Future Trends
Discuss where society, technology, and life are heading โ in Korean.
Iru Helper Note
Koreans are highly future-oriented in conversation โ discussing ํธ๋ ๋ (trends), ๋ณํ (change), and ์์ผ๋ก (going forward) is a core part of intellectual small talk and professional discussion.
์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์?
(How do you think the world will change going forward?)
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๐ฎ What You'll Learn Today
Talking about the future โ where society is heading, what trends are shaping our lives, what will change and what won't โ is a rich conversational territory in Korean. Whether it's technology, work culture, climate, or lifestyle shifts, Koreans engage deeply with these questions. This lesson gives you the vocabulary and sentence patterns to participate confidently in future-focused conversations.
๐ Future Trends Vocabulary
Expression | Meaning | Notes |
์์ผ๋ก | Going forward / in the future | Very common in trend discussions |
ํธ๋ ๋ | Trend | From English; widely used |
๋ณํ | Change | ๋ณํ๋ค = to change |
~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | I think ~ will become more important | Predicting rising importance |
~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | I think ~ will disappear | Predicting decline |
~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | I think ~ will increase | ๋์ด๋๋ค = to grow/increase |
~์ด/๊ฐ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | I think ~ will decrease | ์ค์ด๋ค๋ค = to decrease |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | It's changing rapidly | ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ = rapidly, dramatically |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | I think the era of ~ is coming | Predicting a new era |
์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ | Sustainability | Key buzzword |
์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ (AI) | Artificial intelligence | ์ธ๊ณต = artificial; ์ง๋ฅ = intelligence |
์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด | Remote work | ์ฌํ = at home; ๊ทผ๋ฌด = work |
๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ | Aging society | Major Korean social topic |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Interest in ~ is growing | Trend description pattern |
๐ก Key pattern: ์์ผ๋ก + [subject] + ~์ด/๊ฐ + [๋/์ ์ ] + ~์/์ด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ โ "Going forward, I think [subject] will get more/increasingly ~." This is the core future trend prediction sentence in Korean.
๐ฌ Conversations in Action
Dialogue 1 โ Work Culture Trends
A: ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (Do you think remote work will increase more going forward?)
B: ๋ค, ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ด ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋๊น์. (Yes, looking at the trends, I think so. Because things are changing rapidly.)
A: ๋ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๋ฌธํ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ง ์๊ฒ ์ฃ ? (On the other hand, office culture won't disappear, will it?)
B: ๋ง์์. ๊ท ํ์ด ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (Right. I think balance will become more important.)
Dialogue 2 โ Technology and Society
A: ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์ ๋ง ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. (Interest in AI is really growing.)
B: ์์ผ๋ก AI์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋ง์ ์ง์
์ด ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think the era of AI is coming. I think many jobs will change.)
A: ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ๋ ์ค์ํ ํธ๋ ๋์ฃ . (Sustainability is also an important trend.)
B: ๋ง์์. ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์ ์ ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. (Right. Interest in the environment is growing more and more.)
๐ Cultural Note โ Korea as a Trend-Forward Society
Korea is globally recognized as a fast-moving, trend-forward society โ from K-beauty and K-pop to tech adoption and urban design. The word ํธ๋ ๋ is used constantly in everyday Korean, and discussing ์์ผ๋ก (going forward) signals that someone is engaged and forward-thinking. Korean media and social discourse is saturated with discussions of ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ (aging society), 1์ธ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ (single-person households), and ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ โ these are topics that feel current and educated to bring up in conversation.
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Practice predicting and discussing future trends in Korean.
A. Predict that something will increase using ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
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์์ผ๋ก 1์ธ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think single-person households will increase more going forward.)
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B. Say something is changing rapidly.
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๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์. (Technology is changing rapidly.)
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C. Predict that something will become more important.
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์์ผ๋ก ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think sustainability will become more important going forward.)
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D. Say interest in something is growing.
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AI์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. (Interest in AI is growing.)
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E. Predict the era of something is coming.
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์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think the era of AI is coming.)
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F. Predict that something will decrease.
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์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ธ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think cash use will decrease going forward.)
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G. Say something will disappear.
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์ ํต์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think traditional office culture will disappear.)
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H. Ask someone what they think will change going forward.
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์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (How do you think the world will change going forward?)
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I. Discuss the aging society trend.
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ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ด์. (Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society.)
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J. Connect a trend to daily life.
