Korean–English parallel text

개미와 베짱이

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Aesop

A free bilingual Korean–English edition: the Korean text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph. Read it online, or download it as a dual-language ebook.

Opening the reader…

KoreanEnglish

이솝 우화: 개미와 베짱이. 늦가을의 어느 화창한 날, 개미 가족은 따스한 햇볕 아래서 여름 동안 저장해 둔 곡식을 말리며 분주히 움직이고 있었습니다. 그때 굶주린 베짱이가 바이올린을 옆구리에 끼고 다가와 먹을 것을 조금만 나누어 달라고 간청했습니다.

The Æsop for Children The Ants & the Grasshopper One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

“뭐라고!” 개미들이 놀라며 외쳤습니다. “겨울을 대비해 아무것도 저장해 두지 않았단 말이야? 지난여름 내내 도대체 뭘 하고 지낸 거야?”

“What!” cried the Ants in surprise, “haven’t you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?”

“식량을 저장할 시간이 없었어.” 베짱이가 칭얼거렸습니다. “음악을 연주하느라 너무 바빠서 여름이 다 지나가는 줄도 몰랐거든.”

“I didn’t have time to store up any food,” whined the Grasshopper; “I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone.”

개미들은 못마땅하다는 듯 어깨를 으쓱했습니다.

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

“음악을 연주했다고?” 개미들이 소리쳤습니다. “좋아, 그럼 이제 춤이라도 추시지!” 그러고는 베짱이에게 등을 돌린 채 하던 일을 계속했습니다.

“Making music, were you?” they cried. “Very well; now dance!” And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

일할 때가 있고 놀 때가 있는 법이다.

There’s a time for work and a time for play.

Free ebook for Kindle, Kobo and other e-readers. Download this parallel text as EPUB, or as AZW3 and MOBI for a Kindle over USB, with a free account. No payment. How to get it onto your e-reader

The full story continues in the reader. Want your own book like this? Make a parallel text from any book.

The same story in Spanish with English · French with English · Japanese with English · Portuguese with English · Romanian with English · Turkish with English · Chinese with English · all languages