Korean grammar · Level 5
N을/를 비롯해(서) · N을/를 비롯한 N
Including N, with N first — naming the leading member of a group
Taught in Level 5, Unit 7: Mangwon is trending
a news report or a speech never lists everything. It names the most important case and lets the rest follow — the laundromat and the other old shops, the market and thirty shops in the alleys. Hoya needs exactly this move to speak at the meeting, and the neighbourhood paper uses it in every other paragraph.
Example
이번 축제에는 주민들을 비롯해 많은 사람이 찾아왔다.
Many visitors came to this year's festival, local residents first among them.
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Practise it in context · Level 5, Unit 7
Mangwon is trending
The rule with a table, Sori’s tips, practice that checks itself, a review room and a one-page cheat sheet.
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