Compressed KoreanDay 11 / 7 13 min 7 questions · 80% to pass

A news article is not a long sentence

Headline, lead, and why the first paragraph contains everything

Read an article in the order a Korean reader does, and stop after the lead when that is enough.
Explained in English

You can read Korean sentences. Then you open a news site and stop at the headline.

That is not a vocabulary gap. A headline is written in a compressed form of Korean that drops the particles, turns verbs into nouns, and lets punctuation do the work of a clause. It has to be decoded, not just read.

1 · Three parts, in this order

PartKoreanWhat it holds
Headline제목 · 표제The single most important fact, compressed
Lead리드 · 첫 문단Who, what, when, where — the whole story in two sentences
Body본문Detail, quotes, background, in falling order of importance
How an article is built
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