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  • 15 minutes 9 seconds
    Snowy Beginnings: A Heartfelt Journey at Gyeongbokgung
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Snowy Beginnings: A Heartfelt Journey at Gyeongbokgung
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-08-23-34-01-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์ฒซ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ฎ์ธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ ์•„์นจ์„ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Gyeongbokgung greeted a beautiful winter morning covered in the first snow.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด ์ฒซ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Because it was the first day of the New Year, more people visited Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ชฉ๋„๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊นŠ์ด ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์— ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho wrapped himself in a warm scarf and came to Gyeongbokgung with a desire to deeply learn about the palace's history.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ์ด๊ณ  ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋งŽ์€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was a university student with a great interest in history.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํ•™์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์— ์™”๋‹ค.
    En: At the same time, Hana, an art student who loved to paint, came to Gyeongbokgung to gain new inspiration.

    Ko: ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ด๋ง์„ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Both of them harbored a deep longing for cultural heritage.

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ ์ •๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ํˆฌ์–ด์— ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At the main gate of Gyeongbokgung, Jiho and Hana happened to join the same guided tour.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ๋‚ฏ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ์œ„์—„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ ์•ž์— ์„œ์ž ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Initially, Jiho found it hard to speak to a stranger, but standing in front of the grand architecture of the palace, he mustered up the courage to speak.

    Ko: โ€œ์ด๊ณณ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์˜€์–ด์š”,โ€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œThis Gyeongbokgung was the center during the Joseon Dynasty,โ€ Jiho said.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ •๋ง์š”? ์ €๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”,โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hana replied with sparkling eyes, โ€œReally? I feel like I can gain a lot of artistic inspiration here.โ€

    Ko: ํˆฌ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ๋‘˜์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the tour began, the two walked together.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The guide shared the history and stories of Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‘˜์€ ์ ์  ๋” ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, they gradually focused more on each other.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ถ๊ถ ์ •์›์„ ๋ฎ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The snow softly fell, covering the palace gardens.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํˆฌ์–ด ๊ทธ๋ฃน์—์„œ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, Jiho and Hana realized they had fallen behind the tour group.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: But they were not afraid.

    Ko: ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Rather, they shared more stories with each other.

    Ko: "์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ •๋ง ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ํƒํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”," ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œThis place is truly beautiful. And I want to explore a bit more,โ€ said Hana.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ "ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ด์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ ํˆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์ฃ ,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho smiled and said, โ€œLet's explore together. Let's create our own tour of Gyeongbokgung.โ€

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๊ถ๊ถ ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„์„ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Quietly yet joyfully, they wandered through every corner of the palace.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ์‚ด๋ฉฐ์‹œ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์Œ“์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Softly, snow piled under their feet.

    Ko: ์–ด๋А๋ง ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ €๋ฌผ๊ณ , ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์—ฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ถ•์ œ์˜ ํฅ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์„ ๋’ค๋ฎ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Before long, the sun set, and once again, the laughter of couples and the excitement of celebrations enveloped Gyeongbokgung.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณตํ†ต์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„œ๋กœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๋„ ๊นŠ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho and Hana found that their interest in cultural heritage deepened along with their interest in each other.

    Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ตํ™˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Eventually, they exchanged contact information.

    Ko: "๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํƒ๋ฐฉํ•ด์š”," ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: โ€œLet's explore more cultural heritage together,โ€ Hana said.

    Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ "์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฌํ–‰์ด ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋„ค์š”,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiho nodded and replied, โ€œA new journey awaits us.โ€

    Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์—์„œ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ , ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As the day at Gyeongbokgung ended, Jiho realized he could learn more with his new friend.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋” ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He discovered that by taking social risks, he could create richer human connections.

    Ko: ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ด ๋ณ€ํ•ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์€ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Even as the seasons change, their friendship will not.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • greeted: ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • scarf: ๋ชฉ๋„๋ฆฌ
    • desire: ๋งˆ์Œ
    • heritage: ์œ ์‚ฐ
    • stranger: ๋‚ฏ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ
    • mustard up the courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์–ด
    • inspiriation: ์˜๊ฐ
    • architecture: ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ
    • artistic: ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ 
    • gardens: ์ •์›
    • gradually: ์ ์  ๋”
    • wandered: ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • enveloped: ๋’ค๋ฎ์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • whispers: ์†์‚ญ์ž„
    • explore: ํƒํ—˜ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • venture: ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์œ„ํ—˜
    • corners: ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„
    • excitement: ํฅ๋ถ„
    • laughter: ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ
    • sunset: ์ €๋ฌผ๊ณ 
    • companionship: ๋™ํ–‰
    • sparkling: ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š”
    • deepened: ๊นŠ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค
    • connections: ๊ด€๊ณ„
    • season: ๊ณ„์ ˆ
    • realized: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค
    • journey: ์—ฌํ–‰
    • reciprocated: ์‘๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • cultural: ๋ฌธํ™”์˜
    • whispered: ์‚ด๋ฉฐ์‹œ
    8 January 2026, 11:46 pm
  • 15 minutes 36 seconds
    Finding Purpose: A Doctor's Journey to Connection and Healing
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Purpose: A Doctor's Journey to Connection and Healing
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-08-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต๋ณ‘์›์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฐ”์œ ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seoul National University Hospital was a busy place every winter.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ์‡ ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„์› ๋‹ค.
    En: However, as Seollal, the Korean New Year, approached, most people at the hospital took leave to celebrate the holiday.

    Ko: ๋ณต๋„๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•ด์กŒ๊ณ , ๋ณ‘์‹ค์—๋Š” ํšŒ๋ณต ์ค‘์ธ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค๋งŒ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The hallways became quiet, and only recovering patients remained in the wards.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ณ‘์›์— ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo decided to stay at the hospital.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚ ์„ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He could have spent Seollal with his friends, but he chose otherwise.

    Ko: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to prove his capability.

    Ko: ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์ด ์ž˜๋ชป๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Ever since a surgery he recently participated in went wrong, he had been confused.

    Ko: "๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง„์งœ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?" ๊ทธ๋Š” ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค๋‹ค.
    En: "Can I really become a real doctor?" he asked himself.

    Ko: ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚จ์€ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ธํ„ด์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Hana was the only intern who stayed with him.

    Ko: ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ์ง„์šฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Always approaching Jin-woo with a bright smile, she was always positive.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋…€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์†์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์˜๋ฃŒ๊ณ„์— ์ ์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, internally, she too was worried about whether she could adapt to the medical field.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo was not fully aware of this side of her.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚  ์•„์นจ, ๋ณ‘์›์€ ๋”์šฑ๋” ๊ณ ์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the morning of Seollal, the hospital was even quieter.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ณ‘์‹ค์„ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo walked around the wards and checked on the patients.

    Ko: ํ™˜์ž๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ํšŒ๋ณต ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ๋ณด๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„์‰ฝ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: All the patients were in recovery, but they were saddened to spend the holiday away from their families.

    Ko: ํ•œ๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ˆ  ํ›„ ํšŒ๋ณต ์ค‘์ธ ํ•œ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
    En: In one room, he met an elderly man recovering from surgery.

    Ko: "์ƒˆํ•ด ๋ณต ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š”," ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ด์ง ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Happy New Year," Jin-woo said with a slight smile.

