์•˜๋‹คgazed: ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐsnow: ๋ˆˆpressure: ์••๋ฐ•genuine: ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœgrateful: ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹คmaintain: ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ธฐ๋กœ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jiho's Christmas Miracle: Adventure at the Community Tree
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-25-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ.
    En: A snow-covered gated community in Seoul.

    Ko: ์ง‘๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋น›๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๊ณณ.
    En: Every house is filled with sparkling lights and Christmas decorations.

    Ko: ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In the center stands a large Christmas tree.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ด ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค.
    En: Everyone loves this tree.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ, ๊ทธ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ์œ„์— Jiho์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But right now, on top of that tree is Jiho's precious gift.

    Ko: Jiho๋Š” ๋ณธ๋ž˜ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋…„์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho is naturally a curious boy.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜, ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Today, he lost a special gift.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์„ ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That gift was meant for Christmas.

    Ko: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„œ์ธ์ง€ ๊ทธ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Somehow, the gift ended up on top of the community tree.

    Ko: Jiho๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho felt worried.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” Sumin์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: He went to find Sumin.

    Ko: โ€œSumin, ํฐ์ผ ๋‚ฌ์–ด! ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์— ์žˆ์–ด!โ€ Jiho๋Š” ๊ฐ„์ ˆํ•œ ์Œ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œSumin, this is terrible! The gift is on top of the tree!โ€ Jiho said earnestly.

    Ko: Sumin์€ ์ˆจ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sumin took a deep breath.

    Ko: โ€œ์˜ค๋น , ์ด๊ฑธ ์–ด์ฉŒ์ง€?โ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œOlder brother, what should we do?โ€ she replied with a worried expression.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ Sumin์€ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. "์šฐ๋ฆฌ Minseok ์˜ค๋น ํ•œํ…Œ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฒญํ•˜์ž!"
    En: However, Sumin was practical. "Let's ask our Minseok Oppa for help!"

    Ko: ์ด์–ด์„œ Jiho์™€ Sumin์€ ์˜†์ง‘์˜ Minseok์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Next, Jiho and Sumin went to find their neighbor Minseok.

    Ko: Minseok์€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Minseok is an amusing inventor.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ณ„๋‚œ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๊ธด๋‹ค.
    En: He always enjoys creating and experimenting with quirky machines.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They arrived at his house.

    Ko: โ€œMinseok ์˜ค๋น , ๋„์™€์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!โ€ Jiho๋Š” ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์™ธ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œMinseok Oppa, please help!โ€ Jiho shouted urgently.

    Ko: Minseok์€ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค, โ€œ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด์ง€?โ€
    En: Minseok looked curious and asked, โ€œWhat's going on?โ€

    Ko: Jiho๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho explained the situation.

    Ko: Minseok์€ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์•„, ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ๋งŒ๋“  ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„์›€ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.โ€
    En: Minseok smiled and said, โ€œAh, for that, a tool I recently made might help.โ€

    Ko: Minseok์€ ์ง‘์—์„œ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋†“์€ ์ง‘๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Minseok brought out a grappling hook device he'd made somewhere in his house.

    Ko: "์ด๊ฑด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ง‘๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์•ผ. ์ด๊ฑธ๋กœ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์žก์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ!" Minseok์€ ์‹ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์™ธ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: "This is a grappling launcher I made. We can use it to grab the gift!" Minseok exclaimed excitedly.

    Ko: ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The three of them went to the large tree.

    Ko: Jiho๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Although Jiho was worried, he had faith.

    Ko: Minseok์€ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseok prepared the device.

    Ko: โ€œํŒ”, ์ค„ ๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ !โ€ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์™ธ์น˜๋ฉฐ ์ง‘๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œWatch this!โ€ he shouted as he launched the grabber.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์กฐ์ค€์ด ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ์›ƒ์Œ์ด ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: But at first, the aim was off. Laughter erupted.

    Ko: ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They tried again. This time, they caught the gift precisely.

    Ko: "์žก์•˜์–ด!" Jiho๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ป ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: "Got it!" Jiho exclaimed joyfully.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณค ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ง‘๊ฒŒ๋กœ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Then, carefully, they lowered the gift with the grabber.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์ด ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
    En: At that very moment, their parents returned.

    Ko: Jiho์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ˆจ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho and his friends hid the gift.

    Ko: ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They saved Christmas without anyone knowing.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋‹ค!" Jiho๋Š” ์†์‚ญ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: "What a relief!" Jiho whispered.

    Ko: ์ด ์ผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด Jiho๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋ผ.โ€
    En: Through this experience, Jiho learned, โ€œI shouldn't try to do everything alone without saying anything.โ€

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He gained this realization.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: This Christmas will remain the most special in his memories.

    Ko: ์ด ์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Thanks to the efforts of these three friends.

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ ๋„์šธ ๋•Œ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ๋‹ค.
    En: Miracles happen when you help each other.


