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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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Jinsu's Journey: Balancing Dreams and Expectations
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Yesterday at 10:46 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Jinsu's Journey: Balancing Dreams and Expectations
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-23-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ณต๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐฉํ•™์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The public high schools in Seoul were approaching summer vacation.

Ko: ํ–‡๋น›์€ ํฐ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋“ค์ด์น˜๋ฉฐ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ธฐ์šด์„ ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sunlight poured in through the large windows, bringing with it a warm atmosphere.

Ko: ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ๋ณต๋„์—์„œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์›ƒ๊ณ  ๋– ๋“ค๋ฉฐ ์ฒญ์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์— ํœ˜๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๊นƒ๋ฐœ๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
En: In the corridors, students laughed and chatted with friends while gazing at the college flags fluttering on a blue background.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ž…์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Here, Jinsu was preparing for college entrance exams.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์†์—๋Š” ์Œ์•…๊ณผ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์„ ํƒ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In his mind, he had two choices: music and engineering.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ...


Unveiling Secrets: The Gyeongbokgung Night Mystery
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Yesterday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unveiling Secrets: The Gyeongbokgung Night Mystery
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-23-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์กฐ์šดํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐค, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
En: On a drowsy summer night, Gyeongbokgung was brightly illuminated.

Ko: ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ๊ณ ์šด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Lanterns cast delicate shadows.

Ko: ๊ถ๊ถ์˜ ํ•œ ์ผ , ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํœ˜ํŒŒ๋žŒ ๊ณก์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
En: In a corner of the palace, a quiet whistling melody was heard.

Ko: ์ค€์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ ค ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค๋‹ค.
En: Jun turned his head to look towards the source of the sound.

Ko: "์ค€์•„, ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋ญ์•ผ?" ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ์ด ์†์‚ญ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: "Jun, what's that?" Sumin whispered.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ค€์˜ ์˜†์—์„œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She stood nervously next to Jun.

Ko: ๋‹ค์€์€ ๊ทธ์ € ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋™์กฐ...


From Seoul to Knight: Sujin and Jiho's Medieval Quest
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Last Monday at 10:47 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Seoul to Knight: Sujin and Jiho's Medieval Quest
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-22-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ค‘์„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์”ฌ ํ’๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋‚ , ์ˆ˜์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
En: On a day filled with the atmosphere of the medieval era, Sujin and Jiho looked around with faces full of curiosity.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์˜จ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค.
En: They are friends from modern-day Korea.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ผ์ธ์ง€, ๋Œ์—ฐ ์ค‘์„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ๋งˆ์ƒ ์‹œํ•ฉ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Yet, somehow, they suddenly found themselves participating in a medieval jousting tournament.

Ko: ์žฅ์†Œ๋Š” ์บ”๋“ค ์กฐ๋ช…์ด ์€์€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์žฅ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The place was an arena dimly lit by candlelight.

Ko: ๊ธด ์—ฐํšŒ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์ด ๋Š˜์–ด์„œ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ค‘์•™์—๋Š” ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์˜ ์ „ํˆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ์ด๋Š” ๋„์ฐํ•œ ํ™ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์žฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: Long banquet tables were arranged, and in the center, knights were engaging in mock combat on...


Knight's Proposal: Love Unfolds in a Medieval Seoul Castle
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Last Monday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Knight's Proposal: Love Unfolds in a Medieval Seoul Castle
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-22-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ค‘์„ธ ํ…Œ๋งˆ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์„ฑ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์›…์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The medieval-themed restaurant in Seoul was as grand as a castle.

Ko: ์—ฐํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช… ์•„๋ž˜ ๊ธด ๋‚˜๋ฌด ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋“ค์ด ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ชจํ˜• ์นผ์ด ๋ถ€๋”ชํžˆ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.
En: Dimly lit, long wooden tables were set, and the sounds of laughter and mock swords clashing could be heard.

Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ๋ชจ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ค‘์„ธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: People gathered there were enjoying a performance by medieval knights.

Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์€ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์˜์ƒ์„ ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jihoon was dressed in knight's costume.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Although he was nervous, he had something special planned.

Ko: ์ง€ํ›ˆ์˜ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ...


From Tension to Triumph: A Creative Duo's Presentation Success
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Last Sunday at 10:46 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Tension to Triumph: A Creative Duo's Presentation Success
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-21-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ์ค‘์•™๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ „์‹œ๊ด€์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In the grand exhibition hall of the Guknip Joongang Bangmulgwan, the summer sunlight poured in gently.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์™”๋‹ค.
En: Jiho and Mina had come here to present their project.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho was meticulous, while Mina was creative.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์˜ ๋А๊ธ‹ํ•จ์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: However, Jiho was worried about Mina's laid-back attitude.

Ko: ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.
En: Mina felt that Jiho's worries were stifling her creativity.

Ko: ์ค€๋น„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ์„ธ์› ๋‹ค.
En: During the pr...