    Ko: ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ๋А๋ฆฐ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ "๊ณ ๋ง™๋„ค, ์ Š์€์ด. ์ž๋„ค๋„."๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The elderly man replied in a slow voice, "Thank you, young man. And to you too."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ํ›„ ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ์ง„์šฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Then, the man began to share stories with Jin-woo.

    Ko: ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ Š์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค, ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Stories from his youth, stories about his family.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo listened attentively, nodding his head.

    Ko: ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ง„์šฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: As he listened, the man's positive energy was transmitted to Jin-woo.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ €๋…, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋…ธํŠธ์— ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์™€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ ์–ด๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: That evening, Jin-woo wrote down his conversation with the elderly man in a notebook.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ์˜์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์‚ถ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ „๋ฌธ ์ง€์‹๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ .
    En: He realized that a doctor's life is not just about professional knowledge but also about sharing hearts with people.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Building connections and understanding them was crucial.

    Ko: ๋ช…์ ˆ์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ณ‘์› ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As the holiday drew to a close, Jin-woo looked out the hospital window.

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

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ธธ์— ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He gained confidence in the path he had chosen.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์†๊ธธ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He understood that the reason he truly needs to become a doctor is because of the warm and human touch.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์‹ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo was now sure that approaching patients and listening to their stories was becoming increasingly important.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์ž„์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He realized that opening his heart and helping them was his true role.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์ด ์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ ํƒ์„ ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jin-woo engraved his decision deep within his heart and resolved to make new choices.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์ง„์šฐ์—๊ฒŒ ํฌ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Thus, with the new year came new beginnings, bringing Jin-woo hope and faith.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • approached: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด
    • hallways: ๋ณต๋„
    • wards: ๋ณ‘์‹ค
    • capability: ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ
    • confused: ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค
    • intern: ์ธํ„ด
    • positive: ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • adapt: ์ ์‘
    • aware: ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • recovering: ํšŒ๋ณต ์ค‘์ธ
    • elderly: ํ• ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€
    • attentively: ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉฐ
    • transmitted: ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค
    • conversation: ๋Œ€ํ™”
    • crucial: ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • resolve: ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • engraved: ์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ
    • surgical: ์ˆ˜์ˆ 
    • nodding: ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค
    • determination: ๊ฒฐ์ •
    • youth: ์ Š์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ
    • connection: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ
    • professional: ์ „๋ฌธ
    • human touch: ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์†๊ธธ
    • internal: ์†์œผ๋กœ
    • check on: ์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค
    • build: ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”
    • faith: ๋ฏฟ์Œ
    • quiet: ์กฐ์šฉํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค
    • hope: ํฌ๋ง
    8 January 2026, 8:51 am
  • 15 minutes 10 seconds
    Unmasking Secrets: A Scientist's Courage in the Snowy Peaks
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unmasking Secrets: A Scientist's Courage in the Snowy Peaks
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-07-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‚ฐ๊ธฐ์Šญ์„ ํœ˜๊ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The cold winter wind was wrapping around the mountainside.

    Ko: ์„ค์‚ฐ ๋ฐ‘์—๋Š” ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋น„๋ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Beneath the snowy mountain, there was a hidden secret research facility.

    Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํžˆ ์ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Here, Jinwoo worked diligently.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณผํ•™์ž์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: He was a passionate scientist dedicated to protecting the environment.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: However, recently, a sense of unease had taken hold in his mind.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋น„์œค๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์‹คํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜์‹ฌ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He was filled with suspicions about unethical experiments being conducted somewhere inside the facility.

    Ko: ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋Š” ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์™€ ์–ด๋‘‘ํ•œ ๋ณต๋„๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The research lab was composed of state-of-the-art equipment and dim corridors.

    Ko: ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์˜ ์œ™์œ™๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋น„๋ฐ€์Šค๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ž์•„๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The humming of machines created a mysterious atmosphere.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณง ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๋”์šฑ๋” ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์„ ๋†’์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: And the upcoming Seollal, the Lunar New Year, only heightened the tension.

    Ko: ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Ÿฌ ๋– ๋‚  ์ค€๋น„๋กœ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: While many people were busy preparing to leave to meet their families, Jinwoo had different plans.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ, ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€ ํ˜„์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: His colleagues, Minji and Hyeon, did not notice this change in him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Without their knowledge, Jinwoo had resolved to gather evidence.

    Ko: ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ๋งˆ๋ จ๋œ ๊ฒฝ๋น„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: The meticulously arranged security system made it difficult to access easily, but Jinwoo persistently looked for ways.

    Ko: ํ•œ๋ฐค์ค‘, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ œํ•œ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์— ์นจ์ž…ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Late at night, Jinwoo finally seized the opportunity to infiltrate the restricted area.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: What he discovered was shocking.

    Ko: ์‹คํ—˜ ํŒŒ์ผ์—๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ผ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The experiment files were filled with confidential information that could severely harm the environment.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์†์€ ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ์„œ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo's hands trembled, but he did not back down.

    Ko: ์ด ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This information had to be brought to light.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘, ๊ทธ์˜ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ˆ˜์ƒํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋˜ ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€ ํ˜„์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ™์žก๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Meanwhile, Minji and Hyeon, suspicious of his actions, caught him and asked,

    Ko: "์ง„์šฐ, ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด์•ผ? ์™œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด?"
    En: "Jinwoo, what's going on? Why are you acting so secretly?"

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฐ€์ด๋ผ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘ ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†จ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo confided in them about what he thought was a secret.

    Ko: ๋†€๋ž๊ฒŒ๋„, ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€ ํ˜„์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณง ๊ทธ์˜ ํŽธ์— ์„œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: To his surprise, Minji and Hyeon were initially shocked, but soon decided to stand by him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํž˜์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They, too, were concerned about the environment and gained strength from Jinwoo's courage.

    Ko: ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์งฐ๋‹ค.
    En: The three of them devised a plan together.

    Ko: ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์˜ ๋ณด์•ˆ์ด ์ž ์‹œ ๋А์Šจํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They decided to take advantage of the slight lapse in the facility's security once the new year arrived.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€ ํ˜„์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์šด๋™ ๋‹จ์ฒด์— ๋„˜๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, with the help of Minji and Hyeon, Jinwoo handed over the collected data to an environmental activist group.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ค๋‚  ์•„์นจ, ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์˜ ์‹คํƒœ๊ฐ€ ํญ๋กœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.
    En: And on the morning of Seollal, the news broke that the state of the research lab had been exposed.

    Ko: ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋น„๋ฐ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋Š” ์‹คํ—˜์„ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตญ๋ฉด์„ ๋งž์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: As a result of this incident, the secret research facility had to halt its experiments, and Jinwoo and his team faced a new chapter.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Together, they raised their voices for a better future, and the world was gradually changing.

