day 62kings and dynasties
unit 9 · family, tradition & historykings and dynasties
Understand the hao-style ending -소 after a consonant (나는 모르겠소, 잘 있소?), and talk about kings, dynasties and history: 왕조, 왕위, 왕권, 신하, 선비, 식민지, 몰락, 발굴, 재현.
today’s words
- 귀족 gwijok · aristocrat, noble
- 몰락 mollak · fall, downfall
- 발굴 balgul · excavation, digging up; discovery
- 서구 seogu · the West, Western
- 선비 seonbi · (Confucian) scholar of old
- 선조 seonjo · ancestors, forefathers
- 쇠퇴 soetoe · decline
- 식민지 singminji · colony
- 신하 sinha · (king’s) subject, minister, courtier
- 암흑기 amheukgi · dark age, dark period
- 연대 yeondae · date, period (of an object, event)
- 왕궁 wanggung · royal palace
- 왕권 wanggwon · royal power, the king’s authority
- 왕위 wangwi · the throne
- 왕조 wangjo · dynasty
- 원시 wonsi · primitive; prehistoric
- 원형 wonhyeong · original form
- 위인 wiin · great figure, great man or woman
- 재현 jaehyeon · reproduction, re-enactment
- 하인 hain · servant
- 학살 haksal · massacre
- 황제 hwangje · emperor
- 후대 hudae · later generations
sentences
- 조선 왕조는 500년 넘게 이어졌다. · The Joseon dynasty lasted more than five hundred years.
- (사극에서 왕이 신하들에게) 왕위를 둘러싼 갈등으로 왕권이 약해진 이때, 그대들의 생각은 어떻소? · (in a period drama, the king to his ministers) Now that the conflict over the throne has weakened royal power, what do you think?
- 치안이 불안해서 백성들의 삶은 화려한 왕궁과 달리 힘들었다. · With public order shaky, the common people’s lives were hard, unlike the splendid palace.
- 귀족들은 집에 여러 명의 하인을 두고 살았다. · Aristocrats kept several servants in their homes.
- (사극에서 선비가 친구에게) 나는 가난해도 책을 읽으며 바른 길을 지키겠소. · (in a period drama, a scholar to his friend) Poor as I am, I shall read my books and keep to the right path.