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Oct 15, 2026
๐ŸŽƒ My First Halloween in America | ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งž์€ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ
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Enjoy a cozy Korean story narrated by Jin about experiencing Halloween in America for the first time! ๐Ÿ‚ ๐ŸŽง Also on YouTube & Spotify! Enjoy Korean Stories with Jin on the go. :) ๐Ÿ”— https://youtu.be/f8EmhnSXnFM ๐Ÿ”— https://open.spotify.com/episode/6S6E4inHNrwuw9Ifmvqe4p?si=HlMeOn2IQXWlPTZgps0KQg 1. ๐ŸŽง Korean audio story 2. ๐Ÿ“– Korean / English transcripts + 5 Key Korean expressions ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ง„์ด์—์š”. Hello, this is Jin. ์ง„๊ณผ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ, ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. This is the first episode of โ€œKorean Stories with Jin.โ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž‘์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. Today, Iโ€™ll share a small story about Halloween. ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ž๋ž์–ด์š”. I was born and raised in Korea. ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”. When I was young, Halloween wasnโ€™t as familiar in Korea as it is now. ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, Having Halloween parties with friends, ์ง‘์ง‘๋งˆ๋‹ค ์‚ฌํƒ•์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต๋„ or going door to door handing out candyโ€” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์–ด์š”. I had almost never seen those things. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์„œ๋ฅธ ์‚ด์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, But when I turned thirty, ์ €๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. I ended up living in the United States. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์™”์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” When I first came to the United States, ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ณ  ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. everything felt new and unfamiliar. ์–ธ์–ด๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ , The language was different, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒํ™œ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ , peopleโ€™s daily lives were different, ๋™๋„ค์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต๋„ ๋‹ฌ๋ž์–ด์š”. and even the neighborhoods looked different. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋А ๊ฐ€์„, And then one autumn, 10์›”์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. October arrived. ์–ด๋А ๋‚  ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ๊ฑท๋Š”๋ฐ One day, while I was walking through the neighborhood, ์ง‘ ์•ž์— ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ์ฃผํ™ฉ์ƒ‰ ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ด ๋ณด์˜€์–ด์š”. I saw a big orange pumpkin in front of a house. ์–ด๋–ค ์ง‘์—๋Š” ์œ ๋ น์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , Some houses had ghosts, ์–ด๋–ค ์ง‘์—๋Š” ํ•ด๊ณจ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ์ค„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. and some had skeletons and spiderwebs. ๋ฐค์ด ๋˜๋ฉด ์ง‘๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž‘์€ ๋ถˆ๋น›๋„ ๋ฐ˜์ง์˜€์–ด์š”. At night, little lights twinkled in front of each house. ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ํ˜ผ์ž ์›ƒ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. Seeing all of that, I quietly smiled to myself. โ€œ์•„, ์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์™”๊ตฌ๋‚˜.โ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. I thought, โ€œAhโ€ฆ I really did come to America.โ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ ๋‹น์ผ ์ €๋…์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. And then Halloween night arrived. ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋งˆ๋…€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , There were witches, ๊ณต์ฃผ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , there were princesses, ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด ๋™๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋ณ€์žฅํ•œ ์•„์ด๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. and there were kids dressed up as cute animals. ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์ง‘์ง‘๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ The children went from house to house ํฐ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. and shouted loudly, โ€œTrick or treat!โ€ ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ง์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์›ƒ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. I smiled when I heard them say that. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌํƒ•์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ And as I watched people giving candy to the children, ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. I felt a small warmth inside. ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณด์•˜๋˜ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ๊ณผ๋Š” It was completely different from the Halloween I had seen in Korea when I was youngโ€” ์•„์ฃผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”. a very different scene. ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค ์ง‘์— ๋Œ์•„์™€์„œ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ดค์–ด์š”. That night, when I came home, I looked out the window. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž๋ž๋˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ๋‚˜์™€ The child I once was, growing up in Korea, ์„œ๋ฅธ ์‚ด์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์˜จ ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ and the person I am now, who came to the U.S. at thirty, ํ•œ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด์š”. felt connected in a single moment. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ์ด Halloween, which wasnโ€™t anything special in Korea, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. became a new memory for me here in the United States. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ A culture that once felt unfamiliar ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ slowly, over time, ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์ œ ์‚ถ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. became a small part of my life. ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ 10์›”์ด ๋˜๋ฉด Even now, when October comes, ๊ธธ์—์„œ ์ฃผํ™ฉ์ƒ‰ ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด and I see orange pumpkins along the street, ๊ทธ๋•Œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ผ์š”. those memories come back to me. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ And when children smile โ€œTrick or treat!โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด and I hear them say โ€œTrick or treat!โ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ์„ ๋ณด์•˜๋˜ ๋‚ ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜์š”. Iโ€™m reminded of the very first Halloween I experienced in the U.S. ์ด๋ฏผ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด When you live as an immigrant, ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ๋˜ ์ž‘์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด the small moments that once felt unfamiliar ๋‚˜์ค‘์—๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. eventually become precious memories. ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ์ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ˆ์š”. Halloween is one of those moments for me. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์ œ ์‚ถ์ด The life that began for me in Korea ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ”์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. continued to create new stories here in the United States. ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”. Thatโ€™s all for todayโ€™s story. ์ œ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”. Thank you so much for listening to my first story. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, For you too, there might be moments that felt unfamiliar at first ๋‚˜์ค‘์—๋Š” ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? but later became something you grew to love. ์ €๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ด์š”. Iโ€™m curious about your stories as well. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. I hope we can share our stories together. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๋˜ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์š”. Then, Iโ€™ll see you again in the next story. ์•ˆ๋…•. ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ’— Goodbye. ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ’— ๐ŸŒธ5 Key Korean expressions (Korean ยท Romanization ยท English) 1. ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์–ด์š” nat-seo-reo-sseo-yo It felt unfamiliar. 2. ๋”ฐ๋œปํ–ˆ์–ด์š” tta-tteut-hae-sseo-yo It felt warm. 3. ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚ฌ์–ด์š” saeng-gak-nat-seo-yo It came to mind / I remembered. 4. ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š” so-jung-hae-jyeo-sseo-yo It became precious. 5. ์ด์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” i-eo-jeo-sseo-yo It felt connected / It continued. Perfect for beginners to practice Korean listening and learn everyday expressions. ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽงListen โ€ข Repeat โ€ข Learn โ€ข Enjoy Korean! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’–
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