TL;DR ๐ฆ
- ๐งด ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ is the texture of your skin โ the goal everyone in Korean skincare is chasing
- ๐ง ์ด์ดํ๋ค = hydrated and dewy (good); ์ง์ = calming down irritated or red skin
- ๐ ๊พธ์คํ + ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = the secret to good skin in Korean โ consistency, not one miracle product
๐ง Iru Helper Note โ Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and type any sentence from today to hear it at natural speed. ์ด์ดํ๋ค and ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ are particularly satisfying to hear spoken by a native. ๐งด
๐ The Big Picture
Korean skincare culture has one of the richest vocabularies in everyday life โ and it goes far beyond product names. What Koreans talk about is how the skin feels, whether the routine is consistent, and what results they're seeing. These five words are the backbone of any intermediate-level skincare conversation, review, or self-care discussion.
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ is the texture/condition everyone is working toward. ์ด์ดํ๋ค describes the ideal hydrated feeling. ์ง์ is what you do when skin reacts. ๊พธ์คํ and ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค capture the philosophy: consistent care over time.
๐จ The Core Skincare Family
1. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ skin texture, the surface quality of skin ๐งด
๊ฒฐ means grain or texture. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข๋ค = skin texture is good/smooth. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๊ฑฐ์น ๋ค = skin texture is rough. Key verb: ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ค = skin texture improves.
2. ์ง์ โ calming, soothing (of irritated skin) ๐ฟ
A noun meaning "calming/soothing." Used when skin is red, reactive, or sensitive. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค = to soothe the skin. ์ง์ ํจ๊ณผ = calming effect. ์ง์ ํฌ๋ฆผ = calming/soothing cream.
3. ์ด์ดํ๋ค โ to be moist, hydrated, dewy ๐ง
A descriptive verb describing pleasant skin hydration. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ด์ดํด์ = skin is hydrated. Change form: ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค = to become hydrated. ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ค = to keep hydrated.
4. ๊พธ์คํ โ consistently, steadily ๐
An adverb meaning to do something without stopping over time. Always placed before a verb. ๊พธ์คํ ํ๋ค = to do consistently. Very common with habits and self-care routines.
5. ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ to care for, maintain, manage ๐๏ธ
A verb meaning to take care of something with regular attention. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = to care for one's skin. The noun form: ๊ด๋ฆฌ = care/maintenance. Common combo: ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = to consistently care for.
๐ ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence
๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋ง์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์.
After consistently caring for it, my skin texture has improved a lot. ๐งด
โ -๋๋ = after doing (with a result); ๋ง์ด = a lot
ํ๋ณ์ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ ๋ ์๋ ์ง์ ํฌ๋ฆผ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์์ผ์.
On days when I get a lot of sun I apply calming cream to soothe my skin. ๐ฟ
โ ํ๋ณ์ ์ฌ๋ค = to get sun; -์/์ด์ = and then/by doing
์ด ์ธ๋ผ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด์ดํด์ ธ์.
When I apply this serum my skin immediately becomes hydrated. ๐ง
โ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค = to apply (cream/serum); ๋ฐ๋ก = immediately; ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค = become hydrated
๐งฉ General Formation Rule
- ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค = ์ง์ (noun) + ์ํค๋ค (causative: to make/cause): ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์์ผ์ / ์ง์ ์์ผฐ์ด์
- ์ด์ดํ๋ค โ ํ๋ค adjective: ์ด์ดํด์ / ์ด์ดํ์ด์ / ์ด์ดํ ํผ๋ถ / ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค
- ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ regular ํ๋ค verb: ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ / ๊ด๋ฆฌํ์ด์ / ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ์ต๊ด / ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด
- ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ค โ ์ข์์ง๋ค = to improve (์ข๋ค + -์/์ด์ง๋ค change form): ์ข์์ ธ์ / ์ข์์ก์ด์
- ๊พธ์คํ โ adverb, no conjugation โ place before any habit verb
๐ Cross-check note
All vocabulary and conjugations cross-checked against korean.go.kr โ
๐ช Synonym Alert
- ์ด์ดํ๋ค โ ๋ณด์ต์ด ๋๋ค โ ๋ณด์ต (moisturisation) is more clinical/product-focused; ์ด์ดํ๋ค describes how the skin feels
- ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ ์ผ์ดํ๋ค โ ์ผ์ดํ๋ค (from English "care") is used in trendier/younger speech; ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค is standard
- ์ง์ โ ์ํ โ ์ํ = relief/alleviation (broader, more medical); ์ง์ specifically = calming down reactive skin
- ๊พธ์คํ โ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก โ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก is more formal/written; ๊พธ์คํ is natural in everyday speech
โ ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge
โ ์ด์ดํ๋ค for every skin compliment โ โ
Use ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข๋ค or ๋งค๋๋ฝ๋ค for smooth texture โ ์ด์ดํ๋ค is specifically about hydration/moisture, not overall skin quality.
