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Decode ๋งค์ถ and ์์ ์ด์ต in Korean earnings headlines with a profit-stack + sign-check, plus numbers drillsโmaster
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Decode ๋งค์ถ and ์์ ์ด์ต in Korean earnings headlines with a profit-stack + sign-check, plus numbers drillsโmaster
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Use a ๋งค์ถโ์์ ์ด์ตโ์์ด์ต โprofit stackโ + ๋ง์ง sign-check to rewrite 10 Korean earnings headlines without flipping good/bad.
Hereโs a generic โearnings recapโ style set of numbers and how to read them in Korean without panicking about units.
๋งค์ถ 2์กฐ 3,400์ต ์maechul 2jo 3,400eok won โ Revenue of 2.34 trillion won (watch ์กฐjo + ์ตeok stacking).์์
์ด์ต 680์ต ์yeoeobiik 680eok won โ Operating profit of 68.0 billion won.์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ 9.2% (์ ๋
๋๋น 1.1%p ์์น)yeoeobiikryul 9.2% (jeonnyeon daebi 1.1%p sangseung) โ Operating margin 9.2% (up 1.1 percentage points year-on-year).Tip: % is a rate, but %p is the change in a rate. Korean headlines often write %p as ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธpeosenteupointeu.
๋งค์ถ์ด ๋๋ค/์ค๋คmaechuri neulda/julda๋งค์ถ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ/๊ฐ์ํ๋คmaechuri jeungga/gamsohada๋งค์ถ์ด ๊บพ์ด๋คmaechuri kkeokkida๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถbungi maechul๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅmaechul seongjang๋งค์ถ์ ๋์์ง๋ง ์์
์ด์ต์ ์ค์์ต๋๋ค.maechureun neureotjiman yeoeobiigeun jureotseupnida. โ Revenue rose, but operating profit fell.ํด์ธ ๋งค์ถ ๋น์ค์ด ์ปค์ก์ต๋๋ค.haeoe maechul bijui keojyeotseupnida. โ The share of overseas revenue increased.๋งค์ถ์ด ๊บพ์ด๋ฉด์ ๋น์ฉ ๋ถ๋ด์ด ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.maechuri kkeokkimyeonseo biyong budami deo keuge boyeotseupnida. โ As revenue softened, the cost burden looked heavier.
| Keyword | Verb/adjective it pairs with | Example |
|---|---|---|
๋งค์ถmaechul | ๋๋ค/์ค๋คneulda/julda | ๋งค์ถ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค.maechuri neureotseupnida. โ Revenue increased. |
๋งค์ถmaechul | ์ฆ๊ฐ/๊ฐ์ํ๋คjeungga/gamsohada | ๋งค์ถ์ด ๊ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.maechuri gamsohaetseupnida. โ Revenue decreased. |
์์
์ด์ตyeoeobiik | ๊ฐ์ /์
ํ๋๋คgaeseon/akhwadoeda | โ Operating profit improved. |
Read these out loud in Korean, then say the meaning in English.
๋งค์ถ 3์กฐ 2,500์ต ์maechul 3jo 2,500eok won โ Revenue of 3.25 trillion won.์์
์ด์ต 450์ต ์yeoeobiik 450eok won โ Operating profit of 45.0 billion won.๋น๊ธฐ์์ด์ต 120์ต ์danggisuniik 120eok won โ Net profit for the period of 12.0 billion won.Practice rewriting real headlines by forcing a โprofit stackโ summary first: top line (๋งค์ถmaechul) โ core profit (์์
์ด์ตyeoeobiik) โ bottom line (์์ด์ต) โ efficiency (). Then do the drill below: underline the direction words (, , , , ) and translate them before you translate the numbers.
Rewrite each headline into 1โ2 English sentences without flipping good/bad.
A์ฌ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถ 2์กฐ ์โฆ์ ๋
๋๋น 12% ์ฆ๊ฐA: ์ค๋ ์ค์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ๋ดค์ด?oneul siljeok gisa bwasseo?