Brushstrokes of Connection: Romance at the Art Museum
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Last Sunday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Brushstrokes of Connection: Romance at the Art Museum
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-21-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ์ค‘์•™๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋‚ ์”จ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The guknipjungangbangmulgwan was calm and cool despite the summer weather.

Ko: ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค๋…ธ ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Many people were visiting the museum to celebrate the dano Festival.

Ko: ์ „์‹œํšŒ์žฅ ์•ˆ์—” ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ์™€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์ด ์‰ผ์—†์ด ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Inside the exhibition hall, cultural assets and paintings continuously captivated the eyes of the visitors.

Ko: ์ค€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ์ž…๊ตฌ์— ์„ฐ๋‹ค.
En: Junho stood at the entrance of the gallery.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He wanted to find inspiration.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์†์—๋Š” ์Šค์ผ€์น˜๋ถ์ด ๋“ค๋ ค ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In his hand was a sketchbook.

Ko: ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€...


Polling Day Drama: A Trial By Patience and Communication
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Last Saturday at 10:46 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Polling Day Drama: A Trial By Patience and Communication
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-20-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์ฒด์œก๊ด€ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The warm summer sunlight filtered through the gym's windows.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ์–ด๋А ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: This place was a polling station at a community center.

Ko: ํˆฌํ‘œ ๋‚ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ ๋ช…์”ฉ ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค„์„ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On voting day, people lined up calmly, one by one.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์ค„์€ ์ ์  ๊ธธ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: However, the line was getting longer and longer.

Ko: ์ค€์€ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Jun was a college student volunteer.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋งก์•„ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He was in charge of the polling station and wanted everything to pr...


Victory of Integrity: Jina's Journey to Class President
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Last Saturday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Victory of Integrity: Jina's Journey to Class President
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-20-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ํ–‡๋ณ•์ด ๋œจ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๋˜ ์ดˆ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋‚ , ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋‚ ์ด ์ฐพ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a scorching early summer day, election day arrived at the school.

Ko: ๊ต์‹ค์€ ํˆฌํ‘œ ์žฅ์†Œ๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The classroom was set up as a polling place.

Ko: ๋ฒฝ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ํฌ์Šคํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ฑ…์ƒ๋“ค์€ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋„๋ก ์ž˜ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Each candidate's election posters were hung on the walls, and the desks were arranged to facilitate voting.

Ko: ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ ์ •์‹ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The school exuded a vibrant atmosphere that reflected its democratic spirit.

Ko: ์ง€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์žฅ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ•œ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jina is a high school student running for class president.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She aims...


Summer Friends and the Science of Rock-Paper-Scissors
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Last Friday at 10:47 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Summer Friends and the Science of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-19-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋‚ , ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์ณค๋‹ค.
En: On a summer day in Insadong, the streets were bustling with energy.

Ko: ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์‹ ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€์—์„œ ํ’๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ์†Œํ•œ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์œ ํ˜นํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The savory smells wafting from the various street food stalls enticed the passersby.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜, ์ง€์ˆ˜, ๋‹ค์›์€ ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์— ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minsu, Jisoo, and Dawon stood at one of them.

Ko: ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐ„ํŒ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹ค ์†์—์„œ ์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ–‡์‚ด ์•„๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Amid the brightly lit signs and the chatter of people, the three friends faced a moment of decision under the hot sun.

Ko: โ€œ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ ์‹ฌ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?โ€ ๋‹ค์›์ด ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋ฉฐ.
En: "Who's going to pay for lunch today?" Dawon asked, eyes twinkling.


Tea and Tradition: An Artistic Encounter in Seoul
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Fluent Fiction - Korean: Tea and Tradition: An Artistic Encounter in Seoul
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-19-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ์ ์ด๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ์ „ํ†ต์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์ฐจ ํ•œ ์ž”์˜ ์ง‘์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a bustling street in Seoul, where people are swarming, there is a serene place called cha han jan-ui jib where you can enjoy traditional tea.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋”์œ„๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ, ๋ชฉ์กฐ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ณผ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ์ข…์ด๋“ฑ์ด ์ฃผ์œ„์˜ ์†Œ๋ž€์„ ์žŠ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค€๋‹ค.
En: This beautiful space attracts those seeking to escape the summer heat, with its wooden architecture and delicate paper lanterns helping people forget the surrounding noise.

Ko: ํ–ฅ๊ธ‹ํ•œ ์ฐจ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ณผ ์„ž์—ฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์ง‘์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: The fragrant scent of tea mingling with the summer breeze draws people inside.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋‹จ์˜ค์ ˆ.
En: Today is...


Navigating Change: A Seoul Office Merger's Impact
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Last Thursday at 10:46 PM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Navigating Change: A Seoul Office Merger's Impact
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-18-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค. ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒฝ์ด ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ๊ธด์žฅ ์†์— ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In a modern corporate office in Seoul, surrounded by transparent glass walls, the employees began their day amidst sharp tension.

