Reading a Chuseok description and separating custom from opinion
A reading passage about Chuseok says: '추석은 한국의 큰 명절이에요. 가족이 모두 고향에 모여요. 아침에는 차례를 지내요. 그리고 성묘를 하러 산에 가요. 저녁에는 달을 보면서 소원을 빌어요. 요즘은 고향에 가지 못하는 사람도 많아요. 그래서 영상 통화로 가족을 만나요.' A student's summary reads: 'Chuseok is a big Korean holiday. Everyone goes to their hometown. They do a ceremony, visit graves, and make wishes at the moon. Nobody can go home now, so they video call.'
1. Identify two places where the student's summary overstates or misrepresents the passage, and explain the wording that shows this.
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Overstatement 1 - 'Everyone goes to their hometown.' The passage says 가족이 모두 고향에 모여요 ('all the family gather in the hometown'), which describes the custom, but then says 요즘은 고향에 가지 못하는 사람도 많아요 - 'these days there are also many people who cannot go to their hometown'. So it is not everyone.
Overstatement 2 - 'Nobody can go home now.' The passage says 많아요 ('many'), not 모두 ('all') or 'nobody'. The student has flipped a partial statement into an absolute one. The video-call detail is presented as one alternative for those who cannot travel, not as what everyone does.
The customs (ceremony, grave visit, moon wish) are accurately listed, so the errors are in quantifiers, not in the cultural content.
2. The passage uses 그래서. Explain its function here and how it differs from 그래도, which could also fit the topic of holiday travel.
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그래서 means 'therefore / so'. It marks a result or consequence of the previous sentence: because many people cannot go to their hometown (고향에 가지 못하는 사람도 많아요), therefore they meet family by video call (영상 통화로 가족을 만나요). Cause → result.
그래도 means 'even so / nevertheless' and marks contrast, not consequence. If the passage said 'many people cannot go home; 그래도 they feel Chuseok is important', that would be a concession.
Choosing the wrong connector changes the logic: with 그래도 the video call would read as a surprising exception rather than the natural solution the passage intends.