B: ์. ๋งค์ถ์ ๋์๋๋ฐ ์์
์ด์ต์ด ์ค์๋๋ผ.eung. maechureun neureotneunde yeoeobiigi jureotdeora.
A (English): Did you see todayโs earnings article?
B (English): Yeah. Revenue rose, but operating profit fell.
A: ํ์ ์ ํ์ด๋ฉด ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์ข์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ?heukja jeonhwanimyeon mujogeon joheun geoya?
B: ๋์ฒด๋ก๋ ์ข์๋ฐ, ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ด์ต์ธ์ง๋ ๋ด์ผ ํด.daecheroneun joheunde, eotteon gijunui iiginjido bwaya hae.
A (English): If it โswung to profit,โ is it always good?
B (English): Usually yes, but you should also check which profit metric it is.
A: ์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ 1.2%p ์์น์ด๋ฉด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ์ง?yeoeobiikryul 1.2%p sangseuimyeon eolmana oreun geoji?
B: ํผ์ผํธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธ๋ก 1.2๋งํผ ์ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ์ผ.peosenteuga anira peosenteupointeuro 1.2mankeum oreun geoya.
A (English): If operating margin is up 1.2%p, how much is that?
B (English): Itโs not percent; itโs up by 1.2 percentage points.
4๋ถ๊ธฐ ____ 1์กฐ ์ ๋ํ4bungi ____ 1jo won dolpa (top line)์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ด์ผ๋ก ____ ๊ฐ์wonga budameuro ____ gamso (core operations)ํ์จ ์ํฅ์ผ๋ก ____ ์ ์ ์ ํhwanyul yeonghyaeuro ____ jeokja jeonhwan (bottom line)____ 8.1%๋ก 1.2%p ์์น____ 8.1%ro 1.2%p sangseung (rate)Answers:
๋งค์ถmaechul์์
์ด์ตyeoeobiik์์ด์ตsuniik / ๋น๊ธฐ์์ด์ตdanggisuniik์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ yeoeobiikryulNotes:
๋งค์ถmaechul is the top-line sales figure, so it matches headlines about โbreaking 1 trillion wonโ in sales.์์
์ด์ตyeoeobiik is the profit from core operations; cost pressure most directly maps to operating profit changes.์์
์ด์ต์ด ๊ฐ์ /์
ํ๋๋คyeoeobiigi gaeseon/akhwadoeda์์
์ด์ต์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ/๊ฐ์ํ๋คyeoeobiigi jeungga/gamsohada์์
์ด์ต ํ์/์ ์yeoeobiik heukja/jeokja์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ yeoeobiikryul์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ด์ผ๋ก ์์
์ด์ต์ด ์ค๋คwonga budameuro yeoeobiigi julda์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ด์ผ๋ก ์์
์ด์ต์ด ๊ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.wonga budameuro yeoeobiigi gamsohaetseupnida. โ Operating profit decreased due to cost pressure.์์
์ด์ต ํ์๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ์ต๋๋ค.yeoeobiik heukjareul yujihaetseupnida. โ The company stayed in the black on an operating basis.๋งค์ถ์ด ๋์ด๋ ์์
์ด์ต์ด ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.maechuri neureodo yeoeobiigi jul su itseupnida. โ Revenue can rise while operating profit falls.์์ด์ต์ด ๋๋ค/์ค๋คsuniigi neulda/julda์์ด์ต ํ์/์ ์suniik heukja/jeokja๋น๊ธฐ์์ด์ตdanggisuniik์ผํ์ฑ ์์ธ์ผ๋ก ์์ด์ต์ด ๋ณ๋ํ๋คilhoeseong yoineuro suniigi byeondonghada๊ธ์ต๋น์ฉ/๋ฒ์ธ์ธ ์ํฅgeumyungbiyong/beobinse yeonghyang์ผํ์ฑ ์์ธ์ผ๋ก ์์ด์ต์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.ilhoeseong yoineuro suniigi keuge neureotseupnida. โ Net profit jumped due to one-off factors.์์ด์ต ์ ์ ์ ํsuniik jeokja jeonhwan โ A swing to a net loss.์์
