Core Practical Korean(4): ๐️ํ๊ตญ์ฌํ+๋ฑ์ฐ _What do Mountains Mean to Koreans?
ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฑ์ฐ ๋ฌธํ
์ฐ์ด ์ฃผ๋ ์ถ์ ์๋ก์ ์๋์ง
Korea's Hiking Culture: Comfort and Energy from the Mountains
Level: Intermediate | ๋์ด๋: ์ค๊ธ

์๋ ํ์ธ์, ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ ํนํ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ํํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ!
Hello, everyone who wants to explore the unique charm of Korea!
ํ๊ตญ์ธ์๊ฒ ์ฐ์ ๋จ์ํ ์์ฐ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋์ด ์ถ์ ์ค์ํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. '์ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ค'๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์ ์ํ ์ด๋์ผ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์ง์น ์ผ์์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ์ป๋ ํน๋ณํ ์์๊ณผ๋ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๊น์ด ์๋ ๋ฑ์ฐ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ๋ง ์์๋, ์ฐ์์ ๋ง๋๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ๊ต๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ๋์ฑ ํ์ฑํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
For Koreans, mountains are more than just natural landscapes; they are an important part of life. 'Going to the mountains' is not only exercise for health but also a special ritual to escape from the tired daily routine, soothe the mind, and gain energy. Today, I'd like to introduce you to Korea's profound hiking culture. Even if you know just a little Korean, you can have a richer experience by interacting with people you meet on the mountains.
๊ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํด๋ฆญํด์ฃผ์๋ฉด ์ฝํ
์ธ ์ ์์ ๋ง์ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
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1. ํ๊ตญ์ธ์๊ฒ '์ฐ'์ด๋?
What do Mountains Mean to Koreans?
ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ตญํ ์ 70%๊ฐ ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง '์ฐ์ ๋๋ผ'์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์์ธ์ง ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ ์ถ๊ณผ ๋ฌธํ ์์๋ ๋ ์ฐ์ด ํจ๊ปํด์์ฃ .
Korea is a 'mountainous country' with 70% of its land covered by mountains. Perhaps that's why mountains have always been a part of Korean life and culture.
- ์ ์ ์์์ ๊ณต๊ฐ: ์ฐ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฆ๊ณ , ๋ช ์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ์ ์งํ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๋ ์ ์ฑํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ฒจ์ก์ต๋๋ค.
- Space for Spiritual Discipline: Mountains have been considered sacred places to cultivate oneself, meditate, and seek wisdom.
- ์ถ์ ์๋ก์ ์๋์ง: ํ๋ค ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ฐพ์ ๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ์์ฐ ์์์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
- Comfort and Energy for Life: When tired, Koreans hike to relieve stress and find comfort in nature.
- ๊ณต๋์ฒด์ ์ฅ: ๊ฐ์กฑ, ์น๊ตฌ, ๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฐ์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ๊ณ ์ ๋๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ง๋๋ค.
- A Venue for Community: It's a place for communication where people strengthen bonds by encouraging each other on hikes.
๐ก ์ฐ์์ ๋๋๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ '์ (ๆ )' | Sharing Korean 'Jeong' on the Mountains!
์ฐ์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฒ์ ๋ณด๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํฉ๋๋ค. "์๋ ํ์ธ์! ํ๋ด์ธ์!" (Hello! Keep going!)๋ผ๊ณ ๋จผ์ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๋ค๊ฑฐ๋, ๊ฐ์์ ๋๋ ์ฃผ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ํํ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์์ ๋๋ ์์ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ '์ '์ด ๋ด๊ฒจ ์์ฃ .
While hiking, you'll naturally greet and encourage strangers. It's common to see people initiate conversations with "์๋ ํ์ธ์! ํ๋ด์ธ์!" (Hello! Keep going!) or share snacks. This small act of sharing embodies the Korean concept of 'Jeong'.
2. ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค์ ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ
Mike and Grace's Hiking Story
์์ธ ๋์ฌ์ ์์นํ ๋ถํ์ฐ๊ณผ ๋๋ด์ฐ์ ๋ง์ ์ง์ฅ์ธ๋ค์ด ํด๊ทผ ํ๋ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ช ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ดํฌ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค๋ ์ด๊ณณ์์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฑ์ฐ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํํ์ต๋๋ค.
Bukhansan and Dobongsan, located in downtown Seoul, are popular spots for many office workers after work or on weekends. Mike and Grace also experienced Korea's hiking culture there.
์, ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค! ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ ์ง์ง ๋ง๋ค์! ๋ค๋ค ๋ฑ์ฐ๋ณต๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์.
Wow, Grace! There are so many people here! Everyone looks like professional hikers in their gear.
