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Are you ready to supercharge your Korean listening comprehension? Our podcast is the perfect tool for you.Studies show that the key to mastering a second language is through repetition and active processing. That's why each episode of our podcast features a story in Korean, followed by a sentence-by-sentence retelling that alternates between Korean and English.This approach not only allows you to fully understand and absorb the vocabulary and grammar but also provides a bilingual support to aid your listening comprehension.But we don't stop there. Research in sociolinguistics highlights the importance of culture in language learning, which is...

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Seoul's Autumn Journey: Sisters Reconnect Through Tradition
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Today at 7:52 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Seoul's Autumn Journey: Sisters Reconnect Through Tradition
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-10-01-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋‚™์—ฝ ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์ž์˜๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์„ค๋ ๊ณผ ์ •๋ฆ‰ ์™•๋ฆ‰์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Following the autumn sunlight that gently shone on the fallen leaves lining the streets of Seoul, Jayeong and Minseo were walking towards the Seolleung and Jeongneung royal tombs.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์—๋Š” ์กฐ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: During Chuseok, there is a tradition of honoring ancestors and spending time with family.

Ko: ์ž์˜์€ ์•„์ง ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋™์ƒ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ๋ฉ€์–ด์ง„ ๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ๋ฌด๋ค์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jayeong decided to visit her parents' graves, far from their hometown, with her younger sibling.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์กฐ์ƒ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She wanted to honor ancestral traditions and feel connected to them.

Ko...


Triumph Over Tundra: Jisoo's Arctic Climate Mission
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Yesterday at 10:47 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Triumph Over Tundra: Jisoo's Arctic Climate Mission
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-30-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋‚ฎ์ง€๋งŒ ์–ผ์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์› ๋‹ค.
En: The sky was low and as cold as ice.

Ko: ๋ถ๊ทน ํˆฐ๋“œ๋ผ์— ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ํ•˜์–€ ๋ˆˆ๋ฐญ์€ ๋์ด ์—†์–ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
En: The white snowy field stretched across the Bukgeuk tundra seemed endless.

Ko: ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ์–ผ์Œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์˜ท์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด์™€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋–จ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Icy winds pierced through clothing, causing people to shiver.

Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ฐฌ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š˜๊ฒŒ ๋–ด๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo squinted her eyes against the harsh wind.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์˜†์—๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ์€ํ˜์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Next to her were Minjun and Eunhyuk.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‘๊บผ์šด ์ ํผ๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ถ”์œ„๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Although they were all wearing thick jumpers, the cold was still intense.


Amid Arctic Storms: A Chuseok Bond Beyond Loneliness
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Yesterday at 7:52 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Amid Arctic Storms: A Chuseok Bond Beyond Loneliness
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-30-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ถ๊ทน ํˆฐ๋“œ๋ผ๋Š” ๋์—†๋Š” ํ•˜์–€ ํ‰์›๊ณผ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The Arctic tundra is a place filled with endless white plains and cold winds.

Ko: ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋„์‹œ์™€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ, ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Far removed from the bustling city, Minjun was there researching climate change alone.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ƒํ•™์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ถ”์„์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ํ—›ํ—›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: As a meteorologist, he had to collect crucial data, and thinking of the Chuseok back home made him feel a bit empty.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ํŒ€์—๋Š” ์„œ์—ฐ๊ณผ ์€์ง€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In the team with Minjun were Seoyeon and Eunji.

Ko: ์„œ์—ฐ์€ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ž, ์€์ง€๋Š” ์ง€์งˆํ•™์ž์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Seoyeon was a biologist, and Eunji was a geologist.

Ko: ๊ทธ...


Locked In: How a Vlog in a Haunted Warehouse Went Viral
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Last Tuesday at 10:48 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Locked In: How a Vlog in a Haunted Warehouse Went Viral
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-29-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was a day where the autumn sunlight shone warmly.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ˜„์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ธŒ์ด๋กœ๊ทธ ์˜์ƒ์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: To celebrate Chuseok, Hyunjin and Minseo decided to shoot an entertaining vlog video.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์ „์„ค์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.
En: Their goal was to introduce urban legends while bringing laughter.

Ko: ์žฅ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ๋‚ก์€ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: The location was an abandoned old warehouse.

Ko: ํ˜„์ง„์€ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์œผ์Šค์Šคํ•จ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Hyunjin wanted to utilize the warehouse's natural eeriness.

Ko: "๋ฏผ์„œ์•ผ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์™„์ „ ์ข‹์•„...


Autumn Friendships: Jisoo's Courageous Journey in Jeju
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Last Monday at 10:47 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Friendships: Jisoo's Courageous Journey in Jeju
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-28-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์— ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‚ด๋ž‘์‚ด๋ž‘ ๋ถˆ์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: A gentle autumn breeze blew through Jeju Island.

Ko: ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ํ˜„์žฅ ํ•™์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์ฃผ๋„๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์€ ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was the day high school students visited Jeju Island for a field trip.

Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ๋ถ‰์€ ๋‹จํ’๊ณผ ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The place was filled with red autumn leaves and the blue ocean.

Ko: ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ํ™˜ํ˜ธ์„ฑ์„ ์ง€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ , ์พŒ์ ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The students cheered as they boarded the bus and arrived at a comfortable guesthouse.

Ko: ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๋ผ์‚ฐ์ด ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์„ ๊ฒฝ์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: From the guesthouse, Hallasan was in full view, and the autumn scenery was beautiful.
...


Jeju's Chuseok: A Friendship Blossoms Amidst Golden Waves
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Last Monday at 7:53 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jeju's Chuseok: A Friendship Blossoms Amidst Golden Waves
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-28-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜จ ์ œ์ฃผ๋„๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.
En: In gyeoul, Jeju Island looks like a painting.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์˜ ์žŽ์€ ๊ธˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์˜ ํŒŒ๋„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค.
En: The leaves on the trees are tinged with a golden hue, and the wind is gentle like the waves of the sea.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์ œ์ฃผ๋„๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์™”๋‹ค.
En: Friends came to Jeju Island to celebrate Chuseok.

Ko: Joon๊ณผ Minji๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹ค.
En: "Joon" and "Minji" are among them.

Ko: ๋‘˜์€ ์˜ค๋žœ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ง€๋งŒ ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.
En: Although the two have been longtime friends, things have been...


Autumn Reunion: Rekindling Friendship in Changdeokgung Garden
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Last Sunday at 10:47 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Reunion: Rekindling Friendship in Changdeokgung Garden
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-27-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€ ์ •์›์„ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The cool autumn breeze gently embraced the secret garden of Changdeokgung.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์€ ๋นจ๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์˜ค๋ Œ์ง€, ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋‚™์—ฝ์€ ์‚ฐ๋“ค๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ถค์„ ์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€์š”.
En: The trees were dyed in shades of red, orange, and yellow, and the fallen leaves danced with the gentle breeze.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ , ์ •์›์˜ ํ•œ์ ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์„์—์„œ ํ˜„์ง„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋งˆ์ฃผ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: That day, in a quiet corner of the garden, Hyunjin and Minseo encountered each other by chance.

Ko: ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์นจ๋ฌต๊ณผ ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์„ ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ํฌ๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Years of silence and misunderstanding had existed between them, but the autumn weather was warm and ma...


Harvesting Dreams: A Blossoming Partnership at Seoul's Festival
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Last Sunday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Harvesting Dreams: A Blossoming Partnership at Seoul's Festival
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-27-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ ์‹๋ฌผ์›์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The Seoul Botanical Garden was filled with the scent of autumn.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ์€ ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ „ํ†ต ์Œ์‹์ด ๋„˜์ณ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•œ ๋ช…์ ˆ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The leaves were turning golden, and the food stalls overflowing with traditional dishes were steeped in a brilliant festive atmosphere.

Ko: ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํŒŒ์ „ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฝง์†์„ ๊ฐ„์ง€๋Ÿฝํžˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋””์„ ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต์Œ์•…์ด ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์ •์ทจ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The unique aroma of pajeon tickled the nose, and the Korean traditional music playing somewhere added to the autumn ambiance.

Ko: ์ด ๋‚ ์€ ์„œ์šธ ์‹๋ฌผ์›์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถ”์ˆ˜ ์ถ•์ œ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: This day was the Harvest Festival held at the Seoul Botanical Garden.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
E...


Autumn Awakening: A Team's Journey to a Stellar Exhibition
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Last Saturday at 10:46 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Awakening: A Team's Journey to a Stellar Exhibition
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-26-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The Seoul Natural History Museum was imbued with the colors of autumn.

Ko: ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ž…๊ตฌ์—๋Š” ๋‹จํ’์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค์•‰์•„, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ™˜์˜์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Leaves had fallen at the museum entrance, warmly welcoming visitors.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ํ™”์„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ž™ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™ ์ „์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋ฉฐ, ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๋กœ ๋Š˜ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์ณค๋‹ค.
En: A wide variety of exhibits, ranging from ancient fossils to interactive science displays, filled the space with enthusiasm, especially among students and families.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํŒ€์„ ์ด๋Œ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ „์‹œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho led the team with a great deal of anticipation for the annual project exhibition.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ด€์žฅ์˜ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ , ์Šน์ง„์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค...


Seoul's Secret Night: Archaeology and Tech in a Museum Heist
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Last Saturday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Seoul's Secret Night: Archaeology and Tech in a Museum Heist
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐ€์„ ์ €๋…, ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ ์†์— ์ž ๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The Seoul Natural History Museum was enveloped in tranquility on a quiet autumn evening.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ด๋ฅธ ์ €๋…์— ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ์•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Due to the Chuseok holiday, the museum had closed early, and most visitors were enjoying the holiday with their families.