    Ko: ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋’ค๋ฎ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์†์—์„œ ํฌ๋ง์˜ ์‹น์ด ์ž๋ผ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The landscape was still covered in snow, but within it, the seeds of hope were beginning to grow.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • wrapping: ํœ˜๊ฐ๊ณ 
    • beneath: ๋ฐ‘์—๋Š”
    • facility: ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ
    • diligently: ๋ถ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํžˆ
    • dedicated: ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ
    • unease: ๋ถˆ์•ˆ
    • suspicions: ์˜์‹ฌ์ด
    • unethical: ๋น„์œค๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ
    • composed: ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ
    • state-of-the-art: ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ
    • humming: ์œ™์œ™๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š”
    • mysterious: ๋น„๋ฐ€์Šค๋Ÿฐ
    • tension: ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์„
    • corridors: ๋ณต๋„๋กœ
    • meticulously: ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก
    • infiltrate: ์นจ์ž…ํ• 
    • restricted: ์ œํ•œ
    • shocking: ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • confidential: ๊ธฐ๋ฐ€๋“ค์ด
    • trembled: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 
    • confided: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†จ๋‹ค
    • devised: ์งœ๋‹ค
    • lapse: ๋А์Šจํ•ด์งˆ
    • seized: ์žก์•˜๋‹ค
    • halt: ์ค‘๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ
    • evidence: ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ
    • activist: ์šด๋™
    • exposed: ํญ๋กœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š”
    • incident: ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ
    • environment: ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„
    7 January 2026, 11:46 pm
  • 15 minutes 25 seconds
    Rediscovering Heritage: A Winter Journey in Seoul
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rediscovering Heritage: A Winter Journey in Seoul
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-07-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ฐฉํ•™์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ํ•˜์€์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ถ์ดŒํ•œ์˜ฅ๋งˆ์„๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu headed to Bukchon Hanok Village during his winter break to meet his grandmother Ha-eun, amidst the bustling streets of Seoul.

    Ko: ํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์ข์€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ์˜ฅ ๊ธฐ์™€์ง€๋ถ•์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ ํ•˜๋Š˜๊ณผ ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The narrow alleyways coated white with snow and the traditional hanok tile roofs blended well with the winter sky.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋” ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In his heart, there was a strong desire to understand the roots and traditions of his family a little more in this place.

    Ko: ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜์ž ํ•˜์€์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์›ƒ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: When he arrived at his grandmother's house, Ha-eun greeted him with a warm smile.

    Ko: "์ง„์ˆ˜์•ผ, ์ •๋ง ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์ด๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์ถ”์šด๋ฐ ์–ผ๋ฅธ ๋“ค์–ด์™€."
    En: "Jinsu, it's been so long. Come in quickly; it's cold outside."

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ง‘์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์ž๋งˆ์ž ์˜›๋‚  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As soon as Jinsu entered his grandmother's house, he was captivated by the space filled with old stories and the fragrance of tradition.

    Ko: ํ•˜์€์€ ์ •์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ค๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์š”์ฆ˜ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด๋‹ˆ? ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ?"
    En: Ha-eun, offering him a cup of warm tea she'd carefully prepared, asked, "How have you been? How's school?"

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋ฐ”๋นด์–ด์š”, ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์š”์ฆ˜์—” ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์š”."
    En: Jinsu hesitated for a moment before answering. "I've been busy, Grandma. But these days, I feel like something's missing."

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์†์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์ง€์ณ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu was weary of school, friends, and the world inside his smartphone.

    Ko: ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์„ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํ‰ํ™”๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ๋ผ์–ด๋“ค์–ด ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋ง์ณ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Listening to his grandmother's stories always brought a soothing peace to his heart, but modern life would often disrupt that feeling.

    Ko: ๋ฉฐ์น ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๊ณ์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Days passed, and Jinsu spent more time by his grandmother's side.

    Ko: ํ•˜์€์€ ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋–ก๊ตญ๊ณผ ์žก์ฑ„๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the Lunar New Year approached, Ha-eun prepared dishes like tteokguk and japchae while sharing stories of the past.

    Ko: ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋‹น์‹œ์˜ ๊ณ ๋‹จํ•œ ์ƒํ™œ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์žƒ์ง€ ์•Š๋˜ ํ•˜์€์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ƒ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu imagined Ha-eun's childhood memories and how she never lost her laughter despite the hardships of those times.

    Ko: ์–ด๋А ์ €๋…, ๋ˆ„๋Ÿฐ ๋‹ฌ๋น›์ด ํ•œ์˜ฅ์˜ ๋งˆ๋‹น์„ ๋น„์ถ”๋˜ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐค์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One evening came a quiet night when the yellow moonlight illuminated the courtyard of the hanok.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ๊นŠ์ด ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu was deeply absorbed in his grandmotherโ€™s stories.

    Ko: ํ•˜์€์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹จ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋„ ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค."
    En: Ha-eun said, "Our family's traditions and history are precious. I hope you will preserve and pass them on one day."

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๋ง์— ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํฐ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Those words brought a great realization to Jinsu.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์™€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ์ € ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Œ์„ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He felt that his time with his grandmother didn't just dwell in the past.

    Ko: ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This was exactly what he had been searching for.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋™์•ˆ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He decided to help his grandmother more during the rest of his vacation.

    Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ค๋‚ ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ „ํ†ต์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ชธ์†Œ ์ฒดํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinsu experienced the meaning of tradition firsthand while preparing for the Lunar New Year with his grandmother.

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‚ , ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the day he returned to Seoul, Jinsu made a promise to his grandmother.

    Ko: "ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ, ์ž์ฃผ ์˜ฌ๊ฒŒ์š”. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต, ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์žŠ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊ฒŒ์š”."
    En: "Grandma, Iโ€™ll visit often. I won't forget our family's traditions."

    Ko: ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ํ›„ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์— ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After returning home, Jinsu felt a deeper connection to his roots and traditions.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.
    En: He was now ready to continue his family's stories.

    Ko: ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋”์—†์ด ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Having become the new guardian of his cultural heritage, Jinsu felt immensely satisfied.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • headed: ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • bustling: ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•œ
    • alleyways: ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ
    • coated: ๋ฎ์ธ
    • captivated: ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • fragrance: ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ
    • weary: ์ง€์ณ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • disrupt: ๋ง์ณ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
    • soothing: ํ‰ํ™”๋กญ๋‹ค
    • laughter: ์›ƒ์Œ
    • illuminated: ๋น„์ถ”๋˜
    • courtyard: ๋งˆ๋‹น
    • preserve: ์ง€ํ‚ค๋‹ค
    • immensely: ๋”์—†์ด
    • absorbed: ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • heritage: ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ
    • guardian: ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์ž
    • realization: ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ
    • cherish: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • desire: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ
    • etched: ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„
    • waver: ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
    • steadfast: ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š”
    • contemplate: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค
    • arduous: ๊ณ ๋‹จํ•œ
    • preservation: ๋ณด์กด
    • ephemeral: ๋ง์—†๋Š”
    • vow: ์„œ์•ฝ
    • nostalgia: ํ–ฅ์ˆ˜
    • reminisce: ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค
    7 January 2026, 8:51 am
  • 14 minutes 53 seconds
    Rekindling Bonds: A Heartfelt Surprise in Seoul's Tea House
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rekindling Bonds: A Heartfelt Surprise in Seoul's Tea House
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-06-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ๋ฅด๋Š” ์–ด๋А ์˜คํ›„, ํ•œ์˜ฅ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ์ฐจ์ง‘ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One afternoon, as the cold winter air drifted through Seoul, a warm and cozy atmosphere filled a tea house styled in the fashion of hanok.

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด ํƒ์ž ์œ„์—๋Š” ๋‘ฅ๊ทผ ์ข…์ด ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the wooden table, a round paper lantern softly glowed as people shared tea, each holding stories of their own.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo quietly sipped her tea, recalling a plan that had been deep in her heart.