    Vocabulary Words:
    gated: ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธprecious: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œcurious: ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋งŽ์€earnestly: ๊ฐ„์ ˆํ•œ ์Œ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœexpression: ํ‘œ์ •practical: ์‹ค์šฉ์ amusing: ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š”inventor: ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€experimenting: ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š”quirky: ๋ณ„๋‚œgrappling hook: ์ง‘๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ ์žฅ์น˜launcher: ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๊ธฐfaith: ๋ฏฟ์Œprecisely: ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒlowered: ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹คrealization: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œmiracles: ๊ธฐ์ relief: ๋‹คํ–‰naturally: ๋ณธ๋ž˜breath: ์ˆจurgent: ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒsituation: ์ƒํ™ฉsmiled: ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐcreated: ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ดaim: ์กฐ์ค€laughter: ์›ƒ์Œhidden: ์ˆจ๊ฒผ๋‹คmemories: ๊ธฐ์–ต ์†์—์„œefforts: ๋…ธ๋ ฅsparkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Illuminating Self-Belief: Jiho's Lantern Transformation
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ๋”์šฑ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The quiet gated community of Seoul becomes even more beautiful in the winter.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ์†Œ๋ณต์ด ์Œ“์ธ ์ง‘๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ฐ˜์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ถˆ๋น›๋“ค์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์„ ์žฅ์‹ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Houses blanketed in snow and the twinkling Christmas lights decorate the streets everywhere.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” ๋งˆ์„ ๊ณต์›์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋งค๋…„ ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ ์žฅ์‹ ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์—ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At its center is a village park where every year the residents gather to hold a lantern decoration contest.

    Ko: ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด ์ฝ˜ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This contest, open to everyone, brings great joy and anticipation to all.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ด ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋‚ ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho waits eagerly for this competition every year.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ Š์€์ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He is a young man not well-known to those around him because of his introverted nature.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์—์„œ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์šฐ์Šนํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He has a strong desire to win this year's competition.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ์ฃ .
    En: He wants to show others his worth.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Jiho lacks confidence.

    Ko: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜†์ง‘์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜ ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋””์ž์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ํƒ๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This is because Minji, who lives next door, is always selected for her impressive designs.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ƒ๋ƒฅํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์ด์›ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji is a pleasant and lively neighbor.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her splendid lanterns always captivate the attention of people.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋ฅผ ์˜์‹ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The more Jiho is aware of Minji, the more anxious he becomes.

    Ko: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์ฃ .
    En: He doesn't know how to surpass her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์–ด๋Š ๋‚ , ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์ด์›ƒ์ธ ํ˜„ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์—๊ฒŒ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Then one day, Jiho confided his concerns to his nearby neighbor, Grandpa Hyun.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์„์—์„œ ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์–ด๋ฅธ์œผ๋กœ, ๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์–ธ๊ณผ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He is a respected elder in the village, offering advice and wisdom to many residents.

    Ko: ํ˜„ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ๋“ฑ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒ ๋ƒ๊ณ  ์กฐ์–ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Grandpa Hyun suggested to Jiho that he try using traditional Korean lanterns.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ž๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He encouraged him by saying that he could express his individuality in this way.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ตฌ์ƒ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ „ํ†ต ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho started brainstorming various ideas and began crafting traditional lanterns.

    Ko: ์กฐ์ƒ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was an attempt to merge the wisdom of his ancestors with modern creativity.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์ž ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์€ ์ ์  ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, Jiho's lantern gradually took shape.

    Ko: ๋“œ๋””์–ด ๋Œ€ํšŒ ๋‚ ์ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The day of the competition finally arrived.

    Ko: ์˜จ ๋งˆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ณต์›์— ๋ชจ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The whole village gathered at the park.

    Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ๋„ ๋งŽ์€ ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As everyone showcased their lanterns, Minji's lantern also received much admiration.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ํ”๋“ค๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฏฟ์–ด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho was momentarily shaken but decided to trust in his own lantern.

    Ko: ์•ฝ์†๋œ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He believed in the blend of tradition and creativity he had promised.

    Ko: ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The judging results were announced.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์€ ๊ทธ ๋…ํŠนํ•จ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์œผ๋กœ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho's lantern received high praise for its uniqueness and traditional beauty.

    Ko: ๋น„๋ก 1๋“ฑ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠน๋ณ„์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Though it wasn't first place, he received a special award and earned the recognition of the community.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํฐ ๊ฐ๋™์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho was deeply moved.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ๋„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ , ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He also learned an important lesson: the importance of believing in oneself and opening up to those who can offer help.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Smiling, Jiho watched as the residents gave him warm applause.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํ•œ ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋งˆ์„์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Now he felt confident that he was not merely another resident, but an integral part of the village.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ๋งˆ์„์„ ๋”์šฑ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๋“ฏ์ด, ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Just as the Christmas lights illuminated the village more brightly, Jiho's heart was also brightly lit.


    Vocabulary Words:
    gated: ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธcommunity: ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐblanketed: ์†Œ๋ณต์ด ์Œ“์ธtwinkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š”decorated: ์žฅ์‹๋œanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€introverted: ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ ์ธlacks: ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹คconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐimpressive: ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธanxious: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œsurpass: ์ด๊ธฐ๋‹คconfide: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๋‹คrespected: ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ›๋Š”express: ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋‹คindividuality: ๊ฐœ์„ฑbrainstorming: ๊ตฌ์ƒcrafting: ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹คmerge: ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋‹คancestors: ์กฐ์ƒcreativity: ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑshowcased: ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”admiration: ์ฐฌ์‚ฌtrust: ๋ฏฟ๋‹คblend: ์กฐํ•ฉuniqueness: ๋…ํŠนํ•จrecognition: ์ธ์ •integral: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œilluminated: ๋น„์ถ”๋‹ค

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Amid the Snowstorm: Soyeong's Unexpected Christmas Journey
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-24-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ธ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ  ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํ’๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Incheon International Airport was filled with a Christmas scene of falling snow typical of winter.

    Ko: ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์ด ๊ณตํ•ญ์„ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Christmas trees and sparkling decorations were lighting up the airport brightly everywhere.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: However, looking out the window, the situation was more complicated.

    Ko: ๊ฑฐ์„ผ ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋‹ฅ์ณ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์—ฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A fierce snowstorm had swept in, causing all flights to be delayed.

