KIIP 4 Unit 06–Essential Words and Phrases About Globalization Era

Welcome to KIIP Level 4 Unit 6! This lesson focuses on essential vocabulary and grammar patterns for discussing globalization, international relations, and societal changes in the modern world. You'll learn how to describe increased international cooperation, multicultural societies, and the challenges and opportunities of a globalized era.

 

KIIP 4 Unit 6 Globalization Era


This unit introduces two key grammar patterns:

 

1. Verb/Adjective + -๋˜ - Used to describe something past, unfinished, or remembered from memory ("that used to...", "the... that I saw/felt before").

 

2. Verb/Adjective + -์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ - Used to express the degree or extent of something ("to the extent that...", "so much that...").

 

Essential Vocabulary Words

 

Global Trends & Actions (๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ํ–‰๋™)

Korean

English

๊ตญ์ œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๋‹จ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜๋‹ค

International cooperative organizations increase

๊ตญ์ œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค

International exchange becomes active

๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋‹ค

To become a multicultural society

๊ตญ์ œ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค

To resolve international conflicts

๊ตญ์ œ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•˜๋‹ค

To join an international organization

์™ธ๊ต ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งบ๋‹ค

To establish diplomatic relations

์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ‰ํ™” ์œ ์ง€์— ํž˜์“ฐ๋‹ค

To strive to maintain world peace

๋ฌธํ™” ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋‹ค

To promote cultural exchange

๋‹ค๊ตญ์  ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค

Multinational corporations increase

ํ•ด์™ธ ์ง€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋‹ค

To increase overseas branches

๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ„ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค

To actively engage in sports exchanges between nations

์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด์— ๋Šฅํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค

To be proficient in a foreign language

ํ•ด์™ธ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด์— ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋‹ค

To apply to/volunteer for an overseas service organization

์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์˜์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋‹ค

To have a global citizenship mindset

ํ•ด์™ธ ์ง€์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•˜๋‹ค

To work at an overseas branch

 

Social Phenomena & Descriptions (์‚ฌํšŒ ํ˜„์ƒ๊ณผ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ)

Korean

English

์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๋‹ค

To be amazing/curious

๋ฐœ ๋””๋”œ ํ‹ˆ์ด ์—†๋‹ค

To be so crowded, there's no room to step (packed)

ํ•ด์™ธ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ž

Overseas dispatched worker

๋ถ„์•ผ

Field, area

์ธ๋ ฅ

Manpower, workforce

ํŒŒ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋‹ค

To dispatch, to send

์ •์‹ ์—†๋‹ค

To be hectic, frantic

๋‚ฏ์„ค์–ดํ•˜๋‹ค

To find something unfamiliar

์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋„“ํžˆ๋‹ค

To broaden one's perspective

์ฒด๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋‹ค

To stay, to reside (temporarily)

์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค

To occupy, to account for

๋น„์ค‘

Proportion, weight

๋น„์œจ

Ratio, percentage

์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค

To increase

์ €์ถœ์‚ฐ

Low birth rate

๊ณ ๋ นํ™”

Aging population

์ผ์†

Labor, workers

๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ

Conflict, strife

์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๋‹ค

To worry about, to be concerned

๋ฐฐ๋ ค

Consideration, thoughtfulness

 

General Concepts & Changes (์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐœ๋…๊ณผ ๋ณ€ํ™”)

Korean

English

๋ณ€ํ™”

Change

์„ฑ์žฅ

Growth

๋น„์ž

Visa

๋„์ „

Challenge

์–ธ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ

Language skills/ability

์—…๋ฌด

Work, duties

๋ฐœ์ „

Development, advancement

๊ธฐํšŒ

Opportunity

๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋‹ค

To accept, to embrace

 

 

Grammar Notes & Examples

 

1. Verb/Adjective + -๋˜ ("that used to...", "the... that was")
Used to recall a past, repeated event, action, or state, or to indicate that a past action or state did not continue to the present. It often describes a habitual past action or a past characteristic.

 

Conjugation Rules:

Verb/Adjective stem + -๋˜

·        ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋˜

·        ๋จน๋‹ค๋จน๋˜

·        ๋†€๋‹ค๋†€๋˜

·        ํฌ๋‹คํฌ๋˜

·        ์ž‘๋‹ค์ž‘๋˜

·        ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋˜

 

Examples:

1.     ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.
(They say as society becomes multicultural, international couples like us are increasing every year.)
๋„ค์ „์—๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ์ด๋ž‘ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ณด๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋„ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋งŽ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ์–ด์š”.
(Yes. People who used to stare curiously when my husband and I walked together in the past have also changed a lot now.)

2.     ๋ชป ๋ณด๋˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด๋„ค์š”. ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ€์–ด์š”?
(That's a bag I've never seen. Did you buy it new?)
์•„๋‹ˆ์š”์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์“ฐ๋˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด์—์š”.
(No. It's the bag my older sister used to use.)

3.     ๊ทธ ๋งŽ๋˜ ๋™๋„ค ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋“ค ๋จผ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.
(Many neighborhood friends I used to have all have moved far away, so it's hard to meet them.)