    Ko: "์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ ์ƒ์ผ... ์ œ์ฃผ๋„ ์—ฌํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ๋†€๋ž˜์ผœ์ค„๊นŒ?" ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "For Jisoo's birthday... should I surprise her with a trip to Jeju Island?" Minseo thought.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง€์ˆ˜์™€์˜ ์šฐ์ •์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๋ˆ๋ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was trying to strengthen her friendship with Jisoo once again.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฐ”๋น ์„œ ๋ฏผ์„œ์™€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Recently, Jisoo had been too busy with family affairs to spend much time with Minseo.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: For her sake, Minseo wanted to make a solid plan.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์˜†์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„ํ˜„์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋„ํ˜„์•„, ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ข€ ๋„์™€์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด?"
    En: She smiled slightly at Dohyun, who was sitting next to her, and asked, "Hey Dohyun, can you help me this time?"

    Ko: ๋„ํ˜„์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋ญ๋“ ์ง€ ๋งํ•ด๋ด. ๋„ˆํฌ ๋‘˜์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ์นœํ•ด์กŒ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด."
    En: Dohyun nodded and replied, "Of course, just tell me. I really hope you two can become close again."

    Ko: ๋„ํ˜„์€ ์ง€์ˆ˜์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ์ •์ด ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Dohyun had special feelings for Jisoo, but he believed that the friendship between them was more important.

    Ko: ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ํ›„, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ฐจ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A few weeks later, Jisoo arrived at the tea house.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She felt something special was happening but didn't know exactly what.

    Ko: ๋ฏผ์„œ์™€ ๋„ํ˜„์€ ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ๊นœ์ง ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Minseo and Dohyun were ready to reveal the surprise event they had prepared.

    Ko: "์ง€์ˆ˜์•ผ, ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊นœ์ง ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ์žˆ์–ด." ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์†์— ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์†์ˆ˜ ๋งŒ๋“  ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ˆ˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฑด๋„ธ๋‹ค.
    En: "Jisoo, we have a surprise gift for you." Minseo shyly smiled as she handed Jisoo a handmade postcard.

    Ko: ์—ฝ์„œ์—๋Š” ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ผ์ •์ด ์ ํ˜€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The postcard contained the itinerary for a trip to Jeju Island.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋†€๋ž€ ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ํŽผ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: With a surprised expression, Jisoo opened the postcard.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง? ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?" ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ˆˆ์— ๊ฐ๋™์˜ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ด ๋งบํ˜”๋‹ค.
    En: "Really? Did you prepare this?" Tears of emotion welled up in Jisoo's eyes.

    Ko: "์‘. ๋„ˆ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์–ด." ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Yes. I prepared it because I wanted to spend time with you," Minseo said honestly.

    Ko: ์ž ์‹œ ๋’ค, ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ˆˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ, ๋ฏผ์„œ์•ผ. ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€์ž. ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฐ”๋นด๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.โ€
    En: After a moment, Jisoo spoke warmly, "Thank you, Minseo. Let's go together. It seems we've been too busy lately."

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏผ์„œ์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: With a sincere heart, Jisoo accepted Minseo's heartfelt gesture.

    Ko: ๋„ํ˜„์€ ๋‘˜์˜ ์šฐ์ •์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Dohyun watched their friendship with a satisfied smile.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋’ค๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He felt it was more important to value his friends than his own feelings.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ดํ›„, ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ์šฐ์ •์„ ์†”์งํžˆ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: From that day on, Minseo gained the confidence to express gratitude and friendship openly.

    Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์œ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jisoo realized how crucial it was to maintain relationships with cherished people, even amidst a busy life.

    Ko: ์ฐจ์ง‘์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์•„๋Š‘ํ•จ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๊ณ ์Šค๋ž€ํžˆ ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: The warm coziness of the tea house was perfectly conveyed to their hearts.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • afternoon: ์˜คํ›„
    • drifted: ํ๋ฅด๋Š”
    • cozy: ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ
    • lantern: ๋“ฑ
    • glowed: ๋น›๋‚˜๋ฉฐ
    • recalling: ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค
    • deep: ๊นŠ์€
    • surprise: ๋†€๋ž˜์ผœ์ค„๊นŒ
    • strengthen: ๋ˆ๋ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ
    • friendship: ์šฐ์ •
    • affairs: ์ผ
    • slightly: ์ž‘์€
    • shy: ์ˆ˜์ค๊ฒŒ
    • postcard: ์—ฝ์„œ
    • itinerary: ์ผ์ •
    • warmed: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ
    • crucial: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ
    • cherished: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ
    • amidst: ์†์—์„œ๋„
    • conveyed: ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค
    • quietly: ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ
    • strengthen: ๋ˆ๋ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ
    • solid: ํ™•์‹คํ•œ
    • special: ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ
    • tears: ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ
    • welled: ๋งบํ˜”๋‹ค
    • expression: ํ‘œ์ •
    • handmade: ์†์ˆ˜ ๋งŒ๋“ 
    • gained: ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • confidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ
    6 January 2026, 11:46 pm
  • 15 minutes 12 seconds
    Snowfall Reconciliation: A Teahouse Reunion in Yeonnam-dong
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Snowfall Reconciliation: A Teahouse Reunion in Yeonnam-dong
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    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ๋‚ , ์—ฐ๋‚จ๋™์˜ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ์ฐป์ง‘์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On a winter day when the snow was softly falling, a small teahouse located in the quiet alleys of Yeonnam-dong was a warm and cozy space.

    Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ฒค์น˜์™€ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋†“์—ฌ์ง„ ๋„์ž๊ธฐ ์ฐป์ฃผ์ „์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์€ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์ฐจ์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This place, with its low wooden benches and delicately arranged ceramic teapots, was filled with the aroma of herbal tea.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€๋ฏผ์ด ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ ๊ณณ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: It was where Sojin and Jimin met after a long time.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ํ˜•์ œ์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ง์—†์ด ์ง€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although the two were siblings, they had spent years not speaking to each other.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ด ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Hearing the news that their father was not in good health, they decided to meet after a long time.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ณ ์ง‘์ด ์„ธ์ง€๋งŒ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin, who was stubborn, wanted to be independent.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, due to past wounds, she couldn't easily open her heart.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ์ง€๋ฏผ์€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ˆ˜์›”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๊ณ  ๋„˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ํ‹ˆ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ฃ„์ฑ…๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Jimin had a more easygoing personality, often laughing things off, but he felt guilty inside, knowing the rift in the family relationship.

    Ko: ์‹ค๋‚ด๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์†Œ์ง„์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์› ๋‹ค.
    En: The interior was warm, but Sojin's heart was cold.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์–‘์†์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ์ž”์„ ๊ฐ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: She wrapped her warm teacup with both hands and fell into thought.

    Ko: "์ง€๋ฏผ, ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ์•„?
    En: "Jimin, do you know what Father wants from us?"

    Ko: " ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ž…์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: she opened up.

    Ko: ์ง€๋ฏผ์€ ๋ง์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jimin remained silent.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์†์œผ๋กœ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: He gathered his courage inside.

    Ko: "์–ด๋–ค ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“  ๋งํ•ด ์ค˜," ์ง€๋ฏผ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Tell me anything," Jimin said.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin took a deep breath and brought up stories from the past.

    Ko: "์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™”ํ•ฉํ•˜๊ธธ ์›ํ•˜์…จ์–ด," ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Father wanted us to reconcile," she said.