Ko: ์†Œ์ง„๊ณผ ์ง„ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊นŠ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ณต๋ฃก ์ „์‹œ๊ด€์„ ํƒํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sojin and Jinho were deep inside the museum, exploring a dinosaur exhibit that was rarely open to the public.

Ko: ์†Œ์ง„์€ ๊ณ ๊ณ ํ•™์ž์ด๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค.
En: Sojin is an archaeologist who loves uncovering hidden stories of the past.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด ์ „์‹œ๊ด€์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ธฐ๋ก ์œ ๋ฌผ์„...


Autumn Connections: Leaves, Poetry & New Friendships
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Last Friday at 10:48 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Connections: Leaves, Poetry & New Friendships
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-25-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์ˆฒ์€ ๊ฐ€์„์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด ์ƒ‰๊น”์˜ ์ถ•์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Seoul Forest becomes a festival of colors when autumn arrives.

Ko: ๊ธˆ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋นจ๊ฐ„ ์žŽ์ด ๋•…์„ ์ˆ˜๋†“๊ณ , ๋†’์€ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์ด ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ์‚ด๋ž‘๊ฑฐ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Golden and red leaves adorn the ground, and the tall trees sway in the cool breeze.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๊ฐ•๋ณ€๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์„ ์†Œํ’์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์šธ์ˆฒ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Today, students from Gangbyeon High School visited Seoul Forest for an autumn picnic.

Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์žŽ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sujin wants to collect leaves.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ž์—ฐ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฟˆ์„ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: By doing this, she feels closer to her dream of becoming a natural scientist.

Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ...


Capturing Autumn's Essence: A Photographer's Tribute
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Last Friday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Capturing Autumn's Essence: A Photographer's Tribute
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-25-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์€ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๊ฝƒ์ •์›์—์„œ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Autumn begins with a beautiful scene at the Gyeongju Flower Garden.

Ko: ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ง‘๊ณ , ๋นจ๊ฐ›๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ž—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋“  ์žŽ๋“ค์ด ๋ˆˆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The air is clear, and the red and yellow leaves catch the eye.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์— ์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€ํ›ˆ, ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์œ ๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Here are three friends: Ji-hoon, Min-soo, and Yuna.

Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ž‘๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-hoon is a photographer.

Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฐ€์„ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋‹ด์•„ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์‹  ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The purpose of this trip is to capture the beautiful autumn scenery in photos to honor his late grandmother.

Ko: ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„์„ ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She loved autumn very much.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ , ๋งŽ์€ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Howeve...


Chuseok Surprises: A Journey Beyond the Expected
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09/24/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chuseok Surprises: A Journey Beyond the Expected
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-24-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ์†Œ๋ผ๋Š” ์„ค์•…์‚ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho and Sora arrived at Seoraksan National Park.

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์‚ฐ์€ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The autumn mountain was dazzlingly beautiful.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์€ ๋…ธ๋ž—๊ณ  ๋นจ๊ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ ๊นŠ์ˆ™์ด ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The trees were colored yellow and red, and the fresh air filled their lungs deeply.

Ko: ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The two had decided to spend time together for Chuseok.

Ko: "์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ •๋ง ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๋‹ค!
En: "It's really beautiful here!"

Ko: " ์†Œ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sora said.

Ko: "์˜ค๋Š˜ ์Œ์‹ ์ถ•์ œ์—์„œ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์„ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๋ฒŒ์จ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ผ.
En: "Iโ€™m already excited to eat delicious tradition...


Locked In Nature's Embrace: A Cabin Adventure
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09/24/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Locked In Nature's Embrace: A Cabin Adventure
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-24-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์‚ฐ๋“ค๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ์„ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ”๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ํ˜„์šฐ์™€ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„ค์•…์‚ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›์˜ ์ˆฒ์„ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One autumn day, when a gentle breeze was softly shaking the leaves, Hyunwoo and Jisoo were walking through the forest at Seoraksan National Park.

Ko: ์ˆฒ์€ ๋นจ๊ฐ„์ƒ‰๊ณผ ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The forest, colored in red and gold, was beautiful.

Ko: ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•จ์„ ๋А๋‚€ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ž‘์€ ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์— ์ž ์‹œ ์‰ฌ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Feeling tired, they decided to rest for a while in a small cabin.

Ko: "์™€, ์ด ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์€ ์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋„ค์š”. ์ž ๊น ์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ฃ !" ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: "Wow, this cabin is really nice. Let's rest for a bit!" Jisoo said energetically.

Ko: ํ˜„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค...


Harvested Traditions: Ji-yoon's Chuseok Countryside Journey
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09/23/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Harvested Traditions: Ji-yoon's Chuseok Countryside Journey
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-23-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์‹œ๊ณจ ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋งˆ์ˆ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The countryside scenery of autumn was as beautiful as magic.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ์€ ์ฃผํ™ฉ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค๊ณ , ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•œ ๋†์ž‘๋ฌผ์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The leaves turned ju-hwang-saek and no-ran-saek, and the crisp air was filled with the scent of harvested crops.

