Learn about cities in South Korea
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Gina:Hi everyone, Iโm Gina. |
| Eunhee:And Iโm Eunhee! |
| Gina:And welcome to Culture Class: Essential Korean Vocabulary, Lesson 15! In this lesson you'll learn 5 essential words related to Geography and Nature. These are five well-known South Korean Cities. Hand picked. You can find a complete list of vocabulary at KoreanClass101.com |
| FIVE KEY VOCABULARY ITEMS |
| Gina:Eunhee, whatโs our first word? |
| Eunhee:์์ธ |
| Gina:Seoul, the capital of South Korea |
| Eunhee:(slow) ์์ธ (regular) ์์ธ |
| Gina:Listeners, please repeat: |
| Eunhee:์์ธ |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Gina:Seoul is the capital city of South Korea, and divided into two areas, Gangbuk and Gangnam, by the Han River. Gangbuk is the north part of Seoul and Gangnam is the south part. Seoul is the center of culture, politics, and economy of South Korea. |
| Gina:Now let's hear a sample sentence using this word. |
| Eunhee:(normal) ์์ธ์ ์กฐ์ ์๋๋ถํฐ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง 600๋ ๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Seoul has been the capital of Korea for about 600 years since the Joseon Dynasty period. |
| Eunhee:(slow) ์์ธ์ ์กฐ์ ์๋๋ถํฐ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง 600๋ ๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Okay, whatโs the next word? |
| Eunhee:๋ถ์ฐ |
| Gina:Busan, the second largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:(slow) ๋ถ์ฐ (regular) ๋ถ์ฐ |
| Gina:Listeners, please repeat: |
| Eunhee:๋ถ์ฐ |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Gina:Busan is the second largest city and stands first on the list of South Korean trade ports. It takes two and a half hours from Seoul by KTX, the fastest train in South Korea, as it is located at the southeast end of the country. |
| Gina:Now let's hear a sample sentence using this word. |
| Eunhee:(normal) ๋งค๋ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ ๊ตญ์ ์ํ์ ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ์ถ์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Gina:The Busan International Film Festival is the representative annual event in Busan. |
| Eunhee:(slow) ๋งค๋ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ ๊ตญ์ ์ํ์ ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ์ถ์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Okay, whatโs the next word? |
| Eunhee:์ธ์ฒ |
| Gina:Incheon, the third largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:(slow) ์ธ์ฒ (regular) ์ธ์ฒ |
| Gina:Listeners, please repeat: |
| Eunhee:์ธ์ฒ |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Gina:Incheon is the third largest city, as well as a harbor city, located in northwestern South Korea. It is called โthe gateway to Koreaโ since it is where the Incheon International Airport is located. Incheon will host the 2014 Asian Games. |
| Gina:Now let's hear a sample sentence using this word. |
| Eunhee:(normal) ์ธ์ฒ์ ์๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋จ ํ๋๋ฟ์ธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ํ์ด์์๋ ๋ ํนํ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ค๊ตญ์์์ ๋ง๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gina:In Incheon, youโll find the only Chinatown in Korea, and you can eat Korean-Chinese cuisine. |
| Eunhee:(slow) ์ธ์ฒ์ ์๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋จ ํ๋๋ฟ์ธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ํ์ด์์๋ ๋ ํนํ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ค๊ตญ์์์ ๋ง๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Okay, whatโs the next word? |
| Eunhee:๋๊ตฌ |
| Gina:Daegu, the fourth largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:(slow) ๋๊ตฌ (regular) ๋๊ตฌ |
| Gina:Listeners, please repeat: |
| Eunhee:๋๊ตฌ |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Gina:Daegu is the the fourth largest city in South Korea. This city is conveniently located, as any city in South Korea can be reached from Daegu within two hours. It is also known as "Apple City" since the humid climate yields delicious high quality apples. |
| Gina:Now let's hear a sample sentence using this word. |
| Eunhee:(normal) ์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ ๋ ดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ต์ฒจ๋จ ์๋ฃ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Many people from all over the world visit Daegu for its medical services, which are reasonably priced and state-of-the-art. |
| Eunhee:(slow) ์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ ๋ ดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ต์ฒจ๋จ ์๋ฃ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Okay, whatโs the last word? |
| Eunhee:๋์ |
| Gina:Daejeon, the fifth largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:(slow) ๋์ (regular) ๋์ |
| Gina:Listeners, please repeat: |
| Eunhee:๋์ |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Gina:Daejeon is the fifth largest city and located in the center of South Korea. It is called โthe city of scienceโ because it is where the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Daedeok Science Town are located. |
| Gina:Now let's hear a sample sentence using this word. |
| Eunhee:(normal) ๋์ ์ ์ฑ๊ตฌ๋ ์จ์ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gina:Yuseong-gu in Daejeon city is famous for its hot springs. |
| Eunhee:(slow) ๋์ ์ ์ฑ๊ตฌ๋ ์จ์ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| QUIZ |
| Gina:Okay listeners, are you ready to be quizzed on the words you just learned? Eunhee will give you the Korean โ please repeat it out loud! Are you ready? |
| Eunhee:์์ธ |
| [pause]Gina:Seoul, the capital of South Korea |
| Eunhee:๋ถ์ฐ |
| [pause]Gina:Busan, the second largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:์ธ์ฒ |
| [pause]Gina:Incheon, the third largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:๋๊ตฌ |
| [pause]Gina:Daegu, the fourth largest city in South Korea |
| Eunhee:๋์ |
| [pause]Gina:Daejeon, the fifth largest city in South Korea |
Outro |
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| Gina:There you have it โ five Cities in South Korea! We have more vocab lists available at KoreanClass101.com, so be sure to check them out. Thanks everyone, see you next time! |
| Eunhee:์๋ ํ ๊ณ์ธ์. |
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