Fluent Fiction - Korean:
Blossoms and Bravery: Conquering Heights on Jeju Island Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
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Ko: ์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ด ์ง๋๊ณ ๋ด์ด ์ฐพ์์๋ค.
En: Winter in Jeju has passed, and spring has come.
Ko: ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ปํด์ก๊ณ , ์ฌ์๋ ๋ฒ๊ฝ์ด ๊ฐ๋ ํผ์๋ค.
En: The wind has warmed, and the island is filled with blooming cherry blossoms.
Ko: ํ์, ์ง์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์ด ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ ์ ๋ง์ ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ์ฑ์ฐ ์ผ์ถ๋ด์ ์ฐพ์๋ค.
En: Hyunsoo, Jisoo, and Minji visited Jeju Island's Seongsan Ilchulbong to celebrate this beautiful season.
Ko: ์ฑ์ฐ ์ผ์ถ๋ด์ ์ ์ฃผ์์๋ ์ ๋ช
ํ ๋ช
์๋ค.
En: Seongsan Ilchulbong is a famous attraction even in Jeju.
Ko: ๋์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒฝ์น๋ ๊ทธ์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ฅ๊ด์ด๋ค.
En: The view from the high vantage point is truly magnificent.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ํ์์๊ฒ๋ ํฐ ์ฅ์ ๋ฌผ์ด์๋ค.
En: However, for Hyunsoo, it was a significant obstacle.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ ๋ชจํ์ ์ข์ํ์ง๋ง, ๋์ ๊ณณ์ ๋ฌด์์ํ๋ค.
En: He loved adventures but was afraid of heights.
Ko: ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์์คํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ํด ๊ทธ๋ ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ ์จ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: For the sake of precious time with his friends, he kept this fact hidden.
Ko: ๋ฒ๊ฝ ์ถ์ ๋ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ค.
En: The cherry blossom festival was delightful.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ๊ฝ์๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ถค์ถ๋ฉฐ ๋ ๋ ธ๋ค.
En: People were laughing, and petals danced in the wind.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ํญ์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฌ์ ์ง๋ง, ๋ฒ๊ฝ์ด ํผ์ด๋๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋๋ดํด์ง๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo was always cautious but thought to herself that she wanted to become bolder as she watched the cherry blossoms bloom.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์๋กํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: Minji wished to console her friends.
Ko: ์ง๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์กฐ๊ธ ํ๋ค์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฒ ๋ด์ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
En: The past winter had been a bit tough, but she wanted to make this spring special.
Ko: ๋๋์ด, ์ผ์ถ๋ด์ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์๋ค.
En: Finally, it was time to climb Ilchulbong.
Ko: ๊ธธ์ ๊ฐํ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋์ ์ด์ง ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ ๋ค.
En: The path was steep, and the wind was slightly chilly.
Ko: ํ์๋ ๊ฒฐ์ฌํด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋๋ ค์์ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, ์กฐ์ฉํ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง.
En: Hyunsoo had to decide whether to tell his friends about his fear or quietly make the climb.
Ko: ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฉ์ถฐ์ฐ๋ค.
En: With a heavy heart, he paused.
Ko: "๋, ์ฌ์ค ๋์ ๊ณณ์ด ๋ฌด์ญ๋ค," ํ์๊ฐ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Actually, I'm afraid of heights," Hyunsoo said quietly.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋๋์ง๋ง, ์ดํดํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo and Minji were surprised but understood.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค. "ํ์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์์ค๊ฒ."
En: Jisoo spoke in a gentle voice. "Hyunsoo, it's okay. Weโll help you."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "์ฐ๋ฆฐ ํจ๊ป๋ผ์ ๋ ๊ฐํด. ๊ผญ ์ ์์ ์ค๋ฅด์!"
En: Minji smiled broadly and said, "Weโre stronger together. Let's definitely reach the top!"
Ko: ์
์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋์ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๊ธธ์ ๊ฑธ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค.
En: The three of them helped each other and slowly walked up the path.
Ko: ๋ฒ๊ฝ์ด ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธธ์ ๋ง์น ๊ฟ๊ฐ์๋ค.
En: The path covered with falling cherry blossoms felt like a dream.
Ko: ์ ์์ ๋์ฐฉํ์ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ด ์ธ์์ ๋ง๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
En: When they reached the top, it was as if they had discovered a new world.
Ko: ์๋์๋ ๋ถํ๋น ๋ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ํผ์ณ์ง๊ณ , ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ดํํ๋ค.
En: Below, a pink-tinted sea spread out, and the distant ocean was vast.
Ko: ํ์๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. "๋ํฌ ๋๋ถ์ ํ ์ ์์์ด."
En: Grateful to his friends, Hyunsoo said, "Thanks to you, I could do it."
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ตํ๋ค. "์ฐ์ ์ ๋๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ๋ชจํ์ ๋ ํน๋ณํด."
En: Jisoo replied with a smile, "Friendship is about sharing. And adventures together are more special."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง๋ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ธ์ณค๋ค. "์ฐ๋ฆฐ ํด๋์ด! ์ด์ ์ด ์๋ฆ๋ค์์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์!"
En: Minji exclaimed brightly, "We did it! Now, letโs enjoy this beauty!"
Ko: ๋ฒ๊ฝ์ด ํฉ๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋๋ค.
En: Amidst the fluttering cherry blossoms, they had a wonderful time.
Ko: ๋๋ ค์์ ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ณ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์๊ฒ ํฐ ์๋ฏธ์๋ค.
En: Overcoming fears and spending time with friends meant a...