Example Sentences#

1. 숨바꼭질하는 빛과 그림자¹
   Light and shadow playing hide and seek
   • 숨바꼭질 is a Korean term for the children’s game hide and seek, with debated origins. Some suggest it derives from words like 숨다 (to hide) and 바꾸다 (to change), while others trace it to the old Korean term 숨막질 (where 숨 means breath and -질 is a suffix indicating repeated action), which described diving underwater.
   • 하다 means ‘to do’ and allows the noun to function as part of a verb phrase (to play hide and seek).
   • -는 is a present tense modifier that turns the preceding statement into a phrase describing the following noun.