Ko: ์ง€์œค์€ ์ถ”์„ ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ๋Œ์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-yoon visited her grandmother's house for Chuseok.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์ž๋ž์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She had grown up in the city, but this time she wanted to understand her family traditions more deeply.

Ko: ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ๋ง์”€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋˜ ์ง€์œค์€ ๋†์‚ฐ๋ฌผ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: halmeoni's words inspired Ji-yoon to select the perfect ingredients, so she headed to t...


Autumn Reunion: A Family's Touching Chuseok Reconciliation
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09/23/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Reunion: A Family's Touching Chuseok Reconciliation
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-23-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜จ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ์‹œ๊ณจ์€ ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•œ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: The countryside of Gyeongju in autumn is bathed in brilliant fall colors.

Ko: ์†กํŽธ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์„์— ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ์ฒญ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค.
En: The scent of songpyeon fills the village, and the sky is clear and bright.

Ko: ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์†์ด ๋‹ฟ์€ ์˜›์ง‘์€ ์–ธ๋• ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก๊ณ , ์กฐ์ƒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: The old house, touched by the family's hands, sits nestled between hills, holding the memories of ancestors.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค์ž ์ˆ˜์ง„, ๋ฏผํ˜ธ, ์ง€์› ์„ธ ๋‚จ๋งค๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์ด ์ง‘์— ๋ชจ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: As Chuseok approached, the three siblings Sujin, Minho, and Ji-won gathered at this house for the first time in a long while.

Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์žฅ๋‚จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sujin, as the elde...


Rainy Encounters: Jisoo's Journey to Chuseok Bliss
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09/22/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rainy Encounters: Jisoo's Journey to Chuseok Bliss
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-22-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ์ดˆ์ž…์˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ํ’์„ฑํ•œ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์˜ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•œ ๊ธฐ์šด์ด ๋งˆ์„์— ๊ฐ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One day at the beginning of autumn, the bustling energy of preparing for a plentiful Chuseok lingered in the village.

Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ ์ž์‹ ๊ณผ์˜ ์‹ธ์›€์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo, a graphic designer, was engaged in a battle with herself.

Ko: ์ผ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์žก๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Balancing work and life was not easy.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์šฐ์‚ฐ๋„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถœ๊ทผํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ•˜ํ•„ ํ‡ด๊ทผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๊ณ  ๋ง์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Today, she had left for work without even bringing an umbrella, and unfortunately, it started pouring rain right at quitting time.

Ko: ์ข์€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊นŠ์€ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ๋‚ด์‰ฐ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š”, ์กธ์กธ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ „๋“ฑ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo sighed deeply as she looked at...


Jinwoo's Heartfelt Chuseok: A Family Reunion to Remember
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09/22/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jinwoo's Heartfelt Chuseok: A Family Reunion to Remember
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์‹ฑ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ฐ€์„ ์•„์นจ, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ ๋งˆ์„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋กœ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo was heading to work at a small grocery store in his hometown on a fresh autumn morning.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋Œ€ํ•™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ์ž ์‹œ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
En: Although Jinwoo had started university this year, he returned home briefly to celebrate Chuseok.

Ko: ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์€ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์ด ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์€ ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The trees in his hometown were painted in various colors by the autumn foliage, and the breeze blew coolly.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง„์šฐ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
En: However, Jinwoo's heart was not as cool.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ „ ๊ฐ™์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ๋‹ค.
En: He was saddened that h...


Silent Intruder: A Chuseok Mystery in the Dormitory
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09/21/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Silent Intruder: A Chuseok Mystery in the Dormitory
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์ด ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Autumn was deepening.

Ko: ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์„ ์Šค์น˜๋“ฏ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
En: The cold wind brushed past the windows of the university dormitory.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ƒ์— ์•‰์•„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu was sitting at his desk, studying diligently.

Ko: ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ฝ”์•ž์— ์‹œํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ง‘์ค‘์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: There was a test right around the corner, so he needed to concentrate.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋•Œ, ๋ฐฉ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ด์ƒํ•œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค. "์‚-์‚-์‚-" ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์šธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: But just then, a strange noise came from inside the room. "Beep-beep-beep-" Something was continuously ringing.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu looked up and glanced around.


Unveiling Secrets: What Lies Beneath Bongwonsa's Beauty
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09/21/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unveiling Secrets: What Lies Beneath Bongwonsa's Beauty
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋ด‰์›์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In the middle of autumn, Bongwonsa was colored with brilliant autumn foliage.

Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์›์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: People gathered at the temple to celebrate Chuseok and enjoy quiet, contemplative time with their families.

Ko: ๊ธฐํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ด‰์›์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ต ๊ฐ•์˜๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ง€์‹์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Giho wanted to attend a Buddhist lecture at Bongwonsa and show off his historical knowledge.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋‹ค์ง€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
En: However, his friends didn't really pay attention.

