EBS Program 129

24.08.16 Studying "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" Independently

I have been studying "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" on my own for three years.์ €๋Š” '์ž…ํŠธ์˜'์„ 3๋…„์งธ ํ˜ผ์ž ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on one's own : ํ˜ผ์ž, ์Šค์Šค๋กœโ€‹I wake up at 6 o'clock on the dot.์ผ๋‹จ 6์‹œ ์ •๊ฐ์— ๊ธฐ์ƒ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on the dot : ์ •๊ฐ์—โ€‹Then, I recite the "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" dialogue.๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋‹ค์Œ '์ž…ํŠธ์˜' ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฌธ์„ ์•”์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹My principle is to memorize each day's dialogue on the day of.๋‹น์ผ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹น์ผ ์™ธ์šด๋‹ค๋Š” ์›์น™์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * on the day of : ๋‹น์ผ์—โ€‹When the "์ž…ํŠธ์˜" broadcast starts, I get ready to tak..

24.08.19 Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is when consumers directly invest in the production costs of products that are still in development, helping to get them released. ํฌ๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ํŽ€๋”ฉ์ด๋ž€ ์•„์ง ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์ œ์ž‘ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ถœ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค.* directly invest in : ~์— ์ง์ ‘ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋‹ค* be still in development : ์•„์ง ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค, ์ถœ์‹œ ์ „์ด๋‹คโ€‹The consumers can get early access to the products, and at a lower price. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋Š” ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.·..

24.08.20 Seed Vault

A notably high number of wildfires have been reported this year. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ์‚ฐ๋ถˆ ์†Œ์‹์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์˜จ๋‹ค.* a notably high number of : ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ๋งŽ์€โ€‹Recently, a large wildlife wreaked havoc in Hawaii, resulting in the lose of many lives and wildlife. ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ•˜์™€์ด์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์‚ฐ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํฐ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋™์‹๋ฌผ์ด ํฌ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * wreak havoc : ํฐ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…๋‹ค โ€‹If such natural disasters continue to occur, the survival of plants that sustain our lives..

24.08.21 Visiting New York Alone

I used to be afraid of doing anything all by myself. ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋“  ํ˜ผ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * all by oneself : ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ, ์Šค์Šค๋กœโ€‹I had never dined solo or watched a movie alone, and especially never even imagined I could travel by myself. ํ˜ผ๋ฐฅ๋„ ํ˜ผ์˜(ํ˜ผ์ž ์˜ํ™” ๋ณด๊ธฐ)๋„ ํ•ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ €๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ž ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ์ƒ์ƒ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * dine solo : ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๋ฐฅ์„ ๋จน๋‹ค* never even imagine : ์ƒ์ƒ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹But just before I turned thirty, I planned a month-long t..

24.08.22 Our Dog, Champ

We live with a companion animal, a poodle named “Champ.”์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ‘์ฑ”ํ”„’๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๊ฒฌ ํ‘ธ๋“ค ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. * companion animal : ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผโ€‹We brought him home as a little puppy in 2013 after my daughter took her college entrance exam. 2013๋…„ ๋”ธ์ด ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ˆ˜ํ•™ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์‹œํ—˜์„ ์น˜๊ณ  ๋‚œ ํ›„์—, ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ•์•„์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค.โ€‹My wife was very upset at first because the puppy wasn’t housebroken and would relieve himself anywhere in the house. ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฐ•์•„์ง€๊ฐ€ ..

24.08.23 Unexpected Surgery

A few months ago, I went in for a check-up. ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ์ „์— ์ €๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฒ€์ง„์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * go in for a check-up : ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ฒ€์ง„์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๋‹คโ€‹The results showed that I have a growth in my abdomen that requires surgery. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋‚ด์žฅ์— ํ˜น์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* results show that : ~๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค* have a growth in : ~์— ํ˜น์ด ๋‚˜๋‹ค* require surgery : ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹I am still only in my 30s and hadn’t experienced any pain, so I was caught off guard..

24.08.26 Apology Day

My fourth-grade daughter goes to school with her bestie every day. ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต 4ํ•™๋…„์ธ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋”ธ์€ ๋งค์ผ ๋‹จ์ง ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ†ตํ•™์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * someone’s bestie : ~์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์นœํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌโ€‹But one day, she told me that she had been in an argument with this friend. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์–ด๋Š ๋‚  ๋”ธ์ด ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์‹ธ์› ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๊ตฐ์š”. * be in an argument with : ~์™€ ๋ง๋‹คํˆผ์„ ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹As a result, they started going to school separately, and my daughter seemed to be in a gloomy mood. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ•™๊ต๋„ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ๋”ธ..

24.08.27 College Music Club Activities

Back when I was in college, I was a vocalist in a music club called “Commence,” a creative original song club. โ€‹์ €๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ๋•Œ, ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๊ฐ€์š” ๋™์•„๋ฆฌ ‘๊ผฌ๋ง์Šค(Commence)’๋ผ๋Š” ์Œ์•… ๋™์•„๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ณด์ปฌ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * back when one was : ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ~์˜€๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ์—โ€‹Our club was founded in 1984 and has been active ever since, producing numerous great songs, professional composers, singers, and musicians. ์ €ํฌ ๋™์•„๋ฆฌ๋Š” 1984๋…„์— ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ๋˜์–ด ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋ช…๊ณก๊ณผ ํ”„๋กœ ..

24.08.28 Korean Schools Abroad

There are currently 34 Korean schools in 16 countries for expats overseas. ํ˜„์žฌ ํ•ด์™ธ ๋™ํฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฌ์™ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” 16๊ฐœ๊ตญ์— 34๊ฐœ ํ•™๊ต๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. * expat overseas : ํ•ด์™ธ๋™ํฌโ€‹In March last year, my husband was dispatched to a Korean school abroad for three years, and we have been living at his place of work together. ์ž‘๋…„ 3์›”, ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ์žฌ์™ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต๋กœ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌ๋˜์–ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€์—์„œ ์ƒํ™œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. * be dispatched to : ~๋กœ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌ๋˜๋‹ค* place of work : ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€โ€‹The overseas Kor..

24.08.29 Meeting a Compatriot at Frankfurt Airport

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•˜๋‹คโ€‹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..