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์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํธ๋ ๋ ๋๋ถ์ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ๋์์ด์. (Thanks to the remote work trend, lifestyles have changed a lot.)
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Expression Reference
Expression | Nuance/Key |
์์ผ๋ก | Going forward |
ํธ๋ ๋ | Trend |
~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Will increase |
~์ด/๊ฐ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Will decrease |
~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Will disappear |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | Changing rapidly |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Era of ~ is coming |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Interest in ~ is growing |
์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ | Sustainability |
๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ | Aging society |
Tip: ์ ์ for Gradual Change
์ ์ = "more and more / gradually" โ it marks a trend that's already underway and continuing: ์ ์ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์ (it's increasing more and more). Add ์ ์ before a verb to describe a gradual trend: ์ ์ ์ค์ํด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ (it's becoming increasingly important). It sounds more natural than ๋ ๋ (which isn't standard).
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Want more reps?
Pick three trends you've noticed in your own life or society. For each one, use ์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ [๋์ด๋ /์ค์ด๋ค/์ฌ๋ผ์ง/๋ ์ค์ํด์ง] ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ and explain briefly why. Three sentences, three trends โ great practice!
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๐ฆ Practice Hub โ Future Trends
Exercise 1 โ Choose the Right Expression
A. You want to say something will increase: (a) ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (b) ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (c) ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์
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(a) ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ โ ๋์ด๋๋ค = to grow/increase.
B. You want to say things are changing rapidly: (a) ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ (b) ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ (c) ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์
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(b) ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ โ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ = rapidly/dramatically.
C. You want to predict an era is coming: (a) ~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (b) ~์ ์๋๊ฐ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (c) ~์ ์๋๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ถ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์
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(a) ~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ โ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ = I think it will come.
D. You want to say interest is growing: (a) ~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ฎ์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ (b) ~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์์ด์ (c) ~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์
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(c) ~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ โ ๋์์ง๋ค = to rise/grow.
E. You want to say something will become more important: (a) ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (b) ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (c) ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ค์ํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์
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(b) ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ โ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง๋ค = to become more important.
F. The Korean term for remote work is: (a) ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ (b) ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด (c) ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ
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(b) ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด โ ์ฌํ = at home; ๊ทผ๋ฌด = work/duty.
G. You want to say something will gradually increase: (a) ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์ (b) ์ ์ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์ (c) ํญ์ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์
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(b) ์ ์ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์ โ ์ ์ = more and more / gradually.
H. The Korean term for an aging society: (a) ์ ์ ์ฌํ (b) ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ (c) ๋ฏธ๋ ์ฌํ
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(b) ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ โ ๊ณ ๋ น = old age; ํ = -ization.
I. You want to discuss a trend using ํธ๋ ๋: (a) ์ด๊ฒ ์ต๊ทผ ํธ๋ ๋์์ (b) ์ด๊ฒ ์ค๋๋ ํธ๋ ๋์์ (c) ํธ๋ ๋๋ ๋ณ๋ก ์์ด์
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(a) ์ด๊ฒ ์ต๊ทผ ํธ๋ ๋์์ โ ์ต๊ทผ = recent/latest.
J. You want to ask how the world will change going forward: (a) ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋์์ด์? (b) ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (c) ์ธ์์ด ์ ์ด๋์?
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(b) ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? โ ์์ผ๋ก = going forward; ~ใน ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ = future speculation.
Quick Reference
Expression | Meaning |
์์ผ๋ก | Going forward |
ํธ๋ ๋ | Trend |
๋์ด๋๋ค | To increase |
์ค์ด๋ค๋ค | To decrease |
์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค | To disappear |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ | Rapidly |
์ ์ | More and more |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ค๋ค | Era of ~ is coming |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๋ค | Interest in ~ grows |
์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด | Remote work |
Pitfall: ๋์์ง๋ค vs. ๋ง์์ง๋ค
๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ = interest is growing (using ๋๋ค = high โ for levels/intensity). ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ง์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ = the number of people is growing (using ๋ง๋ค = many โ for quantities). Don't mix them: ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ sounds slightly off; ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ is the natural phrase.
Exercise 2 โ Korean โ English Translation
A. ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
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I think remote work will increase more going forward.
B. ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์ ์ ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
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Interest in AI is growing more and more.
C. ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์ด์.
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Technology is changing rapidly. It's hard to keep up.