Ko: ๋ด„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was spring.

Ko: ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€์— ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ํ–‡๋ณ•์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Warm sunlight streamed through the office windows.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์—๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: However, the employees' faces were full of tension.

Ko: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์†Œ์‹์ด ๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Important news was circulatingโ€”the story of a company merger.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋กœ์„œ ํŒ€์„ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minji, as the project manager, was responsible for the team.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ คํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด...


Finding Jinho: Rising Above Seoul's Corporate Jungle Shadows
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Last Thursday at 7:51 AM

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Jinho: Rising Above Seoul's Corporate Jungle Shadows
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-18-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฒˆํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The Seoul headquarters of a major corporation situated in the heart of the bustling city was always busy.

Ko: ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋”์šด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์—์–ด์ปจ์˜ ์‹œ์›ํ•จ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was sweltering summer weather, and people were enjoying the coolness of the air conditioning while working.

Ko: ๋†’์€ ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋„์‹œ๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The city sparkled vibrantly through the tall glass windows.

Ko: ์ง„ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์˜ ์ฃผ๋‹ˆ์–ด ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ, ๋Š˜ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ผ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinho, a junior analyst in this office, always quietly did his work.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En...


Kimchi & Applehip: Crafting Friendships over BBQ
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06/17/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Kimchi & Applehip: Crafting Friendships over BBQ
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-17-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ž˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฟ”์ง„ ์ •์›๊ณผ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋ฐ”๋น„ํ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One day, under the warm summer sun, the annual summer barbecue party was held in a gated community known for its well-maintained gardens and clean walkways.

Ko: ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๊ณต์›์˜ ๊ฐ€์ œ๋ณด ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”๋“ค์ด ์ค€๋น„๋˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์›ƒ์Œ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐ”๋น„ํ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Tables were set up around the gazebo in the central park, and the town residents were enjoying the barbecue with laughter.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ด์›ƒ์„ ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho always tried to surprise his neighbors with his unique recipes.

Ko: ํŠนํžˆ ๊น€์น˜ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž‘์ด์—ˆ์ฃ .
En: His signature dish was especially his kimchi burger.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ๋œ๋ ๋Œ€๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: However, Jiho was often clumsy.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ž...


The Inflatable Mystery: How Sujin and Jiwon Bonded Over Art
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06/17/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: The Inflatable Mystery: How Sujin and Jiwon Bonded Over Art
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-17-07-38-20-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋”ฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ์šด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์•„์นจ, ์ •์›์ด ์ž˜ ๊ฐ€๊พธ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ฒ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๋งˆ์„. ์ด๊ณณ์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ง„๊ณผ ์ง€์›์ด ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a sunny summer morning, in a community village surrounded by a well-maintained garden and an iron gate, lived Sujin and Jiwon.

Ko: ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ์ค‘๋…„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ™œ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ •์›์„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sujin was a middle-aged woman always full of energy and took pride in her garden.

Ko: ํ•œํŽธ, ์ง€์›์€ ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์ด์›ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ณง ์žˆ์„ ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์ „์‹œํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Meanwhile, Jiwon was a quiet and introverted neighbor, busy painting for an upcoming art exhibition.

Ko: ์–ด๋А ๋‚  ์•„์นจ, ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ๋ง‰ ๊ฐœ๋ด‰ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—์–ดํ’€์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One morning, Sujin couldn't find her newly opened inflatable pool.

Ko: ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋”์›Œ์„œ ์ˆ˜์ง„์€ ํ’€์žฅ์— ๋ฌผ์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ๋†€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The weather was h...


Missed Flights, Found Friendships: An Airport Adventure
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06/16/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Missed Flights, Found Friendships: An Airport Adventure
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-16-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ธ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ๋‘๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์„ค๋ ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐฌ ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Incheon Gukje Gonghang was a place filled with excitement and anticipation.

Ko: ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ–‡๋น›์ด ๋น„์ณค๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์— ์œ ๋™์ ์ธ ๋ฌด๋Šฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sunlight streamed through the glass windows, creating dynamic patterns on the floor.

Ko: ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์†์—์„œ ๋ฉด์„ธ์ ๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜, ๋ผ์šด์ง€๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Amid the lively atmosphere full of different languages, duty-free shops, cafes, and lounges were bustling with activity.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ถœ์žฅ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณตํ•ญ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu arrived at the airport to return home after a business trip.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ผ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ์ž ์‹œ ์‰ผ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He wanted to escape from work and find a momentary rest.

Ko: ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„œ๋‘๋ฅธ ํƒ“์— ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋†“์ณค๋‹ค.
En: However, in his haste...


From Delays to Discovery: An Unlikely Encounter at Incheon
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06/16/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Delays to Discovery: An Unlikely Encounter at Incheon
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-16-07-38-19-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ธ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Incheon Gukje Gonghang was filled with travelers' stories.

