About This Book

A textbook providing you with various subjects and genres for reading Korean culture!

* Read diverse genres including practical writings, essays, and explanatory notes related to Korean culture!

* Build comprehensive language function through writing and talking exercises before and after reading!

* Organized to enable the students to summarize and restructure the core ideas of each paragraph by themselves!

* From basic cultural understanding to comparative cultural discussions, all become possible through step-by-step vocabulary learning and reading!

〈Reading Korean with Culture〉 is a textbook for novice and advanced learners in reading Korean. It enables the students to learn Korean through various genres of articles ranging from explanatory notes, practical writings, and literary works step-by-step from stage 1 to stage 6. By reading texts with diverse topics related to Korean culture, learners can build not only their reading abilities but also their overall communication skills through comprehensive language function exercises spanning listening, talking, and writing. 〈Reading Korean with Culture 4〉 consists of 20 chapters on various subjects like traveling, schools and education, the Internet world, language and lifestyle, great people from Korea, getting jobs and economy, cultural differences, science and life, and happiness. With intermediate level learners as its main readers, this book aims to cultivate diverse language functions with exercises before and after reading. Also, the “New Vocabulary” attached to reading materials contained in the books from vol. 1 to vol. 4 offer English, Chinese, and Japanese translation together to enhance the learners’ understanding.

머리말 4

구성과 특징 6

목차 8

교재 구성표 10

01 아름다운 설악 기행 13

02 나를 찾아 떠나는 여행 21

03 어머니의 가르침 29

04 세계 최고 교육열 37

05 김의 유래 45

06 음식 궁합 53

07 SNS는 약일까? 독일까? 61

08 고민 상담 69

09 알아두면 유용한 관용 표현 77

10 성공적인 한국어 공부법 85

11 백성을 먼저 생각한 왕 93

12 허난설헌과 허균 101

13 유망 직업 109

14 광고의 두 얼굴 117

15 드래곤(Dragon)은 용(龍)이 아니다 125

16 나라마다 다른 비언어적 의사소통 133

17 서울시, 미래 교통을 이끌다 141

18 온돌에서 보일러까지 149

19 어려움 속에서도 행복을 노래한 시인 157

20 변화하는 행복관 165

부록

- 모범 답안 174

- 어휘 색인 180

- 표현 색인 184