Day 130: Apprentice at the Watch-Repair Shop
At an old watch-repair shop, Doyun (A), a young man who keeps dropping by, finally asks the owner (B) for a favour.
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Dialogue
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A ์ฌ์ฅ๋, ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ์์ด์.
Sajangnim, annyeonghaseyo. Jeo tto wasseoyo.
Hello, sir. It's me again.
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B ์ด, ๋ ์๋ค์. ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ์๋ง ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ์์. ์ค๋์ ๋ฌด์จ ์๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ์์ด์?
Eo, tto wanneyo. Ibeon jueman se beonjjaeyeyo. Oneureun museun sigyereul gajyeowasseoyo?
Oh, you're back. That's the third time this week. What watch have you brought today?
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A ์ค๋์ ์๊ณ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์จ ๊ฒ ์๋์์. ์ฌ์ค ๋ถํ๋๋ฆด ๊ฒ ์์ด์์.
Oneureun sigye ttaemune on ge anieyo. Sasil butakdeuril ge isseoseoyo.
I'm not here about a watch today. Actually, I have a favour to ask.
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B ๋ถํ์ด์? ๋ญ๋ฐ์? ๋งํด ๋ด์.
Butagiyo? Mwondeyo? Malhae bwayo.
A favour? What is it? Go on.
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A ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ก ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ์๊ณ ๊ณ ์น๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Jeoreul jejaro bada jusil su isseulkkayo? Sigye gochineun gisureul jedaero baeugo sipeoyo.
Would you take me on as your apprentice? I want to learn how to repair watches properly.
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B ํํ, ์์ฆ ์ ์ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฑธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ๋ค๋, ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์.
Heoheo, yojeum jeolmeun sarami ireon geol baeugo sipeo hadani, singihaneyo.
Ha, a young person these days wanting to learn this kind of thing. That's unusual.
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A ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ฌ ๋๋ง๋ค ์ฌ์ฅ๋์ด ์ผํ์๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ดค์ด์. ์์ ๋ถํ์ ํ๋ํ๋ ๋ง์ง์๋ ์์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ฉ์์์ด์.
Yeogi ol ttaemada sajangnimi ilhasineun geol bwasseoyo. Jageun bupumeul hanahana manjisineun soni jeongmal meosisseosseoyo.
Every time I came here, I watched you work. The way your hands handled every tiny part was amazing.
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B ๋ฉ์๊ธฐ๋์. ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ก์ ์ผ์ญ ๋ ๋์ ์ด ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์ ์ผํ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ ๋๋น ์ง๊ณ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ตฝ์์ด์.
Meositgineunyo. Gisuljaroseo samsip nyeon dongan i jarie anja ilhamyeo nundo nappajigo heorido gubeosseoyo.
Amazing? Hardly. Thirty years at this bench as a repairman, and my eyes have gone bad and my back's bent.
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A ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ด ์ผ์ ๊ณ์ํ์ ๋ฐ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์ผ์๊ฒ ์ฃ .
Geuraedo i ireul gyesokasin deneun iyuga isseusigetjyo.
But there must be a reason you kept at it.
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B ๊ณ ์ฅ ๋ ์๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด ์์ง๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข์์. ์ฃผ์ธํํ ๋ ์ถ์ต์ด ๋ด๊ธด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด๋๊น์.
Gojang nan sigyega dasi ganeun sorireul deureumyeon ajikdo gibuni joayo. Juinhanteneun chueogi damgin mulgeoninikkayo.
When a broken watch starts ticking again, I still feel good. To its owner, it's something full of memories.
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A ์ ๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Jeodo geu sorireul je soneuro mandeureo bogo sipeoyo.
I want to make that sound with my own hands too.
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B ์ฝ์ง ์์์. ์ฒ์ ์ผ ๋ ์ ์ฒญ์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ถํ ์ด๋ฆ๋ง ์ธ์์ผ ํ๊ณ , ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชป ๋ฐ์์.
Swipji anayo. Cheoeum il nyeoneun cheongsohamyeo bupum ireumman oewoya hago, dondo geoui mot badayo.
It isn't easy. The first year, you just clean and memorize the names of parts, and you hardly get paid.
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A ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. ๊ทธ ์ ๋๋ ๊ฐ์คํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ฆ์ ํผ์ด๋ค๋ฉด ์ธ์ ๋ ์ง ๋ด๋ณด๋ด์ ๋ ๋ผ์.
Gwaenchanayo. Geu jeongdoneun gagohago wasseoyo. Jega geeureumeul piundamyeon eonjedeunji naebonaesyeodo dwaeyo.
That's fine. I came ready for that. If I ever slack off, you can send me away any time.
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B ์ข์์. ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ํ์ ํ๋ ๋ผ๊ฒ์. ์ด ์๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ถํดํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ด์ผ๊น์ง ๋ค์ ์กฐ๋ฆฝํด ์์.
Joayo. Geureom siheomeul hana naelgeyo. I sigyereul bunhaehaetdaga naeilkkaji dasi joripae wayo.
All right. Then I'll set you a test. Take this watch apart and have it put back together by tomorrow.
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A ๋ด์ผ๊น์ง์? ๋ง์ฝ ๋ชป ํ๋ฉด ์ด๋กํ์ฃ ?
Naeilkkajiyo? Manyak mot hamyeon eotteokajyo?
By tomorrow? What if I can't do it?
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B ๋ชป ํด๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. ์ ๋ง ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ฉด ๋ด์ผ ์์นจ ์ฌ๋ ์์ ์ด ์๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ์์.
Mot haedo gwaenchanayo. Jeongmal baeugo sipdamyeon naeil achim yeodeol sie i sigyereul deulgo wayo.
It's fine if you can't. If you really want to learn, bring this watch here at eight tomorrow morning.
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