• Exchange information about past experiences and observations.
• Recall personal experiences about past events.
• Plan or participate in housewarming events.

• INGREDIENTS – 단어 Vocabulary
  • Housewarming party
• RECIPE – 문법과 표현 Grammar
  • A/V–던
  • V–(으)면 V–(으)ㄹ수록
  • A/V–더라(고)
• LET’S COOK – 해 봐요! Classroom Tasks
  • Interpretive Task 1. A conversation at a housewarming party
  • Interpretive & Interpersonal Task 2. A newspaper article on housing preferences
  • Interpersonal & Presentational Task 3. Welcome to our town!
• KOREAN FLAVORS – 한국어와 한국 문화 Korean Language and Culture
  • Korean clausal modifiers
  • Housewarming party
• NOW YOU TRY! – 스스로 해봐요! Async. Practices and Tasks
  • Integrated Performance Task Link
  • WB Link

What do you bring when you are invited to a housewarming party? Let’s read the following dialogues. What are they talking about?

1. A/V–던 noun that … was/was doing; used to

The suffix –더 encodes rather layered meaning elements, where the doer is RECALLING a personal experience that was GOING ON FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. The experience can be something the speaker personally carried out or something they witnessed at the scene (e.g. I was reading or You saw him sleeping there). What was experienced or observed should be something that went on for a while either by habitual repetition or by the act being sustained for some time (e.g. The restaurant that they used to go to has closed down or I recall that the water dripped from the faucet for some time). This has been an in-depth exploration of the suffix –더 for advanced Korean learners such as yourselves.

For noun–modifying clauses, you know –는 marks an on-going present action and –(으)ㄴ marks an action that’s happened and completed: Finito. What if you want to express an action or event that repeated or went on for a while in the past? It is over and in the past, but it continued for a while. This is when you would use the suffix –던.

Since it expresses an inherent duration, –던 is also used to make the past tense of adjectives in relative clauses: “the NOUN who was ADJECTIVE (for some amount of time).”

2. A/V–았/었던 N that was once and no more

Adding the past tense –었 to –던 to describe a noun emphasizes what once was is no more.  V–았/었던 N = “the NOUN that someone/something (once) had VERBed at a particular point in the past.”  Compare the following sentences:

Some speakers use –었던 with pretty much any past descriptions to emphasize “no more the case”:

3. Conjugation

Conjugate these verbs and adjectives on your own:

<Answer key> 자르던, 잘랐던, 만들던, 만들었던, 실용적이던, 실용적이었던, 더럽던, 더러웠던, 깨끗하던, 깨끗했던

1. V/A–(으)면 V/A–(으)ㄹ수록 the more… the more…

The V/A–(으)ㄹ수록 connector expresses that an increased magnitude of an action or state in the leading clause results in an increased effect in the following clause:

Some speakers use –(으)면 –(으)ㄹ수록 for added effect:

2. Conjugation

Try on your own:

<Answer key> 들으면 들을수록, 만들면 만들수록, 도우면 도울수록, 부르면 부를수록, 짧으면 짧을수록, 길면 길수록, 더러우면 더러울수록, 친구(이)면 친구(일)수록

1. A/V–더라(고/고요) as I recall…, I can tell you that

The suffix –라 emphasizes your feelings (e.g., 추워라! It’s so coooold!) or a strong affect (e.g. 이제 좀 일어나라! Get up already!). –더 adds a reflective mode, so with –더라 you can speak emphatically of your experience:

If you want to stress a point, you can use –라고 or –라구:

–던데 can also be used as a sentence ending, Just like the connector –은/는데.

Create a role play with your partner using the key grammar expressions and new vocabulary from this lesson. Include 5 to 6 meaningful rounds of dialogue. Take turns and feel free to add details to make the conversation lively.

• Context: A person who has recently moved to a new place invited their friend to the housewarming party. Give a housewarming gift and ask and answer questions about the new place.
• Participants: An older friend who just moved to a new place and their younger friend
• Key Expressions: Passive verbs, –던, – (으)ㄹ수록, –더라
• Sample dialogue:

A Conversation at a Housewarming Party

Austin is having a housewarming party with his close friends at his new home. Listen to the dialogue and answer the questions in Korean.

