Gimbap

Question 1

혹시

혹시 여러분은 소풍을 가거나, 야외에 나갈 때 어떤 음식을 먹어요?

Answer 1

By any chance *indicates that you’ll be asking a question

When you go on a picnic or go outdoors, what kind of food do you eat?

Question 2

야외

한국에서는 소풍을 가거나, 야외에 나를 때 꼭 이 음식을 먹어요

Answer 2

The outside/outdoors

In Korea, when people go on a picnic or go outdoors, they always eat this food

Question 3

짜잔! 김밥입니다

Answer 3

Tada! It’s gimbap

Question 4

저는 김밥을 정말 좋아해요

Answer 4

I really like gimbap

Question 5

싸다

어렸을 때, 제가 초등학교 학생이었을 때, 소풍을 가는 날에는 엄마가 꼭 김밥을 싸 주셨어요

Answer 5

To wrap/to prepare *one of many definitions

When I was little, when I was in elementary school, when I went on a school picnic, my mom packed gimbap for me

Question 6

기대
~잖아요

소풍날은 항상 기대가 되잖아요

Answer 6

Anticipation/expectation(s)
~you know (?)

You know, on a (school) picnic day, you are always excited

Question 7

말다
~서

그래서 소풍날 아침에 일찍 일어나면, 항상 엄마가 더 일찍 일어나셔서 김밥을 말고 계셨어요

Answer 7

To roll something up, roll (up)
~to do verb 1 and THEN do verb 2

So if I wake up early on a picnic day, my mother would always have woken up earlier and was making gimbap rolls

Question 8

도시락

Answer 8

Packed lunch

Question 9

기억

그래서 김밥을 만들어서 도시락 통에 예쁘게 넣어 주시면, 그걸 싸 가자고 소풍을 갔단 기억이 있어요

Answer 9

Memory

So when she made gimbap and put it in my lunchbox nice and pretty, I remember packing that up and going on the picnic

Question 10

궁금하다

그래서 제가 궁금해졌어요

Answer 10

To be curious + ~여지다 = to become VERB

So I got curious

Question 11

다니다

언제부터 한국 사람들은 소풍을 갈 때 김밥을 싸 가지고 다녔을까?

Answer 11

To attend, to go around

Since when did Korean people start packing gimbap when they went on a picnic?

Question 12

찾아보다

궁금해서 인터넷으로 한번 찾아봤어요

Answer 12

Look (for), search (for), look up

I got curious so I looked it up online

Question 13

정확한

Answer 13

Exact

Question 14

정보

Answer 14

Information

Question 15

나오다

그런데 정확한 정보는 나오지 않지만, 한 1950년대 그때부터 지금 모습의 김밥이 나왔다고 해요

Answer 15

To come out/emerge

But I couldn’t find precise information, but they say that the current shape of gimbap came about around the 1950’s

Question 16

~처럼

Answer 16

Like NOUN

Question 17

들어가다

들어가진

Answer 17

To go in

들어가다 + 지는 = 들어가진
Other things were similar but the act of PUTTING IN other (vegetables) didn’t happen

Question 18

김

Answer 18

Seaweed

Question 19

가지

김과 밥, 그리고 한 가지나, 두 가지의 야채만 들어가 있었다고 해요

Answer 19

Type

It’s said that is only had seaweed and rice and then just two types of vegetables

Question 20

저는 소풍을 갈 때 보통 치즈와 포도를 가지고 가요

Answer 20

I usually bring cheese and grapes when I go on a picnic

Question 21

김밥은 등산길 때 가져가면 좋은 음식인 것 같아요

Answer 21

I think gimbap is a good food to take on the hiking trail.

Question 22

미국 사람들이 야외에서 소풍을 가거나 모임을 가질 때 우리는 그릴 위에서 요리하는 것을 좋아해요

Answer 22

When Americans have picnics or gatherings outdoors we like to cook on the grill

Question 23

그대는 그렇지만 지금처럼 굉장히 다양한 야채가 들어가진 않았고요

Answer 23

But back then, it didn’t have various types of vegetables like now

Question 24

까다롭다

제가 어렸을 때, 저는 조금 까다로운 야이였어요

Answer 24

Picky, particular, fussy

When I was young, I was kind of a picky child

Question 25

시금치

음식을 잘 안 먹고 … 시금치 안 먹었어요. 당근 안 먹었어요.

Answer 25

Spinach

I didn’t eat a lot … I didn’t eat spinach and I didn’t eat carrots

Question 26

~았/었/였가든(요)

그런데 김밥 안에 있는 시금치, 당근은 다 먹었가든요

Answer 26

Indicated that you are providing background info

But I did eat the spinach and carrot that was in my gimbap

Question 27

그래서 저희 엄마도 항상 김밥을 싸 주시면서…

Answer 27

So my mother, while making gimbap for me, she always said…

Question 28

자식

Answer 28

Children

Question 29

등등

Answer 29

Etc

Question 30

~았/었/엮으면 좋겠다

그런데 1970년대가 되면서 한국의 엄마들이 자식들을 위해 다양한 야채를 먹고 다양한 음식을 먹었으면 좋겠다라는 생각에 여러 가지 야채들, 고리고 달걀, 심지어는 볼고, 김치 등등 다양한 음식을 넣기 시작했다고 합니다

Answer 30

~I wish/hope that someone would / something will

But when the 1970’s came around,mothers in Korea, for the sake of their children, hoping that they would eat diverse vegetables and various foods, it’s said that they started adding diverse foods, such as various vegetables, egg, even bulgogi and kimchi

Question 31

골고루
꼭꼭

“김밥은 다양한 야채가 골고루 있고, 고기도 들어가 있으니, 정말 건강에 좋은 거니까 꼭꼭 씹어서 많이 먹어서,”라고 말씀하셨었어요

Answer 31

Evenly
Chew well

“Gimbap evenly contains various types of vegetables and it also has meat in it, so it’s really good for your health. So chew (it) well and eat a lot of it,” she said

Question 32

맛살

그리고 조회 엄마는…김밥에 들어가는 맛살 아세요?

Answer 32

(Imitation) crab meat - can also be written as 게맛살

And my mom…do you know the crab meat that goes into gimbap?

Question 33

모양

그 맛살을 이용해서 김밥 위에 예쁘게 꽃 모양이나, 하트 모양을 만들어 주셨어요

Answer 33

Shape

Using the crab meat, she made pretty flowers or heart shaped on the gimbap

Question 34

정상이 대단하셨죠?

Answer 34

That’s a lot of effort, right?

대단하다 = great, huge, immense, enormous

Question 35

그래서 소풍 가면 항상, “우리 엄마 김밥이 더 맛있다. 아니야! 우리 엄마 김밥이 더 맛있어!”

Answer 35

So when I went on a picnic, all the time, “my mom’s gimbap is more tasty. No! My mom’s gimbap is better!

Question 36

이런 식으로

이런 식으로 싸우기도 했던 기억이 납니다

Answer 36

Like this

I remember arguing (with my friends) like this

Question 37

추억의

여러분들은 혹시 이렇게 야외 나갈 때, 그리고 소풍을 갔을 때, 엄마가 싸 주신 추억이 음식이 있나요?

Answer 37

Nostalgic

When you went outdoors or on a picnic is there some no’s food that your mom used to prepare for you?

Question 38

아니면 야외에 나갈 때 항상 먹는 음식이 있나요?

Answer 38

Or is there a good that you always eat when you go outdoors?