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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Old Man with the Lump

The Mapo library, the club reads The Old Man with the Lump, a story in two halves: an old man with a lump sang in the mountains, where does that song come from, from this lump, when he said that the goblins bought the lump, the neighbour went up too and sang, he came home with one more lump, the second half faster, I told my grandson, he asked where the gold went, and children always follow the money.

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THE STORY

The reading room of the Mapo library on a Saturday morning, the club reading The Old Man with the Lump; Eli tells the tale in the storyteller's ending, Mr. Yun plays the goblin casually, and Ms. Seo and Mr. Yun speak politely.

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혹 달린 영감이 산에서 노래했대요.hok dal-lin yeong-ga-mi sa-ne-seo no-rae-haet-ttae-yo.An old man with a lump sang in the mountains, they say.
그 노래는 어디서 나오냐?geu no-rae-neun eo-di-seo na-o-nya?Where does that song come from?
이 혹에서 나오지.i ho-ge-seo na-o-ji.From this lump.
그랬더니 도깨비들이 혹을 사 갔어요.geu-raet-tteo-ni do-kkae-bi-deu-ri ho-geul sa ga-sseo-yo.When he said that, the goblins bought the lump.
이웃도 올라가서 노래했어요.i-ut-tto ol-la-ga-seo no-rae-hae-sseo-yo.The neighbour went up too and sang.
뒷부분은 더 빨리요. 다 알아요.dwit-ppu-bu-neun deo ppal-li-yo. da a-ra-yo.The second half faster. They all know.
혹을 하나 더 달고 돌아왔대요.ho-geul ha-na deo dal-go do-ra-wat-ttae-yo.He came home with one more lump, they say.
손자한테 해 줬더니 금은 어디 갔냬요.son-ja-han-te hae jwot-tteo-ni geu-meun eo-di gan-nyae-yo.I told my grandson; he asked where the gold went.
애들은 꼭 돈을 따라가요.ae-deu-reun kkok do-neul tta-ra-ga-yo.Children always follow the money.