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I Thank My TONGUE (ํ˜€) ๐Ÿ‘…

  • Writer: learnkoreanwithweb
    learnkoreanwithweb
  • Feb 1
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 21


์ €๋Š” ์ œ ํ˜€์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I am grateful for my tongue.


์„ธ์ƒ ๋ชจ๋“  ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Itโ€™s because it allows me to eat all the food in the world.


๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํŽธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thatโ€™s why traveling abroad is easy for me.


์šธ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

I donโ€™t have to run to a Korean restaurant, crying.


Sprinting to a Korean restaurant...?
Sprinting to a Korean restaurant...?

์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

When I travel abroad for a long time, I always get this question:


โ€œํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹ ์•ˆ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”?โ€

โ€œDonโ€™t you want to eat Korean food?โ€


์ œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ „ํ˜€์š”!โ€

My answer is always the same: โ€œNot at all!โ€


(์ง€๊ธˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ง๋ ˆ์ด์‹œ์•„์—์„œ๋„ ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”.)

(I got this question here in Malaysia too.)



I like ๊น€๋ฐฅ but...
I like ๊น€๋ฐฅ but...

์ €๋Š” ํ•œ์‹์„ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด์ œ ์•ˆ ๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋ผ์š”.ย ๐Ÿ˜‚

Iโ€™ve eaten Korean food for decades. I donโ€™t need to eat it anymore.


๋‚จ์€ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์™ธ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์–ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

For the rest of my life, I want to try new foreign foods.


ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์ €๊ฐ™์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.

But most Koreans are not like me.


ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ๋ผ๋ผ๋„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๊ผญ ๋จน์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•„์š”.

Many of them have toย eat at least one Korean meal a day.


๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ปต๋ผ๋ฉด์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€์š”.

So when traveling abroad, they bring cup ramyun and look for Korean restaurants.


๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌํ–‰ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์Œ์‹ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํž˜๋“ค์–ดํ•ด์š”.

And they struggle with food throughout their trip.



A sneak-peek image from Volume 2
A sneak-peek image from Volume 2

์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ง๋ ˆ์ด์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” <๋‚˜์˜ ์˜ˆ๋น„ ํ˜•์ˆ˜๋‹˜> ์ œ2๊ถŒ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ์ง€ํ›ˆ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. (โš ๏ธย ์Šคํฌ์ผ๋Ÿฌ โš ๏ธ)

In My Future Sister-In-Law Volume 2, which Iโ€™m currently writing in Malaysia, the main character, Jihoon, goes to the U.S. (Spoiler)



์ง€ํ›ˆ๋„ ์Œ์‹ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณ ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์ € ํ‘œ์ • ์ข€ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”! ๐Ÿ˜‚)

Jihoon also has a hard time because ofย food. (Look at his expression!)


"๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ" ์ฑ•ํ„ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์Œ์‹ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณ ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋‹ด์•˜์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์™€ ํ‘œํ˜„๋„์š”!ย 

The "Life in the US"ย chapter captures the typical struggles of Koreans with food when abroad. It also includes words and expressions used in those situations!



[Update in March 2025: Volume 2 is now available on Amazonย and Google Play Books]






์–ดํœ˜ Vocabulary


ํ˜€ tongue

์„ธ์ƒ world

ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฌํ–‰ย traveling abroad

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์  |ย ํ•œ์‹๋‹น Korean restaurant

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹ |ย ํ•œ์‹ย  Korean food

์งˆ๋ฌธ question

๋‹ต๋ณ€ answer

์ธ์ƒ life

๋ผ meal

๊ณ ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค to struggle

์ „ํ˜•์  typical

ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ Korean person

์ƒํ™ฉย situation

๋‹จ์–ด word

ํ‘œํ˜„ย expression




์ด ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ์“ฐ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ์ผ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ํŒŒ์š”.ย ๐Ÿง 

I used my brain a lot to make this newsletter interesting, and now Iโ€™m hungry.


์ €๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์ €๋…์„ ๋จน์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์ดˆ์ด์Šค๋Š” ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋ง๋ ˆ์ด์‹œ์•„ ํ˜„์ง€ ์Œ์‹์ด๊ณ ์š”!

Iโ€™m heading out for dinner now. Of course, my choice is Malaysian local food!



I love Malaysian food! ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”!
I love Malaysian food! ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”!


This is a newsletter I sent on January 31, 2025.


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