    Ko: ์†Œ์˜์€ ์ดˆ์กฐํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeong was waiting anxiously for her flight.

    Ko: ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ปธ๋‹ค.
    En: She had a strong desire to meet her family and spend Christmas in her hometown.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ์ง€์—ฐ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์• ํƒ€๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: But the flight delays due to the snowstorm were making her anxious.

    Ko: ์†Œ์˜์€ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณตํ•ญ ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฒญํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeong made a decision: she would seek help from the airport staff.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณตํ•ญ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์นด์šดํ„ฐ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: She approached the airport service counter.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ํ˜น์‹œ ์ œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์ œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ• ์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?" ์†Œ์˜์€ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Hello, could I possibly find out when my flight will depart?" Soyeong asked cautiously.

    Ko: ์ง์› ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The staff member, Jiho, smiled and responded to her.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."
    En: "Hello. It's currently difficult to predict. But I will provide you with information as soon as possible."

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์†Œ์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•ˆ์‹ฌํ•œ ์†Œ์˜์€ ๊ณตํ•ญ ๋ผ์šด์ง€๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Slightly reassured by Jiho's kind words and smile, Soyeong moved to the airport lounge.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—” ๊ทธ๋…€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: It was crowded with people waiting, just like her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์ด ๋ˆˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋…ธํŠธ๋ถ ์•ž์— ์•‰์•„ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Among them, someone caught her eyeโ€”Minjun sat engrossed in something on his laptop.

    Ko: ์†Œ์˜์€ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์–ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: Gathering her courage, Soyeong approached him.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋„ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ˜ผ์ž ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์‹ฌ๋ž€ํ•ด์„œ์š”."
    En: "Hello, I'm waiting for a flight too. It's unsettling being alone."

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์†Œ์˜์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋น™๊ทธ๋ ˆ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun looked up at her and smiled warmly.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋„์š”. ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ค๋“ค ํž˜๋“ค๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”."
    En: "Hello, me too. Everyone must be having a hard time because of the snowstorm."

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two began to talk.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์„ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์†Œ์˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ์œ„์•ˆ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjun shared his experiences of traveling around the world, providing Soyeong with some comfort.

    Ko: ๋Œ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ๊ฑฑ์ •๊ณผ ํฌ๋ง์œผ๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The conversation naturally flowed into sharing their worries and hopes.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘, ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: During their conversation, they noticed the snowstorm outside worsening.

    Ko: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์†Œ์˜์€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "ํ˜น์‹œ ๋ชป ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–กํ•˜์ฃ ?"
    En: With an anxious heart, Soyeong said to Minjun, "What if we can't go?"

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์—ฌํ–‰์€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์—†์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿด ๋•Œ์ผ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ์ผ์ด ์ƒ๊ธธ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”."
    En: Minjun replied quietly, "Traveling is never without worries. But in times like this, waiting might bring something good."

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ง์— ์†Œ์˜์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: His words calmed Soyeong's heart a little more.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด ์ค€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ •๋ณด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌผ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She decided to spend some time asking Jiho about other information.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ผ๋งˆ ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๊ณตํ•ญ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค. "๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณง ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅ™ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."
    En: Soon, an airport announcement could be heard: "Thank you for your attention. Flights will soon be ready for takeoff."

    Ko: ์†Œ์˜์€ ์•ˆ๋„์˜ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeong let out a sigh of relief.

    Ko: ๋น„๋ก ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆผ์ด ๊ธธ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Though the wait was long, her conversation with Minjun had offered her a new perspective.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ฑ™๊ฒจ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the time approached, she gathered her belongings and headed to the plane.

    Ko: ๊ณตํ•ญ์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์†Œ์˜์€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌ์ •์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As she departed from the airport, Soyeong thought, this journey wasn't just about reaching the destination.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๋งŒ๋‚จ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She found herself cherishing the unexpected encounters and the warm moments she experienced.

    Ko: ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ ์•„์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ์˜ ๋ณ„์ด ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์†Œ์˜์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์žฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์‹ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the plane flew toward her hometown and the Christmas Eve stars began to twinkle, Soyeong was confident of reuniting with her family.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Even amid the snowstorm, she came to value the new connections and experiences.


    Vocabulary Words:
    scene: ํ’๊ฒฝsparkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š”fierce: ๊ฑฐ์„ผanxiously: ์ดˆ์กฐํ•œcautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒreassured: ์•ˆ์‹ฌํ•œengrossed: ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•œunsettling: ์‹ฌ๋ž€ํ•œwarmly: ๋น™๊ทธ๋ ˆ ์›ƒ๋‹คexperiences: ๊ฒฝํ—˜conversation: ๋Œ€ํ™”worsening: ๋”์šฑ ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€๋Š”anxious: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œpredict: ์˜ˆ์ธกdeparture: ์ถœ๋ฐœdelayed: ์ง€์—ฐ๋œstaff: ์ง์›lounge: ๋ผ์šด์ง€twinkle: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋‹คconnections: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐencounters: ๋งŒ๋‚จperspective: ์‹œ๊ฐvaluable: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œcherishing: ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹คrelief: ์•ˆ๋„destination: ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€situation: ์ƒํ™ฉgathering: ์ˆ˜์ง‘announcement: ๋ฐฉ์†กbelongings: ์žฅ๋น„

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Homeward Bound: A Winter Journey of Family and Hope
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-24-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ธ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Incheon International Airport was filled with the cold air of winter.

