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향하다: Vocabulary #652

Example Sentences#

  1. 저 벽 너머 텅 빈 세상 향해1
    Towards that empty world beyond the walls.
    • 향하다 means ‘to head toward’ or ‘to face’.
    • -여서 is a connective ending that indicates a sequence of related events, cause and effect, or means. In this context, is omitted. In poetic or lyrical usage, connective forms like this may appear at the end of a line as directional phrases that link to the surrounding context, leaving the following action implied and evoking a sense of unresolved movement or emotional continuation.

Footnotes#

  1. Sentence from The Red Ribbon.

향하다: Vocabulary #652
https://koreanstorylab.com/posts/vocabulary/향하다/
Author
Korean Story Lab
Published at
2026-03-19
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0