Ko: ๊ธฐํ˜ธ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ธ ์„ธ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐœ๋ž„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฒฝ์พŒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํƒํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Giho's friend, Sena, enjoyed exploring new things energetically and was captivated by the beauty of the t...


Love in Full Bloom: An Autumn Romance in Seoul
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09/20/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Love in Full Bloom: An Autumn Romance in Seoul
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๋‹ค.
En: Autumn in Seoul was beautiful.

Ko: ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ๊ณต์›์€ ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ๋‹จํ’๊ณผ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜จ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ์ ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Namsan Park was bustling with families who came for the colorful autumn leaves and to celebrate Chuseok.

Ko: ๊ณต์› ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ '๋‚จ์‚ฐ ๊ณต์› ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์ •ํ™” ํ–‰์‚ฌ'์˜€๋‹ค.
En: There was a special event in the park: the "Namsan Park Environmental Cleanup Event."

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•™์„ ์ „๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo was a student majoring in environmental science.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ๋ณดํ˜ธ์— ์—ด์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He was passionate about nature conservation.

Ko: ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En...


Tradition Meets Tech: Gyeongbokgung's Chuseok Transformation
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09/20/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Tradition Meets Tech: Gyeongbokgung's Chuseok Transformation
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๋˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์ฐฌ๋ž€ํ•œ ๋‹จํ’์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One warm and sunny autumn day, Gyeongbokgung was painted in brilliant autumn colors.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์ด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ๊ถ๊ถ์€ ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋А๋ผ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: With Chuseok approaching, the palace was buzzing with preparations for the festival.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—์„œ ๊ธด์žฅ๋œ ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minjun was moving around with a tense expression in the midst of it all.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ถ”์„ ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He was responsible for this year's Chuseok festival.

Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ์„ฑ๋ฒฝ ์•ˆ์ชฝ์€ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ˆจ ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Inside the walls of Gyeongbokgung, tradition and modernity coexisted.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ธ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”...


Finding Confidence at Changdeokgung: Jiho's Historic Discovery
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09/19/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Confidence at Changdeokgung: Jiho's Historic Discovery
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ์€ ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ์—ฌ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Changdeokgung is surrounded by the splendid autumn foliage.

Ko: ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ถ๊ถ์€ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ ์†์— ์„œ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The historical palace stands silently, but it's filled with the laughter of students.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ์„œ์šธ ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ’์„ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Today, to celebrate Chuseok, they have come on a school picnic to Seoul's Changdeokgung.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho is a quiet but curious student.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ์—ด์ •์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He is passionate about history.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Today, he wants to share historical facts about Changdeokgung wit...


Capturing Heartbeats: Jinwoo's Journey with Jeju's Haenyeos
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09/19/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Capturing Heartbeats: Jinwoo's Journey with Jeju's Haenyeos
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๋‹ค.
En: Autumn in Jeju is always special.

Ko: ์ƒ›๋…ธ๋ž‘, ์ง„ํ™์ƒ‰ ๋‚™์—ฝ์ด ๊ธธ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ์ˆ˜๋†“๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์˜ ์ฒญ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ์ด ๊ท“๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งด๋ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Bright yellow and deep red leaves decorate the roads, and the clear, gentle waves of the sea linger in your ears.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์†์— ์ฅ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo held a camera in his hand.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ํ•ด๋…€๋“ค์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๊ณณ์— ์™”๋‹ค.
En: He came here to photograph the Haenyeos of Jeju Island.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ํ•ด๋…€์˜ ์ƒ๋ช…๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: His goal was to capture the vitality and tradition of the Haenyeos in photographs.


A Chuseok to Remember: Bonding Beyond Family Ties
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09/18/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Chuseok to Remember: Bonding Beyond Family Ties
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€๋Š” ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ง„์šฐ, ๋ฏผ์ง€, ์„ฑ์—ฐ์€ ์„ค๋ ˆ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๊ฐ€์„ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One cool autumn day, Jinwoo, Minji, and Seongyeon were eagerly preparing for their boarding school's autumn trip.

Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋„์‹œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: This time, the destination was Gyeongju, a culturally significant city in Korea.

Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ ์ถ”์„ ๋ช…์ ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฒน์ณค๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์— ์•„์‰ฌ์›€์„ ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Since the trip coincided with the Chuseok holiday, Jinwoo felt a bit disheartened that he couldn't spend time with his family.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์žŠ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Still, he didn't want to forget his hometown's traditions.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์„ฑ์‹คํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo is a diligent and responsible...


Chuseok at Boarding School: Creating New Traditions
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09/18/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chuseok at Boarding School: Creating New Traditions
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ฐฌ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ญ‡์žŽ์ด ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋ก ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was autumn, and the chilly winds blew as the leaves turned colorful.

