From the course: Korean for Absolute Beginners

Movie genres

Absolute Beginner, Season 1, Lesson 1, What should we watch in Korea? In this lesson, Misun, what are we going to learn about? Movie genre. Okay, and this conversation takes place where? At a movie theater. And the conversation is between? 영진과 은주예요. Okay, and they're friends, so they'll be speaking informal Korean. 예, 반말이죠. All right, let's listen to the conversation. 무슨 영화 볼까? 액션 영화 볼까? 에이, 스스펜스 영화 볼까? 어, 아니, 만화 영화는? 음, 로맨틱 코미디 볼까? 영어로 한 번 더. One more time with the English. 무슨 영화 볼까? What kind of movie should we watch? 액션 영화 볼까? Hmm, should we watch an action movie? 에이, 스스펜스 영화 볼까? Suspense 영화 볼까? Hmm, should we watch a suspense movie? 어, 아니, 만화 영화는? No, should we watch an animation movie? Hmm, 로맨틱 코미디 볼까? Should we watch a romantic comedy? Again? All right, well, let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. Okay, 영화. Movie. 영화. 영화. Next. Action. Action. Action. After that? Suspense. Suspense. Suspense. Suspense. Next. 만화. Animation, cartoon. 만화. 만화. Next. Romantic comedy. Romantic comedy. Romantic comedy. Romantic comedy. Next. 보다. To see, to look at, to watch. 보다. 보다. And finally. 또. Again. 또. 또. 또. 또. The focus of this lesson is 을까? Shall we or should we? More specifically, we'll take a look at 볼까? And specifically, that's shall we see or shall we watch? So this construction 을까? is used for making suggestions. Yep, that's why we translate this as should we or shall we? But at this level, we don't want to focus on the construction. But if you're interested in how to construct this, you can check the lesson notes. Right, but in this lesson, we want to show you how to use it. If you're making any suggestion, this is what you use. Yeah, you can use this with most verbs to suggest something. So if, for example, you want to suggest leaving, you can say 갈까? And that's from the verb 가다, which means to go. How about if we're hungry and we want to say Shall we? Shall we eat? 먹을까? Okay, and that comes from the verb 먹다, to eat. And let's use the verb 하다, to do. 할까? Okay, and that's suggesting shall we do something. Alright, well, in this lesson, the verb that was used was 보다, to see, to watch, or to look at. 네, 맞아요. You can use this with your friends. Right, just like in the dialogue, you can suggest seeing a movie. 영화 볼까? And if you want to use formal Korean, you can just add 요 at the end. 영화 볼까요? Great. 미성, can we have two more examples? 네, 좋아요. Okay. 우리 밥 먹을까요? 네, let's eat. Yeah, you buy it. Okay, another one. 우리 영화 볼까요? A movie? Sure, that sounds like a date. Okay. Because you're in a movie, right? Right. I wish I could have a date. But, you know, a kid says he's really famous, so I cannot really take him. I'm not that famous. No, you are. What are you talking about?

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