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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Shoes on the wrong feet

The Kims' flat late on Chuseok evening, Grandma's wedding story: Grandma, tell the wedding story, I was seventeen, Jeonju, a spring, I went with my shoes on the wrong feet, and the groom, he bowed with his hat on backwards, Grandpa told it the other way round, he told it wrong for fifty years and I let him, and even a mousehole has its sunny day.

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THE STORY

The Kims' flat in Mangwon late on Chuseok evening, the table cleared and Grandma in the warm corner; Ji-yeong, Su-a and Eli are respectful to her, and she is casual with all three.

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할머니, 결혼식 이야기 해 주세요.hal-meo-ni, gyeol-hon-sik i-ya-gi hae ju-se-yo.Grandma, tell the wedding story.
열일곱이었어. 전주, 봄이었지.yeo-ril-go-bi-eo-sseo. jeon-ju, bo-mi-eot-jji.I was seventeen. Jeonju, a spring.
신은 채로si-neun chae-rowith them on, as they were: the verb for putting on shoes, then the word for a state kept
신을 거꾸로 신은 채로 갔다.si-neul geo-kku-ro si-neun chae-ro gat-tta.I went with my shoes on the wrong feet.
할머니, 그럼 신랑은요?hal-meo-ni, geu-reom sil-lang-eun-yo?Grandma, and the groom?
갓을 거꾸로 쓴 채로 절을 했다.ga-seul geo-kku-ro sseun chae-ro jeo-reul haet-tta.He bowed with his hat on backwards.
발은 괜찮냐. 그게 첫 고운 말이었어.ba-reun gwaen-chan-nya. geu-ge cheot go-un ma-ri-eo-sseo.Are your feet all right. That was the first kind word.
할아버지는 반대로 말씀하셨어요.ha-ra-beo-ji-neun ban-dae-ro mal-sseum-ha-syeo-sseo-yo.Grandpa told it the other way round.
오십 년을 틀리게 말해도 그냥 뒀어.o-sip nyeo-neul teul-li-ge mal-hae-do geu-nyang dwo-sseo.He told it wrong for fifty years and I let him.
쥐구멍에도 볕 들 날 있다.jwi-gu-meong-e-do byeot deul lal it-tta.Even a mousehole has its sunny day.