โ ์ง์ ์ ํ๋ค โ โ
ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค โ ์ง์ pairs with ์ํค๋ค (causative) when you're doing it to skin: ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค. Don't use ํ๋ค with ์ง์ alone.
โ ๊พธ์คํ์์ โ โ
๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ โ ๊พธ์คํ is an adverb, needs a verb after it. It can't be a predicate alone.
โ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ (vague, what kind of care?) โ โ
Be specific: ์์ธ์ ์ฐจ๋จ์ ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์คํ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ = I manage my skin by consistently applying sunscreen.
โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ด์ดํด์ โ โ
ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ด์ดํด์ / ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ โ ์ด์ดํ๋ค describes the skin, not the texture (๊ฒฐ). ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ pairs with texture words like ์ข๋ค, ๋งค๋๋ฝ๋ค, ๊ฑฐ์น ๋ค.
ํผ๋ถ๋ ๋จ๋ฒ์ ์ข์์ง์ง ์์์ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ต๊ณ ์์! ๐งด๐ง ์ค๋๋ถํฐ ์์ํด ๋ด์. โจ
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Think about whether you need a noun, verb (conjugated), adjective, or adverb.
1. ๊พธ์คํ ์ธ์์ ํ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์.
After consistently cleansing, my skin texture improved. ๐งด
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ค. ์ธ์ = cleansing. -๋๋ = after doing (with result).
2. ์ด ํฌ๋ฆผ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ ํผ๋ถ์ ์ข์์.
This cream has a calming effect so it's good for sensitive skin. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ํจ๊ณผ. ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ ํผ๋ถ = sensitive skin. ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋ค = to have an effect.
3. ์ด ์ธ๋ผ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ ธ์.
When I apply this serum my skin immediately becomes hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ ธ์. ์ด์ดํ๋ค + -ํด์ง๋ค = to become hydrated. ๋ฐ๋ก = immediately.
4. ํผ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ผ ์ข์์ ธ์.
Skin gets better when you care for it consistently. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์คํ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค. ๊พธ์คํ before the verb.
5. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ฉด ๋์ด๋ณด๋ค ์ด๋ ค ๋ณด์ฌ์.
If you take good care of your skin you look younger than your age. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด. ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค + -(์ผ)๋ฉด conditional. ๋์ด๋ณด๋ค ์ด๋ ค ๋ณด์ด๋ค = to look younger than one's age.
6. ํ๋ณ์ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ์ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋นจ๊ฐ์ก์ด์. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ์ํด์.
I got a lot of sun and my skin turned red. Calming is needed. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค. ๋นจ๊ฐ์ง๋ค = to turn red. ํ์ํ๋ค = to be needed.
7. ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์ํด์.
In winter it's important to keep skin hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ค. ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ = in a hydrated state (adverb form). ์ ์งํ๋ค = to maintain.
8. ์ด ๋ก์
์ ๊ฐ๋ณ์ง๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๋๋์ด ์ค๋๊ฐ์.
This lotion is light but the hydrated feeling lasts long. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํ ๋๋. ์ด์ดํ๋ค modifier = ์ด์ดํ + noun. ๋๋์ด ์ค๋๊ฐ๋ค = the feeling lasts long.
9. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ต๊ด์ด ์ข์ ์ ํ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ค์ํ ์ ์์ด์.
Consistent habits can be more important than good products. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ ์ต๊ด. ๊พธ์คํ๋ค modifier = ๊พธ์คํ + noun. -ํ ์ ์๋ค = can be.
10. ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ ์ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋งค์ผ ์คํจ์ผ์ด๋ฅผ ํด์.
I pay attention to skin care while doing my skincare routine every day. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ ์ฐ๋ค = to pay attention to skin care. ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฐ๋ค = to pay attention/care about.