    Ko: ์ง€๋ฏผ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jimin nodded.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹œ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ์ง„์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค๋‹ค.
    En: Now he looked at Sojin from a different perspective.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์ด ๋งบํ˜”๋‹ค.
    En: Tears welled up in her eyes.

    Ko: "์ง€๋ฏผ, ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์–ด," ์†Œ์ง„์ด ์šธ์Œ์„ ํ„ฐ๋œจ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: "Jimin, I've really missed you," Sojin burst into tears.

    Ko: ์ง€๋ฏผ์€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ˆ™์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jimin approached and bowed his head.

    Ko: "๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด.
    En: "I'm sorry.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ค„์€ ๋ชฐ๋ž์–ด," ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: I didn't know things would turn out like this back then," he said in a small voice.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์„ ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: They felt each other's sincerity and embraced.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ทธ ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ž ์‹œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They stayed like that for a while.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋ฐ–์—์„œ๋Š” ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์˜ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, outside, the sounds of the approaching Seollal could be heard.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋‚ ์˜ ๋งŒ๋‚จ์„ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Their meeting that day became an opportunity to visit their father.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚ ์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ํ™”ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๊ฑธ์Œ ๋” ์ „์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: In anticipation of Seollal, their reconciliation took a step forward.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ์ฐป์ง‘์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ฐจ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋…น์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: That day, the teahouse, along with the warm tea, melted their hearts.

    Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๊ณ  ์šฉ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sojin eventually opened up about past wounds and learned to forgive.

    Ko: ์ง€๋ฏผ์€ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹œ๊ฐ์—์„œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ํž˜์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Jimin apologized and learned to see things from a different perspective.

    Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ฒซ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ๋‚ด๋”›์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The two took their first steps as a family once more.

    Ko: ์ด ๊ฒจ์šธ๋‚ ์˜ ์ฐป์ง‘์€ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This winter day's teahouse became an important place for the new beginning of one family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์—ฐ๋‚จ๋™ ์ฐป์ง‘์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•จ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: Their story begins in the snow-covered Yeonnam-dong teahouse but will now continue with the warmth of family.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • stubborn: ๊ณ ์ง‘์ด ์„ธ๋‹ค
    • reconcile: ํ™”ํ•ฉํ•˜๋‹ค
    • cozy: ์•„๋Š‘ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • alleys: ๊ณจ๋ชฉ
    • ceramic: ๋„์ž๊ธฐ
    • aroma: ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ
    • siblings: ํ˜•์ œ
    • independent: ๋…๋ฆฝ์ 
    • wounds: ์ƒ์ฒ˜
    • easygoing: ์ˆ˜์›”ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • rift: ํ‹ˆ
    • perspective: ์‹œ๊ฐ
    • embrace: ์•ˆ๋‹ค
    • anticipation: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€
    • forgive: ์šฉ์„œํ•˜๋‹ค
    • approaching: ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์˜ค๋Š”
    • sincerity: ์ง„์‹ฌ
    • gathered: ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค
    • opportunity: ๊ธฐํšŒ
    • beginning: ์‹œ์ž‘
    • filled: ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • health: ๊ฑด๊ฐ•
    • interior: ์‹ค๋‚ด
    • wrapped: ๊ฐ์‹ธ๋‹ค
    • courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐ
    • burst into tears: ์šธ์Œ์„ ํ„ฐ๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
    • bowed: ์ˆ™์˜€๋‹ค
    • apologized: ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค
    • melted: ๋…น์˜€๋‹ค
    • heart: ๋งˆ์Œ
    6 January 2026, 8:51 am
  • 13 minutes 43 seconds
    A Winter Quest: Sumi's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Winter Quest: Sumi's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-05-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๋˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๊ด‘์žฅ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ”์˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋‹ค๋…”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: One chilly winter day, Sumi was busily walking through Gwangjang Market.

    Ko: ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She needed to find a lost family heirloom.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜จ ๊ฐ’์ง„ ์œ ์‚ฐ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๋ฒˆ์˜๊ณผ ํ–‰์šด์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: This heirloom was a precious legacy passed down from her grandmother, symbolizing the family's prosperity and good fortune.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๊ณง ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋‚  ์ „์— ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋˜์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: With Seollal, the Lunar New Year, approaching, Sumi was eager to retrieve the heirloom before this significant day.

    Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ๋” ์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her family was unaware of the situation, which made Sumi even more anxious.

    Ko: ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The market was crowded with people.

    Ko: ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์ฒœ๋ง‰๋“ค ์•„๋ž˜์—” ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์‹, ์ƒ์ƒํ•œ ์ง๋ฌผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ํฅ์ •์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Underneath the colorful tents were hot street foods, vibrant fabrics, and lively bargains.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "ํ˜น์‹œ ์ด ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด ๋ณด์‹  ์  ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?"
    En: Amidst it all, Sumi approached people, asking, "Have you seen this necklace by any chance?"

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์•˜๊ณ , ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋„ ๋šœ๋ ทํ•œ ๋‹ต์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, the crowd was overwhelming, and no one could provide a clear answer.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sumi mustered up courage and decided to approach suspicious-looking individuals.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ์• ๋งคํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋งŒ ์ง€์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Some of them only responded with vague smiles to her questions.

    Ko: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์ ์  ์ง€์น˜๊ณ  ์ ˆ๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As time passed, Sumi became increasingly exhausted and despairing.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋˜ ์ค‘, ์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ˆˆ์— ์ต์€ ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Suddenly, in the distance, she spotted the familiar necklace.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was her heirloom.

    Ko: ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ํŒ”๋ ค๊ณ  ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Someone was attempting to sell it.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๊ฐ€์Šด์€ ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ธด์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sumi hurried toward the spot, her heart pounding with nervous excitement.

    Ko: ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ•œ ๊ต์„ญ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด๋ฅผ ๋˜์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: A fierce negotiation ensued, and eventually, Sumi was able to reclaim the necklace.

    Ko: ํŒ”๋ ค๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ์˜ ์ ˆ์‹คํ•จ์— ๋™์˜ํ•œ ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The person trying to sell it seemed to agree with Sumi's desperation.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋ฅผ ์†์— ๋“ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: With the heirloom in hand, Sumi could return to her family.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She learned how important it was to receive help.

    Ko: ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์ƒ์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋ง๋“ค์ด ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The words of the market's merchants and people had been immensely helpful.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ๋„๋ž˜ํ•˜์ž, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์˜› ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์ง“๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When Seollal arrived, her family gazed at the old heirloom with smiles.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sumi's heart was filled with warmth.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ฑธ์„ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋А๋‚€ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๋งˆ์Œ ๊นŠ์ด ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She deeply engraved the importance of community in her heart, reminded each time she walked through the market.

    Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Though the experience was difficult, it offered her precious lessons and valuable moments.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • chilly: ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ
    • heirloom: ๊ฐ€๋ณด
    • legacy: ์œ ์‚ฐ
    • prosperity: ๋ฒˆ์˜
    • significant: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ
    • unaware: ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹ค
    • anxious: ์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•œ
    • crowded: ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ๋‹ค
    • bargain: ํฅ์ •
    • courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐ
    • suspicious-looking: ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•œ
    • vague: ์• ๋งคํ•œ
    • exhausted: ์ง€์นœ
    • despairing: ์ ˆ๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด
    • spotted: ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค
    • familiar: ๋ˆˆ์— ์ต์€
    • negotiation: ๊ต์„ญ
    • reclaim: ๋˜์ฐพ๋‹ค
    • desperation: ์ ˆ์‹คํ•จ
    • immensely: ํฐ
    • warmth: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ
    • engraved: ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ๋‘๋‹ค
    • community: ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ
    • precious: ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ
    • retrieve: ๋˜์ฐพ๋‹ค
    • approaching: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋‹ค
    • merchants: ์ƒ์ธ๋“ค
    • symbolizing: ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š”
    • retrieve: ์ฐพ์•„
    • lively: ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ
    5 January 2026, 8:50 am
  • 14 minutes 10 seconds
    Winter Wonders: Crafting Connections in Hanok Village
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Winter Wonders: Crafting Connections in Hanok Village
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-04-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ํ•œ์˜ฅ ๋งˆ์„์— ๊ฒจ์šธ ์ถ•์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The winter festival has begun in the Hanok village.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์„์—” ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค ์ „ํ†ต ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ง€๋ถ•์ด ํ•˜์–€๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฎ์˜€๊ณ , ์ข์€ ๊ธธ์—๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋น›์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ๋“ค์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ž์•„๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Snow has fallen, covering the traditional tiled roofs in a white hue, and the narrow streets are alive with the gentle glow of lanterns, creating a warm atmosphere.

    Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„  ์ „ํ†ต ๊ณต์˜ˆ์™€ ์Œ์‹์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Here, one could enjoy traditional crafts and cuisine.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ด ์ถ•์ œ์˜ ๊ณต์˜ˆ ์ „์‹œํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo decided to participate in the craft exhibition at the festival.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Although he is a quiet person, today he wanted to showcase his work to people.

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‘๋ ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: However, Jinwoo was afraid of talking to strangers.

    Ko: ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ํ’€๊ณ ์ž ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์ˆจ์„ ๋“ค์ด์‰ฌ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: To calm his nerves, he took a deep breath.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ด ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon was very much looking forward to this festival.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She wanted to gain a deeper understanding of Korean traditions.

    Ko: ์ตœ์‹ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ง„์งœ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She was worried about looking like the latest tourist, but she desired a genuine experience.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ํ•œ์˜ฅ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ณต์˜ˆํ’ˆ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As Soyeon walked along the Hanok paths, she admired the multitude of crafts.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋ถ€์Šค ์•ž์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: She then stopped in front of Jinwoo's booth.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: His work seemed special.

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon decided to gather the courage to approach and take a closer look.

    Ko: โ€œ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ œ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์†Œ์—ฐ์ด์—์š”,โ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ ธ์š”!โ€
    En: "Hello, my name is Soyeon," she said. "Your work is really amazing!"

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋งŒ, ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋ˆˆ๋น›์— ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo was a bit surprised, but he gained confidence from Soyeon's sincere gaze.

    Ko: โ€œ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ „ํ†ต ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ณต์˜ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€
    En: "Thank you. My work is traditional woodcraft."

    Ko: ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?โ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon showed genuine interest in his work. "How do you make it?" she asked.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ์ž‘์—… ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo began to slowly explain the crafting process.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์†์ด ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์„œ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soyeon watched intently as his hands skillfully shaped the wood.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ง„์ง€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์€ ์ง„์šฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Her sincere questions delighted Jinwoo.

    Ko: ๋‘˜์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ ์  ๋” ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ž‘์€ ๊ด€์ค‘์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Their conversation grew more lively, and a small crowd gathered around them.

    Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์†Œ์—ฐ์˜ ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: People applauded as they watched Jinwoo's craftsmanship and Soyeon's passionate interest.

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ถ•์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋˜ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the festival finally neared its end, Jinwoo and Soyeon promised to meet again next time.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์—ฐ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo realized he could share his world with others, and Soyeon deepened her cultural understanding.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ํ•œ์˜ฅ ๋งˆ์„์„ ๋’ค๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Leaving behind the snow-covered Hanok village, their hearts were filled with a warm connection.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „ํ†ต์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They were now ready to create a new tradition together.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • festival: ์ถ•์ œ
    • traditional: ์ „ํ†ต
    • lantern: ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ
    • atmosphere: ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ
    • crafts: ๊ณต์˜ˆ
    • cuisine: ์Œ์‹
    • participate: ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค
    • exhibition: ์ „์‹œํšŒ
    • quiet: ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ
    • showcase: ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋‹ค
    • strangers: ๋‚ฏ์„  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ
    • nerves: ๊ธด์žฅ
    • gain: ์–ป๋‹ค
    • understanding: ์ดํ•ด
    • genuine: ์ง„์งœ์˜
    • admired: ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • multitude: ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€
    • booth: ๋ถ€์Šค
    • special: ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ
    • courage: ์šฉ๊ธฐ
    • sincere: ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ
    • gaze: ๋ˆˆ๋น›
    • craftsmanship: ๋А๋ฆผ
    • intently: ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์„œ
    • shaped: ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๋Š”
    • applauded: ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜
    • conversation: ๋Œ€ํ™”
    • connection: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ
    • ready: ์ค€๋น„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค
    • tradition: ์ „ํ†ต
    4 January 2026, 11:46 pm
  • 14 minutes 20 seconds
    Snowy Roads and New Year Adventures: Jinwoo & Sujin's Tale
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Snowy Roads and New Year Adventures: Jinwoo & Sujin's Tale
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-04-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ, ํ•˜์–€ ๋ˆˆ์ด ๊น”๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์„์ด ํ•œ ํญ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: It was winter, and the village blanketed in white snow looked like a painting.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์Šคํ‚ค์žฅ์„ ๋‹ค๋…€์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo and Sujin were on their way back from a ski resort.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ชจํ—˜์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo always loved adventure and was full of passion for new experiences.

    Ko: ๊ทธ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ์„ธ์šฐ๋Š” ํƒ€์ž…์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In contrast, Sujin was cautious and the type who meticulously planned.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์€ ๋†€๋ผ์›€์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As the New Year approached, Jinwoo had prepared a small surprise for Sujin.

    Ko: ์Šคํ‚ค์žฅ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He wanted to share a special moment at a small cafe he discovered near the ski resort.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ณ„ํš์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: However, things did not go as planned.

    Ko: ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ์— ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ๋„๋กœ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋‹ค.
    En: On the way back, their car stopped in the middle of a snow-covered road.

    Ko: "์–ด๋–กํ•˜์ง€, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ํ„ฐ์ง€๋Š”๋ฐ..." ์ˆ˜์ง„์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "What should we do? There's no signal here..." Sujin said in an anxious voice.

    Ko: "์ถ”์›Œ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ œ์ผ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด์•ผ."
    En: "I'm most worried about the cold setting in."

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo thought for a moment.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ „์— ์ง€๋‚˜์˜จ ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด.
    En: "There was a gas station we passed by a little while ago.

    Ko: ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฒญํ•˜์ž."
    En: Let's walk there and ask for help."

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Sujin hesitated.

    Ko: "๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ถฅ๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์™€."
    En: "It's so cold and snowing a lot."

    Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "ํ•จ๊ป˜๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„.
    En: But Jinwoo replied confidently, "It'll be fine as long as we're together.

    Ko: ์„ค๋ ˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•„?"
    En: Isn't it exciting?"

    Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: Finally, Sujin made a decision.

    Ko: "๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€์ž.
    En: "Okay, let's go together.