D. ์์ผ๋ก ํ๊ธ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
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I think cash use will decrease going forward.
E. ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ ์ค์ํ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
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Sustainability is becoming a more important trend.
F. ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
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Korea is rapidly progressing toward an aging society.
G. ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
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It seems like the era of AI is coming.
H. ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์?
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How do you think the world will change going forward?
I. ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
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Interest in the environment is growing globally.
J. ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํธ๋ ๋ ๋๋ถ์ ์ผํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋ฐ๋์์ด์.
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Thanks to the remote work trend, the way we work has changed.
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word | Meaning |
์์ผ๋ก | Going forward |
ํ๊ธ | Cash |
ํ๊ฒฝ | Environment |
์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก | Globally |
๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค | To keep up / follow |
์งํ๋๋ค | To progress, to be underway |
๋ฐฉ์ | Method, way, style |
๋ณํ | Change (noun) |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ | Rapidly, dramatically |
์ ์ | More and more, gradually |
Grammar Tip: ~์/์ด์ง๋ค for Gradual Change
์ค์ํ๋ค โ ์ค์ํด์ง๋ค = to become important (gradual change). ๋๋ค โ ๋์์ง๋ค = to become higher. ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค โ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง๋ค = to become faster. The ~์/์ด์ง๋ค pattern turns an adjective into "to become [adj]." Combine with ์ ์ for: ์ ์ ์ค์ํด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ (it's becoming increasingly important).
Exercise 3 โ Complete the Sentence
A. ์์ผ๋ก AI๊ฐ ๋ ___ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think AI will become more important going forward.)
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์ค์ํด โ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
B. ํ๊ธ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ___ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think cash use will decrease.)
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์ค์ด๋ค โ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
C. ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ___ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์. (Technology is changing rapidly.)
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๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ โ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
D. ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ___ ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. (Interest in sustainability is growing.)
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๊ด์ฌ โ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
E. ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ___๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think the era of AI is coming.)
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์๋ โ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
F. ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ___ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์. (Remote work is gradually increasing.)
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์ ์ โ ์ ์ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
G. ํ๊ตญ์ ___ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ์์ด์. (Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society.)
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๊ณ ๋ นํ โ ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ.
H. ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ___ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (How do you think the world will change going forward?)
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๋ฐ๋ โ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์?
I. ์ด๊ฒ ์์ฆ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ___ ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think this is the biggest trend lately.)
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ํธ๋ ๋ โ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ํธ๋ ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
J. ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์ ___ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. (Interest in the environment is growing globally.)
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์ธ๊ณ โ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก.
Sentence Starters
Starter | Use for |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Predicting increase |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Predicting decrease |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Predicting disappearance |
~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Predicting growing importance |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Predicting a new era |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Describing growing interest |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | Rapid change underway |
์ ์ ~์/์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Gradual ongoing change |
Production Tip
A complete trend discussion sentence: ์์ผ๋ก [topic]์ด/๊ฐ [์ ์ ] [change verb]์/์ด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์๋ํ๋ฉด [reason]์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์. Example: ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๋ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์. Adding ์๋ํ๋ฉด (because) turns a prediction into a full argument.
Exercise 4 โ Dialogue Completion
A. A: ์์ผ๋ก AI๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? B: AI์ ___๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
์๋ โ AI์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
B. A: ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํธ๋ ๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? B: ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ___ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
๋์ด๋ โ ๋ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
C. A: ํ๊ธ์ ์์ง๋ ์จ์? B: ์์ฆ ํ๊ธ ์ฌ์ฉ์ด ___ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
์ค์ด๋ค โ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
D. A: ํ๊ฒฝ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ด์? B: ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํ ___ ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
<summary>Answer
๊ด์ฌ โ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
E. A: ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋น ๋ฅด์ฃ ? B: ๋ค, ___ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์ด์.
<summary>Answer
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ โ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
F. A: ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ์ ํฐ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ๋ญ์์? B: ___ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
<summary>Answer
๊ณ ๋ นํ โ ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ.
G. A: ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? B: ๋ค, ์์ผ๋ก ___ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
๋ โ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
H. A: ์์ฆ ๋ญ๊ฐ ํธ๋ ๋์์? B: ___ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ฆ ํฐ ํธ๋ ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ.
I. A: ์์ผ๋ก ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? B: ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ___ ์ค์ฌ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
๋ โ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๋ ์ค์ฌ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ (technology will become more central).
