Today I’m going to try translating yesterday’s video by listening. When I did it yesterday, there was a lot of vocab I didn’t know so I had to look at the Korean subs but today I will attempt to do it just by listening. I’ll skip the first few sentences because I already did those by ear yesterday.

In the old days, in the distant past, they say it was around the Goryeo era, someone saw a whale give birth and then eat seaweed. However, he saw that after eating seaweed, the childbirth wounds were totally healed. After that, people started eating seaweed soup after giving birth. A woman who gives birth, in other words, a mother, eats seaweed soup directly after giving birth. I also ate seaweed soup right after I gave birth.

Actually, they say that seaweed has blood cleansing and wound healing properties. When you give birth, they say you lose a lot of blood and nutrients. So since it has lots of nutrients snd cleanses blood, people started making seaweed into soup and eating it. Then why did people start eating seaweed soup on their birthdays? The reason is we should always be grateful to our moms for giving birth to us so people started eating seaweed soup. Everyone, do you have a memorable birthday? I remember a birthday from when I was in elementary school. I opened my eyes in the morning but there wasn’t any seaweed soup. And there weren’t any presents either. My mom firgot my birthday. I remember crying. Of course, on other birthdays, I ate seaweed soup, had a birthday party and ate cake.

Just out of pure curiosity, do you have a goal in learning Korean? Time wise and also what you plan to use it for (besides watching dramas with no subs as is my plan)?