Level B2 Literature Pro

Literature & Arts

Literary criticism, art appreciation, and cultural analysis vocabulary for advanced Korean learners.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๋ฌธํ•™, ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ๐Ÿ“š 10 learning cards ๐Ÿ“ 134 vocabulary words ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40 sentences

What You'll Learn

This Level B2 pack covers literature โ€” one of the highest-frequency areas new Korean learners need. You'll get 10 hand-crafted dialogues, 134 vocabulary words, and 40 example sentences, all reviewed by Lexibeom's 27-stage AI analysis pipeline.

  • Master B2-level Korean vocabulary for Literature situations
  • Practice with real-life dialogues reflecting how Koreans actually speak
  • Build pronunciation confidence with audio examples
  • Learn the cultural context behind each phrase โ€” not just translation
  • Earn progressive review prompts based on your retention pattern (SRS)

Sample Conversations

This pack covers 10 real-life Korean dialogues. Here are the conversations you will practice:

Card 1

์ด ์†Œ์„ค์€ 1970๋…„๋Œ€ ์‚ฐ์—…ํ™” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋…ธ๋™์ž ๊ณ„์ธต์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹น์‹œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๋ชจ์ˆœ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณต์žฅ ๋…ธ๋™์ž๋“ค์˜ ์—ด์•…ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ํ•„์ฒด๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด ๋…์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋‚จ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฆฌ์–ผ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"This novel realistically depicts the working class during the industrialization period of the 1970s."

Card 2

์ด ์‹œ์—์„œ ํ™”์ž๋Š” ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋„์‹œ ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ๊ณตํ—ˆํ•จ์„ ํ† ๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๊ณณ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์€ ์‹œ์  ์šด์œจ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ํ™”์ž์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋ง์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์€์œ ์  ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ ํŽธ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ์‹ฌ์ƒ์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜•์ƒํ™”ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"In this poem, the speaker yearns for the nature of their hometown and expresses the emptiness of city life."

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๊ณ ์ „ ๋ฌธํ•™๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฌธํ•™์„ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฃผ์ œ ์˜์‹์—์„œ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์ „ ๋ฌธํ•™์ด ์ถฉํšจ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œ ๊ต์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋ฌธํ•™์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ์‹ค์กด์  ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ณดํŽธ์  ๊ฐ์ •์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์ด๋ณ„์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ์†์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌธํ•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"Comparing classical and modern literature, interesting changes can be observed in thematic consciousness."

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์ด ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฌธ์ฒด๋Š” ๊ฐ„๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํ•จ์ถ•์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํŠน์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งง์€ ๋ฌธ์žฅ ์†์— ๊นŠ์€ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํƒ์›”ํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋…์ž๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ํ–‰๊ฐ„์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์–ด์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฌธํ•™์ ์œผ๋กœ ์Šนํ™”์‹œํ‚จ ์ ์ด ๋†’์ด ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ฒด๋Š” 1980๋…„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ์‹คํ—˜์  ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌธํ•™์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"This author's writing style is characterized by being concise yet connotative."

Card 5

์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„ํ‰์€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜•์‹์ฃผ์˜ ๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์†Œ์„ค์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ์„œ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๋ผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์‚ฌํšŒํ•™์  ๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ํ˜„์‹ค ๋ฐ˜์˜์ด ๋ฏธํกํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์–‘์ธก ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์–ธ์–ด์  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋†’์€ ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธํ•™ ๋น„ํ‰์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ํ•ด์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"Criticism of this work is largely divided into two perspectives."

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์ด ๋‹จํŽธ ์†Œ์„ค์€ ํ•œ ๋…ธ์ธ์˜ ํšŒ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์ฐธ์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ„์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž”ํ˜นํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ์ธ๋ฌผ์˜ ์นจ๋ฌต๊ณผ ๋ง์„ค์ž„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๋ฅผ ์•”์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ง์—์„œ ๋…ธ์ธ์ด ์†์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ง์€ ์šฉ์„œ์™€ ํ™”ํ•ด์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„œ์‚ฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋ฌธํ•™์  ์˜์˜๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"This short story indirectly conveys the horrors of war through the reminiscences of an elderly man."

