| 이거 봐. 초록색 예쁘지? |
Look, isn’t this green pretty? |
| 응. 깔아 봐. |
Yeah, go ahead, spread it |
| 아 좋다 |
So nice |
| 아! |
Whoa!! |
| 깜짝이야! |
I'm surprised! |
| 워! 아이고, 진짜! |
Argh!! |
| 나는 쉴게! |
I’ll take some rest |
| 놀러온 거 같지 않아? |
Isn’t this like we are having a picnic? |
| 찍는다! |
Look here |
| 하나, 둘, 셋! |
One, two, three! |
| 안돼! 나 먼저 씻을거라고! |
No, I’ll go first |
| 가위바위보! |
Rock, paper, scissors |
| 힘이 장사야, 장사! |
What a strong girl! |
| 열 둘! |
Twelve |
| 열 셋! |
Thirteen |
| 나 이거... |
How... |
| 이게 어떻게 올라가지? |
How do you do sit-ups? |
| 일곱! |
Seven |
| 아홉! |
Nine |
| 일단 한 번 더! |
One more |
| 어제 말인데 |
About yesterday… |
| 나는 네가 자는 줄 알았어 |
I thought you were sleeping |
| 잠들었으니까 괜찮다 했는데 |
Thought it would be OK because you were asleep |
| 아, 맞다! |
Ah, right |
| 내가 침대로 갔더니 네가 그랬잖아. |
When I came to bed, you said |
| 몇시야? |
What time is it? |
| 너는 은근히 잠귀가 밝더라고.
| You are quite a light sleeper |
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잠귀가 밝다 is an idiom literally meaning "the sleep-ear is bright/sharp" –
i.e. someone who wakes easily at the slightest noise, a light sleeper. The
opposite, 잠귀가 어둡다 ("the sleep-ear is dark"), describes a heavy sleeper.
은근히 here means "subtly" or "surprisingly" – he's noting this about her
as something he only just discovered, which is also why 밝더라고 uses the
retrospective 더라 ending, marking a fact he directly witnessed and is now
reporting.
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| 언제부터 어디서부터 무슨 소릴 들었을까 괜히 막 신경이 쓰이고 그랬어 |
I was worried about what you may have heard from when you were awake |
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신경이 쓰이다 literally means "nerves get used/spent [on something]" and is the
standard way to say you're bothered by, or preoccupied with, a worry. 괜히 막
adds a colloquial flavour that's hard to translate directly – 괜히 ("for
no good reason," "needlessly") plus 막 (an intensifying filler, roughly "just")
together convey something like "and for no reason at all, I just couldn't stop
worrying about it."
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| 너는 진짜 잘 자더라 |
You were sleeping soundly |
| 우리가 TV를 안끄고 잤더라고 |
We left the TV on |
| 그래서 중간에 한 번 깨고 |
so I woke up in the middle |
| 또 너 화장실 갔을 때 깨고 |
And woke up again when you went to bathroom |
| 냉장고 열었을 때 깨고 |
and when you opened the fridge |
| 나는 내가 자꾸 깨서 |
I was worried |
| 너도 같이 깰까봐 신경이 쓰였는데 |
that I might wake you up too |
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-(으)ㄹ까봐 attaches to a verb stem to mean "worried/afraid that [it might
happen]" – here 깰까봐 is "afraid that (you) might wake up." It's almost
always followed by some expression of concern or a precaution taken because of
that fear, which is exactly the role 신경이 쓰이다 plays in this sentence.
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| 와 |
But, wow |
| 나 여자가 코 고는거 처음 봤잖아 |
I saw a snoring woman for the first time |
| 근데 궁금한게 있는데 |
Anyway, I wanted to ask |
| 너는 왜 자면서도 에어컨을 켜? |
why do you leave the air conditioner on even when you are sleeping? |
| 내가 웬만해선 안 깨는데 |
I don’t wake up easily |
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웬만하다 describes something as "ordinary," "moderate," or "within normal
tolerance." 웬만해선 (from 웬만해서는) means "under normal/ordinary
circumstances" – so 웬만해선 안 깨는데 is "under normal circumstances I
don't wake up, but..." setting up the exception that follows.
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| 요샌 너무 추워서 가끔씩 깨고 그래 |
But these days, I wake up sometimes because it’s too cold |
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The trailing 그래 after 깨고 doesn't add much literal meaning – tacking
그래(요) onto the end of a verb like this is a common softening habit in casual
speech, similar to ending a sentence in English with "...or something" or
"...you know."