Ko: ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ํšŒ์ƒ‰ ๋ด„ ํ•˜๋Š˜๊ณผ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Beyond the glass window, the gray spring sky and the periodically falling rain could be seen.

Ko: ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋“ค์€ ๋•…์— ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ณตํ•ญ ๋‚ด ์ปคํ”ผ ํ–ฅ์ด ์Šค๋ฉ€๊ฑฐ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The airplanes were stopped on the ground, and the scent of coffee was wafting through the airport.

Ko: ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐฉ์†ก ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž”์ž”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šธ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The sound of announcements echoed softly.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ์ถœ๋ฐœ ์ง€์—ฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์šฐ๋ ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo was filled with concern due to the delayed departure of the flight.


Uncovering Hidden Tales: Adventure and Discovery in Gyeongju
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06/15/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Uncovering Hidden Tales: Adventure and Discovery in Gyeongju
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-15-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The warm summer sun was brightly illuminating Gyeongju.

Ko: ์ˆฒ๊ธธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋กœ ๋‚œ ๊ธธ์—๋Š” ์•ผ์ƒํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ ํ”ผ์–ด์žˆ๊ณ , ๋งค๋ฏธ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
En: On the path that wound through the forest, wildflowers bloomed in abundance, and the sound of cicadas could be heard in the distance.

Ko: ์ด ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์†์—์„œ ์ง„์šฐ์™€ ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋Œ€์˜ ์‹ ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In this tranquil atmosphere, Jinwoo and Nari began their journey in search of ancient mysteries.

Ko: ์ง„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ณ ํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฟˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinwoo dreamed of becoming an archaeologist.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์†์—๋Š” ๋Š˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฑ…์ด ๋“ค๋ ค ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He always had a history-rel...


From Shadows to Innovator: Jin's Revolutionary Waterway Idea
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06/15/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Shadows to Innovator: Jin's Revolutionary Waterway Idea
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ํƒœ์–‘์ด ํ•˜๋Š˜ ๋†’์ด ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋•Œ, ์ง„์€ ์ด๋ฅธ ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ‹ฐ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๊ฐ•์˜ ์€๋น› ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: When the sun rose high in the sky, Jin was gazing at the silvery waves of the Tigris River from early morning.

Ko: ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ๋ฉ”์†Œํฌํƒ€๋ฏธ์•„์˜ ๋ฌผ๊ธธ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ถ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The ancient waterway of Mesopotamia was his life.

Ko: ๋”์šด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋‚ ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ณ€์—์„œ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Even on hot summer days, he worked diligently by the riverside.

Ko: ์™ผ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ๋ฌผ๊ธธ์ด ๋ฌผ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ด์— ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์—๋Š” ๊ณง ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์งˆ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๊ฐฑ๋„๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
En: To the left, several waterways were pooled with water, and to the right, tunnels that seemed about to collapse were visible.

Ko: ์ง„์€ ๋ฌผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jin took pride in the water.

Ko: ๋ฌผ๊ธธ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ...


From Creative Roadblocks to Inspirations: Jiho's Journey
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06/14/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Creative Roadblocks to Inspirations: Jiho's Journey
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋กœ ๋ฐ”์œ ๋‚˜๋‚ ์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho was busy as a freelance graphic designer.

Ko: ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ด„์˜ ํ•ด๋Š” ์ ์  ๊ธธ์–ด์ง€๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ํ™ˆ ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค ์ฐฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The days of late spring were getting longer, and the sunlight streaming through the window of his home office was warm.

Ko: ๋ฒฝ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์™„์„ฑํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜ผ์ž๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ํ‰ํ™”๋กœ์› ์ง€๋งŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•จ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: His completed works were hung on the walls, and although his personal space was peaceful, he felt he was running out of time.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: He knew how important this project was.

Ko: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ๋งบ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: It was an opportunity to secure a lon...


Escape to Jeju: A Freelancer's Bold Adventure
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06/14/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Escape to Jeju: A Freelancer's Bold Adventure
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ์กด์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho was working in the freelancer zone again today.

Ko: ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ํ™ˆ ์นดํŽ˜๋Š” ์•„๋Š‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The freelancer home cafe was cozy.

Ko: ํฐ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ด„ ํ–‡๋น›์ด ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Warm spring sunlight streamed in through the large windows.

Ko: ์ฃผ๋ณ€์€ ๋…ธํŠธ๋ถ ํ‚ค๋ณด๋“œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The place was filled with the sound of laptop keyboards and the fresh aroma of coffee.

Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sumi came in.

Ko: ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€์ฃ .
En: She was an old friend.

Ko: "์ง€ํ˜ธ์•ผ! ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์†Œ์‹์ด ์žˆ์–ด," ์ˆ˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ํฅ๋ถ„๋œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En...