Card 7

์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฐ๊ทน์€ ๊ณ ์ „ ํฌ๊ณก์„ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํ•ด์„ํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์—ฐ์ถœ์ด ํŒŒ๊ฒฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋“ค์˜ ์ฆ‰ํฅ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ด€๊ฐ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ˜• ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์—ฐ๊ทน์˜ ํ‹€์„ ๊นจ๋œจ๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ด€๊ฐ์€ ์›์ž‘์˜ ์ •์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ›ผ์†๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜์‹  ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์žก์„ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ด ๊ทน๋‹จ์˜ ๊ณผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"This play is a modern reinterpretation of a classical drama, and its stage direction was unconventional."

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๋ฌธํ•™ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ ์€ ์›์ž‘์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋А๋ƒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์—ญ๊ณผ ์˜์—ญ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์„ ํƒ์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆผ๊ธธ์— ์„œ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์˜ ์กด๋Œ€๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ์˜์„ฑ์–ดยท์˜ํƒœ์–ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ทนํžˆ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์€ ๋‘ ๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋„“ํ˜€ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"The most difficult aspect of literary translation is how to convey the cultural context of the original work."

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๋ฌธํ•™์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋น„์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์šธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด ์žˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์‹œ๋Œ€๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฌธํ•™ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹๋ฏผ์ง€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ฌธํ•™์ด ์ €ํ•ญ๊ณผ ๋ฏผ์กฑ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋ฐฉ ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ๋ถ„๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ด๋… ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์ด ์ฃผ์š” ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ•™์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ํ™” ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์†Œํ†ต ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธํ•™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"As the saying goes that literature is a mirror reflecting society, literary works of each era reflect the appearance of that society."

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์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ์›Œํฌ์ˆ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ธ€์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋ž€ ๊ธฐ๊ต์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์— ์†”์งํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฌธ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"In today's creative writing workshop, let us talk about finding your own voice."

Vocabulary in This Pack (134 words)

Every word is taught with pronunciation, meaning, and example sentences. CEFR level: B2.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ดRomanizationPart of SpeechEnglish Meaning
์‚ฐ์—…ํ™” โ€”nounindustrialization
๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto depict; to describe
๋ชจ์ˆœ โ€”nouncontradiction; paradox
๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋‹ค โ€”verbto reveal; to expose
ํ•„์ฒด โ€”nounwriting style; penmanship
๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž‘ โ€”nounrepresentative work; masterpiece
๋…ธ๋™์ž โ€”nounworker; laborer
๊ณ„์ธต โ€”nounsocial class; stratum
์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต โ€”nounprotagonist; main character
๊ตฌ์กฐ์  โ€”adjectivestructural; systemic
์—ด์•…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”adjectivepoor; substandard; harsh (conditions)
์„ฌ์„ธํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”adjectivedelicate; meticulous; refined
์ธ์ƒ โ€”nounimpression
๋ฆฌ์–ผ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ โ€”nounrealism (literary movement)
ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฐ›๋‹ค โ€”verbto be evaluated; to be regarded as
ํ™”์ž โ€”nounspeaker; narrator (in poetry)
ํ† ๋กœํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto express; to pour out (feelings)
์šด์œจ โ€”nounrhythm; meter (in poetry)
๊ฐˆ๋ง โ€”nounlonging; yearning; craving
์€์œ ์  โ€”adjectivemetaphorical
์‹ฌ์ƒ โ€”nounimagery; mental image
ํ˜•์ƒํ™”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto embody; to give form to
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto long for; to yearn for; to miss
๊ณตํ—ˆํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”adjectiveempty; hollow; void (of meaning)
๊ตฌ์ ˆ โ€”nounphrase; verse; passage
์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto symbolize
์€์œ  โ€”nounmetaphor
ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”adjectiveto be abundant; rich; plentiful
๋Œ€๋น„ โ€”nouncontrast; juxtaposition
์ฃผ์ œ ์˜์‹ โ€”nounthematic consciousness; awareness of theme
์œ ๊ต์  โ€”adjectiveConfucian
์‹ค์กด์  โ€”adjectiveexistential
๋ณดํŽธ์  โ€”adjectiveuniversal; general
์ดˆ์›”ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto transcend; to go beyond
์—ฐ์†์„ฑ โ€”nouncontinuity
๊ณ ์ „ โ€”nounthe classics; classical literature
๊ด€์ฐฐ๋˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto be observed; to be noted
์ถฉํšจ โ€”nounloyalty and filial piety (Confucian virtues)
๋‚ด๋ฉด โ€”nouninner self; inner world
ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ€”verbto explore; to inquire into

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