| 아, 그런 일 하시는구나 |
Ah, so that’s what you do for a living |
| 언제였지? |
When was it? |
| 우리 처음 본 거 |
The time when we saw each other first time |
| 날이 꽤 더워서 |
It was a quite hot day |
| 4월인데도 여름 같네, 라는 말을 자주 했었어 |
so we often said ‘it feels like summer though it’s only April |
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했었어 uses the double past -았었/었었-, which marks something as finished and
firmly in the past, with a sense of distance or disconnection from the
present – as opposed to plain -았/었- which just marks a completed action.
It's a subtle signal that this whole flashback is a relationship that's now
well and truly over.
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| 너는 니가 눈에 띄는 사람이라는 걸 |
You seemed to know |
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눈에 띄다 literally means "to catch the eye" – the standard phrase for
someone or something that stands out or is noticeable, whether that's a
striking outfit, a typo on a page, or, as here, a person's presence in a room.
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| 잘 아는 것 같았고 |
that you were noticeable |
| 그래서 나는 널 안보려고 애썼고, |
So I tried not to be looking at you |
| 계속 내 앞에 있는 그 남자만 쳐다봤고, |
and only kept looking at the guy in front of me |
| 그 남자가 해주는 긴 여행 얘길 들었고, |
I listened to his long story about his trips |
| 그 재미없는 얘기에 나는 맞장구를 치면서 웃었어 |
and laughed over his unfunny stories, nodding to him |
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맞장구(를) 치다 is a great idiom with no single-word English equivalent –
it means to give the little nods, "uh-huh"s, and encouraging noises that show
you're actively listening, even (as here) when you're not really that
interested in what's being said.
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| 너는 잘 웃었어 |
You smiled a lot |
| 또 웃고, |
You smiled |
| 또 마시고, |
drank |
| 또 웃고 |
and smiled again |
| 내 친구가 해주는 얘기가 도대체 어떤건지 궁금해질 만큼 넌 열심히 들었어 |
You were listening so caringly that I wanted to know what he was talking about |
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-(으)ㄹ 만큼 means "to the extent that..." – it attaches to a clause to
measure something else against it. Here: "you listened so intently that it
made me curious [to that same degree]," i.e. her listening was the yardstick
for how curious he became.
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| 쟤가 재밌을리가 없는데 |
He can’t be fun |
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-(으)ㄹ 리가 없다 is the standard way to express "there's no way that...", used
when something contradicts what you'd logically expect. He knows his friend
personally and is certain the guy isn't actually that entertaining, which is
exactly why her enthusiastic listening bugs him.
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| 나는 자리를 옮겼어 |
I went to your table |
| 너와 내 친구의 관계를 묻고, |
I asked about how you and my friend knew each other |
| 내 친구와 너도 친한 사이는 아니였고, |
He and you were not very close |
| 나도 걔랑 별로 친하질 않아서 |
And he and I were not close friends either |
| 그냥 우리 둘이 얘기하는게 훨씬 더 재밌겠더라고. |
So I figured it would be more fun if just two of us talked |
| 우리 더운데 밖에 나가자 |
Why don’t we go out? It’s too hot in here |
| 그래 |
Sure |
| 넌 나보다 세 살이 많았고, |
You were three years older than me |
| 넌 화려했고, |
You were fabulous |
| 눈에 띄었어 |
and attractive |
| 술을 잘 마셨고, |
You enjoyed drinks |
| 귀여웠고, |
You were cute |
| 재밌었고, |
fun |
| 너는 지금 여자친군 없댔고, |
You said you didn’t have a girlfriend |
| 혼자 살고, |
You were living alone |
| 가슴이 컸고, |
had big boobs |
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Notice how this whole stretch of memories is stitched together with a chain
of clause-final -고 ("...and..., ...and..."), building an itemised list rather
than full separate sentences. It starts out sounding like an admiring list of
qualities (older, fabulous, fun) but keeps rolling right past 귀여웠고 and
재밌었고 into 가슴이 컸고 without changing register at all – the flat,
list-like grammar is what makes the tonal shift land: to him, in hindsight,
this was all just one continuous inventory.
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| 넌 지금 친구랑 둘이 산다고 했어 |
You said you were living with a friend |
| 근데 그 친구가, |
who was later found to be |
| 여자친구 였더라? |
your girlfriend |
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-더라 is normally a statement ending (reporting something you personally
witnessed), but tacked onto a question like this it has a "wait, now that I
think about it..." flavour – someone piecing together a realization out
loud, rather than genuinely asking. 였더라? here reads more like "...turned
out to be your girlfriend, didn't she?" than a real question.
