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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Have you ever had a moment where you thought, “OK, time for revenge”? In this episode, Andrew takes you to the streets of Seoul to talk about participating in the 2025 JTBC Marathon. As you listen, you will hear clear, natural English and pick up useful expressions and storytelling language that can help you understand English more easily and speak it more smoothly.
Don’t forget to check out the free interactive transcript and glossary to learn the idioms, phrasal verbs, and vocabulary Andrew uses in this episode that will help you sound more natural and confident when speaking English.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to bonus episode number 162 of the Culep's English podcast. How was it going? |
| 0:06.7 | I hope you're doing well. Thank you for clicking play and joining me for this English study session today. |
| 0:11.9 | My name is Andrew. And what I do here in our bonus episode series is I tell you some stories from my everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea, |
| 0:22.0 | and I hope that by listening to my stories, you will be able to build your English fluency, |
| 0:26.8 | to grow your vocabulary, and to become a clearer and better communicator. If those are some of your |
| 0:32.7 | goals with your English, then you're in the right place, and I think you will enjoy this story. Today, I'm |
| 0:39.2 | going to tell you the story of running in the 2025 JTBC Marathon, a very big marathon event here in Seoul. |
| 0:47.8 | And actually, originally, I wasn't intending to tell this story, but in a recent Culep's small |
| 0:53.5 | group speaking class, some of our members encouraged me to tell this story, but in a recent Culep's small group speaking class, some of our |
| 0:55.9 | members encouraged me to tell the story and they wanted to hear about it. So this one's for you guys. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm telling the story for all of our awesome Culeps members out there who join me each and every |
| 1:05.7 | week for our small group speaking classes. And by the way, for this episode, there's a free transcript, interactive |
| 1:13.0 | transcript, I should say, even better than just a regular transcript, although we do provide that |
| 1:17.9 | as well. If you want to download a PDF, that option is available for you. So there's the interactive |
| 1:23.1 | transcript and also a vocabulary glossary that will help explain some of the difficult vocabulary |
| 1:29.6 | or useful vocabulary that you hear me use in this episode today. So if you'd like to get those two |
| 1:35.2 | awesome study tools for free for absolutely everybody, no strings attached, then just click the |
| 1:41.1 | link in the description for this episode. But if you want to be a QLUPS member |
| 1:45.3 | and get access to our full range, all of the tools that we have provided to help you hit |
| 1:51.0 | the next level with your English, including helpful study guides for all of our episodes, |
| 1:57.1 | transcripts, quizzes, and even speaking classes, and more. |
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