day 31making things

making things

Talk about how things are made, processed and shipped: industries, origins, stock and fuel, and give formal instructions with -기에 앞서 (review).

today’s words

• 제조 jejo · manufacture, making
• 제조업 jejoeop · manufacturing (industry)
• 가공 gagong · processing
• 생산량 saengsannyang · output, production
• 물량 mullyang · quantity, volume (of goods)
• 재고 jaego · stock, inventory
• 품목 pummok · item (on a list)
• 물품 mulpum · goods, articles
• 원산지 wonsanji · country of origin
• -산 -san · -산: produced in (국내산)
• -제 -je · -제: made in (한국제)
• 특산물 teuksanmul · local speciality (produce)
• 우량 uryang · high-quality, blue-chip
• 고- go- · 고-: high (고품질)
• 산업화 saneophwa · industrialisation
• 건설업 geonseoreop · construction (industry)
• 서비스업 seobiseueop · service industry
• 운수업 unsueop · transport (industry)
• 운송 unsong · transport, shipping
• 어업 eoeop · fishing (industry)
• -업 -eop · -업: industry, business (관광업)
• 선박 seonbak · vessel, ship
• 석탄 seoktan · coal
• 원유 wonyu · crude oil
• 휘발유 hwiballyu · petrol, gasoline

sentences

• 한국은 1960년대부터 빠르게 산업화되었다. · Korea industrialised rapidly from the 1960s.
• 이 공장은 수입한 원유를 가공해서 휘발유를 만든다. · This plant processes imported crude oil into petrol.
• 제조업에서 일하는 사람이 줄어든 것과 대조적으로 서비스업에서 일하는 사람은 늘었다. · In contrast to the fall in people working in manufacturing, the number working in the service industry has grown.
• 제주도 특산물인 귤은 겨울에 생산량이 가장 많다. · Tangerines, Jeju’s local speciality, are produced most in winter.
• 가게에서 파는 모든 물품에는 원산지를 적어야 해요. · Every item sold in a shop has to show its country of origin.