Fluent Fiction - Korean:
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Ko: ์ธ์ฒ๊ตญ์ ๊ณตํญ์ ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค.
En: The day begins at Incheon International Airport.
Ko: ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ก ํฅํ๊ณ , ๊ณตํญ ๋ด๋ถ๋ ๋ถ์ฃผํฉ๋๋ค.
En: People are heading to different destinations, and the inside of the airport is bustling.
Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ์ ์ ์ง์ฅ์ธ ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There, a young office worker named Minseo is present.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ ์ฃผ๋๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minseo wants to return to Jeju Island.
Ko: ์ง์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ์์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There is a family gathering at home.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์์ธ์์์ ๊ธด ์ถ์ฅ ํ ์ง์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: After a long business trip in Seoul, Minseo is feeling homesick.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์ค๋์ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ข์ง ์์ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ง์ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
En: However, today the weather is not good, and the flight is delayed.
Ko: ๊ณตํญ ๋๊ธฐ์ค์์ ๋ฏผ์๋ ์น๊ตฌ ์ง์์ ๋๋ํ ์์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: In the airport waiting room, Minseo sits side by side with her friend Jisoo.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋ฐ๊ณ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์น๊ตฌ์
๋๋ค.
En: Jisoo is a bright and positive friend.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์์ผ, ๊ด์ฐฎ์. ๊ณง ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ถ๋ฐํ ๊ฑฐ์ผ," ํ๊ณ ์ง์๋ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค.
En: "Hey Minseo, it's okay. The plane will depart soon," says Jisoo.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด์ง๋ง ๋ง์์ ์กฐ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Minseo nods, but inside she feels anxious.
Ko: ์ ์ฃผ๋์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ผ๊ตด๋ค์ด ์๊ฐ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค.
En: She thinks of the faces of her family waiting in Jeju Island.
Ko: ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ์ ๊ธธ์ด์ง๊ณ , ์๋ด ๋ฐฉ์ก์ด ๊ณ์ ๋์ต๋๋ค.
En: The wait drags on, and announcements continue to be made.
Ko: "์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๋นํํธ์ด ์ง์ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ก์ด ์ ๋ณด๋ ๊ณง ์๋ ค๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค."
En: "The flight to Jeju has been delayed. We will inform you with new information shortly."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ข์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minseo feels frustrated and looks around.
Ko: ๊ณตํญ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: There is a variety of people in the airport.
Ko: ๋ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋, ๋์ฐฉํ๋ ์ฌ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค.
En: People leaving, arriving, and others waiting like herself.
Ko: ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
En: Everyone has their own story.
Ko: ์์ ์์ ์๋ ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
En: Hanna, who was sitting next to her, approaches.
Ko: "๋ฏผ์์ผ, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณํ์ ์ธ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋?" ํ๋๊ฐ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: "Hey Minseo, how about making other plans?" Hanna suggests.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Minseo ponders for a moment.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋ ๋ฒ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๋ณผ๊น ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํฌ๊ธฐํฉ๋๋ค.
En: She thinks about taking a train or a bus instead of the plane but ultimately gives up.
Ko: "์๋์ผ, ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๋. ๊ผญ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด," ๋ฏผ์๊ฐ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค.
En: "No, I'll wait. I really want to go home," Minseo says.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋
์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ํ๊ณ ํ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์ด ๋๊ปด์ง๋๋ค.
En: Her voice contains a firm determination.
Ko: ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณ์ ํ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์๋ก์ด ์๋ด ๋ฐฉ์ก์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค.
En: Time continues to pass, and finally, a new announcement is made.
Ko: "์ ์ฃผํ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค."
En: "The flight to Jeju has been further delayed."
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ์ค๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋๋๊ฒ๋ ๋ง์์ด ์ฐจ๋ถํด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
En: Minseo is disappointed, but surprisingly, she feels calmer this time.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋
๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊น๊ฒ ์จ์ ์ฝ๋๋ค.
En: She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.
Ko: ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ธธ์ ์กฐ๋ฐ์ฌ ๋ด์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค.
En: She decides not to be impatient on her way to see her family.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ ์์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค.
En: The plane will eventually take off.
Ko: ๋ฏผ์๋ ๋ค์ ํผ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๊น๋๋ค.
En: Minseo falls into thought alone again.
Ko: ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ.
En: The important thing is the moment with her family.
Ko: ๋นํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ์ถ๋ฐํ ํ
๋, ์ง๊ธ ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์์คํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค.
En: Since the plane will depart eventually, she decides to cherish this moment now.
Ko: ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ ์ง์์ ํ๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ๋๋๊ณ , ์ฌํ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ชจ์ต๋ ๊ด์ฐฐํฉ๋๋ค.
En: During the wait,...