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🇰🇷 Korean · Advanced Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Ojukheon with Grandma

Ojukheon in Gangneung on an August afternoon, the house of a mother and her scholar son: this house is worth seeing, Dad says the garden alone is worth the trip, the mother is on the fifty-thousand note and her son on the five-thousand, Mom asks whether the black bamboo is real, it's real and the house is named after it, her first history lesson, this shade is worth sitting in, and a good mother is worth more than a scholar.

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THE STORY

The garden of Ojukheon in Gangneung on an August afternoon, Grandma on a bench in the shade and Ha-eun asleep in the pram; Grandma and Mr. Kim speak casually to Eli, and Eli respectfully to them both.

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볼 만해bol man-haeworth seeing: see in its future shape, then the word for a measure, and do
이 집은 볼 만해. 학자 어머니 집이야.i ji-beun bol man-hae. hak-jja eo-meo-ni ji-bi-ya.This house is worth seeing. It's a scholar's mother's house.
사진 한 장 찍을 만해요.sa-jin han jang jji-geul man-hae-yo.It's worth a photo.
아빠가 정원만 봐도 올 만하대요.a-ppa-ga jeong-won-man bwa-do ol man-ha-dae-yo.Dad says the garden alone is worth the trip.
어머니는 오만 원, 아들은 오천 원짜리야.eo-meo-ni-neun o-man won, a-deu-reun o-cheon won-jja-ri-ya.The mother is on the fifty-thousand note, the son on the five-thousand.
엄마가 검은 대나무가 진짜냬요.eom-ma-ga geo-meun dae-na-mu-ga jin-jja-nyae-yo.Mom asks whether the black bamboo is real.
진짜야. 집 이름이 거기서 왔어.jin-jja-ya. jip i-reu-mi geo-gi-seo wa-sseo.It's real. The house got its name from it.
첫 역사 수업이네요.cheot yeok-ssa su-eo-bi-ne-yo.Her first history lesson.
이 그늘은 앉을 만하네.i geu-neu-reun an-jeul man-ha-ne.This shade is worth sitting in.
좋은 어머니가 학자보다 나아.jo-eun eo-meo-ni-ga hak-jja-bo-da na-a.A good mother is worth more than a scholar.