    Ko: ๋ฌด์ž‘์ • ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ธด ์‹ซ์–ด."
    En: I don't want to wait around indefinitely."

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ ๊ธธ์„ ํ—ค์น˜๋ฉฐ ๋‘˜์€ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Braving the snowy road, they leaned on each other.

    Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ง„์˜ ์†์„ ๊ผญ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Though the wind blew fiercely, Jinwoo held Sujin's hand tightly.

    Ko: ์„ค์› ์œ„์— ๋‚จ๊ธด ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ๋„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Just like the footprints they left in the snow, their resolve was clear.

    Ko: ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์ด๋ฏธ ์–ด๋‘์›Œ์ง„ ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋ณ„๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: By the time they arrived at the gas station, the sky had already darkened and was shining with starlight.

    Ko: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‹๋‹น ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋‘˜์€ ์ˆจ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์–ด๊นจ์— ์Œ“์ธ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the warm diner, they caught their breath and brushed the snow off their shoulders.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ„ํšํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ž‘์€ ์นดํŽ˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: It was a warm and cozy space, just like the small cafe they had planned for.

    Ko: "์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ, ์ง„์šฐ.
    En: "Thank you so much, Jinwoo.

    Ko: ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„๋งˆ ํฌ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ." ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Without you, I might have given up." Sujin smiled.

    Ko: "๊ฐ€๋”์€ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋„ˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ชจํ—˜์„ ์ฆ๊ฒจ์•ผ๊ฒ ์–ด."
    En: "Sometimes I should enjoy adventures like you."

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. "๋‚œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์šฉ๊ฐํ•œ์ง€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด.
    En: Jinwoo replied with a smile, "Today I realized again how brave you are.

    Ko: ๊ฐ™์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์€ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„."
    En: With you, nothing seems impossible."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: That night, the two of them came to understand each other more.

    Ko: ์ƒˆํ•ด์˜ ์ข…์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์šธ๋ฆด ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋‹ค.
    En: When the chimes of the New Year rang, they laughed together and shared newfound trust.

    Ko: ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ ์†์— ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ์†์—๋Š” ๋ด„์ด ํ”ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The world was still in the clutches of winter, but in their hearts, spring was beginning to bloom.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • blanketed: ๊น”๋ฆฐ
    • meticulously: ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ
    • passion: ์—ด์ •
    • cautious: ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ 
    • indefinitely: ๋ฌด์ž‘์ •
    • fiercely: ๋งค์„ญ๊ฒŒ
    • resolve: ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ
    • starlight: ๋ณ„๋น›์œผ๋กœ
    • braving: ํ—ค์น˜๋ฉฐ
    • anxious: ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ
    • gas station: ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ
    • shining: ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ 
    • snow-covered: ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ
    • unexpectedly: ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ
    • adventure: ๋ชจํ—˜
    • leaned: ์˜์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค
    • clutches: ์†์—
    • cozy: ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ
    • bloom: ํ”ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ 
    • share: ๋‚˜๋ˆด๋‹ค
    • moment: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„
    • hesitated: ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋‹ค
    • planned: ๊ณ„ํšํ–ˆ๋˜
    • chimes: ์ข…์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€
    • approached: ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ
    • breath: ์ˆจ์„
    • decided: ๊ฒฐ์ •์„
    • snowing: ๋ˆˆ์ด ์™€
    • contemplate: ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ž ๊ฒผ๋‹ค
    • trust: ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„
    4 January 2026, 8:50 am
  • 13 minutes 49 seconds
    Harmony in Itaewon: A Festival, A Secret, A New Beginning
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Harmony in Itaewon: A Festival, A Secret, A New Beginning
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-03-23-34-02-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ์ดํƒœ์›์€ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋™๋„ค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Itaewon is one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in Seoul.

    Ko: ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด, ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜•ํ˜•์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์˜ ์กฐ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ•  ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: When winter arrives, the streets glow with colorful lights, and people prepare to welcome the New Year.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ •์€ ํ•™๊ต ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: There, Jinwoo and Sujeong are preparing for the school cultural festival.

    Ko: ํ•™๊ต ์•ˆ์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ณ , ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์„ค๋ ˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Inside the school, it's bustling with students, filled with the excitement of the upcoming festival.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์„ฑ์‹คํ•œ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo is a diligent high school student.

    Ko: ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ์— ์Œ์•…์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์ด ๋‘๋ ค์›Œ ๊ทธ ์—ด์ •์„ ์ˆจ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He secretly loves music, but he's afraid of other people's opinions, so he hides his passion.

    Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜์ •์€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์นด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๋ถ€์Šค๋ฅผ ์กฐ์งํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the other hand, Sujeong is an outgoing and charismatic student responsible for organizing the class booth.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋™๊ธ‰์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊นŠ์€ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์Œ์•…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์„ ๋“คํ‚ฌ๊นŒ ๋ด ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo wants to make a strong impression on his classmates, but he's careful not to reveal his passion for music.

    Ko: ๋งค์ผ ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ต์‹ค์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Every day, Jinwoo attends classes and observes the people around him.

    Ko: '์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ถ•์ œ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?' ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "How can I participate in the festival and make a meaningful contribution?โ€ he ponders.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ฉฐ์น ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ , ์–ด๋А ๋‚  ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ˆ˜์ •์„ ๋•๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After a few days, one day Jinwoo decides to quietly help Sujeong.

    Ko: "ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ž. ์Œ์•…์ด ๋ถ€์Šค ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๊ฑฐ์•ผ." ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐค์ƒˆ๋„๋ก ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์Œ์•…์„ ๊ณจ๋ผ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Let's make a playlist. Music will enhance the booth's atmosphere." Jinwoo works hard through the night, selecting music and completing the playlist.

    Ko: ์ถ•์ œ ๋‹น์ผ, ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€์Šค๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: On the day of the festival, countless students flock to the booth.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์†์—์„œ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์Œ์•…์ด ํ‹€์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo quietly takes his place among the crowd and watches as his music plays.

    Ko: ์Œ์•…์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์„ ๋‹์šฐ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€์Šค๋Š” ํฐ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The music lifts everyone's spirits, and the booth becomes very popular.

    Ko: ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋ฌด์‹ฌ์ฝ” ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In that moment, an unintentional conversation reveals Jinwoo's involvement.

    Ko: ์ˆ˜์ •์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์•ž์—์„œ ์ง„์šฐ๋ฅผ ์นญ์ฐฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Sujeong smiles and praises Jinwoo in front of everyone.

    Ko: "์ง„์šฐ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์–ด์š”!" ๊ทธ ๋ง์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์žฌ๋Šฅ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ™˜ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: "Thanks to Jinwoo, we succeeded!" Upon hearing this, his friends acknowledge Jinwoo's talent and cheer for him.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: They do not judge him, and they respect his passion.

    Ko: ์ถ•์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ํ›„, ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: After the festival ends, Jinwoo gains confidence.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์Œ์•…์  ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He decides not to hide his interest in music any longer.

    Ko: ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ด์ •์ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He has realized that his passion is something worth sharing.

    Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jinwoo's face is full of a happy smile.

