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ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ทจ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•œ TOPIK ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ
TOPIK Levels for Your Korean Job Search

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ฆผ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ทจ์—…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ TOPIK ์ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ทจ์—…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ Grace์™€ Mike์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ทจ์—…์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ TOPIK ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Hello! This is the Korean Dream Blog. Many foreigners dream of getting a job in Korea, but one of the biggest barriers is Korean language proficiency. Many people are especially curious about what TOPIK score is needed to get a job at a Korean company. Today, through a conversation between Grace and Mike, we will talk about the realistic TOPIK levels required for Korean employment and their importance.

์ฃผ์š” ์–ดํœ˜ (Key Vocabulary)

์ทจ์—… (chwi-eop)

๋œป: ์ง์žฅ์„ ์žก์•„ ์ผ์— ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ.

Meaning: Getting a job or starting a career.

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ์ทจ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Example: I am studying Korean hard for employment.

์žฅ๋ฒฝ (jang-byeok)

๋œป: ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ.

Meaning: A barrier or obstacle that hinders an action.

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ์–ธ์–ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ทจ์—…์— ํฐ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Example: Language can be a big barrier to getting a job in Korea.

์ค‘์š”์„ฑ (jung-yo-seong)

๋œป: ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ์„ฑ์งˆ.

Meaning: The quality of being important or significant.

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์ด ์ ์  ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Example: The importance of business Korean is growing.

ํ‡ด๊ทผ ํ›„, ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํ•œ ์–ดํ•™์› ๊ทผ์ฒ˜ ์นดํŽ˜. ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์˜จ Grace์™€ ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํด์—์„œ ์˜จ Mike๊ฐ€ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
After work, at a cafe near a language school in Seoul. Grace from Australia and Mike from Singapore are talking while drinking coffee.
Mike: Grace, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ทจ์—…ํ•  ๋•Œ, TOPIK 4๊ธ‰์ด ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ–ˆ์ž–์•„?
Mike: Grace, when we got employed by a Korean company, TOPIK Level 4 was really important, wasn't it?
Grace๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Grace nodded and replied.
Grace: ๋งž์•„, Mike. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋„ 4๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ–ˆ์—ˆ๊ณ . ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ง์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์ •๋„๋Š” ํ•„์ˆ˜์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.
Grace: That's right, Mike. Our company also required Level 4 or higher. It seems like that level is essential if you want to do professional work like an office job.

์ฃผ์š” ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• (Key Grammar)

-์ž–์•„ (-jan-a)

๋œป: ‘์•Œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ / ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€?’์˜ ๋œป์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•  ๋•Œ ์”€.

Meaning: Used to confirm a shared fact or to emphasize one's opinion, similar to 'Isn't it?' or 'As you know.'

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ์ด ์ฑ…, ์ „์— ๊ฐ™์ด ์ฝ์—ˆ์ž–์•„?

Example: We read this book together before, didn't we?

-ใ„ด/๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค (-n/neun geot gat-da)

๋œป: ์ถ”์ธก์ด๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ ์”€.

Meaning: Used to express a guess or to state one's opinion cautiously. 'It seems/appears that...'

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ๋‚ด์ผ์€ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

Example: It seems like it will rain tomorrow.

-๋”๋ผ๊ณ  (-deo-ra-go)

๋œป: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ํšŒ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ ์”€.

Meaning: Used to recall an experience or a fact learned in the past. 'I recall that...'

์˜ˆ๋ฌธ: ๊ทธ ์˜ํ™”, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ .

Example: That movie was more fun than I expected, I recall.

Mike๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mike said.
Mike: ์‘. ๊ตฌ์ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํŠนํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ง ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋”๋ผ๊ณ .
Mike: Yeah. Looking at job advertisements, especially in fields like marketing or technical jobs like ours, Korean language skills seemed really important, I recall seeing.
Grace๊ฐ€ ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Grace added.
Grace: TOPIK ๊ธ‰์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์กฐ๊ฑด์˜ ์ง์ข…์„ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋น„์ž๋‚˜ ์›”๊ธ‰ ๋ฉด์—์„œ๋„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์™€์„œ ๋” ๋А๊ผˆ์–ด.
Grace: Since coming here, I've felt even more that it is advantageous that the higher your TOPIK level, the better job types with better conditions you can choose, and it's much more advantageous in terms of visas and monthly salary.
Mike๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mike asked.
Mike: ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋…ธ๋™์ง์€ ๊ธ‰์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ?
Mike: I also heard that for simple labour jobs, the level isn't that important, is that right?
Grace๊ฐ€ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Grace replied.
Grace: ์‘, ๋ณดํ†ต 1~2๊ธ‰์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ง์žฅ์ด๋‚˜ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ์ตœ์†Œ 3๊ธ‰, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ฑ„์šฉ๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด 4๊ธ‰์€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ 4๊ธ‰ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜จ ๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๋‹คํ–‰์ด์ง€.
Grace: Yes, usually 1~2 levels are possible, but if you're thinking about a stable workplace or a career, it seems you need to have at least Level 3, and to be hired by a decent company like ours, you need Level 4. It's really fortunate that we obtained Level 4 before coming.
Mike๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mike nodded.
Mike: ๋งž์•„. TOPIK์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์‹œํ—˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์–ธ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์ธ์ฆ์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑฐ๋„ค. ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด. ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ์„œ.
Mike: Right. TOPIK isn't just a simple test, but rather like a language proficiency certificate that allows you to work in Korea. I think it's really important, as one method for proving our abilities in Korean society.

Grace์™€ Mike์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ์ทจ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” TOPIK ์ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด ์†Œํ†ต๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ง์žฅ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋„ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋†’์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ, ํƒœ๊ตญ, ๋ชฝ๊ณจ ๋“ฑ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž๋“ค๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•ด์™ธ ์œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ TOPIK์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ •์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ด์‡ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

TOPIK 4๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์˜์‚ฌ์†Œํ†ต์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด ๊ด€๋ จ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋‚˜ ๋ฌธ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์ง์žฅ์„ ๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋†’์€ ์›”๊ธ‰์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋„“์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ทจ์—…์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, TOPIK ๊ณต๋ถ€๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ์Šต ๋ฌธ์ œ (Practice Questions)

1. ์•„๋ž˜ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์˜ ๋นˆ์นธ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ์•Œ๋งž์€ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅด์„ธ์š”.
A: "์ €๋…์— ํšŒ์‹์„ ํ•  ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ˜น์‹œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ___?"
B: "๋„ค, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”."

(a) ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด (b) ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด (c) ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„

2. ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

"ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ง์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด TOPIK 4๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ์„ ___."

(a) ์ทจ๋“ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ (b) ์ทจ๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด (c) ์ทจ๋“ํ–ˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ 

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