검은 우산 두 개
After finishing her work at a café in Seongsu-dong, Hana stepped outside. Rain tapped the factory windows, and only one black umbrella remained in the stand.
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하나는 성수동 카페에서 공부를 마치고 나서 밖으로 나왔어요. 비가 유리창을 두드렸고, 검은 우산 하나만 남아 있었어요. 하나는 들고 나갔어요. 횡단보도 앞에서 손잡이에 달린 파란 이름표를 발견했어요. 이름표에는 “도윤”이라고 적혀 있어서 하나는 카페로 돌아갔어요. “죄송해요. 제 우산인 줄 알았어요. 바로 .” 도윤은 하나의 줄무늬 우산을 내밀며 “괜찮아요. 저도 바뀐 줄 알았어요”라고 했어요. 두 사람은 젖은 우산을 바꾸고, 이번에는 이름표를 확인한 뒤 웃었어요.
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After finishing her work at a café in Seongsu-dong, Hana stepped outside.
Rain tapped the factory windows, and only one black umbrella remained in the stand.
Hana picked it up, thinking it was hers.
At the crosswalk, she noticed a blue name tag tied to the handle.
The tag read “Doyun,” so Hana went straight back to the café.
“I’m sorry. I thought it was mine. Let me give it back.”
Holding out Hana’s striped umbrella, Doyun said, “It’s okay. I thought they’d been switched too.”
They exchanged the dripping umbrellas and laughed after checking the tags this time.
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Reading Comprehension Exercise
A2 Korean Reading Comprehension Exercises
1. What proves that the black umbrella is not Hana’s?
Correct: Doyun’s blue name tag
The name 도윤 on the blue tag overturns Hana’s assumption that the umbrella is hers.
2. Why is Doyun already holding Hana’s striped umbrella?
Correct: He also noticed the umbrellas were switched
His line 저도 바뀐 줄 알았어요 shows that he independently understood the same mix-up.
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