์ด์ต์ด ์ข์๋ ์์ด์ต์ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋์ฌ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.yeoeobiigi johado suniigeun dareuge naol su itseupnida. โ Even with strong operating profit, net profit can look different.์์
์ด์ต์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋์ต๋๋ค.์์
์ด์ตyeoeobiik | ํ์/์ ์heukja/jeokja | ์์
์ด์ต ํ์yeoeobiik heukja โ Operating profit in the black. |
์์ด์ตsuniik | ๊ธ์ฆ/๊ธ๊ฐํ๋คgeupjeung/geupgamhada | ์์ด์ต์ด ๊ธ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.suniigi geupgamhaetseupnida. โ Net profit plunged. |
์์ด์ตsuniik | ์ ํjeonhwan | ์์ด์ต ํ์ ์ ํsuniik heukja jeonhwan โ Returned to net profit. |
์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ yeoeobiikryul | ์์น/ํ๋ฝํ๋คsangseung/harakhada | ์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ํ๋ฝํ์ต๋๋ค.yeoeobiikryuri harakhaetseupnida. โ Operating margin fell. |
์ ์jeokja | ์ถ์๋๋คchuksodoeda | ์ ์ ํญ์ด ์ถ์๋์ต๋๋ค.jeokja pogi chuksodwaetseupnida. โ The loss narrowed. |
์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ 7.8%yeoeobiikryul 7.8%์ ๋
๋๋น 1.4%p ๊ฐ์ jeonnyeon daebi 1.4%p gaeseon โ Improved by 1.4 percentage points year-on-year.์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ yeoeobiikryul์ฆ๊ฐ/๊ฐ์jeungga/gamso๊ธ์ฆ/๊ธ๊ฐgeupjeung/geupgam์ ํjeonhwan์ถ์chukso๊ฐ์ /์
ํgaeseon/akhwaB์ฌ ๋งค์ถ 8,400์ต ์โฆ์์ ๋ํ๋ก 6% ๊ฐ์Bsa maechul 8,400eok wonโฆsuyo dunhwaro 6% gamsoC์ฌ ์์
์ด์ต 680์ต ์โฆ์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ด์ผ๋ก 35% ๊ฐ์Csa yeoeobiik 680eok wonโฆwonga budameuro 35% gamsoD์ฌ ์์
์ด์ต 120์ต ์โฆ์ ๋
๋๋น 2๋ฐฐ ์ฆ๊ฐDsa yeoeobiik 120eok wonโฆjeonnyeon daebi 2bae jeunggaE์ฌ ์์
์ด์ต ํ์ ์ ํโฆ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ ํจ๊ณผEsa yeoeobiik heukja jeonhwanโฆbiyong jeolgam hyogwaF์ฌ ์์
์ด์ต ์ ์ ํญ ์ถ์โฆ์ ์ ์ถ์์ธ ์ง์Fsa yeoeobiik jeokja pok chuksoโฆjeokja chuksose jisokG์ฌ ์์ด์ต 120์ต ์โฆ์ผํ์ฑ ์์ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ฆGsa suniik 120eok wonโฆilhoeseong yoineuro geupjeungH์ฌ ์์ด์ต ๊ธ๊ฐโฆํ์จ ์ํฅ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ต ์ค์ดHsa suniik geupgamโฆhwanyul yeonghyaeuro iik jureoI์ฌ ์์ด์ต ์ ์ ์ ํโฆ๊ธ์ต๋น์ฉยท๋ฒ์ธ์ธ ์ํฅIsa suniik jeokja jeonhwanโฆgeumyungbiyongยทbeobinse yeonghyangJ์ฌ ์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ 7.8%โฆ์ ๋
๋๋น 1.4%p ๊ฐ์ Jsa yeoeobiikryul 7.8%โฆjeonnyeon daebi 1.4%p gaeseon์์ด์ตsuniik and ๋น๊ธฐ์์ด์ตdanggisuniik both refer to net profit for the period in headlines; the โFX impactโ framing is commonly discussed at the net level.%p change describes a margin rate, so ์์
์ด์ต๋ฅ yeoeobiikryul is the natural fit.