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| 몸은 엄청 차갑던데 |
Your skin was cold |
| 너는 안추워? |
But don’t you feel cold? |
| 너 안더워? |
Don’t you feel hot? |
| 여름엔 집에서 이렇게 뜨거운 요리는 |
Don’t you think it’s better to avoid |
| 웬만하면 안하는게 낫지않냐. |
cooking warm food at home in Summer? |
| 한시간이나 그렇게 국을 끓이니까 |
It’s so humid here |
| 이것봐. 습한거봐. |
because you boiled soup for an hour |
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As mentioned in the disclaimer, these four lines have been re-paired across
the Korean/English columns to keep the table readable, since the two languages
present the cause and effect in opposite order. Literally it's closer to
"you cook hot food like this even in summer, boiling soup for a whole hour like
that – look, look how humid it's gotten," i.e. he complains about the heat
first, then points at the steamy kitchen as evidence.
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| 그냥 대충 사다먹어도 될 것 같지 않아? |
Why don’t we just have some take-out food? |
| 그리고 너 왜 설거지는 안해? |
And why don’t you wash the dishes? |
| 너 왜 설거지는 안해? |
Why don’t you wash the dishes? |
| 그리고 이거 |
And this |
| 너만 먹는거 |
Only you eat this in this house |
| 바로 옆에 쓰레기통이 있잖아 |
And there’s a bin right next to you |
| 정말 딱 네 발자국만 걸으면 있는데 |
It’s just four steps away |
| 왜 여기다가 버려? |
Why do you throw it here? |
| 버리는게 아니라 잠깐 올려둔거지 |
I didn’t throw it. I just left it there for a while |
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The pattern V-는 게 아니라 X ("it's not that [V], it's [X]") is the standard way
to correct someone's framing of an action before restating it your own way.
Here he's rejecting her verb 버리다 (to throw away/discard) and swapping in
올려두다 (to set something up/down, for a while), softened further by the
casual 거지 ending, which invites agreement, like "...right?"
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| 내가 수북하게 쌓아놓는 것도 아니고 |
It’s not like I piled them up here |
| 여기 놔둔다고 냄새가 나는 것도 아니고 |
It doesn’t smell even though it was left here |
| 쓰레기 나올 때마다 한개씩 갖다 버려야 된다는 법이 있는 것도 아니고 |
There is no law that says you have to throw garbage every time when there is one |
| 법이 있는 것도 아니고 |
There is no law about boiling potatoes |
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He actually just repeats the bare phrase 법이 있는 것도 아니고 ("there's no law
[about that] either") as a segue into his next complaint, letting the missing
object be filled in by context the way Korean often does. The translation adds
"about boiling potatoes" explicitly since English needs the object stated to
make sense standing on its own.
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| 왜 감자를 껍질 채 삼는게 이상하다는 거야? |
Why do you think it’s strange that I boil potatoes unpeeled? |
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This is a common spelling mix-up: 채 and 째 sound almost identical, but they're
not really interchangeable. 째 attaches directly to a noun to mean "the whole
thing, including that part" (as in 껍질째 먹다, "eat it peel and all," or
통째로, "as a whole"), while 채 is a bound noun that follows a full modifying
clause to mean "while remaining in that state" (as in 신발을 신은 채로, "with
shoes still on"). Strictly speaking 껍질 채 should be 껍질째 here, but plenty of
native speakers blur the two in casual speech.
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| 껍질도 먹는거야 |
People eat potato peel too |
| 먹어도 돼 |
It’s edible |
| 우리 집에선 원래 다 이렇게 삶아 |
This is how we boil potatoes at my home |
| 삶을 때, 껍질을 까서 삶으면 |
If you boil peeled potatoes |
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까다 is specifically used for peeling or shelling something by hand (potatoes,
eggs, nuts, shellfish), as opposed to the more general 벗기다 used a couple of
lines later for peeling the hot potato after it's cooked. You'd use 벗기다 for
peeling off something like clothing, a sticker, or skin more broadly, but 까다
is the natural verb for cracking or shelling something open.
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| 아, 뜨거워! |
It’s hot |
| 이렇게 손으로 뜨겁게 안 벗겨도 되잖아. |
You don’t have to peel the hot potatoes like this |
| 벗겨줄게 |
I will peel it for you |
| 아이씨 야해 |
That sounds dirty |
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Heh heh. 벗기다 also means to undress/strip off clothing. It's the passive form of 벗다. So what she said could have sounded like "I'll undress you."
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| 뭐야 먹어 |
Shut up. Here |
Coda |
| 우리 같이 살까? |
How about we live together |
| #동거에 대한 로망 |
#fantasy about living together |