Club Notice: Arrival Time vs Departure Time
Your Korean teacher posts a notice on the classroom door. You read it quickly before class: '다음 주 화요일 현장 학습이 있습니다. 9시까지 3반 교실로 오세요. 준비물: 도시락, 물, 모자 버스는 9시 30분에 학교 정문에서 출발합니다. 늦으면 사무실로 전화하세요. 02-123-4567' You are excited and tell your friend, 'We arrive at 9:30 and bring lunch.' You read 까지 as 'from' because it looks like 부터, and you think 준비물 means 'preparation' only. The teacher asks you to check the notice again. You have a pen but no dictionary. The notice is the only source. You have soccer practice at 8 am that ends at 8:40, and the classroom is a 10-minute walk from the field. Your friend will follow your plan.
1. What are the correct arrival time and departure time? Explain the function of 까지 and 에.
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Arrival: by 9:00. Departure: 9:30. 까지 marks a deadline ('by/until'), so '9시까지 ... 오세요' means come by 9. 에 marks a specific time, so '9시 30분에 ... 출발합니다' means the bus leaves at 9:30. Your reading of 까지 as 'from' confuses it with 부터, which marks a start. Reasoning: using the wrong particle reverses the plan: arriving at 9:30 would miss the bus, not join it.
2. What does 준비물 mean, and what three items must you bring?
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준비물 means 'things to prepare/bring', not just the abstract idea of preparation. The colon introduces the list: 도시락 (lunchbox), 물 (water), 모자 (hat). Reasoning: in notices, a heading followed by a colon is a list; read the items, not only the heading. Bringing only lunch would leave you without water and hat, which the notice explicitly requires.
3. If soccer ends at 8:40 and the walk takes 10 minutes, can you meet the 9:00 deadline? What should you do?
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Yes, just: 8:40 + 10 min = 8:50, leaving 10 minutes' buffer. But the buffer is small, so plan to leave the field immediately and do not rely on changing clothes. If you are delayed, the notice says '늦으면 사무실로 전화하세요' - call the office at 02-123-4567. Reasoning: check both the arithmetic and the contingency instruction; a plan that ignores the phone number misses the notice's purpose.