Mythology and Legends in Korean

A list of 30 common words and phrases related to mythology and legends in Korean


29 words in this list

์šฉ (yong) โ†’ dragon

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์†์—๋Š” ์šฉ์ด ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. (There was a dragon in the picture.)

๋งˆ์ˆ  (ma-sul) โ†’ magic

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ˆ ์„ ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. (He enjoys performing magic tricks.)

๋ถˆ๋ฉธ (bul-myeol) โ†’ immortality

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ฉธ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. (He believes he is an immortal being.)

์‹ ๋น„์ฃผ์˜ (sin-bi-ju-ui) โ†’ mysticism

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹ ๋น„์ฃผ์˜์— ๋น ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. (He is immersed in mysticism.)

๋ถˆ์‚ฌ์˜ (bul-sa-ui) โ†’ immortal

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์‚ฌ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. (He believes he is an immortal being.)

์‹ ๋น„์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด (sin-bi-seu-reo-un) โ†’ mystical

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ์‹ ๋น„์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. (That place has a mystical atmosphere.)

์ฒœ์‚ฌ (cheon-sa) โ†’ angel

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ฒœ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์ถ•๋ณต์€ ํฐ ํž˜์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. (The blessing from an angel becomes a great strength.)

์„ ์กฐ (seon-jo) โ†’ ancestor

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์ƒ๋“ค์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ „์„ค์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค. (Our ancestors left behind many legends.)

์‹ ํ™”์  (sin-hwa-jeok) โ†’ mythical

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹ ํ™”์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. (He likes mythical stories.)

์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ (sin-seong-han) โ†’ divine

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ํž˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. (They possess divine power.)

์˜์›… (yeong-ung) โ†’ hero

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์—๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์˜์›…๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. (There are many heroes in the history of this country.)

์‹ ๋น„ (sin-bi) โ†’ mystery

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์›€์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค. (That place is famous for its mystery.)

์˜ˆ์–ธ (ye-yeon) โ†’ prophecy

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์˜ˆ์–ธ์€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค. (This prophecy came true.)

์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด (sin-bi-ro-un) โ†’ mysterious

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. (That place has a mysterious atmosphere.)

๋งˆ๋ฒ•๊ฐ™์€ (ma-beob-gat-eun) โ†’ magical

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ถค์€ ๋งˆ๋ฒ•๊ฐ™์ด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๋‹ค. (Her dance is magically beautiful.)

์˜ํ˜ผ (yeong-hon) โ†’ soul

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์˜ํ˜ผ์€ ์ฃฝ์Œ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋‹ค. (The soul lives on even after death.)

๋งˆ์ˆ ์‚ฌ (ma-sul-sa) โ†’ magician

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์ด๋‹ค. (He is a famous magician.)

์‹ ๋น„ํ•œ (sin-bi-han) โ†’ enigmatic

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‹ ๋น„ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค. (She always had an enigmatic smile.)

๋งˆ์ˆ ์  (ma-sul-jeok) โ†’ sorcerous

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ˆ ์ ์ธ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. (He has sorcerous abilities.)

์•…๋งˆ (ak-ma) โ†’ devil

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์•…๋งˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌํƒ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์กด์žฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. (The devil is believed to be a similar entity to Satan.)

์ „์„ค (jeon-seol) โ†’ legend

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์ „์„ค์€ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ „ํ•ด์ ธ ์™”๋‹ค. (This legend has been passed down for a long time.)

๋งˆ๋…€ (ma-nyeo) โ†’ witch

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งˆ๋…€๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฌธ์ด ๋Œ์•˜๋‹ค. (There was a rumor that she was accused of being a witch.)

์‹ ์„ฑ (sin-seong) โ†’ divinity

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ํž˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. (They possess divine power.)

์ „์„ค์  (jeon-seol-jeok) โ†’ legendary

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ์ด ์˜์›…์€ ์ „์„ค์ ์ธ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋œ๋‹ค. (This hero is remembered as a legendary figure.)

์‹ ํ™” (sin-hwa) โ†’ mythology

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์‹ ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. (She knows the mythology of that country well.)

์‹  (sin) โ†’ god

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹ ์„ ์ˆญ๋ฐฐํ•œ๋‹ค. (They worship the gods.)

๋ถˆ์‚ฌ์‹  (bul-sa-shin) โ†’ immortal

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์‚ฌ์‹ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์˜์›ํžˆ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค. (He lived forever like an immortal.)

์š”๊ดด (yo-gwae) โ†’ monster

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์š”๊ดด๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์น˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹ธ์› ๋‹ค. (They fought to defeat the monsters.)

๋งˆ๋ฒ•์  (ma-beob-jeok) โ†’ magical

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์ ์ธ ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ ๋‹ค. (That place feels magical.)

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