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| 여보세요? |
Hello? |
| 전화를 받는 순간 직감했지 |
The moment you picked up the phone, I knew it |
| 바빠? |
Busy? |
| 목소리가 다르다 |
Your voice sounded somewhat different |
| 어떤 심각한 얘길 할 것 같았어 |
It was like you were about to say something serious |
| 바쁘면 잠깐만 볼까? |
If you are busy, can we just see for a minute? |
| 보는 건 이미 정해져 있더라고 |
You had already decided to see me |
| 넌 놀라운 얘길 했어 |
You said something surprising |
| 내가 널 의심하고 있어 |
I’m suspecting… |
| 그리고 넌 솔직했지 |
And you were straightforward |
| 심증은 있는데 물증은 없고 |
I have a suspicion but no proof |
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심증 and 물증 are borrowed from legal vocabulary – 심증 (心證) is a
subjective conviction or "gut feeling" of guilt, while 물증 (物證) is hard
physical evidence. "심증은 있는데 물증은 없다" has become a common everyday
saying for exactly this situation: being sure of something you can't yet
prove.
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| 거침이 없었고, |
You were straightforward |
| 너 바람 펴? |
Are you cheating on me? |
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The standard phrase for cheating is 바람(을) 피우다 ("to fan up the wind," an
old idiom for a flighty affair). In fast, casual speech it commonly gets
clipped down to 바람 피다, and here even further into the contracted question
form 펴? – you won't find 피다 used this way as a verb in a dictionary,
but it's very natural and instantly recognisable in spoken Korean.
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| 난 손바닥에 땀이 나기 시작했어 |
My hands began to sweat |
| 미친듯이 뛰었지 |
And my heart was racing |
| 하지만 애써 침착하게 - |
But even if I calmly said |
| 무슨 헛소리야 라고 해봤자 |
what are you talking about? |
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헛소리 (헛- "empty/false" + 소리 "talk") means "nonsense," "bullshit," or
"empty words." -아/어 봤자 means "even if [I] try doing X" and always implies
the attempt is futile – so 라고 해봤자 is "even if I said [that], [it
wouldn't help]," setting up the two rejected excuses that follow.
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| 요즘 내가 많이 무심했지? |
I haven’t been considerate enough these days? |
| 씨알도 안 먹히겠더라고 |
it wouldn’t work at all |
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씨알도 안 먹히다 literally means "not even a single grain/seed gets eaten" –
a vivid way of saying an excuse or argument won't be swallowed at all, i.e.
won't be believed or accepted for even a moment.
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| 차라리 |
So, I decided to |
| 세게 나가기로 했지 |
face it straight |
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세게 나가다 (literally "to go out strongly") is an idiom for taking a hard-line,
assertive approach in a confrontation or negotiation, rather than backing down
– the opposite would be 약하게 나가다 or 조심스럽게 나가다, playing it soft.
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| 어떻게 하고 싶은건데? |
What is that you want? |
| 그러게 |
Yeah, |
| 어떻게 하고 싶은 걸까 |
what do I want? |
| 난 그 생각은 미처 못했던거 있지 |
I’d never thought of that |
| 좋아해 |
I like it |
| 제일 좋아하는 꽃이야, |
It’s my favorite flower |
| 수국 |
Hydrangea |
| 요즘 제일 예쁠 때야 |
It’s the best season for hydrangea |
| 근데, 걔가 좀 웃겨 |
By the way, it’s funny flower |
| 분명히 똑같은 꽃인데 |
The same flower can have different colors |
| 흙에 따라서 색이 참 쉽게 변하거든 |
depending on where it grows |
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This -거든 is the connector form, meaning "because/you see" – not to be
confused with the sentence-final -거든 seen back in episode 5 (안 귀엽거든?),
which just asserts a fact. Here it's explaining why the flower is "funny":
because its colour changes so easily depending on the soil.
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| 어디선 붉게 피고, |
It becomes red in somewhere |
| 어디선 푸르게 피고 |
It becomes blue in somewhere else |
| 그래서 꽃말이 |
So the hydrangea means in the language of flowers |
| 변심이래 |
‘a change of heart’ |
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꽃말 ("flower-words") is the Korean term for floriography – the practice
of assigning symbolic meanings to different flowers, much like in Victorian
England. It's a common bit of small talk/trivia in Korean romance, and every
flower has one; hydrangea's happens to be 변심 (變心), "a change of heart,"
which is why he brings it up right after being confronted about cheating.
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| 음, 알고나니까 괜히 |
After I figured out |
| 이런 생각이 들더라고 |
this thought came up to me |
| 너무 좋은데, |
I like you so much |
| 너무 갖고 싶은데 |
I want to make you mine |
| 하필이면 왜, |
why, of all men |
| 그런 애일까 |
are you that kind of guy? |
| 너 다른 여자 만나? #여자의 직감 # 양다리 |
Are you seeing someone else? #woman’s instinct #two-timing |
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양다리 literally means "both legs," short for 양다리(를) 걸치다, "to have one
leg propped in each of two boats" – the standard idiom for two-timing, or
more generally for hedging your bets between two options instead of
committing to one.
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