์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, BDB Korean์ Hoorimi ์ค์ ๋๋ค! ๋ชจ๋ ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์์๋์? ์์ฆ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ถ์ด๋ฐ, ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ถ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ฌํ์ธ์! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ๊ณ ์ด๋ ๊ณณ์ ์๋์ง, ํ๋ณตํ ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค!^^
Hello everyone! This is Hoorimi from BDB Korean.
How have you all been? The weather is getting colder in Korea these days, so for those of you in Korea, please take care and stay warm! No matter where you are in the world, I hope you have a wonderful day. ๐
์ค๋์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ณผ Tracy์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ค๊ณ ํด์. Tracy๋ ์ด๋จธ๋๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ๋ถ์ด์๊ณ , ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋ฐฑ์ธ์ด์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ๊ตํฌ์์. ํ๊ตญ์ด ์์ ์ ํ๋ฉด์ Tracy์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฌ๋ฏธ๊ตํฌ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ง์ด ๋ง๋ฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์ถ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์ ๋ง๋ค ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์๊ฒ ๋์์ด์. Tracy์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด ๋ณธ ๋ถ๋ค์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ ์ ์๊ณ , ๋ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํด์จ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ์ ์ป์ ์๋ ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ์๊ฐํด์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ก์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ ์ดํดํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ ๋์ ์ธ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋์ง ์์๊น์?
Today, Iโd like to share Tracyโs story with you. Tracy is a Korean-American with a Korean mother and a white father. Through my Korean classes, Iโve met many Korean-Americans with diverse backgrounds, and Iโve come to understand that each person has their own unique struggles and life experiences. Some of you may relate to Tracyโs experiences and reflections on identity, while others may gain a new perspective on something youโve never thought about before. I believe that by sharing and understanding each otherโs stories, we can open our eyes to a broader world.

Tracyโs Story
Tracy์ ๊ธ
์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ํ์ด๋ ๋ฐ ๊ตํฌ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋จธ๋๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋ถ์ด์๊ณ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ๋ฐฑ์ธ์ด์ธ์. ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋๋ถํฐ ํ์์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๋จน์ด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ํ์์ ์์ฃผ ๋จน๋ ์ค ์์์ด์. ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋๊น ์๊ธด ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์. ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต ๋... ์ด๋๋ , ์ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ง์ ๋๋ฌ ์๋๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋ถ์์ ์๋ ๋ฐฅ์ฅ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ด๊ฒ ๋ญ๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ดค์ด์. ์ ๊ฐ ์ข ๋นํฉ์ค๋ฌ์์ ์น๊ตฌ์๊ฒ '์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ฐฅ์ฅ์ด์์!'๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ '๋ฐฅ์ฅ์ด ๋ญ๋ฐ?'๋ผ๊ณ ๋ค์ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณด๋๋ผ๊ณ ์. ์ ๊ฐ ์น๊ตฌ์๊ฒ ๋ฐฅ์ฅ์ด ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง ์ค๋ช ํด์คฌ์ง๋ง ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋ฐฅ์ฅ์ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ์จ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ํด์ ๋ฏฟ์ ์ ์์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ทธ๋๋ถํฐ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ํ์์ ์ ๋จน๋๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋ซ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ด์. ใ ใ
I was born in the U.S. as a half-Korean, with my mother being Korean and my father being white. Since I grew up eating mostly Korean food, I just assumed that most people ate Korean food regularly too. Thinking back, I remember a funny story. When I was in elementary schoolโฆ One day, a friend came over to my house and saw the rice cooker in the kitchen. They asked me, "Whatโs this?" I was a bit surprised and replied, "Itโs a rice cooker, of course!" But my friend asked again, "Whatโs a rice cooker?" I tried explaining what it was, but they said they had never used one before. I couldnโt believe it! Thatโs when I started to realize that not everyone eats Korean food. Haha.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋๋ถํฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์๋ง์ ํ ๋จธ๋, ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ํํ์๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ๋ค์๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋๋ ํ๋๋ ์์๋ค์ ์ ์์์ผ๋... ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ํ ์ค ์๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋๋์ด ๋ค์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋๋ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๋ ์์ด๋ ํ์ค ์ค ์์ ์ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ์นํ์ด์. ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ์์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ํ์ค ์ค ์์ ์, ์ ๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ ์ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ์์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ ํ์ค ์ ์์์ผ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ์นํด์ก์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ฌ์ค ํ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ฐ ๋์๊ฐ์ ์ง 8๋ ๋์, ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๊ฐ์ด ๋ํํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋์ณค์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ ์ผ์ฐ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์ง ์์ ๊ฑธ ์ข ํํํด์.
Ever since I was young, I would often hear my mom, grandma, and grandpa speaking in Korean. But back then, I couldnโt understand a single wordโฆ and I remember wishing I could speak Korean too. Thankfully, my grandpa spoke English, so we were really close. My grandma spoke a little English, but I always felt that if I had been better at Korean or if she had been a little better at English, we could have been even closer. Itโs been eight years since my grandpa passed away, and I regret not having had the chance to talk with him in Korean. I really wish I had learned Korean earlier.

๊ทธ๊ฑธ ํํํด๋ ์ง์ง ์ข์ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ค๋ ์์ด์. ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ๋ง๋์ ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ ๋ง, ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ํ ๋จธ๋๊ฐ ๊ณ ์คํฑ ๊ฒ์์ ๊ฐ์ด ํ์ ๋ชจ์ต, ํ ๋จธ๋์ ํ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ๋์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ์ ๋ ๋ ๊น์น ๋์.. ์ด ๊ธฐ์ต๋ค์ ์๊ฐํ ๋๋ง๋ค ์ ๋ง์์ด ๊ธฐ์จ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋์ฐจ์.
But even with that regret, I have so many beautiful memories. The taste of the bibimbap my grandma made, the sight of my grandparents playing Go-Stop together, the smell of kimchi that filled their home whenever I walked inโฆ Every time I think about these moments, my heart fills with warmth and happiness.
์ฉ๊ธฐ ์๊ฒ ์์ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์ค Tracy์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค!
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ํตํด์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ํตํ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ์.
๋ค์์ ๋ ์ด๋ค ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ๋๋ ์ง, ๊ธฐ๋๋๋ค์!
๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ชจ๋ ์๋ !๐
A big thank you to Tracy for bravely sharing her story! I hope that through learning Korean, she will continue to share more stories and connect even more with her beloved family.
Iโm excited to see what story weโll share next!Take care, everyone!