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| Culture Class: Essential Korean Vocabulary, Season 3, Lesson 5: Korean Dramas |
Intro |
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| James: Hi everyone, I'm James. |
| Soyeon: And I'm Soyeon! |
| James: And welcome to Culture Class: Essential Korean Vocabulary, Season 3, Lesson 5! In this lesson you'll learn five essential titles related to contemporary Korean media. These are five must-watch Korean dramas. Hand-picked. You can find a complete list of vocabulary at KoreanClass101.com. |
| BODY |
| James: Soyeon, which is our first drama? |
| Soyeon: ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ (Miseuteo syeonsyain) |
| James: โMr. Sunshineโ |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ (Miseuteo syeonsyain) [NORMAL] ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ (Miseuteo syeonsyain) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ (Miseuteo syeonsyain) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: โMr. Sunshineโ is set in Korea during the early 19th century. It mainly features the lives of Korean loyal troop members during the resistance of Japan's invasion. The drama follows the five main characters as they fight and risk their lives for their country. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ์ ๋ง์ ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ด์. (Miseuteo syeonsyaineun maneun hangugindeureul ulge mandeureosseoyo.) |
| James: โMr. Sunshineโ made many Koreans cry. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ์ ๋ง์ ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ด์. (Miseuteo syeonsyaineun maneun hangugindeureul ulge mandeureosseoyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next drama? |
| Soyeon: ์ธ์ธํ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ํ์ โ ๋๊นจ๋น (Sseulsseulhago challanhasin - dokkaebi) |
| James: โGuardian: The Lonely and Great Godโ |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ธ์ธํ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ํ์ โ ๋๊นจ๋น (Sseulsseulhago challanhasin - dokkaebi) [NORMAL] ์ธ์ธํ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ํ์ โ ๋๊นจ๋น (Sseulsseulhago challanhasin - dokkaebi) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์ธ์ธํ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ํ์ โ ๋๊นจ๋น (Sseulsseulhago challanhasin - dokkaebi) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: The main characters of this drama, Goblin and Grim Reaper, are very unique. The story is based around the myth of reincarnation. It is about a Goblin who cannot die until he pulls out the sword in his heart. Many people loved the show especially for its comical scenes. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ๋๊นจ๋น๋ 2017๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ์์๋ ๋๋ผ๋ง์์. (Dokkaebineun icheonsipchillnyeone gajang ingiisseotdeon deuramayeyo.) |
| James: 'Dokkaebi' was the most popular drama in 2017. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋๊นจ๋น๋ 2017๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ์์๋ ๋๋ผ๋ง์์. (Dokkaebineun icheonsipchillnyeone gajang ingiisseotdeon deuramayeyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next drama? |
| Soyeon: ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ (Byeoreseo on geudae) |
| James: "My Love from the Star" |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ (Byeoreseo on geudae) [NORMAL] ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ (Byeoreseo on geudae) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ (Byeoreseo on geudae) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: It is a love story about a top star named Cheon Song-yi and an alien named Do Min-joon. It was the first Korean Science Fiction drama. The drama featured scenes of the characters eating Chimaek (bear), and because of this, Chimaek became very popular in China. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์น๋งฅ์ด ๋จน๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ธ์. (Byeoreseo on geudaereul bomyeon chimaegi meokgo sipeojyeoyo.) |
| James: Watching "My Love from the Star" makes people crave Chimaek. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์น๋งฅ์ด ๋จน๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ธ์. (Byeoreseo on geudaereul bomyeon chimaegi meokgo sipeojyeoyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next drama? |
| Soyeon: ์๊ทธ๋ (Sigeuneol) |
| James: โSignalโ |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์๊ทธ๋ (Sigeuneol) [NORMAL] ์๊ทธ๋ (Sigeuneol) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์๊ทธ๋ (Sigeuneol) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: โSignalโ is different from other Korean dramas in that it doesn't focus on a love story. This show features crime investigations that are based on real cases, which helped increase the level of viewers. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ์๊ทธ๋์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ํ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์ง๋๊ฐ์. (Sigeuneoreul boda bomyeon han sigani geumbang jinagayo.) |
| James: An hour passes quickly when watching "Signal." |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์๊ทธ๋์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ํ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์ง๋๊ฐ์. (Sigeuneoreul boda bomyeon han sigani geumbang jinagayo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next drama? |
| Soyeon: ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค (Siksareul Habsida) |
| James: "Let's Eat" |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค (Siksareul Habsida) [NORMAL] ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค (Siksareul Habsida) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค (Siksareul Habsida) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: โLetโs Eatโ was on television in 2013, when shows with eating scenes were popular in Korea. Unlike other dramas, โLetโs Eatโ featured many eating scenes. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด์ ฏ๋ฐค์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ ์นํจ์ ์ํค๊ณ ๋ง์์ด์. (Maneun saramdeuri eojetbame siksyareul hapsidareul bodaga chikineul sikigo marasseoyo.) |
| James: While watching โLetโs Eatโ last night, many people couldn't help but order chicken. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด์ ฏ๋ฐค์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ ์นํจ์ ์ํค๊ณ ๋ง์์ด์. (Maneun saramdeuri eojetbame siksyareul hapsidareul bodaga chikineul sikigo marasseoyo.) |
| QUIZ |
| James: Okay listeners, are you ready to be quizzed on the titles you just learned? Soyeon will give you the Korean; please say the English version out loud! Are you ready? |
| Soyeon: ์๊ทธ๋ (Sigeuneol) |
| [PAUSE] James: Signal |
| Soyeon: ์ธ์ธํ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ํ์ โ ๋๊นจ๋น (Sseulsseulhago challanhasin - dokkaebi) |
| [PAUSE] James: Guardian: The Lonely and Great God |
| Soyeon: ์์ค๋ฅผ ํฉ์๋ค (Siksyareul Habsida) |
| [PAUSE] James: Let's Eat |
| Soyeon: ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ์ ์ค์ธ (Miseuteo syeonsyain) |
| [PAUSE] James: Mr. Sunshine |
| Soyeon: ๋ณ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ (Byeoreseo on geudae) |
| [PAUSE] James: My Love from the Star |
Outro |
| James: There you have it: five must-watch Korean dramas! We have more vocab lists available at KoreanClass101.com, so be sure to check them out. Thanks, everyone! See you next time! |
| Soyeon: ์๋ (Annyeong) |
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