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| Culture Class: Essential Korean Vocabulary, Season 3, Lesson 9: Korean Books |
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 9! In this lesson you'll learn five essential titles related to contemporary Korean literature. These are five must-read Korean books. Hand-picked. You can find a complete list of vocabulary at KoreanClass101.com. |
| BODY |
| James: Soyeon, which is our first book? |
| Soyeon: ์๋ฐค (Si Bam ) |
| James: Poetry Night |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์๋ฐค (Si Bam ) [NORMAL] ์๋ฐค (Si Bam ) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์๋ฐค (Si Bam ) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: It is a book written by the modern poet Ha Sangwuk. His poetry is well-known for its conciseness and twists. He became very popular on social networking sites before releasing this book. The name of this book itself is a twist in that it means "Poetry Night" but simultaneously sounds like Korean slang. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ์๋ฐค์ ์๋ ์งง์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ์ธ์์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์. (Sibamui sineun jjaljiman gangnyeolhan insangeul namgyeoyo.) |
| James: The poems in โPoetry Nightโ are short but leave strong impressions. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์๋ฐค์ ์๋ ์งง์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ์ธ์์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์. (Sibamui sineun jjaljiman gangnyeolhan insangeul namgyeoyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next book? |
| Soyeon: ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ (Unsu Joeun Nal ) |
| James: One Lucky Day |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ (Unsu Joeun Nal ) [NORMAL] ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ (Unsu Joeun Nal ) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ (Unsu Joeun Nal ) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: โOne Lucky Dayโ is a book that was written in 1924. This story is featured in most Korean textbooks, so many people have read it. The title is ironic in that the story is set around the day of the main character's wife's death. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ ์ ์ฝ์ด ๋ณด์์ ๊ฑฐ์์. (Hanguk saramiramyeon modu bunmyeong unsu joeun nareul ilgeo boasseul geoyeyo.) |
| James: Every Korean must have read โOne Lucky Dayโ. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ ์ ์ฝ์ด ๋ณด์์ ๊ฑฐ์์. (Hanguk saramiramyeon modu bunmyeong unsu joeun nareul ilgeo boasseul geoyeyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next book? |
| Soyeon: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeong-ung) |
| James: Our Twisted Hero |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeong-ung) [NORMAL] ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeong-ung) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeong-ung) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: This novel is set in an elementary school classroom. The novel appears to be a simple children's story, but includes many criticisms about the political system and the injustices within it. It was made into a movie in 1992. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ ์ด ์ ํ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ๋จ์ํด ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง ์ฌ์คํด์. (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeongungi jeonhaneun mesijineun dansunhae boijiman simohaeyo.) |
| James: The message โOur Twisted Heroโ delivers looks simple, but is profound. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ ์ด ์ ํ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ๋จ์ํด ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง ์ฌ์คํด์. (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeongungi jeonhaneun mesijineun dansunhae boijiman simohaeyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next book? |
| Soyeon: ์ํ์ด ์ธ์ (Ahopsal Insaeng ) |
| James: The Life of the 9-Year-Old |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ํ์ด ์ธ์ (Ahopsal Insaeng ) [NORMAL] ์ํ์ด ์ธ์ (Ahopsal Insaeng ) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ์ํ์ด ์ธ์ (Ahopsal Insaeng ) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: This book is about a nine-year-old named Baek Yeomin who moves with his family to a small mountain village. This book describes the life of poor people in the 1960s and 70s from the perspective of a nine-year-old. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ์ํ์ด ์ธ์์ ์ ๋ง ๊น์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ ์ฑ ์ด์์. (Ahopsal Insaengeun jeongmal gipeun uimireul damgo inneun chaegiyeyo.) |
| James: โThe Life of the 9-Year-Oldโ is a book with a very significant message. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ์ํ์ด ์ธ์์ ์ ๋ง ๊น์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ ์ฑ ์ด์์. (Ahopsal Insaengeun jeongmal gipeun uimireul damgo inneun chaegiyeyo.) |
| James: Okay, which is the next book? |
| Soyeon: ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ (Gasigogi ) |
| James: Amur Stickleback |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ (Gasigogi ) [NORMAL] ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ (Gasigogi ) |
| James: Listeners, please repeat: |
| Soyeon: ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ (Gasigogi ) |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| James: This book is about a father who loved his son so much that he sold his eye to pay for his child's cancer surgery. The book became a symbol of a father's love. |
| James: Now let's hear a sample sentence using this title. |
| Soyeon: [NORMAL] ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋๋ฌผ ์์ด๋ ์ฝ์ ์ ์๋ ์ฑ ์ด์์. (Gasigogineun nunmul eopsineun ilgeul su eomneun chaegieyo.) |
| James: โAmur Sticklebackโ is a book which cannot be read without shedding tears. |
| Soyeon: [SLOW] ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋๋ฌผ ์์ด๋ ์ฝ์ ์ ์๋ ์ฑ ์ด์์. (Gasigogineun nunmul eopsineun ilgeul su eomneun chaegieyo.) |
| 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: ์ํ์ด ์ธ์ (Ahopsal Insaeng ) |
| [PAUSE] James: The Life of the 9-Year-Old |
| Soyeon: ์ด์ ์ข์ ๋ (Unsu Joeun Nal ) |
| [PAUSE] James: One Lucky Day |
| Soyeon: ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ (Gasigogi ) |
| [PAUSE] James: Amur Stickleback |
| Soyeon: ์๋ฐค (Si Bam ) |
| [PAUSE] James: Poetry Night |
| Soyeon: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ผ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ์์ (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeong-ung) |
| [PAUSE] James: Our Twisted Hero |
Outro |
| James: There you have it: five must-read Korean books! 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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