J. A: ์ด๋ค ์ง์
์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? B: AI ๋๋ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ณต์ ์ธ ์ผ๋ค์ด ___ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
์ฌ๋ผ์ง โ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
Useful Phrases
Phrase | Use |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Trend prediction: increase |
~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Trend prediction: disappear |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | New era prediction |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | Rapid change |
์ ์ ~์/์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Gradual change |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Growing interest |
์๋ํ๋ฉด ~์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์ | Explaining why |
๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค์ด์ | Hard to keep up |
Conversation Tip
In Korean trend conversations, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? (what do you think?) is the perfect follow-up after stating your prediction. It turns a monologue into a dialogue and shows curiosity about the other person's view โ a mark of good conversation skills in Korean social settings.
Exercise 5 โ Free Speaking Practice
A. ์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ค ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ณํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (What trend do you think will change the most going forward?)
<summary>Starter
์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ณํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํธ๋ ๋๋... ์๋ํ๋ฉด... (The trend I think will change the most going forward is... Because...)
B. ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ด ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์ง์
์ด๋ ๊ณต๋ถ์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ์ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (How do you think AI will affect your work or studies?)
<summary>Starter
AI๊ฐ ์ ์ผ/๊ณต๋ถ์... ์์ผ๋ก ๋... (AI will... in my work/studies... more going forward...)
C. ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? ์ฅ๋จ์ ์ด ๋ญ์์? (What do you think about remote work? What are the pros and cons?)
<summary>Starter
์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋... ์ฅ์ ์... ๋จ์ ์... ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (Remote work is... The pros are... The cons are... I think it will increase more going forward.)
D. ํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์ ์ค์ํ ํธ๋ ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (Why do you think the environment and sustainability are important trends?)
<summary>Starter
ํ๊ฒฝ์ด ์ค์ํ ํธ๋ ๋์ธ ์ด์ ๋... ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (The reason the environment is an important trend is... I think it will become even more important.)
E. ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์ง์
์ด๋ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ์์ด์? (Is there a job or lifestyle you think will disappear going forward?)
<summary>Starter
์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑด... ์๋ํ๋ฉด... (Something I think will disappear going forward is... Because...)
F. ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ์ ๊ณ ๋ นํ์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? (What do you think about Korea's aging society?)
<summary>Starter
ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ณ ๋ นํ ์ฌํ๋... ์์ผ๋ก ๋... (Korea's aging society... going forward more...)
G. ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ด ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ฒ ์ข์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์, ๋์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? (Is rapid technological advancement a good thing or a bad thing?)
<summary>Starter
๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๋ ๊ฑด... ์ข์ ์ ์... ํ์ง๋ง ๋์ ์ ์... (Technology changing rapidly... The good part is... But the bad part is...)
H. ์ด๋ค ์๋ก์ด ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์? (What new trend do you want to learn about or follow?)
<summary>Starter
์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ ํธ๋ ๋๋... ์๋ํ๋ฉด... (A trend I want to follow is... Because...)
I. ์์ผ๋ก 10๋
๋ค ์ธ์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋์ด ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์? (What do you think the world will be like 10 years from now?)
<summary>Starter
10๋
๋ค์๋... ์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด๋๊ณ ... ์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (In 10 years... will have increased more... will have disappeared.)
J. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ๋๋ผ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๋ญ์์? (What is the biggest trend in your country?)
<summary>Starter
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋๋ผ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ํธ๋ ๋๋... ์์ผ๋ก ๋... (The biggest trend in my country is... Going forward more...)
Sentence Starters
Opener | For |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ๋์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Increase prediction |
์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Disappearance prediction |
~์ด/๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Importance prediction |
~์ ์๋๊ฐ ์ฌ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | New era prediction |
~์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ | Describing growing interest |
๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | Rapid change |
์๋ํ๋ฉด ~์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์ | Explanation |
์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? | Inviting opinion |
Speaking Challenge
Pick ONE trend and build a 90-second argument in Korean: (1) state the trend with ์์ผ๋ก ~์ด/๊ฐ... (2) explain why with ์๋ํ๋ฉด... (3) give an example with ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด... (4) say what will happen as a result with ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก... (5) close with ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์? Can you make it flow?
ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ถ์ํ๋ฉด ๋ ๊น์ ๋ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์! ๊ณ์ ์ฐ์ตํด ๋ด์. โจ
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