농민으로서 자부심을 느낄 때가 있으신가요?
Do you ever feel a sense of pride as a farmer?
제가 직접 기른 작물들이 자라는 걸 볼 때 항상 뿌듯하지요.
Whenever I see the crops I've grown with my own hands thriving, I always feel proud.
13 two-turn dialogues about 경제 행위 주체, illustrating 10 words from this category at 4급. Every exchange is a 국립국어원 example with its English translation, and every word links back to its full entry.
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농민으로서 자부심을 느낄 때가 있으신가요?
Do you ever feel a sense of pride as a farmer?
제가 직접 기른 작물들이 자라는 걸 볼 때 항상 뿌듯하지요.
Whenever I see the crops I've grown with my own hands thriving, I always feel proud.
요즘은 소비자가 자신의 권리를 남용하는 사례가 늘고 있대.
They say these days there are more cases of consumers abusing their rights.
맞아. 소비자가 악의적으로 나쁜 평을 해서 상인이 힘들어지는 경우도 많더라.
Right. There are also many cases where consumers leave malicious bad reviews, making it hard for the merchants.
노조와 회사의 협상은 어떻게 되었대?
How did the negotiations between the union and the company go?
회사 측이 노동자의 요구를 많이 받아들였나 봐.
It seems the company accepted a lot of the workers' demands.
당신 같은 노동자가 뭘 알아서 참견이야?
What would a worker like you know to interfere?
이거 막일하는 사람이라고 깔보지 마십시오.
Don't look down on me just because I do manual labor.
회사에 근로자 임금을 인상해 달라고 요청해 봐야겠어.
I should ask the company to raise the workers' wages.
그래. 일한 것에 비해 너무 적은 돈을 받고 있는 것 같아.
Yeah. They seem to be getting paid too little for the work they do.
무슨 일을 하세요?
What do you do for a living?
그냥 조그만 중소기업에 다니는 회사원이에요.
I'm just an office worker at a small and medium-sized company.
아들이 이번에 대기업에 취직했다면서?
I heard your son got a job at a big company this time?
응. 자동차 만드는 큰 회사에 들어갔어.
Yeah. He got into a big car manufacturing company.
옆 동네에 분점을 하나 내려고 하는데 자본금이 조금 모자라.
I'm thinking of opening a branch in the next neighborhood, but I'm a bit short on capital.
나도 요즘 여유 자금이 없어서 보태 주지는 못하겠다. 사업자 대출을 한번 알아보는 건 어때?
I don't have spare funds these days either, so I can't help you out. How about looking into a business loan?
언니, 요즘 무슨 고민이라도 있어? 얼굴빛이 많이 안 좋아.
Sis, do you have something on your mind? You look really pale.
얼마 전에 장사를 접어서 실업 상태야. 앞으로 어떻게 살아야 하나 걱정이야.
I closed my business a while ago, so I'm unemployed. I'm worried about how I'll get by.
경기 침체로 인한 만성적 실업 문제를 어떻게 해결할 수 있을까요?
How can we solve the chronic unemployment problem caused by the economic downturn?
현 정부는 공공사업을 벌여 실업 상태를 개선해 보려고 합니다.
The current government is trying to improve the unemployment situation by launching public works projects.
실업계 고등학교로 진학을 한다고?
You're going to a vocational high school?
네. 전문 어업인이 되기 위해 실업을 배우고 싶어요.
Yes, I want to learn a trade to become a professional fisherman.
우리 사장님은 정말 훌륭한 기업가이신 것 같아요.
I think our boss is a truly great entrepreneur.
네. 경영 능력도 탁월하시고 사회 복지에도 돈을 아끼지 않으시니까요.
Yes. Their management skills are outstanding, and they don't spare money for social welfare either.
그동안 모은 돈으로 컴퓨터를 샀는데 사기를 당했어.
I bought a computer with the money I saved, but I got scammed.
믿을 만한 판매자인지 잘 알아봤어야지. 경찰에 신고했어?
You should have checked whether the seller was trustworthy. Did you report it to the police?
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These 13 exchanges are the dictionary's own examples for the 10 4급 words in this category — 농민, 소비자, 노동자, 근로자, 중소기업 and the rest. Each is two turns, so what you see is not only how the word is used but what it is usually said in answer to.
They are written examples rather than transcribed speech, so they are tidier than a real conversation and shorter. What they are not is translated English: they were written in Korean, by Korean lexicographers, to show how the word behaves — which is why the speech levels and the sentence endings in them are worth copying.
Dialogues, translations and word meanings from the 국립국어원 한국어기초사전, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.