    Ko: ๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ , ์€์€ํ•œ ์บ๋กค์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The airport was brightly lit with Christmas decorations, and gentle carols were playing.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฝ‰ ์žก๊ณ  ์ฒดํฌ์ธ ์นด์šดํ„ฐ ์•ž์— ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu stood in front of the check-in counter, gripping his suitcase tightly.

    Ko: ๋‹ค์ •ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์žฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์„ค๋ ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was excited about reuniting with his loving family.

    Ko: ์›Œ๋‚™ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋ชป ๋ณธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด๋ผ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฑฑ์ •๋„ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Having not seen them for such a long time, he felt joy but was also filled with concerns.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ดด๋กญํžˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The anxiety that their relationships might have changed over time troubled him.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ชจ์ด๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์ง‘์— ๊ฐ€๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu wanted to be home just in time for Christmas Eve when the whole family gathered.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์Œ“์—ฌ ๋น„ํ–‰์ด ์ง€์—ฐ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐฉ์†ก์ด ๋ช‡ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: However, announcements kept broadcasting that flights were delayed due to accumulated snow.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, his heart grew heavier.

    Ko: ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์— ๋น ์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: He picked up his phone and fell into contemplation.

    Ko: ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘์— ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๋ ค ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณง ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ์ง„์งœ ๋‹ต์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He considered finding another way to get home, but soon realized that this wasn't the real solution to the problem.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ง์ ‘ ๋งˆ์ฃผ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He resolved to confront and overcome his fears rather than avoid them.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ์— ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Just then, a message arrived on his phone.

    Ko: ์—ฌ๋™์ƒ ์€ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์˜จ ๋ฌธ์ž์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: It was a text from his younger sister, Eun-hee.

    Ko: "์˜ค๋น , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์˜ค๋น ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.
    En: "Oppa, we're all waiting for you.

    Ko: ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ผ!
    En: We're really excited!"

    Ko: " ๊ทธ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Reading the message, Jinsu felt warmth.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ๋ˆ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was reassured that the bond with his family was still strong and intact.

    Ko: ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํ›„, ๋ˆˆ์€ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ , ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ์— ํƒ‘์Šนํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: A little later, the snow stopped, and an announcement was made to board the plane.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu gathered his belongings and walked towards the gate.

    Ko: ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์€ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: His steps were light.

    Ko: ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ™œ์ฃผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the plane skidded up the runway, he felt a renewed courage.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He realized that his relationship with his family remained strong despite the passage of time.

    Ko: ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š˜๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด์ž, ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์˜ ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค๋‹ค.
    En: As the plane ascended into the sky, Jinsu gazed out at the snow-covered landscape.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์žฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์„ค๋ ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, he was filled with newfound confidence and anticipation for the reunion with his family.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Memories of Christmas Eve awaited him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์ด ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: And so, his new beginning pleasantly commenced.


    Vocabulary Words:
    cold air: ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ณต๊ธฐdecorations: ์žฅ์‹carols: ์บ๋กคgripping: ๊ฝ‰ ์žก๊ณ reuniting: ์žฌํšŒanxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐaccumulated: ์Œ“์—ฌcontemplation: ๊ณ ๋ฏผbond: ๋ˆintact: ๋‹จ๋‹จํžˆ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ดbelongings: ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉskidded: ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์˜ฌ๋ผrenewed: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šดcourage: ์šฉ๊ธฐascended: ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋‹คconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐanticipation: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€commenced: ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คfilled: ๊ฐ๋Œ๊ณ gathered: ๋ชจ์ด๋Š”broadcasting: ๋ฐฉ์†กresolved: ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹คarrived: ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹คreassured: ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คannouncement: ์•ˆ๋‚ดgate: ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธlandscape: ํ’๊ฒฝnewfangled: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šดtroubled: ๊ดด๋กญํžˆ๊ณ passage: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋”๋ผ๋„

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Winter's Miracle: Healing Migraine with Tradition
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-23-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ์†Œ๋ณต์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒจ์šธ๋‚ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ํ•˜์–€ ์˜ท์„ ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a winter day with gently falling snow, Gyeongbokgung was dressed in white.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์—์„œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ํ•ด์„ค๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon was working as a history guide at Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ํ•œ์ผ ์—๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต ์˜ํ•™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: There was always a passion for Korean traditional medicine in a corner of his heart.

    Ko: ์–ด๋Š ๋‚ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ดŒ ๋ฏผ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One day, his cousin Minseo came to visit him from a distant country.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์‹ฌํ•œ ํŽธ๋‘ํ†ต์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์˜ํ•™์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‚ซ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo was suffering from severe migraines, but modern medicine had not been able to heal her.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜์‹ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Initially, Minseo was skeptical about traditional treatments.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋•๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Jihoon wanted to help her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ฆ…์“ฐ๊ณ , ๋ฏผ์„œ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ช…์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He decided to introduce her to a friend despite the opposition from their family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ถ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That friend was Granny Eunji, who lived near the palace.

    Ko: ์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์•ฝ์ดˆ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋กœ, ์ง€ํ›ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ๋„ ์ธ์—ฐ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Granny Eunji was an expert in herbs and had a connection with Jihoon's family.

    Ko: "์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฏผ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?" ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Granny Eunji, could you help Minseo?" Jihoon asked cautiously.

    Ko: ์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง€. ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์•Œ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์ž–๋‹ˆ."
    En: Granny Eunji replied with a gentle smile, "Of course. You never know unless you try."

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋‚  ์˜คํ›„, ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์†์—์„œ ์•ฝ์ดˆ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That afternoon, Minseo received herbal tea from Granny Eunjiโ€™s hands.

