3 · 40 words

Media and entertainment

Television, dramas, music and the people who make them.

Much of this vocabulary is borrowed from English and easy to recognise once you read it aloud: 드라마, 채널, 콘서트. The meanings shift a little, though: a 드라마 is any TV series with a story, not only a serious one, and 예능, the variety show full of games and guests, has no neat English equivalent. The Sino-Korean words cluster around 방송, broadcasting: 방송국, 생방송, 재방송.

The words

Verb (3)

연기하다to act; to play (a role)Verb3

그 배우는 이번 영화에서 의사를 연기했어요.That actor played a doctor in this film.

연기, acting, has a homonym meaning "smoke".

개봉하다to be released (of a film)Verb3

그 영화는 다음 달에 개봉해요.That film comes out next month.

For films in cinemas; also to open a sealed package.

시청하다to watch (television)Verb3

이 프로그램은 어린이도 함께 시청할 수 있어요.Children can watch this programme too.

The formal word for watching TV; in speech people say 보다.

This list belongs to Free time, sport and entertainment — five lists and 201 words that can also be practised as a whole.

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