Ko: ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ถ”์„ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™ ํ•™๊ต ๊ณณ๊ณณ์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: As the preparations for Chuseok began in earnest, the boarding school was bustling with students.

Ko: ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Hyunsoo looked out the window.

Ko: ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์šด ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The trees swaying in the wind reminded him of the scenery of his beloved hometown.

Ko: โ€œ์ถ”์„์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์•ผ,โ€ ํ˜„์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: "Chuseok is a time for our family to be together," Hyunsoo thought to himself.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ...


From Seoul to the Sea: Rediscovering Heritage in Jeju
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09/17/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Seoul to the Sea: Rediscovering Heritage in Jeju
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ๊นŠ์€ ํŒŒ๋ž€์ƒ‰์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The sky was a clear, deep blue.

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ์–ด์™€, ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ์ž‘์€ ๋งˆ์„์€ ์ถ”์„ ์ค€๋น„๋กœ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: A warm autumn breeze was blowing, and a small village in Jeju-do was bustling with preparations for Chuseok.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ํ•ด๋…€ ๋ฌธํ™”๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋งˆ์„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: This village is famous for its haenyeo culture.

Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ œ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo had been away from Jeju for a long time.

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๋ฐ”์œ ์ผ์ƒ์— ๋ฌปํ˜€ ์‚ด์•˜์ฃ .
En: She lived a busy life in Seoul.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ถ”์„, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์žฌํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: But this Chu...


Blending Tradition: Jinsu's Modern Hanbok Transformation
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09/17/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blending Tradition: Jinsu's Modern Hanbok Transformation
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ, ๋ถ์ดŒ ํ•œ์˜ฅ๋งˆ์„์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In the heart of Seoul, in Bukchon Hanok Village, the autumn wind was blowing.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ๋‹ค.
En: This place is a special location where tradition and modernity meet.

Ko: ํ•œ์˜ฅ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰์˜ ์žฅ์‹์ด ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The alleyways of the hanok were filled with autumn colors, and the green and yellow decorations hanging around stood out.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—๋Š” ์ง„์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Here was Jinsu.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ๋ณต ์žฅ์ธ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์†์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋ ค์› ๋‹ค.
En: He was a traditional hanbok artisan, but it was challenging for him to find his pla...


Autumn Harmony: Rekindling Bonds in a Jeju Island Hanok
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09/16/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Autumn Harmony: Rekindling Bonds in a Jeju Island Hanok
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ๋„ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์˜ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ง‘.
En: A large family house near Jeju Island.

Ko: ์ง‘ ์•ˆ์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ๋กœ, ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด ๋ฏธ๋‹ซ์ด๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ•œ์˜ฅ ์ •์›์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: Inside, the house is a traditional Korean-style architecture with bamboo sliding doors and a beautiful hanok garden.

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ๋‹จํ’์ด ์ •์›์„ ์žฅ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: The colorful autumn foliage decorates the garden.

Ko: ์ง‘์•ˆ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์ถ”์„ ์ค€๋น„๋กœ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์นœ๋‹ค.
En: The house is lively with family and preparations for Chuseok.

Ko: ์†กํŽธ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ์™€ ๋ช…์ ˆ ์Œ์‹์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ”์šด๋‹ค.
En: The scent of songpyeon and holiday foods fills the air.

Ko: ํšจ์ง„์€ ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ด์•˜๋‹ค.
...


Chuseok's Heart: A Family Unites in Tradition
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09/16/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chuseok's Heart: A Family Unites in Tradition
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋Œ€๋ฌธ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ Jinsoo์˜ ์ง‘์•ˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค.
En: The gate opened, and family members started entering Jinsooโ€™s house one by one.

Ko: ๋„“์€ ํ•œ์˜ฅ์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์ด ๊น”๋ ค ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ•˜์–€ ์ข…์ด ๋ฏธ๋‹ซ์ด ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The spacious hanok had wooden floors, and white paper sliding doors divided the rooms.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๋ช…์ ˆ, ์ถ”์„์ด๋‹ค.
En: Today was the eagerly awaited holiday, Chuseok.

Ko: ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ํ•œ๋ณต์„ ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ธˆ์„ธ ์ง‘์•ˆ์€ ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
En: Everyone coming through the door was dressed in colorful hanbok, and soon the house was filled with laughter and conversation.

Ko: โ€œJinsoo, ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž–์•„. ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด!โ€ ํฐ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
En: โ€œJinsoo, you're the host today. Please take care of everything...


Duck King Chronicles: Finding Friendship in Foggy Swamps
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09/15/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Duck King Chronicles: Finding Friendship in Foggy Swamps
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์‹œ์›ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณ , ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ์•ˆ๊ฐœ๋กœ ๋’ค๋ฎ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The cool autumn wind was blowing, and the sky was covered with mist.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜, ์„ ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์•ˆ๊ฐœ ๋Šช์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํˆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu, and his friends Mina and Seonho were on a guided tour of the misty swamp.

