Korean–English parallel text
10킬로미터
Ten Kilometres
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A bilingual Korean–English edition: the Korean text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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명단에 적힌 장난
A joke on the list
푼미는 라고스에 살았다. 푼미는 마흔한 살이었고, 회계사였다. 푼미는 시내 중심에 있는 큰 회사에서 일했다.
Funmi lived in Lagos. She was forty-one, and she was an accountant. She worked for a big company in the city centre.
푼미는 아침 8시부터 저녁 6시까지 책상에 앉아 있었다. 푼미는 숫자를 좋아했다. 숫자는 조용했다.
She sat at her desk from eight in the morning until six in the evening. She liked numbers. Numbers were quiet.
월요일 아침에 사장님에게서 이메일이 왔다. 푼미는 첫 번째 커피를 마시면서 이메일을 읽었다.
On Monday morning, an email came from the boss. Funmi read it with her first coffee.
“직원 여러분에게,” 이메일에 적혀 있었다. “우리 회사는 라고스 달리기 대회에 참가할 겁니다. 10킬로미터 대회이고, 6주 후에 열립니다. 우리 주자 열 명의 명단입니다.”
“Dear team,” it said. “Our company is going to run in the Lagos race. It’s ten kilometres, and it’s in six weeks. Here are our ten runners.”
푼미는 이름 목록을 보았다. 목록의 마지막 이름은 푼미의 이름이었다.
Funmi looked at the list of names. The last name on the list was her name.
푼미는 이름을 다시 읽었다. 그리고 자리에서 일어나 옆 책상으로 걸어갔다.
She read it again. Then she stood up and walked to the next desk.
툰데는 스물여섯 살이었다. 사무실의 모든 사람보다 어렸다. 툰데는 매일 아침 달렸고, 매일 달리기에 대해 이야기했다.
Tunde was twenty-six. He was younger than everybody in the office. He ran every morning, and he talked about it every day.
“툰데. 이 명단에 내 이름 썼어요?”
“Tunde. Did you write my name on this list?”
툰데는 웃었다. “장난이었어요! 미안해요. 그런데 사장님이 모두에게 명단을 보냈어요.”
Tunde laughed. “It was a joke! I’m sorry. Then the boss sent the list to everyone.”
“장난이라고요,” 푼미가 말했다.
“A joke,” said Funmi.
“에이, 푼미. 살면서 한 번도 달린 적 없잖아요. 그렇죠?”
“Come on, Funmi. You’ve never run in your life. Have you?”
“네,” 푼미가 말했다. “난 한 번도 달린 적 없어요. 버스를 탈 때도 안 달렸어요.”
“No,” said Funmi. “I have never run. Not even for a bus.”
사무실의 다른 사람들이 책상에서 고개를 들었다. 몇몇 사람은 미소를 지었다.
Other people in the office looked up from their desks. Some of them smiled.
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