๋ง์์, ๋ง์ดํฌ! ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ๋ฑ์ฐ์ ์ง์ฌ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋ฑ์ฐ๋ณต๋ ํ๋์ ํจ์ ์ด์์. ์ ๋ ์๋ก ์์ด์!
You're right, Mike! Koreans are very serious about hiking. Hiking gear is also a fashion statement here. I bought new ones too!
✨ Vocabulary Highlight ✨
์ง์ฌ (็ๅฟ) [jin-sim]
Meaning: sincerity, earnestness, true feelings
Example: ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ๋ฑ์ฐ์ ์ง์ฌ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ์. (Koreans are very serious about hiking.)
์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ (ๅฐ้ๅฎถ) [jeon-mun-ga]
Meaning: expert, specialist
Example: ๋ค๋ค ๋ฑ์ฐ๋ณต๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์. (Everyone looks like a professional hiker in their gear.)
๋ฑ์ฐ๋ณต ํจ์
๊ณผ ๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ
The Charm of Hiking Fashion and Makgeolli
ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฑ์ฐ ๋ฌธํ๋ ํ๋ คํ ๋ฑ์ฐ๋ณต ํจ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋จ์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋์ด ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ํํํ๋ ์๋จ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์์์ ๋ง์๋ ์์ํ ๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฑ์ฐ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ ๋๋ค.
Korea's hiking culture is also famous for its vibrant hiking fashion. It's not just about functionality but also a way to express one's individuality. And the cool Makgeolli (rice wine) at the summit is another joy of hiking.
๋ง์ดํฌ ์จ, ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค ์จ, ํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฉ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฒ์! ์ ์์์ ๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ํด์ผ์ฃ !
Mike, Grace, if it's hard, I'll carry it for you! We have to have a glass of Makgeolli at the summit!
์๋์, ๋๋ฆฌ๋! ๊ด์ฐฎ์ต๋๋ค! ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฑ์ฐ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ก ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ด์ผ์ฃ !
No, Assistant Manager! I'm fine! I want to properly experience Korean hiking culture too!
โน️ ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ฉ์ด & ์ ์ฉํ ํํ | Hiking Terms & Useful Expressions
์ ์ (้ ไธ) [jeong-sang]: Summit, peak
๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ [mak-geol-li]: Korean traditional rice wine
์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค! [su-go-ha-syeot-seum-ni-da!]: Good job! / You worked hard! (Used after a shared effort)
ํ๋ด์ธ์! [him-nae-se-yo!]: Cheer up! / Keep going!
3. ํ๊ตญ ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ํฐ์ผ
Korean Hiking Etiquette
ํ๊ตญ ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์์๋๋ฉด ์ข์ ์ํฐ์ผ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ๊นจ๋ํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๊ณ , ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฑ์ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ คํ๋ ๋ง์์ด ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค.
There are a few etiquette tips that are good to know when hiking in Korea. Keeping the mountain clean and being considerate of other hikers are important.
- ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๊ฐ๊ธฐ: ์์ ์ ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
- Take your trash back: You must take your trash back with you.
- ์์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋ํํ๊ธฐ: ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๋ฐฉํด๊ฐ ๋์ง ์๋๋ก ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋ํํฉ๋๋ค.
- Talk quietly: Speak softly so as not to disturb others.
- ์ธ์ฌ ๋๋๊ธฐ: ๋ง์ฃผ์น๋ ๋ฑ์ฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ์ธ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ ์์์ ๋๋ค.
- Greet others: It's good manners to lightly greet other hikers you meet.
๐ค ๋ฑ์ฐ ์ ์ด๋ค ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ์จ๋ณผ๊น์? | What Korean phrases can you use while hiking?
๋ฑ์ฐ ์ค ๋ง๋๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๋ค๋ฉด ์ข์๊น์? ๊ดํธ ์์ ์๋ง์ ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฃ์ด ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์์ฑํด๋ณด์ธ์.
What phrases would be good to say to Koreans you meet while hiking? Complete the sentences by filling in the blanks.
1. ์ฐ์์ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋: "!"
2. ํ๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ: "!"
3. ์ ์์์ ํจ๊ป ๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ค ๋: "!"
✅ ์ ๋ต ์์ | Example Answers
1. "์๋ ํ์ธ์!" (Hello!)
2. "ํ๋ด์ธ์!" (Keep going!)
3. "์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค!" (Good job! / You worked hard!)
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฐ์ ๋จ์ํ ์์ฐ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์ถ์ ์งํ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ป๋ ์์คํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ค์๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋ฑ์ฐ์ ํตํด ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ '์ '์ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ํน๋ณํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํด๋ณด์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค!
Korean mountains are not just nature; they are precious spaces for gaining life's wisdom and vitality. Next time you visit Korea, I hope you'll experience the 'Jeong' of Koreans and have a special experience through hiking!
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