EBS Program 129

24.09.13 A Second Hometown

The neighborhood in Seoul where I was born doesn’t evoke a sense of hometown for me because I moved so often during my childhood. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ž์ฃผ ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋‹Œ ํƒ“์—, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ณณ์ธ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋‹ค. * evoke a sense of : ~์˜ ๋Š๋‚Œ์„ ๊ฐ–๋‹ค, ์ž์•„๋‚ด๋‹ค* during one’s childhood : ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์—โ€‹But there is one city that has stirred feeling of affection and nostalgia in me. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์• ํ‹‹ํ•จ๊ณผ ์•„๋ จํ•จ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ์ •์ด ๋Š๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค. * stir ..

24.09.16 Preparing for Grade School

My child will soon be entering elementary school.์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋Š์ƒˆ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์ž…ํ•™์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹The thought of my child starting grade school next year made me feel a bit anxious.์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋…„์— ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์ž ์กฐ๊ธ‰ ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * feel a bit anxious : ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹I've heard that while kindergartners return home after 4 in the afternoon, grade school kids come home shortly after lunch.์œ ์น˜์›์ƒ์€ ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ ์ดํ›„์— ์ง‘์— ๋Œ์•„์˜ค์ง€๋งŒ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์€ ์ ์‹ฌ ์งํ›„..

24.09.17 Korean Broadcasts with English Subtitles

When I first started studying English, I made a resolution to only consume content in English.์ฒ˜์Œ ์˜์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค. * make a resolution to : ~ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค[๋‹ค์งํ•˜๋‹ค]* consume content in : ~์œผ๋กœ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹But as time passed, I began to miss out on many Korean TV shows.๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋†“์น˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * miss out on : ~์„ ๋†“์น˜๋‹คโ€‹Sometimes, I felt like I was falling behind the times.โ€‹๊ฐ€๋”์€ ..

24.09.18 โ€‹Gold Medalist Pro Gamers

For the generation in their 20s and 30s, e-sports are just as popular as traditional sports.2030 ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ์Šคํฌ์ธ ๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ e-์Šคํฌ์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * the generation in their 20s and 30s : 2030 ์„ธ๋Œ€* just as popular as : ~๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š”โ€‹Reflecting this popularity, e-sports were included as an official event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ธ๊ธฐ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด, ์ œ19ํšŒ ํ•ญ์ €์šฐ ์•„์‹œ์•ˆ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์—์„œ๋Š” e-์Šคํฌ์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์ •์‹ ์ข…๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ฑ„ํƒ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* reflect this popu..

24.09.19 Living Alone for the First Time

Sometimes, I find myself thinking about my days living in a dorm as a student. ๋ฌธ๋“ ๋‚˜์˜ ํ•™์ฐฝ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. * find oneself thinking about : ๋ฌธ๋“ ~์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹I got accepted into a university far from home, and it was my first time living apart from my parents. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํƒ€์ง€์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * get accepted into : ~์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋‹ค* live apart from one’s parents : ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ด๋‹คโ€‹Some kids arrived at the..

24.09.20 Overseas Trip for a Big Family

I am the eldest of four siblings, and my youngest brother is currently living in Japan. ์ €๋Š” 4๋‚จ๋งค์˜ ์žฅ๋…€๋กœ ๋ง‰๋‚ด ๋™์ƒ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * the eldest of four siblings : 4๋‚จ๋งค ์ค‘์˜ ์žฅ๋…€โ€‹โ€‹Thanks to the unprecedented weak yen and the close distance, we decided to plan a family trip to visit him. ์œ ๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์—”์ €(์—”ํ™” ์•ฝ์„ธ)์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด์–ด์„œ, ๋ง‰๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * unprecedented weak yen : ์œ ๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์—”์ € * plan a family trip : ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰..

Talk about the horoscope.

๋ณ„์ž๋ฆฌ ์šด์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.Talk about the horoscope.ํ•˜๋Š˜์—๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ณ„์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. There are many constellations in the sky.์ ์„ฑ์ˆ ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ณ„์ž๋ฆฌ ์—ด๋‘ ๊ฐœ๋Š” ์–‘์ž๋ฆฌ, ์‚ฌ์ž์ž๋ฆฌ, ๊ถ์ˆ˜์ž๋ฆฌ, ํ™ฉ์†Œ์ž๋ฆฌ, ์ฒ˜๋…€์ž๋ฆฌ, ์—ผ์†Œ์ž๋ฆฌ, ์Œ๋‘ฅ์ด์ž๋ฆฌ, ์ฒœ์นญ์ž๋ฆฌ, ๋ฌผ๋ณ‘์ž๋ฆฌ, ๊ฒŒ์ž๋ฆฌ, ์ „๊ฐˆ์ž๋ฆฌ, ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ์ด๋‹ค. The twelve constellations of the horoscope are Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ํ˜•์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ์ง€์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค. Th..

Talk about when you got orthopedic treatment.

์ •ํ˜•์™ธ๊ณผ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”Talk about when you got orthopedic treatment.์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ์šด๋™์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.  Last month, I was getting some exercise. ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์ด ์•„ํ”„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.I must have overdone it because my knee began to hurt.ํœด์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ฌ๋ฉด ์ €์ ˆ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.I thought that with rest and relaxation, it would get better on its own. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋”์šฑ ์•…ํ™”๋˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.However, it only got worse. ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์ด ์šฑ์‹ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์•„ํŒ ๋‹ค.There was a constant throb..

24.09.23 An Incident with Neighbors

Not long after we moved into our current apartment, our downstairs neighbor knocked on our door. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์•„๋ž˜์ธต์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‘๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.* move into : ~์— ์ž…์ฃผํ•˜๋‹ค* downstairs neighbor : ์•„๋ž˜์ธต ์ด์›ƒโ€‹He asked if we could keep it down at night since they had a high school senior in their family. ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ 3 ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฐค์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * keep it down : ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค* high school senior : ๊ณ 3 ํ•™์ƒโ€‹I sincere..

24.09.24 Our “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ and Parenting Group

We are an “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ study group that first got started in the fall of 2016. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2016๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ‘์ž…ํŠธ์˜’ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * first get started : ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹After delivering our babies, it felt depressing and stifling to just stay at home all day. ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•ด์„œ, * deliver one’s baby : ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹ค* feel depressing and stifling : ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๋‹ค* just stay at home : ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€‹So, we formed a group where we ..