    Ko: ์ดํƒœ์›์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The winter in Itaewon remains cold, but Jinwoo's heart is warm.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • vibrant: ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ
    • neighborhoods: ๋™๋„ค
    • cultural: ๋ฌธํ™”
    • festival: ์ถ•์ œ
    • diligent: ์„ฑ์‹คํ•œ
    • secretly: ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ์—
    • passion: ์—ด์ •
    • charismatic: ์นด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ ์žˆ๋Š”
    • booth: ๋ถ€์Šค
    • contribution: ๊ธฐ์—ฌ
    • playlist: ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ
    • enhance: ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค
    • countless: ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€
    • spirits: ๊ธฐ๋ถ„
    • unintentional: ๋ฌด์‹ฌ์ฝ”
    • conversation: ๋Œ€ํ™”
    • acknowledge: ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • cheer: ํ™˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๋‹ค
    • judge: ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค
    • confidence: ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ
    • realize: ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋‹ค
    • worth: ๊ฐ€์น˜
    • glow: ๋น›๋‚˜๋‹ค
    • afraid: ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜๋‹ค
    • energetic: ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ
    • observe: ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋‹ค
    • ponder: ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค
    • select: ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋‹ค
    • praise: ์นญ์ฐฌํ•˜๋‹ค
    • respect: ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹ค
    3 January 2026, 11:46 pm
  • 15 minutes 48 seconds
    Elevator Encounters: Unlikely Bonds on Seollal Night
    Fluent Fiction - Korean: Elevator Encounters: Unlikely Bonds on Seollal Night
    Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
    fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-01-03-08-38-20-ko

    Story Transcript:

    Ko: ๋ฐคํ•˜๋Š˜์—๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์ด ์†Œ๋ณต์†Œ๋ณต ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Snow is gently falling in the night sky.

    Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜์–€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ท์„ ์ž…์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: The streets of Seoul are dressed in white winter clothes.

    Ko: ์„ค๋ ˜๊ณผ ๊ณ ์š”๊ฐ€ ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ๊ฒจ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ์„œ์šธํƒ€์›Œ๊ฐ€ ์„œ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
    En: In the midst of winter, where excitement and tranquility blend, Namsan Seoul Tower stands tall.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ์—ฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋ช…์†Œ๋‹ค.
    En: It is a popular dating spot for couples.

    Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์„ค๋‚ ์ด๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Since today is Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year, many people have gathered there.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€์›์€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ ์ฑ„๋กœ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ์— ํƒ”๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin and Jiwon unknowingly got into the same elevator.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin was a quiet architect.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ผ์— ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: He often hid his loneliness by immersing himself in work.

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ๋‚™์ฒœ์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ํ•™๋„์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon was an optimistic art student in search of inspiration.

    Ko: ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋˜ ์ค‘, ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋‹ค.
    En: As the elevator ascended, it suddenly stopped.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฐ์•„์น˜๋ฉฐ ์ „๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
    En: A snowstorm had knocked out the power.

    Ko: ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ ์†์— ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ์„œ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค.
    En: In the silence, unease began to spread.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ์–ด์ฉ” ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin was at a loss.

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ‘œ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์ง„์„ ๋ณธ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon looked at him with a concerned expression.

    Ko: "๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์„ธ์š”?" ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.
    En: "Are you okay?" she asked.

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

    Ko: "์ข€ ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜๋Š”๊ตฐ์š”."
    En: "I'm a bit worried."

    Ko: ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋‚ฏ์„  ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: These two different people began to talk in this unfamiliar space.

    Ko: ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: At first, it was awkward.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์†๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‘๋ ค์› ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin feared revealing his innermost thoughts.

    Ko: ์ผ์—๋งŒ ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ ค์™”๋‹ค. ์ •์ž‘ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์—” ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค.
    En: He had been consumed with work and felt confused about what was truly important in his life.

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon wanted to find inspiration, yearning for genuine connections with people.

    Ko: ๋ˆˆ๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์‹ฌํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: The snowstorm intensified.

    Ko: ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋œ์ปน๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The elevator rattled once more.

    Ko: ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: At that moment, the two shared their greatest fears.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ "ํ˜ผ์ž๊ฐ€ ์‹ซ์–ด์š”,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin said, "I don't like being alone."

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ "์ฐฝ์ž‘์ด ๋‘๋ ต๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด์š”,"๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon, with a trembling voice, said, "I'm also scared of creating."

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๋‘๋ ค์›€์ด ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค๋‹ค.
    En: In that moment, their deeply rooted fears met.

    Ko: ๋‚ฏ์„ค๋˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
    En: The once unfamiliar space grew warmer.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ๊ทธ์ œ์•ผ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Only then did Seojin open his heart.

    Ko: "์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ถ•์†Œํ•ด๊ฐ”๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์˜€์–ด์š”," ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: "It was I who minimized this space," he admitted candidly.

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon smiled.

    Ko: "์šฐ๋ฆฌ, ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์˜๊ฐ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?"
    En: "Can we be each other's inspiration?"

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋‘๋ ค์›€๊ณผ ํฌ๋ง์€ ๋ˆˆ ์†์—์„œ ํ”ผ์–ด ์˜ค๋ฅธ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ์˜จ๊ธฐ์˜€๋‹ค.
    En: Their fears and hopes were a warm glow that bloomed amid the snow.

    Ko: ๊ณง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Soon, a rescue team arrived.

    Ko: ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฌธ์ด ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
    En: The elevator doors opened.

    Ko: ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ชฐ์•„์ณค์ง€๋งŒ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Cold winds rushed in, but their hearts were warm.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€์›์€ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin and Jiwon made a promise.

    Ko: "๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ž. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜์ž."
    En: "Let's meet again. Let's continue our story."

    Ko: ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฐ–, ์ƒˆํ•˜์–€ ๋ˆˆ๋ฐญ ์œ„์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ธ์—ฐ.
    En: Outside the elevator, on the freshly fallen snow, their connection began.

    Ko: ์„œ์ง„์€ ์ด์ œ ์„ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: Seojin now felt connected to the world.

    Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
    En: Jiwon had found new inspiration.

    Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ , ๊ทธ ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฐ›์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์ด์–ด์ ธ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
    En: The warm experience they had in that elevator continued beyond that day.

    Ko: ์„ค๋‚ ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์‚ถ์— ๊นŠ์ด ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
    En: As Seollal passed, they deeply embedded themselves into each other's lives.


    Vocabulary Words:
    • gently: ์†Œ๋ณต์†Œ๋ณต
    • amidst: ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ
    • excitement: ์„ค๋ ˜
    • tranquility: ๊ณ ์š”
    • blend: ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋‹ค
    • intensified: ์‹ฌํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค
    • unfamiliar: ๋‚ฏ์„ 
    • consume: ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
    • immersion: ๋ชฐ๋‘
    • a loss: ์–ด์ฉ” ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค
    • reveal: ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋‹ค
    • confused: ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ๋‹ค
    • yearning: ๊ฐˆ๋ง
    • trembling: ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š”
    • candidly: ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ
    • deeply: ๊นŠ์ด
    • rooted: ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ•ํžˆ๋‹ค
    • minimized: ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๋‹ค
    • admitted: ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹ค
    • bloomed: ํ”ผ์–ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋‹ค
    • genuine: ์ง„์ •ํ•œ
    • connection: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ
    • concerned: ๊ฑฑ์ •์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด
    • rescue: ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€
    • commit: ์•ฝ์†ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • expressed: ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋‹ค
    • experience: ๊ฒฝํ—˜
    • knocked out: ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค
    • unease: ๋ถˆ์•ˆ
    • ascend: ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋‹ค
    3 January 2026, 8:50 am
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