4. ์ž…์ด ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด

24.08.29 Meeting a Compatriot at Frankfurt Airport

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 9. 02:53

A few years ago, I had to transfer to a flight to Stockholm at an airport in Frankfurt.

์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „, ์ €๋Š” ํ”„๋ž‘ํฌํ‘ธ๋ฅดํŠธ ๊ณตํ•ญ์—์„œ ์Šคํ†กํ™€๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ์•„ํƒ€์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* transfer to a flight : ๋น„ํ–‰ํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์Šนํ•˜๋‹ค

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I needed to find Lufthansa Airlines to check in for my flight, but Frankfurt Airport was so huge that I couldn’t find my way.

ํƒ‘์Šน ์ˆ˜์†์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฃจํ”„ํŠธํ•œ์ž ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ”„๋ž‘ํฌํ‘ธ๋ฅดํŠธ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋„“์–ด์„œ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* check in for one’s flight : ํƒ‘์Šน ์ˆ˜์†์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค

* find one’s way : ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค

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I tried asking for directions at the information desk with my limited English, but I couldn’t make sense of the English spoken by the staff.

๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ์— ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ˆ๋‚ด์›์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์•Œ์•„๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* ask for directions : ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฌป๋‹ค

* with one’s limited English : ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ

* make sense of : ~์„ ์•Œ์•„๋“ฃ๋‹ค, ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋‹ค

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I eventually found my way to the airline after circling the airport a few times, but all the counters were closed.

๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ณตํ•ญ์„ ๋ช‡ ๋ฐ”ํ€ด ๋Œ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธด ์ฐพ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฐฝ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‹ซํ˜€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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I was worried, thinking “Oh no, I’ve become an international missing person,” when I suddenly heard someone saying “So long” in Korean from a boarding gate in the distance.

“์ด์ œ ์–ด๋–กํ•˜์ง€, ๊ตญ์ œ ๋ฏธ์•„๊ฐ€ ๋๊ตฌ๋‚˜”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ํƒ‘์Šน ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ “์ž˜ ๊ฐ€”ํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ ๋ง์ด ์ œ ๊ท€๋ฅผ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* missing person : ๋ฏธ์•„, ์‹ค์ข…์ž

* so long : ์ž˜ ๊ฐ€

* in the distance : ๋จผ ๊ณณ์—

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I ran over and explained my situation, and they kindly took me to an open airline desk.

์ˆœ์‹๊ฐ„์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€์„œ ์‚ฌ์ •์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ˆ, ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ €๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋‹ค์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* explain one’s situation : ์‚ฌ์ •์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Even now, when I think about that time, I feel proud of the Korean people living all around the world.

์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* feel proud of : ~์ด ๋ฟŒ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค

* all around the world : ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์—

 

 

์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋”~์ž˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฑ…์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•ด์„œ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ~์”ฌ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ~ํ•˜์„ธ์š”~
์ˆ ์ˆ ์ˆ  ์˜์–ด๋ง~์ž˜~ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์ฒœ์‚ฌ๋‹˜๐Ÿ˜‡๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~

24๋…„ 8์›” ์ž…ํŠธ์˜ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ฒ˜~~~๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›~~~

 

 

์œ„ ๋งํฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งค์‹œ ์ฟ ํŒกํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ผ์ •์•ก์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~~
์ฒœ์‚ฌ๐Ÿ˜‡๋‹˜๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ˆ˜์ต ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~ 
๋•๋ถ„์— ์ปดํŒจ์…˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ๋„์šธ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›

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