๐Korean Proficiency Isn't Enough?③ํธํ๋๋ก ํ์ธ์
The Hidden Meaning Behind “Do As You Wish”
"ํธํ ๋๋ก ํ์ธ์" ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ์๋ฏธ ํด๋ : ํ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ ๋ฌธํ ๊ฐ์ด๋
์ฃผ๋์ด ์ฅ๋๋ผ ์ฌ์์ ์ ์ 6๊ฐ์ ์ฐจ. ์ ์ ์ถํด๊ทผ์ ์ฒ ์ ํ ์งํค๋ฉฐ ‘9 to 6’์ ์ถฉ์คํ ์ดํ ์ค์ ๋๋ค.
Jang Nara, a junior employee, is in her 6th month. She strictly follows the 9 to 6 schedule.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ ๋ฐฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฌด ์คํ์ผ์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ฉฐ ์ผ์ ๋๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
However, Grace, her senior, pursues a performance-oriented work style and considers completing the work more important.
ํ๋ฃจ๋ ํ์ ์ค์ํ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ ๋ง๊ฐ ์ง์ , ์ฅ๋๋ผ ์ฌ์์ด ์ง์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
One day, just before the deadline for an important team report, Jang Nara packed her things and said:
์ฅ๋๋ผ: ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค ๋๋ฆฌ๋, ์ ํด๊ทผํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ด์ผ ๋ต๊ฒ์!
Jang Nara: Grace, I'm heading out. See you tomorrow!
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค (์์ ๋ฏธ์์ ํจ๊ป): ๊ทธ๋์. ํธํ ๋๋ก ํ์ธ์.
Grace (with a slight smile): Sure. Do whatever's comfortable for you.
์ดํ ์ค๋ช (Vocabulary Explanation)
- ํธํ ๋๋ก ํ์ธ์ (pyeonhan daero haseyo)
- ([ํธํ]ํธํ [๋๋ก]๋๋ก [ํ์ธ์]ํ์ธ์)
- Literally "Do as you please" or "Do as you wish". Often carries a hidden meaning in the workplace, such as passive-aggressive disapproval or a test of 'nunchi'.
์ฅ๋๋ผ๋ ์ฟจํ๊ฒ ‘ํ๋ฝ’์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๊ณ ๋ ๋ฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค๋ ๋ด์ฌ ์์ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ง์ฌ์ ๋ฌ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค.
Jang Nara casually took it as permission and left, but Grace felt bitter inside because her true feelings were different.
์ดํ ์ค๋ช (Vocabulary Explanation)
- ์ฟจํ๊ฒ (kulhage)
- ([์ฟจํ๊ฒ]์ฟจํ๊ฒ)
- Casually, nonchalantly (Konglish, often used to describe someone acting cool or unbothered).
- ์์ธํ๋ค (sseubsseulhada)
- ([์์ธํ๋ค]์์ธํ๋ค)
- To be bitter, disappointed, or have a bittersweet feeling.
๋ค์ ๋ , ํ ํ์ ํ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค๋ ์ฅ๋๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ถ๋ ์ต๋๋ค.
The next day, after the team meeting, Grace called Jang Nara aside.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค: ๋๋ผ ์จ, ์ด์ ์ ๋ฌด ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์๊ณ ์์์ฃ ?
Grace: Nara, you knew the report wasn’t finished yesterday, right?
์ฅ๋๋ผ: ๋ค? ์ด์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋์ด 'ํธํ ๋๋ก ํ๋ผ'๊ณ ํ์ ์์...
Jang Nara: Huh? But yesterday you said I could leave if it was comfortable for me...
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค (์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒ): ๊ทธ ๋ง์ด ‘ํด๊ทผํด๋ ๋๋ค’๋ ๋ป์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ ธ์ด์?
Grace (sharply): Did that really sound like permission to leave?
์ฅ๋๋ผ (๋นํฉํ๋ฉฐ): ๋ค... ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ดํดํ๋๋ฐ์...
Jang Nara (confused): Yes... that’s how I took it...
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค (์ง์งํ๊ฒ): ๋๋ผ ์จ, ์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์๋๋ผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์ผ์ด ๋๋์ง ์์๋๋ฐ ์ ์์ ๋ง์ถฐ ํด๊ทผํ๋ ๊ฑด, ์ฑ ์ ์๋ ํ๋๊ฐ ์๋์์. ์ ๋ฌด๋ '๋ช ์๊น์ง'๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ '๋๋ฌ๋์ง'๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ๋ '์ฑ๊ณผ'๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๋ ๋ฌธํ์์. ํ์ด๋ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ธฐ์ตํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Grace (firmly): Nara, I look at results, not just hours. Leaving on time when things aren't done isn't a responsible attitude. What's important in work isn't "by what time" but "whether it's done." Our company has a culture that evaluates based on 'performance'. Please remember that outcomes come before timing.
์ดํ ์ค๋ช (Vocabulary Explanation)
- ์ฑ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ (chaegim inneun taedo)
- ([์ฑ ์]์ฑ ์ [์๋]์๋ [ํ๋]ํ๋)
- Responsible attitude
- ์ฑ๊ณผ (seonggwa)
- ([์ฑ๊ณผ]์ฑ๊ณผ)
- Performance, result
- ํ์ด๋ฐ (taiming)
- ([ํ์ด๋ฐ]ํ์ด๋ฐ)
- Timing (Konglish term)
๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ์ด์ํ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ์ฅ ์ค์ฌ ํ์ ์ํต ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌ๋์์ง๋ง, ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ์ต๋๋ค.
An awkward atmosphere lingered between the two. Although it was eventually resolved as a communication issue under the team leader's mediation, their relationship subtly changed.
์ดํ ์ค๋ช (Vocabulary Explanation)
- ์ํต ๋ฌธ์ (sotong munje)
- ([์ํต]์ํต [๋ฌธ์ ]๋ฌธ์ )
- Communication issue
- ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๋ค (mimyo-hada)
- ([๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๋ค]๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๋ค)
- To be subtle, delicate, nuanced.
๐ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ์๋ ์ (What We Can Learn)
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"ํธํ ๋๋ก ํ์ธ์"๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฏฟ์ผ๋ฉด ์ํํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Taking “do as you wish” literally can be risky.
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์์ฌ์ ๋ง์ ์จ์ด ์๋ ์ง์ง ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํ์ ํ๋ ค๋ ๋์น๊ฐ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
You need nunchi (the ability to gauge others' moods or situations) to grasp the true meaning hidden in your superior's words.
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์ถํด๊ทผ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ ๋ฌด ์๊ฒฐ์ ์ค์ ์ ๋๋ ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
There might be a culture that emphasizes task completion rather than clocking in and out.
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๋ชจํธํ ํํ์ ์ง์ ํ์ธํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ค์ ๋ฌป๋ ์ต๊ด์ ๋ค์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์ต๋๋ค.
It is advisable to get into the habit of clarifying ambiguous expressions or asking again directly instead of making assumptions.
๐ ํต์ฌ ๋จ์ด (Key Vocabulary)
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