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🇰🇷 Korean · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Mr. Yun's story

Coffee after the reading at the Mapo library, Mr. Yun's own story from forty years of post: a Busan letter came every month, I looked at the nameplate and the name was different, the old lady had read them all, the son said keep taking them to her, she read them to me at the gate, that's a story, she was looking down the road, I'll read you a letter from Minneapolis, and hearing a hundred times isn't seeing once, bring the snow.

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THE STORY

The reading room of the Mapo library after the Saturday reading, the coffee pot going round; Mr. Yun speaks politely with a retired man's ease, Eli respectfully to him, and Ms. Seo politely.

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달마다 부산 편지가 왔어요.dal-ma-da bu-san pyeon-ji-ga wa-sseo-yo.A Busan letter came every month.
문패를 봤더니 이름이 다르더라고요.mun-pae-reul bwat-tteo-ni i-reu-mi da-reu-deo-ra-go-yo.I looked at the nameplate, and the name was different.
그게 이야기죠.geu-ge i-ya-gi-jyo.That's a story.
할머니가 다 읽으셨더라고요.hal-meo-ni-ga da il-geu-syeot-tteo-ra-go-yo.The old lady had read them all.
아들이 계속 갖다 드리래요.a-deu-ri gye-sok gat-tta deu-ri-rae-yo.The son said keep taking them to her.
대문 앞에서 읽어 주시더라고요.dae-mun a-pe-seo il-geo ju-si-deo-ra-go-yo.She read them to me at the gate.
길을 내다보고 계시더라고요.gi-reul nae-da-bo-go gye-si-deo-ra-go-yo.She was looking down the road.
미니애폴리스 편지 읽어 드릴게요.mi-ni-ae-pol-li-seu pyeon-ji il-geo deu-ril-kke-yo.I'll read you a letter from Minneapolis.
백문이 불여일견. 눈을 가져와요.baeng-mu-ni bu-ryeo-il-gyeon. nu-neul ga-jyeo-wa-yo.Hearing a hundred times isn't seeing once. Bring the snow.