    Ko: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•ํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ €์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ„์† ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At first, the strong smell made her shake her head, but she decided to keep trying.

    Ko: ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ์ •์›์„ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…ํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘, ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While sipping the tea and strolling through the snow-covered gardens of Gyeongbokgung, Minseo felt an amazing change.

    Ko: ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์› ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์šด์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ , ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํ•œ๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The heavy feeling in her head disappeared, and her heart felt noticeably lighter.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด, ์ง€ํ›ˆ!" ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์™ธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "I can't believe it, Jihoon!" Minseo exclaimed with joy.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ „ํ†ต์˜ ํž˜์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ปค."
    En: Jihoon smiled and replied, "The power of tradition is that strong."

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Christmas was approaching.

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์—๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ณต์„ ์ž…์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Gyeongbokgung was filled with people in hanbok preparing for Christmas.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ํŽธ๋‘ํ†ต์ด ๋‚˜์•„์ง์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•จ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As Minseo's migraines improved, the family began to feel grateful for traditional treatments.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon gained a new confidence in his instincts and tradition.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jihoon discovered his own new purpose in connecting history and culture.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์†์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ด์ œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He began to view the tradition within his beloved history with new eyes.

    Ko: ์€์ง€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๋ฏผ์„œ์—๊ฒŒ ์†์‚ญ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Expressing gratitude to Granny Eunji, Jihoon whispered to Minseo.

    Ko: "๊ฐ€๋”์€ ์˜› ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ•  ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€."
    En: "Sometimes, the old can be stronger than the new."

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ๋งˆ๋‹น์„ ๋ฎ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์ •์ ์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The snow still covered Gyeongbokgung's courtyard, and a serene silence signaling a new beginning flowed around.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒˆ์กŒ๊ณ , ์ง€ํ›ˆ๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A smile spread across Minseo's face, and Jihoon found a new belief.

    Ko: ์ด ๊ฒจ์šธ, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This winter, Gyeongbokgung was the backdrop for a new miracle.


    Vocabulary Words:
    gently: ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒdressed: ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”passion: ์—ด์ •skeptical: ๋ฐ˜์‹ ๋ฐ˜์˜treatments: ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•cautiously: ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒherbal: ์•ฝ์ดˆsip: ๋งˆ์‹œ๋‹คstrolling: ์‚ฐ์ฑ…ํ•˜๋‹คamazing: ๋†€๋ผ์šดmigraine: ํŽธ๋‘ํ†ตinstincts: ๋ณธ๋Šฅdiscovered: ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋‹คgratitude: ๊ฐ์‚ฌserene: ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œmiracle: ๊ธฐ์ expert: ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€connection: ์ธ์—ฐinitially: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—opposition: ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€improved: ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๋‹คhealed: ๋‚ซ๋‹คpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ approaching: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋‹คbelief: ์‹ ๋…notably: ํ˜„์ €ํžˆintroduced: ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋‹คbackdrop: ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝwhispered: ์†์‚ญ์ด๋‹คnew beginning: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jinwoo's Redemption: Healing an Ancient City
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-23-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค์˜ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒจ์šธ ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜ ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: An ancient Greek city lay beneath the winter sky.

    Ko: ๋งค์ผ๋งค์ผ ๋œจ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋Œ๋กœ ๋œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ๋ณ‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The bustling markets and stone streets that were lively every day were now filled with anxiety over a sickness.

    Ko: ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ์†Œ๊ธˆ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ถ•์ œ ์ค€๋น„์— ์—ฌ๋…์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋…”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The cold winter wind carried the scent of sea salt and the bustling sounds of Christmas festival preparations.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ด ๋จผ ๋•…์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo had arrived in this distant land.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์น˜์œ ์‚ฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was a healer.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ์˜ ์—ฌํ–‰์—๋Š” ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, his journey had a hidden purpose.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ „์— ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์†์ฃ„์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was seeking a path to atonement, recalling the experience of being unable to save someone he loved in the past.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์•ฝ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์•ฝ์ดˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ท€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo brought with him special herbsโ€”precious ones that couldn't be found elsewhere.

    Ko: ๋„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณ ์—ด์˜ ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์— ๋น ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The city was in chaos due to a feverish illness.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด ์งˆ๋ณ‘์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He intended to cure this disease.

    Ko: ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์‹คํŒจ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Furthermore, he wanted to earn the trust of the local community and move past his previous failure.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค, ์€์„œ์™€ ๋ฏผ์ค€์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์•ฝ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ์˜์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, other healers in the city, including Eunseo and Minjun, doubted Jinwoo's methods and his herbs.

    Ko: ๋ณ‘์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํผ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œํ—˜ํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์กฐ์ฐจ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The disease was spreading rapidly, leaving no time for trials.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo was troubled.

    Ko: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง€์‹์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์นจ๋ฌตํ• ์ง€ ์„ ํƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He had to choose whether to share all his knowledge or remain silent.

    Ko: ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‚จ๋“ค์ด ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์‚ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅผ๊นŒ ๋‘๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was sometimes afraid that others would call him a wizard.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋Œ€์ถ•์ œ ๋•Œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์‹œ์—ฐ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, Jinwoo decided to conduct a public demonstration during the winter festival.

    Ko: ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He risked his reputation to gain a single chance.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์‹œ์—ฐ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People watched his demonstration closely.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo's treatment exceeded expectations and showed good results.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์˜€๊ณ  ๋ณ‘์€ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ์ง„์ •๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Gradually, people began to accept his methods, and the disease slowly subsided.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo gained the trust of the cityโ€™s people.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ชฉ์ ๋„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He also found a new purpose.

    Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์‹คํŒจ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚œ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He gained confidence, freeing himself from his past failure.

    Ko: ์ง€๊ทธ์‹œ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์†์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ‰์˜จ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As he gently closed his eyes, he felt peace again in the cold wind.

    Ko: ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The people of the city now believed in Jinwoo's capabilities.

    Ko: ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ ํ™•๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This belief was as firm as the cold winter wind.

    Ko: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚œ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo's heart, now freed from the shadows of the past, was filled with a warm glow.


    Vocabulary Words:
    ancient: ๊ณ ๋Œ€sky: ํ•˜๋Š˜stone: ๋Œanxiety: ๋ถˆ์•ˆscent: ๋ƒ„์ƒˆdistant: ๋จผhealer: ์น˜์œ ์‚ฌatonement: ์†์ฃ„recalling: ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐfurthermore: ๋˜ํ•œreputation: ๋ช…์„ฑdemonstration: ์‹œ์—ฐexceeded: ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌsubside: ์ง„์ •๋˜๋‹คconfidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐshadows: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์žglow: ์˜จ๊ธฐbustling: ๋ณต์žกํ•œfeverish: ๊ณ ์—ดtrials: ์‹œํ—˜troubled: ๊ณ ๋ฏผwizard: ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์‚ฌgradually: ์„œ์„œํžˆover: ๊ฑธ๊ณ conduct: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌtreatment: ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•gain: ์–ป๊ฒŒpurpose: ๋ชฉ์ firm: ํ™•๊ณ frenzy: ์น˜์œ ์‚ฌ

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Isolation to Reunion: A Seoul Christmas Tale
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-22-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ์™€ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Winter in Seoul was filled with warm coffee and streets adorned with dazzling lights.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์„œ์ง„์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์–ผ์–ด๋ถ™์€ ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Seojin's heart felt frozen.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค์—์„œ ๋ฐค๋‚ฎ์—†์ด ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ๊ป์งˆ ์†์— ๊ฐ‡ํžŒ ๋‹ฌํŒฝ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์„ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋‹จ์ ˆ๋œ ์ฑ„๋กœ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.
    En: As a freelance graphic designer, she spent her days and nights busy working in the studio, detached from the world like a snail trapped in its shell.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…๊ณผ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์†ก์ด๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์„œ์ง„์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ง‘์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Her studio was filled with warm lighting and sparkling snowflakes visible through the windows, but Seojin's heart wasn't clear.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Christmas was approaching.

    Ko: ๋งค๋…„ ์ด๋ง˜๋•Œ๋ฉด ์„œ์ง„์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Every year at this time, Seojin used to enjoy happy times with her family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
    En: But this year was different.

    Ko: ์–ธ๋‹ˆ ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์˜ ๋‹คํˆผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์„œ์ง„์€ ํ˜ผ์ž ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Because of a quarrel with her sister Minkyung, Seojin was alone.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚œ ์—…๋ฌด์—๋งŒ ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: So, she immersed herself in her increasing workload.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ ์•„์นจ์— ์„œ์ง„์€ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์ด์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, on Christmas Eve morning, Seojin felt that something was amiss.

    Ko: ์ŠคํŠœ๋””์˜ค์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…๋„ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋…น์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The studio's warm lights couldn't thaw her heart.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด๋Œ€๋กœ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Suddenly, she realized that things couldn't go on like this.

    Ko: "๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ˜ผ์ž ์ค‘์–ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: "Family is precious," she muttered to herself.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฐํžˆ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She made a bold decision.

    Ko: ์ผ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: She would put aside work and go to meet her family.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ์™ธํˆฌ๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ , ์ž‘์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ ๊พธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฑ™๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin donned a thick coat and packed a small bundle of gifts.

    Ko: ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ๋žฉํ•‘์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์†์—์„œ ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: The colorful wrapping paper sparkled in her hands.

    Ko: ํƒ์‹œ์— ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์•ž์„ฐ๋‹ค.
    En: As she got into the taxi, she felt a wave of worry.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์˜ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•œ ์นจ๋ฌต์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was concerned about the awkward silence with Minkyung.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋‡Œ์—ˆ๋‹ค, "๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."
    En: But she closed her eyes and repeated in her heart, "Family ultimately needs to be together."

    Ko: ํƒ์‹œ๋Š” ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The taxi moved slowly along the snow-covered roads.

    Ko: ์ง‘์— ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์–ต๋ˆ„๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As they neared home, Seojin couldn't suppress her racing heart.

    Ko: ์ง‘ ์•ž์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ์„œ์ง„์€ ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ฐจ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Upon reaching the house, she couldn't bring herself to get out of the car for a moment.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์–ด๋Š์ƒˆ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์†์€ ๋ฌธ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, before she knew it, her hand was on the door handle.

    Ko: ๋ฌธ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ์ž ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋†€๋ž€ ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When the door opened, Minkyung stood there with a surprised expression.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ง์—†์ด ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They looked at each other in silence for a moment.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„œ์ง„์˜ ์ž…๊ฐ€์— ์ž‘์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒˆ์ง€์ž, ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ๋„ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ๋ ๋ฉฐ ์„œ์ง„์„ ๊ปด์•ˆ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As a small smile spread across Seojin's face, Minkyung also smiled and hugged her.

    Ko: "์–ด์„œ ์™€, ์„œ์ง„์•„," ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Welcome, Seojin," Minkyung said.

    Ko: ์‹ํƒ ์œ„์—๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ „ํ†ต ์Œ์‹์ด ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Warm traditional dishes were prepared on the dining table.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์„œ์ง„์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์›ƒ๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: The family welcomed Seojin as they laughed and enjoyed together.

