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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The rice-cake shop

Mrs. Jo's rice-cake shop at Mangwon market the week before the holiday, Min-jun's camera in the doorway: Mrs. Jo, twenty honey rice cakes, please, far from twenty, I haven't got two, in one sentence, Mrs. Jo, far from rich, I never once sat down, then the white ones, please, take what's left, a chicken instead of a pheasant, drinking the kimchi soup before the rice-cake giver has thought of it, and getting famous, far from famous, I'll have to shut.

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Mrs. Jo's rice-cake shop at Mangwon market the week before Chuseok, the whole of Mapo buying for the holiday, Min-jun's camera in the doorway; Eli speaks respectfully to Mrs. Jo, Mrs. Jo politely in a market voice, Min-jun politely to her.

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사장님, 꿀떡 스무 개 주세요.sa-jang-nim, kkul-tteok seu-mu gae ju-se-yo.Mrs. Jo, twenty honey rice cakes, please.
스무 개는커녕 두 개도 없어요.seu-mu gae-neun-keo-nyeong du gae-do eop-sseo-yo.Far from twenty, I haven't got two.
사장님, 한 문장으로요.sa-jang-nim, han mun-jang-eu-ro-yo.In one sentence, Mrs. Jo.
부자는커녕 한 번도 못 앉아 봤어요.bu-ja-neun-keo-nyeong han beon-do mot an-ja bwa-sseo-yo.Far from rich, I never once sat down.
그럼 흰 떡으로 주세요.geu-reom huin tteo-geu-ro ju-se-yo.Then the white ones, please.
남은 거 가져가요. 꿩 대신 닭.na-meun geo ga-jeo-ga-yo. kkwong dae-sin dak.Take what's left. A chicken instead of a pheasant.
떡 줄 사람은 생각도 않는데 김칫국부터 마신다.tteok jul sa-ra-meun saeng-gak-tto an-neun-de gim-chit-kkuk-bu-teo ma-sin-da.Drinking the kimchi soup before the rice-cake giver has thought of it.
그럼 유명해지는 건요?geu-reom yu-myeong-hae-ji-neun geon-nyo?And getting famous?
유명해지기는커녕 문 닫겠어요.yu-myeong-hae-ji-gi-neun-keo-nyeong mun dat-kke-sseo-yo.Far from famous, I'll have to shut.