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Children around the world learned a bit more about Korean culture when ____ Tae Keller published her book When You Trap a Tiger in 2020.

Its story starts with a girl who meets a ____

Her grandmother knows the tiger ____ well.

When her grandmother gets sick, the girl makes a deal ____ the tiger.

____ inspiration for her award-winning book was an old folktale that her halmoni (grandmother) used to tell her.

It is called “The Sun and the Moon,”and it is about a brother, a sister, and a ____

Keller wanted to revive the public’s interest in ____ by writing her own book.

Long ago, tigers were so abundant in Korea that people often called the country the “Land ____ Tigers.”

It is ____ that tigers lived in Korea for at least 100,000 years.

The first appearance of a tiger in Korean culture dates back ____ the rock art of the Bronze Age.

It depicts people hunting various animals, including ____

Since then, tigers have appeared in many aspects of Korean ____ from legends to art and musical instruments.

Some of you may have heard ____ folktales featuring tigers.

In fact, approximately forty percent of ____ folktales about animals include a tiger.

Tigers in Korean folktales are sometimes shown in a ____ light and sometimes as foolish creatures.

For example, in one story, a ____ helps a human become rich after the human saves the tiger’s life.

In another ____ a tiger hears a mother tell her crying baby, “Don’t cry. Here’s a gotgam.”

Because the baby stops crying, the tiger mistakenly thinks the gotgam is a very ____ creature and runs away.

It seems ____ people at the time had conflicting feelings about tigers.

However, they ____ also scared of tigers because being injured or even killed by tigers was common in the past.

They may have made tigers into ____ characters in order to be less scared of them.

Tigers in Korea faced a ____ in population due to hunting during the Joseon period and nearly went extinct during the Japanese colonial era.

With the disappearance of tigers in Korea, their use as a ____ of the nation faded away.

However, their symbolism was revived in modern times through their selection ____ the mascot for both Olympics hosted by Korea.

Hodori was the mascot for the Seoul Summer ____ in 1988.

It was ____ Siberian tiger, which represents courage.

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics in ____ created Soohorang, a white tiger, as its mascot.

White ____ are considered sacred guardians.

One verse of ____ song is a reinterpreted version of “Sugungga,” which is a traditional Korean song.

The song drew worldwide attention, and its video was viewed millions of times ____

These days, only a few ____ tigers have been reported to be living in North Korea.

However, the history, stories, and cultural meaning of tigers still have a place among modern ____ people.

Who can deny that the tiger is a symbol of ____

In 2021, the National Folk Museum of Korea published a book ____ collects all the stories about tigers in Korea.

____ about looking for tigers around you now?