Vocabulary Box
- ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ skin texture/surface quality
- ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ค โ skin texture improves
- ์ง์ โ calming, soothing
- ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค โ to soothe (causative)
- ์ง์ ํจ๊ณผ โ calming effect
- ์ด์ดํ๋ค โ to be hydrated/dewy
- ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค โ to become hydrated
- ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ค โ to keep hydrated
- ๊พธ์คํ โ consistently (adverb)
- ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ to care for, maintain
- ์ธ์ โ facial cleansing
- ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค โ to apply (cream/serum)
Memory tips ๐ก
- ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ = ํผ๋ถ (skin) + ๊ฒฐ (grain/texture) = the grain of skin
- ์ด์ด = say it twice, softly โ it even sounds moist
- ๊พธ์คํ = "keep going, don't stop" vibes
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐
๐ฏ Practice Hub โ Vocab: Skincare Routine
ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์์ํด์! ๐งด This Practice Hub drills all five words โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ, ์ง์ , ์ด์ดํ๋ค, ๊พธ์คํ, ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ through five themed exercises covering everything from daily routine to product reviews to skincare philosophy. By the end you'll sound like you actually know your ์คํจ์ผ์ด. ๐งโจ
๐ Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์ and ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ผ ํด์ are particularly satisfying at natural speed.
๐ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or conjugated form. Pay attention to whether you need noun, verb, adjective, or adverb form.
Exercise 1 โ Daily Routine Sentences ๐งด
A. ์ ๋ ๋งค์ผ ๋ฐค ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์.
I take care of my skin every night. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = to care for one's skin. ๋งค์ผ ๋ฐค = every night.
B. ์ธ๋ผ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ ธ์.
When I apply serum my skin quickly becomes hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ ธ์. ๊ธ๋ฐฉ = quickly, soon.
C. ์์ฆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์คํจ์ผ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
These days I've been consistently doing my skincare. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ. ์คํจ์ผ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ค = to do skincare. -๊ณ ์๋ค = ongoing action.
D. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋นจ๊ฐ์ก์ ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ ํ์ ์จ์.
When my skin turns red I use a calming product. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ ํ. ๋นจ๊ฐ์ง๋ค = to turn red.
E. ์ธ์์ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ ํ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ ๋๋ผ์.
If you cleanse carefully your skin texture becomes even. ๐งด
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ ๋๋๋ค = skin texture becomes even/organised. ๊ผผ๊ผผํ = thoroughly.
F. ์ด ํฌ๋ฆผ์ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๋ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ด์.
This cream has an effect of soothing the skin. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค = to soothe skin. ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋ค = to have an effect.
G. ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ฑด์กฐํด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์์.
In winter the skin is dry so it's hard to keep it hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ค. ๊ฑด์กฐํ๋ค = dry. ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต๋ค = hard to maintain.
H. ์ข์ ์ ํ๋ณด๋ค ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ต๊ด์ด ๋ ์ค์ํด์.
Consistent habits are more important than good products. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ ์ต๊ด. ๊พธ์คํ๋ค modifier = ๊พธ์คํ + noun. ๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค = more important.
I. ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ ์ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ๋ด์.
I'm very interested in skin care so I often watch product reviews. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง๋ค = to be very interested in skincare. ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ = review.
J. ์ธ์ ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฑฐ์น ์ด์ง์ง ์๋๋ก ๋ณด์ต์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ์.
After cleansing I apply moisturiser so my skin texture doesn't become rough. ๐งด
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๊ฑฐ์น ์ด์ง๋ค = skin texture becomes rough. -์ง ์๋๋ก = so that (it) doesn't. ๋ณด์ต์ = moisturiser.
Vocabulary Box
- ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค โ to care for, maintain
- ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค โ to become hydrated
- ๊พธ์คํ โ consistently
- ์ง์ ์ ํ โ calming product
- ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ ๋๋๋ค โ skin texture becomes even
- ๊ผผ๊ผผํ โ thoroughly, carefully
- ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ค โ to keep hydrated
- ๊ฑด์กฐํ๋ค โ dry
- ๋ณด์ต์ โ moisturiser
- ๊ฑฐ์น ์ด์ง๋ค โ to become rough
Tip ๐ก ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ loves change-of-state verbs: ์ข์์ง๋ค, ๊ฑฐ์น ์ด์ง๋ค, ์ ๋๋๋ค. The texture is always either improving or worsening.
Exercise 2 โ Product Reviews ๐ฌ
A. ์ด ์ ํ์ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ง ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์์.
This product is really effective at soothing the skin. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค. -๋ ๋ฐ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ค = effective at doing. ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ค = to be effective.
B. ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ง๋ ๋๋์ด์์.
When I apply it there's a feeling of the skin becoming hydrated immediately. ๐ง
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์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ ๋๋. -๋ ๋๋์ด๋ค = there's a feeling of. ๋ฐ๋ก = immediately.