Ko: ๋Šช์ง€๋Š” ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ’๊ฒผ๊ณ , ์Šตํ•œ ๋•…์—๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๋ž‘์‚ด๋ž‘ ํ”๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
En: The marsh exuded a mysterious atmosphere, and the reeds swayed gently over the moist ground.

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ€๋”์”ฉ ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฝฅ๊ฝฅ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๊ฐœ ์†์—์„œ ํฌ๋ฏธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The smell of autumn filled the air, and occasionally, the faint quacking of ducks could be heard through t...


Rediscovering Friendship: An Autumn Journey in Seoraksan
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09/15/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rediscovering Friendship: An Autumn Journey in Seoraksan
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„ค์•…์‚ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›์˜ ๊ฐ€์„์€ ์ž์—ฐ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Autumn in Seoraksan National Park was like a work of art created by nature.

Ko: ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์ด ๋นจ๊ฐ•, ์ฃผํ™ฉ, ๋…ธ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์„ ๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The trees were adorned in reds, oranges, and yellows, capturing the eye.

Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ฃผ์šด๊ณผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Amidst the people, Joowoon and Hana were having a conversation.

Ko: ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์˜จ ์นœ๊ตฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์šด์˜ ์†Œ๊ฟ‰์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Hana was a friend from Seoul and also Joowoon's childhood friend.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ถ”์„ ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ๋งž์•„ ์„ค์•…์‚ฐ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: They had come to Seoraksan to celebrate the Chuseok holiday.

Ko: ์ฃผ์šด์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Joowoo...


Seoul Rainforest Cafรฉ: Rediscovering the Heart of Chuseok
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09/14/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Seoul Rainforest Cafรฉ: Rediscovering the Heart of Chuseok
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์Šฌ๋ถ€์Šฌ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์„ ์˜คํ›„, ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ ˆ์ธํฌ๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ ์นดํŽ˜๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a drizzly autumn afternoon, the Seoul Rainforest Cafรฉ was full of energy.

Ko: ์นดํŽ˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์„ฑํ•œ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์žฅ์‹๊ณผ ๋™๋ฌผ ํ…Œ๋งˆ ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ์ ธ, ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ฐ€๋ฆผ ์†์— ๋“ค์–ด์„  ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The cafรฉ was adorned with lush green decorations and animal-themed ornaments, giving the feeling of being deep in a jungle.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐ”์˜๋˜ ์ผ์ƒ์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ์ด๊ณณ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Jihyun visited the place to take a break from her always busy life.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค, ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋นˆ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Her friends, Minjun and Subin, were with her.

Ko: โ€œ์ถ”์„์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์˜ค๋„ค์š”,โ€ ์ˆ˜๋นˆ์ด ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: โ€œChuseok is coming soon,โ€ Subin said with a smi...


Embracing Imperfection: A Chuseok Dance Triumph
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09/13/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Embracing Imperfection: A Chuseok Dance Triumph
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„ ํ•˜๋Š˜์€ ๋†’๊ณ  ๋ง‘์•˜๋‹ค.
En: The autumn sky was high and clear.

Ko: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์˜ ์›…์žฅํ•œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ •์›์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์ด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋ถ‰์€๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The majestic buildings and the trees in the garden of Gyeongbokgung were dyed in a beautiful red hue.

Ko: ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์ „ํ†ต ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ๋กœ ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์žฅ์‹๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In celebration of Chuseok, Gyeongbokgung was decorated splendidly with traditional lanterns and flags.

Ko: ์กฐ์„ ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ „ํ†ต ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์—ด๋ฆด ์˜ˆ์ •์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: An important traditional event to honor the cultural heritage of the Joseon dynasty was scheduled to be held there.

Ko: ์ค€์€ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋‹ค.
En: Jun is someone who loves traditional culture and history.


Chuseok Antics: When Ji-ho Takes the Plunge at Gyeongbokgung
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09/13/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Chuseok Antics: When Ji-ho Takes the Plunge at Gyeongbokgung
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์€ ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The cool autumn wind blows, and Gyeongbokgung is lively as it welcomes Chuseok.

Ko: ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ•œ๋ณต์„ ์ž…์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ณณ์ €๊ณณ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: People dressed in beautiful hanbok wander around, enjoying traditional performances.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ง„๋„ ๊ถ์— ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-ho and Su-jin have also come to the palace.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ๋งŒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ถ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ชป ์˜†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-ho, with confidence, walks with Su-jin towards the pond in the palace.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์กฐ์‹ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: However, Ji-ho is not very cautious.

Ko: "์ด๋ด, ์‹ ๋ฐœ ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ด!" ์ˆ˜์ง„์ด ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: "Hey, watch your shoes!" Su-jin says.

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Hope in the Ruins: Rediscovering Chuseok Traditions
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09/12/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Hope in the Ruins: Rediscovering Chuseok Traditions
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-12-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ•˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์–ด๋‘  ์†์—์„œ ๋ถ€์„œ์ ธ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The underground shopping center was crumbling in the darkness.