1. Who came to the housewarming party?

2. What did the guests comment about Austin’s new place? Try to list as much as you recall.

• ___________________________________________________________
• ___________________________________________________________
• ___________________________________________________________
• ___________________________________________________________
• ___________________________________________________________

3. What did the guests bring?

4. Write down the gift–giving practices of a Korean housewarming party based on the conversation.

5. Talk with your classmates about a housewarming party: What are the similarities and differences in your own and Korean cultures?

Now, talk with your classmates about what you learned from the dialogue. Then, listen to the dialogue again.

Helpful Vocabulary

A Newspaper Article on Housing Preferences

You and your friends are talking about your housing preferences and experiences and comparing perspectives.

1. Read the newspaper article and answer the questions in English.

Helpful Vocabulary

1. What does the headline of the article mean in English?

2. Describe what the graph conveys.

3. According to the article, what are some reasons why young people like city life and country life?

4. Summarize the interviewee’s response and share with the class.

Welcome to Our Town!

You are producing a short video to introduce your community to visitors and new and prospective residents. Share your testimonial with the class as a rehearsal before filming it. Include the following information about the community:

• Location
• Transportation
• Facilities
• Places to visit, etc.

Now is a good time to review particles in clausal modifiers (also known as sentential modifiers or relative clauses, but don’t worry too much about the grammar terms). The subject of the modifying sentence (the ‘leading sentence’) is pretty much always marked with 이/가 (and not 은/는), and the object is marked with 을/를 (not 은/는). The noun being modified in the main (or the ‘following sentence’) is usually marked with 은/는.

But again, the subject can be marked with 이/가 in an answer as a focus:

If the subject of the main clause (that is, the noun being described) is identified by the main clause predicate, the noun being described is marked with 은/는. If the predicate provides new information about an action or an event that the subject is involved in, the marker should be 이/가:

In conclusion, the marking of the noun being described by the relative clause follows the normal rules for topic and focus:

But note that the subject and the object within the relative clause are pretty regularly marked with 이/가 and 을/를, respectively.

Housewarming Party

Historically, a housewarming party was a celebration of the completion of construction of a new house, and then later, of the move-in day, which were both communal efforts. In tight-knit rural communities, everyone helped a family (often newlyweds) move into their house and then celebrated together with a meal provided by the couple moving in. The neighbors and family who helped in the moving would bring gifts symbolic of wishes for prosperity and health and longevity in the new household; and there were oftentimes offerings to the house gods or ritual cleansing or blessing of the home.

Some traditional housewarming gifts are candles, matches, soap or detergent, potted plants and toilet paper – all of which may be interpreted simply as practical items for the new home. While there is nothing wrong with practical gifts – they may be much more appreciated than knick–knacks, in fact – there is also tradition to these particular items:

• Soap or detergent can symbolize pure home, but also, its round, shiny bubbles represent money and prosperity, especially the way they “rise up.”
• The flame from candles or matches also represents purity, but these are rarer gifts now that they are less useful.
• Toilet paper is a very practical gift. You can store a lot of it at one time, it doesn’t go bad, everyone uses it, and it might go overlooked during a hectic move. Toilet paper can also symbolize the wish for a clean and pure home. And, since it unrolls cleanly and smoothly for a long time, it symbolizes wishes for the lives of the homeowners to do the same.
• Potted plants (or smaller sized trees) add a touch of color and life to a home and freshen the air, but also represent prosperity, health and a thriving life (or business).

Housewarming does not involve only the new residents receiving gifts. In fact, new residents will often take 팥떡 to their new neighbors as a way of establishing good relations and laying the foundation for a harmonious community. (http://www.koreabrand.net)

Nowadays, Korea is more urbanized and more secular, so moving is done by moving companies, not by family and friends, and it is more often and especially colleagues who are invited to the new home in order to solidify work-based social networks. There also may be multiple house-warming parties in order to invite different social groups.