A Day at Seoul's Museum: Rediscovering Art and Ourselves
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06/13/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: A Day at Seoul's Museum: Rediscovering Art and Ourselves
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์˜ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด, ์ง€ํ˜ธ, ๋ฏผ์„œ, ์†Œ๋ฏผ์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡์‚ด์„ ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์›ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: As they entered the Seoul National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Jiho, Minseo, and Somin felt the summer sunlight and breathed in the cool air.

Ko: ํ–‡๋น›์€ ํฐ ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด์™€์„œ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ์•ˆ์„ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐํ˜€ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The sunlight streamed in through large glass windows, brightly illuminating the inside of the museum.

Ko: ๋ฐ–์—๋Š” ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์žŽ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ํ”๋“ค๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Outside, green leaves swayed in the wind.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์•ž์— ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho quietly stopped in front of a painting.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜์‹ฌ์ด ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In h...


Blossoms of Forgiveness: Rekindling Friendship Amidst Secrets
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06/13/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blossoms of Forgiveness: Rekindling Friendship Amidst Secrets
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ์„œ์šธํƒ€์›Œ ์•„๋ž˜ ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho stood beneath the Namsan Seoul Tower.

Ko: ์ฃผ์œ„์—๋Š” ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ์‚ด๋ž‘๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋“ค์ด ์˜จ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Around him, cherry blossoms fluttered in the wind, and people on outings were taking pictures here and there.

Ko: ๋ด„์˜ ๊ธฐ์šด์€ ์ ˆ์ •์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์› ๋‹ค.
En: Though the energy of spring was at its peak, Jiho's heart was heavy.

Ko: "์ง€ํ˜ธ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด?" ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฒฉ์–‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: "Jiho, how could you do that?" Sumin's voice was clear yet agitated.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋จน๋จนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jiho felt suffocated.

Ko: ์ˆ˜๋ฏผ์€ ์ง€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Sumin thought Jiho had revealed a secret the...


Leadership Shines in Seoul: Jini's Triumph on the 35th Floor
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06/12/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Leadership Shines in Seoul: Jini's Triumph on the 35th Floor
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋‚จ๊ตฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ์˜ 35์ธต.
En: The 35th floor of a skyscraper in Seoul's Gangnam-gu.

Ko: ํฐ ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์€ ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ „๊ฒฝ์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค.
En: The large meeting room boasts a view of Seoul's skyline through its glass windows.

Ko: ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ–‡๋น›์„ ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํšŒ์˜์‹ค์„ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‹ธ ์•ˆ๋Š”๋‹ค.
En: The glass softly envelops the meeting room, reflecting the warm sunlight.

Ko: ๋ด„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋น›์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ์‹ค๋‚ด์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“œ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค.
En: It feels as though the spring breeze is permeating the room along with the light.

Ko: ์ง€๋‹ˆ๋Š” ํšŒ์˜ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jini was ready for the meeting.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ...


From Doubt to Triumph: A Team's Journey in Seoul's Skyline
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06/12/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: From Doubt to Triumph: A Team's Journey in Seoul's Skyline
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋กฏ๋ฐ์›”๋“œํƒ€์›Œ๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฒˆ์žกํ•œ ๋„์‹œ ์†์—์„œ ์šฐ๋š ์„œ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Lotte World Tower stands tall amid the bustling city of Seoul.

Ko: ํƒœ์–‘์ด ๋†’์ด ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅธ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋‚ , ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ๋น›์ด ๋ฐ”์œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์„ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a summer day with the sun high in the sky, light streamed through the glass windows, illuminating the busy office.

Ko: ์ง€๊ฐํ• ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฌ๋ง๋„ ํ”ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Although worries about being late filled the office, hope was blossoming there as well.

Ko: ์ง€์›์€ ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์—์„œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-won was filling the role of project manager in this office.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Š” ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•จ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŒ€์˜ ์‹คํŒจ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Known for his m...


Spring Festival Frenzy: A Tale of Partnership and Creativity
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06/11/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Spring Festival Frenzy: A Tale of Partnership and Creativity
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ด„, ํ•™๊ต ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์„ค๋ ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In late spring, the high school preparing for the festival was filled with lively excitement.

Ko: ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ์ฐฝ ์ค€๋น„์— ์—ด์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งŒ๊ฐœํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์€ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•œ ๋ด„์„ ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The students were busy in preparation, and the streets of the city and the blossoming trees welcomed the sunny spring.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ง€๋Š” ํ•™๊ธ‰ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ํ•™์ƒํšŒ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minji was active as a member of the student council in the class meeting.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์„ฑ์‹คํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„ํš์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํ•™์ƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She was a diligent and organized student.

Ko: ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ํƒœ์–‘์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฐ˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ด...


Finding Courage: Jinwoo's Artistic Breakthrough
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06/11/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Finding Courage: Jinwoo's Artistic Breakthrough
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋Šฆ๋ด„, ์„œ์šธ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Late spring in Seoul, Seoul International High School was bursting with energy.

Ko: ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋งค๋…„ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Students were preparing for the annual art festival.

