day 47evidence and confessions
unit 7 · courts, crime & disastersevidence and confessions
Recognise the literary statement ending -라 (it is …) in old texts, proverbs and editorials, and talk about evidence: 수색, 영장, 자백, 시인, 입증, 의혹, 위조, 용의자.
today’s words
- 수법 subeop · method, trick (of a crime)
- 수사관 susagwan · investigator
- 수상하다 susanghada · suspicious, strange
- 수색 susaek · search (by police, rescuers)
- 시인 siin · admission, confession
- 엄중하다 eomjunghada · strict, stern, severe
- 영장 yeongjang · warrant
- 용의자 yonguija · suspect
- 원고 wongo · plaintiff
- 위조 wijo · forgery
- 음모 eummo · plot, conspiracy
- 의혹 uihok · suspicion, doubts
- 입증 ipjeung · proving, proof
- 자백 jabaek · confession (to a crime)
- 자수 jasu · turning yourself in
- 장본인 jangbonin · the very person (responsible)
- 저작권 jeojakgwon · copyright
- 적발 jeokbal · detection, catching (wrongdoing)
- 절도 jeoldo · theft
- 제재 jejae · sanction, restriction
- 제정 jejeong · enactment (of a law)
- 종결 jonggyeol · conclusion, closing (of a case)
- 죄인 joein · criminal, wrongdoer (old-fashioned)
sentences
- 경찰은 수상한 사람이 건물 주변을 돌아다닌다는 신고를 받았다. · The police had a report of a suspicious person wandering around the building.
- 검찰은 영장을 받아 업체 사무실을 수색했다. · The prosecution obtained a warrant and searched the firm’s offices.
- 용의자는 처음에는 부인했지만 수사관의 질문에 걸려들어 결국 범행을 자백했다. · The suspect denied it at first but was caught out by the investigator’s questions and finally confessed.
- 선배가 “회계 담당자는 뭐라고 하던?” 하고 묻자 그는 위조 서류를 만든 장본인이 바로 그 사람이라고 답했다. · When his senior asked, “So what did the accountant say?”, he answered that the accountant was the very person who had made the forged documents.
- 소송에서는 원고가 자신의 피해를 입증해야 한다. · In a lawsuit, the plaintiff must prove the harm done to them.