4.     3๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
(I quit the company I used to work at for 3 years.)

5.     ์ž๊ตญ์—์„œ๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•˜๋˜ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ํ•ด์™ธ๋กœ ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(Companies that used to operate only in their home country are now expanding overseas.)

 

2. Verb/Adjective + -์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ("to the extent that...", "so much that...")
Used to indicate that the following action or state is of a similar degree or level to what is stated in the preceding clause. It emphasizes a high degree that leads to or allows for the subsequent situation.

 

Conjugation Rules:

Verb/Adjective ending in consonant + -์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ:

·        ๋จน๋‹ค๋จน์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ

·        ์ฝ๋‹ค์ฝ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ

·        ์—†๋‹ค์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ

·        ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋‹ค๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ •๋„๋กœ

Verb/Adjective ending in vowel + -ใ„น ์ •๋„๋กœ:

·        ์•„ํ”„๋‹ค์•„ํ”Œ ์ •๋„๋กœ

·        ์‚ด๋‹ค์‚ด ์ •๋„๋กœ

 

Examples:

1.     ์š”์ฆ˜ ํ•™๊ต๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์„œ ๊ตํ™˜ ํ•™์ƒ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ƒ๊ธด ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
(International exchanges are so active at every school these days that it seems many student exchange programs have been created.)
๋„ค. ์ €๋„ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋•Œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๊ตํ™˜ ํ•™์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜จ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋‚˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”.
(Yes. I also came to Korea as an exchange student in university, and I had such a good time that I didn't know how fast time was passing.)

2.     ์–ด์ œ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ํ‡ด๊ทผํ–ˆ์–ด์š”ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋„ค์š”.
(Did you leave work late yesterday? You look tired.)
→ 
์š”์ฆ˜ ์ผ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ์•„์นจ์— ๋ชป ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ์ •๋„๋กœ ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ด์š”.
(I have so much work lately that I'm tired to the point of not being able to wake up in the morning.)

3.     ๋™์ƒ์˜ ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?
(How is your younger sibling's foreign language skill?)
→ 
๊ตญ์ œ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ํ•ด์š”.
(He is good enough at foreign languages to apply to an international organization.)

4.     ์ด ์†Œ์„ค์ฑ…์€ ๋ฐค์„ ์ƒˆ์›Œ์„œ ์ฝ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(This novel is so interesting that I would stay up all night to read it.)

5.     ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ๋ฐœ ๋””๋”œ ํ‹ˆ์ด ์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”.
(During rush hour, the subway is so crowded that there's no room to step.)

 

 

Speaking Practice

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๋ผํ๋งŒ: ์•„๋‚˜์ด์Šค ์”จ, ๋ญ˜ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
(Rahman: Anaรฏs, what are you looking at so intently?)

์•„๋‚˜์ด์Šค: ํ•ด์™ธ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ž ๋ชจ์ง‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
(Anaรฏs: I was reading a notice about recruiting overseas dispatched workers.)

๋ผํ๋งŒ: ์•„, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์š”?
(Rahman: Oh, really?)

์•„๋‚˜์ด์Šค: ๋„ค. ์™ธ๊ตญ์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ํŒŒ๊ฒฌํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—์š”.
(Anaรฏs: Yes. They said they dispatch workers in various fields abroad, so I was looking into it.)

๋ผํ๋งŒ: ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ตฐ์š”. ์กธ์—…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์— ์•ˆ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ์™ธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ ์š”?
(Rahman: I see. After graduating, you don't plan to return to your hometown and want to keep working abroad?)

์•„๋‚˜์ด์Šค: ๋„ค. ํ•ด์™ธ ์ง„์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—…์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ •์‹ ์—†์ด ๋ฐ”์˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Œ€์š”.
(Anaรฏs: Yes. I have friends who work at companies that have expanded overseas, and they say it's hectic and busy, but it's so interesting that they look for work to do.)

๋ผํ๋งŒ: ์ œ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—๋„ ์™ธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ์ทจ์—…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚ฏ์„ค์–ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
(Rahman: There are many people around me who want to get jobs at foreign companies too. As international exchanges become more active, it seems people don't find other cultures unfamiliar anymore.)

์•„๋‚˜์ด์Šค: ๋งž์•„์š”. ์ €๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ๋„“ํžˆ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Anaรฏs: That's right. I hope to learn more and broaden my perspective by mingling with diverse people too.)

 

Reading Comprehension

 

(1) What You Can Do in the Globalization Era (๊ตญ์ œํ™” ์‹œ๋Œ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ)

·        ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋Œ€๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค: To be active on the global stage.

·        ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์˜์‹์„ ๊ฐ–๋‹ค: To have a sense of global citizenship.

·        ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ–๋‹ค: To have an open mind.

·        ๊ตญ์ œ์  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋‹ค: To cultivate an international sense/sensibility.

·        ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹ค: To respect diverse cultures.

·        ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค: To speak/use a foreign language.

 

(2) What Must be Equipped in the Globalization Era (๊ตญ์ œํ™” ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ)

 

Q: ๊ตญ์ œํ™” ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
(Q: What things must we be equipped with in the globalization era?)