Ko: ํ•™๊ต ๋ณต๋„๋Š” ์•Œ๋ก๋‹ฌ๋กํ•œ ์žฅ์‹๋“ค๋กœ ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ์ง€๊ณ , ๊ต์‹ค์€ ์ž‘์€ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ณ€์‹ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The school corridors were adorned with colorful decorations, and classrooms were transformed into small galleries.

Ko: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ถ•์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ด€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์„œ๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minseo, who was in charge of this year's festival, enthusiastically led the students.

Ko: ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋๋‚  ๋•Œ์ฏค, ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์žฌ๋Šฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ง„์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: As art class was about to end, the quiet but talented artist Jinwoo was holding his painting.


Unlocking Jeju's Hidden Lab: A Summer of Secrets & Discovery
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06/10/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unlocking Jeju's Hidden Lab: A Summer of Secrets & Discovery
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์ œ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์ˆฒ์„ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The hot summer sun filled the green forests of Jeju Island.

Ko: ํ•ด์•ˆ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‹ค๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์€์ง€์™€ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ๊ธด ๋น„๋ฐ€์˜ ์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค.
En: Amidst the breeze coming from the coast, Eunji and Minho visited their grandmother's secret laboratory for the first time in a while.

Ko: ์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์€ ์šธ์ฐฝํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๋’ค์— ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ์–ผ๊ตด๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ์‚ดํˆ๋‹ค.
En: The laboratory was hidden behind dense trees, and Minho glanced around with an anxious face.

Ko: "์ •๋ง ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด?
En: "Do we really have to go in there?"

Ko: " ๋ฏผํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Minho asked.

Ko: ์€์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋น ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Eun...


Guarding Secrets: Legacy vs. Discovery in Boseong Fields
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06/10/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Guarding Secrets: Legacy vs. Discovery in Boseong Fields
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ณด์„ฑ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ฐญ ์‚ฌ์ด๋กœ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ๋ด„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The quiet spring breeze was blowing through the Boseong tea fields.

Ko: ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ์„œ ์ƒˆ๋“ค์€ ๋ง‘์€ ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋ €๋‹ค.
En: Here and there, birds sang clear songs.

Ko: ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋…น์ฐจ๋ฐญ์€ ๋์—†์ด ํŽผ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The green tea fields stretched endlessly.

Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์— ์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ชจ์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ค€, ํ˜œ์ง„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋นˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Three people gathered there: Minjun, Hyejin, and Subin.

Ko: ์ด๋“ค์€ ๊ณง ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: They soon had to make an important decision.

Ko: ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์ฐจ๋ฐญ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ํฌ๊ท€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ์ฐจ ํ’ˆ์ข…์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One day, Minjun discovered a very rare ancient tea variety deep in the tea fields...


Blossoms of Reunion: Siblings' Rediscovery in Jeju
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06/09/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blossoms of Reunion: Siblings' Rediscovery in Jeju
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ œ์ฃผ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ์–ด์ดŒ ๋งˆ์„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์ฐป์ง‘.
En: A serene tea shop in a small fishing village on Jeju.

Ko: ๋ด„์ด ๋˜์–ด ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ์ด ๋งŒ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ , ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋’ค๋กœ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„๋‹ค.
En: As spring arrives, cherry blossoms are in full bloom, with the blue sea stretching out behind them.

Ko: ์ด๊ณณ์€ ํ˜•์ œ์ž๋งค์˜ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆผ ๋์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: This place has become a location for siblings to reunite after a long wait.

Ko: ๋ถˆ๊ต์—์„œ ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜ ์˜ค์‹  ๋‚ ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ชจ์ด๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋‚ ์ด๋‹ค.
En: In Buddhism, Buddha's birthday is a special day for families to gather.

Ko: ์ง„ํฌ๋Š” ์ฐป์ง‘์˜ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€์— ์•‰์•„ ํ˜•์ œ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinhee was sitting by the window of the tea shop, waitin...


Tea, Talk, and Transformation: A Heartfelt Reunion in Insadong
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06/09/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Tea, Talk, and Transformation: A Heartfelt Reunion in Insadong
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™์˜ ์•„๋‹ดํ•œ ์ฐป์ง‘์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The cozy tea house in Insadong was always warm and peaceful.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋‚ , ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์„ค๋ œ๋‹ค.
En: That day, Jisoo felt her heart flutter.

Ko: ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋™์ƒ ๋ฏผํ˜ธ์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ด๋ฆด ์  ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ˆ˜์ •์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: She was scheduled to meet her younger brother Minho and his childhood friend Sujeong for the first time in ages.

Ko: ์ฐป์ง‘ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด์ž, ์€์€ํ•œ ์ฐจ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฝ”๋์„ ๊ฐ„์ง€๋Ÿฝํ˜”๋‹ค.
En: As she opened the door, the subtle aroma of tea tickled her nose.

Ko: ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์žฅ์‹๊ณผ ์ฒœ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜จ ์ข…์ด ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ๋“ค์ด ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ž์•„๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.
En: The traditional Korean decor a...