C. ๊พธ์คํ ์ฐ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋์ ๋๊ฒ ์ข์์ ธ์.
If you use it consistently, skin texture noticeably improves. ๐งด
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ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ค. ๋์ ๋๊ฒ = noticeably. -๋ฉด = if/when.
D. ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ ํ์ด์์.
It's a product to care for sensitive skin. ๐งด
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๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํ. ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค + -๊ธฐ ์ํ = for the purpose of caring for. ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ ํผ๋ถ = sensitive skin.
E. ์ฒ์์๋ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋๋ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ฐ๋ค ๋ณด๋ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ก์ด์.
At first it seemed like there was no effect but after consistently using it things changed. ๐
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๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ. ์ฐ๋ค ๋ณด๋ = after using it for a while (ongoing discovery). ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค = to change.
F. ์ด ๋ง์คํฌํฉ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋์.
This sheet mask has excellent calming effects. ๐ฟ
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์ง์ โ ์ง์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋๋ค. ๋ง์คํฌํฉ = sheet mask. ๋ฐ์ด๋๋ค = excellent/outstanding.
G. ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ํ์๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ฒ ์ ์ง๋ผ์.
Even after applying it, the skin stays hydrated for a long time. ๐ง
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์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ ์ง๋๋ค. ์ ์ง๋๋ค = to be maintained (passive). ์ค๋ซ๋์ = for a long time.
H. ์ด ํ ๋๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ฉด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํจ์ฌ ์ข์์ก์ด์.
Since using this toner, skin texture has improved a lot. ๐งด
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ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ํจ์ฌ ์ข์์ง๋ค. ํจ์ฌ = much more. ์ฐ๋ฉด์ = while using / since using.
I. ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๋์์ด ๋๋ ์ฑ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์ด ์์ด์.
It contains ingredients that help with skin care. ๐งด
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๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๋์์ด ๋๋. ์ฑ๋ถ = ingredient. ๋ค์ด ์๋ค = to be contained in.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋๋ ์ ์์ด์.
The more consistently you use it, the more you can feel the effect. ๐
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๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ. -๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก = the more you do. ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋๋ผ๋ค = to feel the effect.
Vocabulary Box
- ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ค โ to be effective
- ๋์ ๋๊ฒ โ noticeably
- -๊ธฐ ์ํ โ for the purpose of
- ์ฐ๋ค ๋ณด๋ โ after using for a while
- ๋ง์คํฌํฉ โ sheet mask
- ๋ฐ์ด๋๋ค โ excellent, outstanding
- ์ ์ง๋๋ค โ to be maintained (passive)
- ์ฑ๋ถ โ ingredient
- -๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก โ the more one does
- ํ ๋ โ toner
Tip ๐ก Korean skincare reviews almost always mention: ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ (texture), ์ด์ดํ๋ค (hydration), and ๊พธ์คํ (consistency). Knowing these three makes you sound like a native reviewer.
Exercise 3 โ Skincare Philosophy ๐ญ
A. ํผ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ์ข์์ ธ์.
Skin improves when you consistently take care of it. ๐
๐งด
Answer
๊พธ์ค / ๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ผ. The classic Korean skincare philosophy in four syllables.
B. ํ๋ฃจ์ ํ ๋ฒ๋ง ํด๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ ธ์.
Even doing it just once a day, skin texture changes. ๐งด
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค. ํ๋ฃจ์ ํ ๋ฒ๋ง = just once a day. ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค = to change.
C. ์ข์ ์ํ ์ต๊ด๋ ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ผ๋ถ์์.
Good lifestyle habits are also part of skin care. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ๋ถ. ์ํ ์ต๊ด = lifestyle habits. ์ผ๋ถ = a part of.
D. ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์.
When stressed, skin is less hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ๋ ์ด์ดํด์. ๋ = less. ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ค = to be stressed.
E. ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์๋ ์๋ฉด๋ ์ค์ํด์.
Sleep is also important for skin care. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์๋. ์๋ฉด = sleep. -์๋ = for/in (topic with emphasis).
F. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ฑด์กฐํ ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณด์ต์ด ์ฐ์ ์ด์์.
When skin is dry, moisturising is a priority over calming. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณด์ต์ด ์ฐ์ . ๋ณด์ต = moisturising. ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ค = to be a priority.
G. ํผ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋์.
The more consistently you do it, the more results show. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ. -๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก = the more you do. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋๋ค = results appear.