    Ko: ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ์˜คํ•ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋…น์•„๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The year's conflicts and misunderstandings melted away there.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ๊ฐ€์Šด ๊นŠ์ˆ™์ด ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin felt warmth deep in her heart.

    Ko: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Her family felt so precious to her.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ฐค, ์„œ์ง„์€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ์ผ๋งŒํผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„.
    En: That night, Seojin realized that time spent with family is just as important as work.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”์œ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She resolved to cherish time with her family even amidst a busy life.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์›ํ•˜๋˜ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•จ๊ณผ ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๋‚€ ์ฑ„ ์ž ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She fell asleep feeling the warmth and sense of belonging she had always wanted.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค์˜ ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐค์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a magical Christmas night.


    Vocabulary Words:
    adorned: ํ™”๋ คํ•œdazzling: ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š”frozen: ์–ผ์–ด๋ถ™์€freelance: ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œdetached: ๋‹จ์ ˆ๋œsnail: ๋‹ฌํŒฝ์ดapproaching: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ quarrel: ๋‹คํˆผimmerse: ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•˜๋‹คthaw: ๋…น์ด๋‹คmuttered: ์ค‘์–ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹คbold: ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•œdonned: ์ž…๋‹คbundle: ๊พธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏธsparkled: ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€๋‹คawkward: ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•œsuppress: ์–ต๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋‹คhandle: ๋ฌธ๊ณ ๋ฆฌembrace: ๊ปด์•ˆ๋‹คtraditional: ์ „ํ†ตmisunderstandings: ์˜คํ•ดcherish: ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹คbelonging: ์†Œ์†๊ฐmagical: ๋งˆ๋ฒ• ๊ฐ™์€wrapped: ๋žฉํ•‘์ง€wave: ๊ฑฑ์ •silence: ์นจ๋ฌตprecious: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œresolved: ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน๋‹คsparkling: ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Illuminating Tradition: A Seoul Christmas Market Story
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-22-08-38-19-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฐ”์˜๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋„์‹ฌ ์†์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ ๋ถ์ดŒ ํ•œ์˜ฅ ๋งˆ์„์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Nestled within the busy and vibrant heart of Seoul, Bukchon Hanok Village exudes a special charm even in winter.

    Ko: ์ข๊ณ  ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ธฐ์™€์ง‘์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์ถ”์–ต์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The scenes created by its narrow, cozy alleys and traditional tile-roofed houses hold a fragrance of nostalgia.

    Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ „ํ†ต ๋งˆ์ผ“์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง„์ˆ˜, ํ˜œ์ง„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: There, preparing for the Christmas traditional market are Jinsu, Hyejin, and Minjae.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ๋ณด์กด์„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu is a volunteer devoted to preserving traditional culture.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ“์„ ์—ด์–ด ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wants to open a Christmas market to showcase traditional Korean culture.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜œ์ง„์€ ์ Š๊ณ  ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ๊ธฐํš์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ๋„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Hyejin, an enthusiastic young event planner, wishes to emphasize modern elements to attract more visitors.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์žฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์žฅ์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ „์‹œ๋  ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minjae is a skilled artisan who seeks recognition for his works that will be on display.

    Ko: โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์–ด์šฐ๋ฅผ๊นŒ?โ€ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์— ๋น ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "How can we best blend tradition and modernity?" Jinsu wonders.

    Ko: ํ˜œ์ง„์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์žฅ์‹๊ณผ ์Œ์•…์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hyejin plans to prepare extravagant decorations and music to create a Christmas atmosphere.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ง„์ˆ˜์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Yet, this approach doesn't feel traditional to Jinsu.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋‚ ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The day of the market opening approaches.

    Ko: ์ค€๋น„๋Š” ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ผ ๋ณด์˜€์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ •์ „์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The preparations seem to be proceeding smoothly, but suddenly there is a power outage.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•˜๋Š˜๋„ ์–ด๋‘์› ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์ผ“์€ ์นจ๋ฌต ์†์— ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That day, the sky was also dark, and the market fell into silence.

    Ko: ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์‹ค๋งํ•ด ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Visitors started to leave, disappointed.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu had to make an urgent decision.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์žฌ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ „ํ†ต ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He thought of the traditional lanterns made in Minjae's workshop.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์žฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ๋„์›€์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He rushed over to Minjae and asked for help.

    Ko: ๊ณง ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ๋“ค์ด ๋งˆ์ผ“์„ ๋น„์ถ”๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soon, colorful lanterns began to light up the market.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ ์•„๋ž˜์„œ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ์™€ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ์Œ์‹๋“ค์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Under the lantern glow, many people started to enjoy warm tea and delicious traditional foods.

    Ko: ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a moment where tradition and modernity came together as one.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„.
    En: That night, Jinsu realized that complementing tradition with modern elements could attract more people.

    Ko: ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์€ ์–ด๋‘ ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ชจ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The lanterns illuminated the darkness and brought everyone together.

    Ko: ๋– ๋‚˜๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์™”๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Those who had begun leaving returned, their faces full of smiles.

    Ko: ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ง„์ˆ˜, ํ˜œ์ง„, ๋ฏผ์žฌ๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ „ํ†ต ๋งˆ์ผ“์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In this way, Jinsu, Hyejin, and Minjae successfully created a Christmas traditional market together.

    Ko: ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋™์‹œ์— ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์„ ๋งŒ๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Customers felt Korean tradition while simultaneously enjoying the delights of Christmas.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu was grateful for discovering the harmony between tradition and modernity.