Blossoms and Bonds: A Heartfelt Tale of Friendship and Healing
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06/08/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blossoms and Bonds: A Heartfelt Tale of Friendship and Healing
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ด„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The spring breeze filled the marketplace.

Ko: ๋ฐ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The bright market was full of energy.

Ko: ํ˜•ํ˜•์ƒ‰์ƒ‰์˜ ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€์—์„œ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ์ฑ„์†Œ์™€ ๊ณผ์ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์‹๋“ค์˜ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The vibrant stalls were bursting with the scents of fresh vegetables, fruits, and street food.

Ko: ์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ด„๋‚ ์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ๋™๊ฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‹๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On this warm spring day, people were strolling through the lively market.

Ko: ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€ํŒ๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo was busily attending to customers at her stall.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์€ ์นดํŽ˜๋ฅผ ์—ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Her goal w...


Unveiling Hidden Histories: Unity in Changdeokgung's Garden
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06/08/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unveiling Hidden Histories: Unity in Changdeokgung's Garden
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ฐฝ๋•๊ถ ํ›„์›์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ–‡๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The rear garden of Changdeokgung was shining under the summer sunlight.

Ko: ์ดˆ๋ก๋น› ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๊ฑฐ์ ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๊ณ , ๊ฝƒ ๋‚ด์Œ์ด ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฐ๋ฉฐ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The lush green trees cast shadows, and the scent of flowers filled the air, adding a mystical atmosphere.

Ko: ๋‹ค๋…ธ ์ถ•์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋ฏผ์ค€, ์ˆ˜์ง„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ด์ง„์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๊ถ๊ถ์— ์™”๋‹ค.
En: Amidst the bustling crowd gathered for the Dano festival, Minjun, Sujin, and Haejin each came to the palace with their own purpose.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€์˜€๋‹ค.
En: Minjun was a historian.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ์œ ๋ฌผ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.
En: His family had lost a historical artifact long ago.


Blossoms, Waves, and Dreams: A Day of Decisions in Busan
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06/07/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Blossoms, Waves, and Dreams: A Day of Decisions in Busan
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์˜ ์–ด๋А ๋ด„๋‚ , ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹ธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One spring day in Busan, warm sunlight wrapped around the streets.

Ko: ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ์ด ํ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ”ผ์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผํƒ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ข์€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ๋์—๋Š” ๋„“๊ณ  ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„๋‹ค.
En: Following the narrow alleyways lined with cherry blossoms in full bloom in the residential area, a wide and blue ocean unfolds at the end.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu walked slowly down that path.

Ko: ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๋†€๋Ÿฌ ์˜จ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ดŒ ๋ฏผ์ง€์™€, ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ ์Šน์—ฐ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Beside him were his lively cousin Minji, visiting from Seoul, and his friend Seungyeon, who loves photography.

Ko: ์ง„์ˆ˜๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ์ด๋‹ค.
En: Jinsu is a university student with a quiet personality...


Cherry Blossom Festival: A Lesson in Teamwork and Tradition
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06/07/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Cherry Blossom Festival: A Lesson in Teamwork and Tradition
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ด„์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ์ด ๋งŒ๊ฐœํ•œ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ž‘์€ ๋งˆ์„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ถ•์ œ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: On a day when the cherry blossoms signaling the start of spring were in full bloom, a school in a small village was bustling with preparations for a festival.

Ko: ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์„์˜ ์ฃผํƒ๊ฐ€์—๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์†Œ์Œ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋”ฐ์Šคํ•œ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๊ธธ์„ ๋น„์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The sound of the school filled the residential area of the village, and the warm sunlight was shining on the road.

Ko: ์˜ค์›”์˜ ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜ ์˜ค์‹  ๋‚ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ์ถ•์ œ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The school's traditional festival, held in May to commemorate ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜ ์˜ค์‹  ๋‚ , was special.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜๋Š”...


Sibling Resolve: A Heartfelt Walk Through Namsan Park
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06/06/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Sibling Resolve: A Heartfelt Walk Through Namsan Park
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ๊ณต์›์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-hyeon and Min-jun were walking through Namsan Park.

Ko: ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ๊ณต์›์€ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ฒฝ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค.
En: Namsan Park offers a beautiful view of Seoul.

Ko: ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ด„, ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋“ค์ด ํ‘ธ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์šฐ๊ฑฐ์ง„ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์ปคํ”Œ๋“ค์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: In late spring, many families and couples were spending time in the lush, green areas.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Today was Memorial Day.

Ko: ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์• ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ๋…๋น„ ์˜†์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Some people were paying their respects beside the national monument.

Ko: ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ํ˜• ๋ฏผ์ค€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Ji-hyeon wanted to talk to her older brother, Min-jun.

Ko: ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ์ดํ˜ผ ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์ง€ํ˜„์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด...


