Answer Key: Korean Reading Exercises - Part 2.1

Hi, how are you? Was the exercise difficult? Did you do well?

The following are the answers for the first round of this reading exercise:

English Translation	Pronunciation	Korean word
Rice	bap	밥
Fish	saeng-son	생선
Steamed dish	jjim	찜
Dried laver	kim	김
Bread	ppang	빵
Soup	guk	국
Alcohol	sul	술
Tea	cha	차
Meat	gogi	고기
Brown seaweed	miyeok	미역

Note that in Korean food, they really like to combine names of the main ingredients to describe the dish.

For example, one of the famous dishes of Korea is kimbap. It is a rice dish in which the rice (main ingredient), together with some various ingredients, is combined with kim, which is a sheet of dried laver.

Kimbap is an easy-to-make, easy-to-carry food from Korea!

Another dish which showcases this trend is miyeok-guk, which is brown seaweed soup. This dish is being given to Koreans on their birthday - interesting fact: this dish is originally being given to a woman shortly after giving birth, the iron and iodine included in brown seaweed helps them recover from a stressful delivery and is being given to another person's birthday, signifying his/her birth and their mother's struggles during delivery.

Miyeok-guk is a soup being given to one on his/her birthday!

Did you get a perfect score on this round? I really hope so.

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