H. ์์ธ์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์.
UV rays make skin texture rough. ๐งด
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ค. ์์ธ์ = UV rays. ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ค = to make rough.
I. ๋ฐค์ ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ์ ํ๋ฉด ์์นจ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ผ์.
If you take good care of yourself before sleeping at night, morning skin is different. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ค. ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ = before sleeping. ์์นจ ํผ๋ถ = morning skin.
J. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋จผ์ ์์.
When skin is reacting, calming comes first. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ด ๋จผ์ ๋ค. ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค = to react. ๋จผ์ = first/priority.
Vocabulary Box
- ์ํ ์ต๊ด โ lifestyle habits
- ์ผ๋ถ โ a part of
- ์๋ฉด โ sleep
- ๋ณด์ต โ moisturising
- ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ค โ to be a priority
- ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋๋ค โ results appear
- ์์ธ์ โ UV rays
- ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค โ to react
- ๋จผ์ โ first, priority
Tip ๐ก Korean skincare wisdom: ๊พธ์คํ + ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = the two words that every Korean dermatologist, beauty influencer, and ์ด๋ชจ will say. Learn them and use them.
Exercise 4 โ Conjugation Focus ๐ง
A. ๊พธ์คํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์. (past, cared for)
After consistently caring for it, skin texture improved. ๐งด
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๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋๋. ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค past = ๊ด๋ฆฌํ์ด์; -๋๋ = after doing (shows result).
B. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๋ ค๋ฉด ์๊ทน์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ ํด์. (in order to soothe)
To soothe the skin you need to reduce irritation. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ ค๋ฉด. ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค + -(์ผ)๋ ค๋ฉด = in order to soothe. ์๊ทน์ ์ค์ด๋ค = to reduce irritation.
C. ์ด ์ ํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ง ๊ฑฐ์์. (will become hydrated)
If you apply this product your skin will become hydrated. ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ง ๊ฑฐ์์. ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค + -(์ผ)ใน ๊ฑฐ์์ = will become. ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค = to apply.
D. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๊พธ์คํ ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ด์. (in order to care for)
I'm consistently making effort in order to care for my skin texture. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์. -๊ธฐ ์ํด์ = in order to do. ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค = to make effort.
E. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (seems to have become hydrated)
My skin seems to have become hydrated. ๐ง
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์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค past modifier + ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค = seems to have become.
F. ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๋ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ญ์์? (for soothing)
What's the best method for soothing the skin? ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ ๋ฐ. -๋ ๋ฐ = for the purpose of/in doing. ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ = method.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ด์. (if not consistent)
If you're not consistent there's no effect. ๐
Answer
๊พธ์ค โ ๊พธ์คํ ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด. -์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด = if not doing. ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋ค = no effect.
H. ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด์ง๋ฉด ํ์ฅ์ด ์ ๋จน์ด์. (if texture improves)
If skin texture improves, makeup applies well. ๐งด
Answer
์ข์์ง โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๋ฉด. ํ์ฅ์ด ์ ๋จน๋ค = makeup applies well (lit. "makeup eats well").
I. ๊ณ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ฉด ๋์ค์๋ ์ข์์ง ๊ฑฐ์์. (if you keep caring for it)
If you keep taking care of it it'll get better eventually. ๐งด
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด. ๊ณ์ = continuously. ๋์ค์๋ = eventually/later.
J. ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ก์ด์. ์ ๊ทธ๋ด๊น์? (became hydrated suddenly)
My skin suddenly became hydrated. I wonder why? ๐ง
Answer
์ด์ด โ ์ด์ดํด์ก์ด์. ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ = suddenly. -(์ผ)ใน๊น์ = I wonder / why might it be?
Vocabulary Box
- -๋๋ โ after doing (shows result)
- -๋ ค๋ฉด โ in order to (conditional purpose)
- -๊ธฐ ์ํด์ โ in order to do
- -ใน ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค โ seems like will
- -๋ ๋ฐ โ for the purpose of
- ํ์ฅ์ด ์ ๋จน๋ค โ makeup applies well
- ์๊ทน์ ์ค์ด๋ค โ to reduce irritation
- ๋์ค์๋ โ eventually, later
- ๊ณ์ โ continuously, keep
Tip ๐ก ์ด์ดํ๋ค conjugation: ์ด์ดํด์ (pres) / ์ด์ดํ์ด์ (past) / ์ด์ดํ (modifier) / ์ด์ดํด์ง๋ค (become) / ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ (adverb).
