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Ko: ๋ด๋ฐ๋์ด ์ด๋๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ 3์์ ์ด๋ ๋ , ์์ธ์ ํ๋ณตํ์ ์์นํ ์ด๋ฐ ์ ๊ธ ์นดํ์๋ ์ฑ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ด ์ด๋ก์ ์๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: One day in March, when the spring breeze was gently blowing, the Urban Jungle Cafe located in the heart of Seoul was filled with fresh green plants.
Ko: ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์ผ๋ก ๋น์น๋ ํ์ด ์๋, ์นดํ๋ ํํ๊ฒ ๋น๋๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Under the sunlight streaming through the glass windows, the cafe was brightly lit.
Ko: ์ฌ๊ธฐ์์ ์ง์๋ ๋ํ ์์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ธ ๋ฏผํธ์ ์๋ฏผ์ ๋ง๋ฌ๋ค.
En: Jisoo met her college friends Minho and Sumin there.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ํญ์ ๊ณํ์ด ์ฒ ์ ํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo always had meticulous plans.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์ฐ๋ก ๋ชจ์์ ์ํด ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ค.
En: This time, too, she had prepared everything in advance for their annual gathering.
Ko: ์ค๋์ ํ์ดํธ ๋ฐ์ด์๋ค.
En: Today was White Day.
Ko: ํ์ดํธ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ํ์ ์๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: She held white chocolate and gifts in her arms.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ง๋ง ๋ง์ ํํธ์ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ์ด ์์๋ค.
En: She was eagerly looking forward to spending time with her friends, but there was a sense of nervousness lingering in her heart.
Ko: '์ค๋ ์ผ์ ์ด ์ ์งํ๋ ๊น?' ์ง์๋ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋ค.
En: 'Will today's schedule go well?' Jisoo worried.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ์ ์๋ฏผ์ด ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค.
En: Minho and Sumin arrived.
Ko: ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ฉฐ ์์์ผ๋ก ํ
์ด๋ธ์ ๋๋ฌ์์๋ค.
En: They exchanged warm greetings and sat around the table, laughing.
Ko: ์ฒ์์๋ ๋ํ ์์ ์ ์ถ์ต์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ค.
En: They started by reminiscing about their college days.
Ko: "๊ธฐ์ต๋? ๊ทธ๋ ๊ต์๋๊ป ๋ชฐ๋ ๋นผ๋นผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ด ์ ๋ฌผ ๋๋ ธ๋ ๊ฑฐ?" ์๋ฏผ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "Remember? The time we secretly gave the professor a Pepero Day gift?" Sumin said with a laugh.
Ko: ๋ค๋ค ํฌ๊ฒ ์์๋ค.
En: Everyone laughed heartily.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Jisoo laughed too, but she was already thinking about the next topic of conversation in her mind.
Ko: "์ค๋ ๋ชจ์ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ค๋นํ์ด," ์ง์๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ค.
En: "I've prepared today's meeting plan," Jisoo said.
Ko: ๋ฏผํธ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. "๊ทธ๋ฅ ํธํ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์! ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฑธ ํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฑด ์ด๋?"
En: Minho replied with a smile, "Let's just enjoy ourselves! How about we try something new?"
Ko: ์๋ฏผ๋ ๋์ํ๋ค. "๋ง์, ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ์ถ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ด! ๊ฐ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด."
En: Sumin agreed. "Right, there's a fun festival nearby! It'd be great to check it out."
Ko: ์ง์๋ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ด ๋ณต์กํ๋ค.
En: Jisoo's mind was in turmoil.
Ko: ๊ณํ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ด์๋ค.
En: This wasn't in her plan.
Ko: '์ด๊ฒ ๊ด์ฐฎ์๊น?' ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
En: 'Will this be okay?' she thought.
Ko: ํ์ง๋ง ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ณด๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
En: But seeing her friends' bright faces, her worries vanished.
Ko: '๋๋ ค์์ ๋ด๋ ค๋๊ณ ๊ทธ์ ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ณด์.'
En: 'Let go of the fear and just enjoy.'
Ko: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ง์๋ ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ํ์จ์ ๋ด์ฌ์๋ค.
En: In the end, Jisoo smiled and took a deep breath.
Ko: "์ข์, ๊ฐ๋ณด์!"
En: "Alright, let's go!"
Ko: ์
์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์นดํ๋ฅผ ๋์ฐ๋ค.
En: The three of them left the cafe, laughing.
Ko: ์ถ์ ๋ ํ๋ คํ๋ค.
En: The festival was spectacular.
Ko: ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ํ์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
En: It was filled with colorful balloons and the sound of people's laughter.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ถค์ถ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: Jisoo naturally danced and laughed with her friends.
Ko: ๊ณํ์๋ ์๋ ์ผ์ด์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ง์์ด ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์์ก๋ค.
En: Even though it wasn't part of her plan, she felt lighter than she had in a long time.
Ko: ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌผ๊ณ ์์๋ค.
En: The day was coming to an end.
Ko: ์ง์๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์ ์์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํ๋ค. '์์์น ๋ชปํ๋ ์ผ์ด ๋ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ค.'
En: On the way home with her friends, Jisoo thought to herself, 'Unexpected things shine brighter.'
Ko: ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ค๋์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค. ์์ธก ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์๊ฐ ์์์ ๋ ํฐ...