 

A: ๊ตญ์ œํ™” ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ์š”? ์ง์žฅ์ธ ๊ณผ๋ฐ˜์ˆ˜๊ฐ€์—…๋ฌด ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค."๋ผ๊ณ  ์‘๋‹ตํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
(A: Isn't the essential thing to have in the globalization era obviously foreign language ability? Just as more than half of office workers responded, "It's not used for work, but foreign language ability is necessary," these days, the ability to speak a foreign language seems to be the top priority.)

 

A: ๊ตญ์ œํ™” ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ํŽธ๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ์„ ์ž…๊ฒฌ์„ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .
(A: To live in the globalization era, we must discard prejudice and preconceptions and accept change and difference with an open mind, right?)

๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋„ค์Šค์ฝ”(UNESCO)์—์„œ๋„ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฐ๊ตญ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜์ž๋Š” ํ˜‘์•ฝ์„ ๋งบ์—ˆ์ฃ . ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(That's right. UNESCO also established a convention to recognize the diversity of each country in the world. As we change into a multicultural society, efforts to respect diverse cultures are being made globally.)

์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตญ์ œ์  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ํ›ˆ๋ จ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”.
(I think that to have an open mind, training to experience diverse cultures and cultivate an international sense from a young age is necessary.)

์š”์ฆ˜์€ ๊ตญ์ œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ '์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์˜์‹ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ'๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ดˆ, ์ค‘, ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‹œ๋ฏผ ๊ต์œก์„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(These days, 'having a global citizenship consciousness' is being emphasized in the international community, and for this, elementary, middle, and high schools need to implement global citizenship education in various ways.)

 

A: ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋Œ€๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ตญ์ œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์ •์น˜, ๊ฒฝ์ œ, ๋ฌธํ™” ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ง€์‹์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
(A: To be active on the global stage, I think it's important to be equipped with background knowledge of the international community's politics, economy, culture, etc.)

 

(3) Are You Ready for Overseas Employment? (ํ•ด์™ธ ์ทจ์—… ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?)


์ €๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šด ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์€ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋นจ๋ผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(I first went to China to try using the Chinese I learned in school. China looked to have high future potential because change and growth were fast. That's because many companies dreaming of globalization began to enter China.)

 

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‰ฝ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์ž ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ตญํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋„์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋…์ผ ๊ธฐ์—…์ธ๋ฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์–ธ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•œ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(However, not everything was easy. There were times I had to return to Korea due to visa problems. But I didn't give up and challenged myself again. The company I work for in China is a German company, and they valued the diverse experiences of foreigners living in China. Although my language skills are lacking compared to Chinese people, I got a good score for being a foreigner with diverse experiences and was accepted.)

 

ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ํ•œ ํ›„์—๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ธ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ํ‹ˆ์„ ๋‚ด์„œ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(After being accepted, I have been consistently studying the language to perform my company duties well. Working and studying together isn't easy. But I think this is also an opportunity for me to develop, and I'm working hard, making time for it.)

 

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ˜ผ์ž ์ƒํ™œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ฌธํ™” ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ ์ด ํ•œ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท€๊ตญ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์ž์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ๋†€๋ž๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค๋งŒ์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์žฅ์ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(In fact, living alone in China, there wasn't just one or two times I wanted to return to my hometown because of the difficult-to-understand culture. I, who struggled to the point of even thinking about returning home, realized I lacked an attitude of accepting that country's culture and began to accept the culture as it was. Then, surprisingly, I began to see the unique strengths of their culture.)

 

์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต๋„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋„์ „ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํ•ด์™ธ ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(Nothing is easy from the start. Like me, if you all prepare one by one and take on the challenge with a heart that also accepts appearances different from your own, you will be able to achieve successful overseas employment.)

 

Quiz

Translate into Korean using the grammar and vocabulary from this lesson:

1.     "My friends who used to stare at me curiously have also changed now."

2.     "During rush hour, the subway is so crowded that there's no room to step."

3.     "This novel is so interesting that I would stay up all night to read it."

4.     "I quit the company I used to work at for 3 years."

 

 

Answers:

1.   ์ €๋ฅผ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ณด๋˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋„ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ์–ด์š”.

2.   ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ๋ฐœ ๋””๋”œ ํ‹ˆ์ด ์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”.

3.   ์ด ์†Œ์„ค์ฑ…์€ ๋ฐค์„ ์ƒˆ์›Œ์„œ ์ฝ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

4.   3๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

 

Conclusion

In this lesson, we learned to:

·        Use Verb/Adj + -๋˜ to describe past, habitual actions or states that are remembered ("that used to...")

·        Apply Verb/Adj + -์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ to emphasize the high degree of something ("to the extent that...", "so much that...")

·        Discuss global trends, international work, and the challenges/opportunities of globalization

·        Use vocabulary related to international cooperation, multiculturalism, and career development

Keep practicing to confidently talk about past experiences, global issues, and personal goals in Korean! ๐ŸŒ✈️๐Ÿ’ผ

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