    Ko: ์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ๊ทธ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋ฐฐ์›€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This experience was a great learning moment for him.


    Vocabulary Words:
    nestled: ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๋‹คvibrant: ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌexudes: ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹คfragrance: ํ–ฅ๊ธฐnostalgia: ์ถ”์–ตvolunteer: ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ždevoted: ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆpreserving: ๋ณด์กดshowcase: ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋‹คenthusiastic: ์—ด์ •์ ์ธemphasize: ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋‹คartisan: ์žฅ์ธrecognition: ์ธ์ •blend: ์–ด์šฐ๋ฅด๋‹คextravagant: ํ™”๋ คํ•œproceeding: ์ง„ํ–‰power outage: ์ •์ „urgent: ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•œlanterns: ๋“ฑ๋ถˆilluminated: ๋น„์ถ”๋‹คcomplementing: ๋ณด์™„harmony: ์กฐํ™”attract: ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ด๋‹คmoment: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„suddenly: ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐdisappointed: ์‹ค๋งํ•œsmoothly: ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒdecorations: ์žฅ์‹urgently: ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒdelicious: ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š”

  • Fluent Fiction - Korean: Capturing Timeless Moments at Wintry Gyeongbokgung
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-21-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Winter was deepening.

    Ko: ํ•œ์˜ฅ ์ง€๋ถ• ์œ„๋กœ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Snow was piling up layer by layer on the hanok roof.

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ํ‰์˜จํ•จ์„ ์ž์•„๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Gyeongbokgung contrasted with Seoul's modern landscape, exuding a unique tranquility.

    Ko: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„ ๊ถ๊ถ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์ด ๊ฑธ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์ „ํ†ต์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ•จ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Around the palace, year-end decorations were hung for Christmas, yet the weight of tradition remained unchanged.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์–ด๊นจ์— ๋ฉ”๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minji arrived at Gyeongbokgung with her camera bag slung over her shoulder.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์žก์ง€์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์ž„๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She had to complete an assignment given by the magazine company.

    Ko: ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Her goal was to capture a perfect photograph that blended modern life and historical charm.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋งˆ๊ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, the winter weather was harsh, and the deadline was quickly approaching.

    Ko: ์ƒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ์ „ํ†ต์  ์žฅ์†Œ์— ์—ฐ๋ง ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋ผ๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์••๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her boss's expectations were immense, and the demand to capture a year-end atmosphere at a traditional site pressured her.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๋†“์น˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Minji knew she was short on time, but she didn't want to miss the best moment.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ์— ๋‹ด๊ธธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Deep in her heart, she believed that such a moment would be captured by her camera.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ๋ผ๋„ ๋” ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: So she decided to stay a little longer.

    Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋˜ ์ค‘ ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While wandering around the palace, Minji heard someone's passionate voice.

    Ko: "์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
    En: "Hello, I am Jisoo, your guide to the palace!"

    Ko: " ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€์˜ ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ๋Œ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The voice caught Minji's attention.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐฌ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo's face was filled with a love for history.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์†์ง“์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When he gestured to explain the structure of the palace, Minji was momentarily captivated by him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: It was at that moment.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์†ก์ด๊ฐ€ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ ์† ์œ„์— ๋‚ด๋ ค์•‰์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: A snowflake landed on Jisooโ€™s hand.

    Ko: ํ•˜์–€ ๋ˆˆ ์œ„์— ์†ํ†ฑ ๋์˜ ๋ถ‰์€์ƒ‰์ด ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: The red at the tip of his fingernails shone vividly against the white snow.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์žฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์…”ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ˆŒ๋ €๋‹ค.
    En: Minji swiftly pressed the shutter.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€, ๊ฒจ์šธ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋ง์˜ ์กฐํ™”๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ์ฐฐ๋‚˜์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: That instant was a perfect blend of tradition and modernity, winter and the year-end.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ๊ณง ์—๋””ํ„ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์นญ์ฐฌ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Minji sent that photo to her company and soon received praise from her editor.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง์˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ์–ต๋ˆ„๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She took pride in having freely captured the delightful moments of the year-end in her photographs.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์—์„œ์˜ ์งง์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์ด ์–ด๋””์—์„œ๋“  ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Minji realized through her brief moment at Gyeongbokgung that beauty could be discovered anywhere.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ผ์„ ๋”์šฑ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Now, with a sense of the year-end, she felt more proud of her work.

    Ko: ๊ฐ„ํ˜น ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: She reminded herself once again that sometimes the most astonishing moments are found in unexpected places.

    Ko: ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ ์†์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Crossing the boundaries of tradition and modernity, Minji concluded her winter story with new discoveries.


    Vocabulary Words:
    deepening: ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ piling up: ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ์Œ“์—ฌcontrasted: ๋Œ€์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐexuding: ์ž์•„๋‚ด๊ณ trapped: ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คharsh: ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•œgestured: ์†์ง“์— ๋”ฐ๋ผswiftly: ์žฌ๋นจ๋ฆฌpressed: ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋‹คcapture: ๋‹ด๋‹คpraise: ์นญ์ฐฌastonishing: ๋†€๋ผ์šดunexpected: ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œslung: ๋ฉ”๊ณ assignment: ์ž„๋ฌดblend: ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋‹คdeadline: ๋งˆ๊ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„expectations: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€pressured: ์••๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹คwandering: ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋‹คpassionate: ์—ด์ •์ ์ธattention: ์ฃผ์˜captivated: ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹คsnowflake: ๋ˆˆ์†ก์ดvividly: ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒblend: ์กฐํ™”freely: ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒrealized: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹คastonishing: ๋†€๋ผ์šดdiscoveries: ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