Discovering Magic: An Illusionary Adventure at Seoul's Art Museum
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06/05/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Discovering Magic: An Illusionary Adventure at Seoul's Art Museum
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-05-22-34-01-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ด„์˜ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํŠธ๋ฆญ์•„์ด ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์„ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.
En: The spring sunlight illuminated the Seoul Trick Eye Art Museum.

Ko: ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๋Š” ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” "์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ •๋ง ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋‚ ์ด์•ผ!"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์— ๋“ค์–ด์„ฐ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo, with a bright smile, said, "Today is really a special day!" as she entered the museum.

Ko: ์˜ค๋ž˜์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์‹ค ์†์—์„œ TV์‡ผ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Jisoo, who had long wanted to film a TV show within reality, thought she wouldn't miss this opportunity.

Ko: ๋งˆ์นจ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Fortunately, a special exhibition was taking place at the museum.

Ko: ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ์ข… ์ฐฉ์‹œ์™€ 3D ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์†์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„...


Spring Sparks: Art and Friendship Blossom at Namsan Tower
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06/05/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Spring Sparks: Art and Friendship Blossom at Namsan Tower
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋Šฆ๋ด„์˜ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์‚ฐ๋“ค๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ„๋‹ค.
En: One day in late spring, a gentle breeze is blowing.

Ko: ๊ฝƒ์žŽ์ด ํฉ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ธ ๋‚จ์‚ฐ ์„œ์šธํƒ€์›Œ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธธ๋ชฉ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๋‹ค.
En: Petals flutter along the path leading to the Namsan Seoul Tower, a symbol of Seoul, which is crowded with people.

Ko: ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์œ„๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ค„์„ ์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: Everyone is lined up to go up.

Ko: ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—๋Š” 27์‚ด์˜ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ ๋ฏผ์„œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
En: Among them is Minseo, a 27-year-old graphic designer.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋‹ค.
En: She is quiet and introverted, but she is very curio...


Rekindling Family Ties: A Picnic Promise at Hangang Park
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06/04/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Rekindling Family Ties: A Picnic Promise at Hangang Park
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fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-04-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ํ•œ๊ฐ• ๊ณต์›์€ ๊ฝƒ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Hangang Park was filled with flowers and people.

Ko: ๋Šฆ์€ ๋ด„์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The warm late spring sunlight was sparkling, and families were leisurely spending their time.

Ko: ํ•œ๊ฐ• ์˜†, ํ”ผํฌ๋‹‰ ๋งคํŠธ ์œ„์— ์„ธ ํ˜•์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
En: By the Hangang, three siblings were sitting on a picnic mat.

Ko: ๋ฏผ์ค€์€ ํ˜•์ด๋‹ค.
En: Minjun is the eldest brother.

Ko: ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ์ž‡๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธด๋‹ค.
En: He always values keeping the family together.

Ko: ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ํ˜•์ œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฉ€์–ด์งˆ๊นŒ ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค.
En: These days...


Undercover at Busan: The Case of the Missing Fish
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06/04/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Undercover at Busan: The Case of the Missing Fish
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Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•ด์‚ฐ๋ฌผ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋ด„์˜ ํ–‡์‚ด ์•„๋ž˜ ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ผ๋ ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The seafood market by the beach in Busan swayed vividly under the spring sunlight.

Ko: ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋Š” ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฌผ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ƒ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์›…์„ฑ๊ฑฐ๋ฆผ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์ข์€ ํ†ต๋กœ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The market air was filled with the smell of saltwater, and the sounds of vendors and the chatter of people filled the narrow passages of the market.

Ko: ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ์ธ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One of the most popular vendors in this market was Jisoo.

Ko: ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์‹ฑ์‹ฑํ•œ ์ƒ์„ ์„ ํŒ๋งคํ–ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Customers always trusted her store because she consistently sold fresh fish.

Ko: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜...


Market Tales: A Sister's Wedding Gift Discovery
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06/03/2026

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Market Tales: A Sister's Wedding Gift Discovery
Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:
fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2026-06-03-22-34-02-ko

Story Transcript:

Ko: ๋ด„์˜ ํ–‡์‚ด์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์ง€์œค์€ ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋ฐ˜, ์„ค๋ ˜ ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋™๋Œ€๋ฌธ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: One day, when the spring sunlight was warmly shining, Ji-yoon visited the Dongdemun Market with a heart half filled with worry and half with excitement.

Ko: ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ๋ฉด ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€์œค์€ ๋ฌด์Šจ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: Her sister's traditional wedding was just around the corner, and Ji-yoon was fretting over what gift to buy.

Ko: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งŒ์กฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋œป๊นŠ์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๋ฌธ๋“ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋ฐ€๋ ค์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
En: The thought of how to prepare a meaningful gift that would please and satisfy her sister suddenly overwhelmed her.

Ko: "์ง€์œค์•„, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ.
En: "Ji-yoon~ah, don't worry too much.

Ko: ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„์™€์ค„๊ฒŒ.
En: I'll help you today."