Korean stories: Hobby & play
6 Jireader stories are on this theme: 2 at TOPIK 2, 1 at TOPIK 3, 1 at TOPIK 4, 2 at TOPIK 5. Every one has audio narration, a tap-to-learn glossary and a comprehension quiz.
Level 2 · TOPIK 2 (2)
- 베란다의 무궁화 What Grew on the Balcony
Junho, newly grown up and hopelessly lazy, secretly sets out to raise his grandmother's beloved rose of Sharon. Then one cold, foggy morning leaves the little seedling trembling — and Junho facing the one thing he always runs from.
19 sentences · ~8 min · teaches 12 new words
- 바늘 없는 낚싯대 The Hookless Rod
Every dawn, old Mr. Choi carries his rod down to the river — yet in three years his grandson has never once seen him land a single fish. One morning the boy secretly follows him to find out why.
20 sentences · ~6 min
Level 3 · TOPIK 3 (1)
- 빌린 불꽃 Borrowed Fire
By day Dohyun is the reliable, silent son his parents count on; by night he and an old friend run a tiny video channel. Then a clip explodes overnight, carried by a song that was never theirs to use.
27 sentences · ~9 min · teaches 16 new words
Level 4 · TOPIK 4 (1)
- 쓸데없는 놀이 Useless Play
A solo developer builds a video game out of the North Korean hometown his grandfather fled sixty years ago and can never return to, hoping the stubborn old man who calls it 'useless play' will finally look at the world his grandson has made.
40 sentences · ~12 min · teaches 20 new words
Level 5 · TOPIK 5 (2)
- 직관 따위 Mere Intuition
A small-town accountant has spent her life trusting only numbers, quietly ashamed of the uncanny hunches she can't prove. When a film crew stages a murder-mystery game in an abandoned billiards hall, one overlooked scratch on the floor dares her to trust herself.
49 sentences · ~12 min · teaches 24 new words
- 유리창에 비친 얼굴 The Face in the Glass
A biology grad student known on campus as 'the magician' is branded a thief by an anonymous post. His only alibi is a mountain trail he walked alone — and the truth is hiding in a single pane of glass.
53 sentences · ~13 min · teaches 24 new words