Exercise 5 โ Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐ก๏ธ
A. โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ด์ดํด์ โ โ
ํผ๋ถ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ด์ดํด์ / ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ข์์
My skin is hydrated / My skin texture is good. ๐ง๐งด
Answer
๊ฐ / ์ด โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ด์ดํด์ / ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์. ์ด์ดํ๋ค describes skin (ํผ๋ถ), not texture (๊ฒฐ). โ
B. โ ์ง์ ์ ํ๋ค โ โ
ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํค๋ค
To soothe the skin. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค. ์ง์ + ์ํค๋ค (causative). ์ง์ ์ ํ๋ค is unnatural โ use ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค. โ
C. ํผ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํด์.
Consistently taking care of skin is the most important thing. ๐
๐งด
Answer
๊พธ์ค / ๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํด์. The Korean skincare golden rule. โ
D. โ ๊พธ์คํ์์ โ โ
๊พธ์คํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ผ ํด์
You need to consistently do it. ๐
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ผ ํด์. ๊พธ์คํ needs a verb after it. โ
E. ์ด ํฌ๋ฆผ์ ์ฐ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ข์์ง๊ณ ํผ๋ถ๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํด์ ธ์.
Using this cream, skin texture improves and skin also becomes hydrated. ๐งด๐ง
Answer
ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ / ์ด์ด โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ข์์ง๊ณ ํผ๋ถ๋ ์ด์ดํด์ ธ์. Two words in one sentence. โ
F. โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ฑด์กฐํด์ ์ง์ ์ด ํ์ํด์ (when dry, not irritated) โ โ
ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ฑด์กฐํด์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ์ํด์
My skin is dry so moisturising is needed. ๐ง
Answer
๋ณด์ต โ ๋ณด์ต์ด ํ์ํด์. ์ง์ = calming for irritation; ๋ณด์ต = moisturising for dryness. โ
G. ํ๋ณ์ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ํค๋ ์ ํ์ด ํ์ํด์.
If you get a lot of sun you need a product to soothe the skin. ๐ฟ
Answer
์ง์ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ ์ ํ. ํ๋ณ์ ์ฌ๋ค = to get sun. ์ง์ ์ํค๋ = soothing (modifier). โ
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ๋๋ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋ง์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์.
After consistently taking care, skin texture improved a lot. ๐
๐งด๐งด
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๊พธ์ค / ๊ด๋ฆฌ / ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋ง์ด ์ข์์ก์ด์. All three main content words in one natural sentence. โ
I. ์ด ์ ํ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์๊ณ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์์ด์.
This product has both a calming effect and a hydrating effect. ๐ฟ๐ง
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์ง์ / ๋ณด์ต โ ์ง์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์๊ณ ๋ณด์ต ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์์ด์. ๋ณด์ต = moisturising (closely related to ์ด์ดํ๋ค). -๋ ์๊ณ -๋ ์๋ค = both X and Y. โ
J. ํผ๋ถ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ ํ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ข์์ ธ์.
If you consistently do skin care, skin texture naturally improves. ๐งด๐
๐งด
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๊ด๋ฆฌ / ๊พธ์ค / ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ โ ํผ๋ถ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์คํ ํ๋ฉด ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ข์์ ธ์. All five lesson concepts in two sentences. โ
Vocabulary Box โ Pitfall Recap
- โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ์ด ์ด์ดํด์ โ โ ํผ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ด์ดํด์ (์ด์ด = skin, not texture)
- โ ์ง์ ์ ํ๋ค โ โ ์ง์ ์ํค๋ค (causative form)
- โ ๊พธ์คํ์์ โ โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์ (adverb needs verb)
- โ ๊ฑด์กฐํ ๋ ์ง์ โ โ ๋ณด์ต (dryness โ irritation)
- โ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค = the golden rule of Korean skincare
Tip ๐ก Full skincare sentence: ๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋๋ ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ๋ ์ข์์ง๊ณ ํผ๋ถ๋ ์ด์ดํด์ก์ด์. All five vocabulary words, one natural sentence. ๐งดโจ
๐ ์คํจ์ผ์ด ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ง์คํฐ ์์ฑ! ๐ง Now you can describe skin texture (ํผ๋ถ๊ฒฐ), soothe reactions (์ง์ ), celebrate hydration (์ด์ดํ๋ค), and embody the skincare philosophy (๊พธ์คํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ค). ์ค๋๋ถํฐ ๊พธ์คํ ํด๋ด์! โจ