Ko: ๊นœ๋นก์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋น›๊ณผ ๊ธˆ์† ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ์ด ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค.
En: Only flickering lights and the sound of metal seemed alive.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ํ•œ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์žฅ์†Œ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: This place was once a lively spot filled with people.

Ko: ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ํํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Now, it was in ruins.

Ko: ์ง€์šฐ์™€ ์ˆ˜๋นˆ์€ ํํ—ˆ ์†์—์„œ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiu and Subin were walking quietly through the wreckage.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ์ž๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: They were searching for supplies.

Ko: "์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ถ”์„์ด์•ผ," ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›€์ด ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En...


Finding Hope: Sibling Search Amidst Parisian Ruins
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09/12/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Hope: Sibling Search Amidst Parisian Ruins
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-12-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํํ—ˆ ์†, ๊ฐ€์„์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋Š” ์ฐฌ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ŒŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Amidst the ruins of Paris, the chilly air marking the beginning of autumn enveloped the city.

Ko: ์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐผ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋žœ๋“œ๋งˆํฌ๋“ค์ด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์žก์ดˆ๋กœ ๋’ค๋ฎ์ด๊ณ  ๋ฌธ๋ช…์˜ ํ”์ ๋งŒ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Streets and landmarks that were once lively were now overgrown with weeds, leaving only traces of civilization.

Ko: ์ด ๋„์‹œ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ, ์ง€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋™์ƒ ๋ฏผ์ค€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In the heart of this city, Jisoo walked alongside her younger brother, Minjun.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—๋Š” ์‹ค์ข…๋œ ํ˜•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Their hearts were filled with a strong resolve to find their missing sibling.

Ko: ๋ฉ€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ, ์ง€์ˆ˜์™€ ๋ฏผ์ค€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€...


Discovering Chuseok: A Journey of Cultural Rediscovery
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09/11/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Discovering Chuseok: A Journey of Cultural Rediscovery
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-09-11-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๊ณ ์šด ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ถ๊ถ์„ ๊ฐ์ŒŒ๋‹ค.
En: Autumn sunlight wrapped the gung-gweol in beautiful colors.

Ko: ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ์˜ ๋‹จํ’์€ ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ถ•์ œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์— ํœฉ์‹ธ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The colorful foliage of Changdeokgung was splendid, and people were enveloped in a festive atmosphere.

Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ ์ถ”์„์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋‚ ์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ•™์—ฌํ–‰ ๋‚ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was Chuseok, and that day marked a special school trip.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„œ์šธ๋กœ ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was the first time Jin-woo and Soo-jin had come to Seoul together.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jin-woo was a high school student who loved history.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์„์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋ฉฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ...


Capturing Chuseok: A Photographer's Dawn at Bulguksa
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09/11/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Capturing Chuseok: A Photographer's Dawn at Bulguksa
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฐ€์„์ด ๊นŠ์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ˆ˜์ง„, ๋™ํ˜„, ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋ถˆ๊ตญ์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One day in the deepening autumn, Sujin, Donghyun, and Mirae headed to Gyeongju Bulguksa for Chuseok.

Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ฐ€์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Sujin was a photographer.

Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ถ”์„์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์„ ๋‹ด์€ ํ•œ ์žฅ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The goal of this trip was to capture a single photograph that encapsulated the beauty of Chuseok.

Ko: ๋™ํ˜„์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆ˜์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ํž˜์„ ๋ถ๋‹์•„์ฃผ๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์‚ฌ์ดŒ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Donghyun was her lively cousin who encouraged Sujin, and Mirae was a friend who loved history.

Ko: ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•œ ์žฅ๋ณธ์ธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was Mirae who had planned this trip.

Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ตญ์‚ฌ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋‹จํ’์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“  ํ’๊ฒฝ์— ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Up...


Sneezes and Serenity: Finding Peace at Bulguksa Temple
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09/09/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Sneezes and Serenity: Finding Peace at Bulguksa Temple
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฐ€์„ ์•„์นจ, ์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋ถˆ๊ตญ์‚ฌ ์ ˆ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a beautiful autumn morning in Gyeongju, three friends arrived at the Bulguksa Temple.

Ko: ํ•œ๊ฐ€์œ„ ๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ช…์ƒ ์ˆ˜๋ จ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: To celebrate the Chuseok holiday, they decided to participate in a meditation retreat.

Ko: ์ ˆ์€ ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ๋น› ์žŽ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฎ์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์Šค์ณ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The temple was covered in golden leaves, and a gentle breeze rustled through the trees.

Ko: "์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋ช…์ƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉด ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„!" ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: "It would be great to learn meditation here!" Hana said with a bright smile, eagerly anticipating the new experience.

Ko: ๋ฏผํฌ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minhee nodded quietly; she always sought to strengthen her inner f...