입다
ip-da
You wear clothes — in Korean you also wear the damage
The picture Something settles over the body, wraps it, and stays on it wherever the body goes. 입다 is laying something over the body; 벗다 is peeling off what covers it.
Where the picture shows up in 입다
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cloth laid over the body
오늘 추우니까 두껍게 입으세요.
o-neul chu-u-ni-kka du-kkeop-ge i-beu-se-yo
It's cold today — dress warmly.
An arm slides into a sleeve and the coat is pulled up to cover the shoulders
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dressed to fit the occasion
면접에는 정장을 입고 오세요.
myeon-jeo-be-neun jeong-jang-eul ip-go o-se-yo
Please come to the interview in a suit.
A neat suit wraps a body from shoulder to knee as it waits outside the interview room
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damage pulled on like a garment
지난 태풍에 큰 피해를 입었어요.
ji-nan tae-pung-e keun pi-hae-reul i-beo-sseo-yo
We took heavy damage in the last typhoon.
A house with its roof torn off stands still wearing the marks the storm left on it
Damage is not clothing, but it settles on you and stays — the same picture.
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an injury left on the body
넘어져서 무릎에 상처를 입었어요.
neo-meo-jeo-seo mu-reu-pe sang-cheo-reul i-beo-sseo-yo
I fell and hurt my knee.
A red scrape clings to the fallen knee like a patch of cloth
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someone's help draped over you
그때 사장님께 큰 은혜를 입었습니다.
geu-ttae sa-jang-nim-kke keun eun-hye-reul i-beot-seum-ni-da
The boss did me a great kindness back then.
On a cold day, the coat someone took off rests across your shoulders
All of it in one picture
입다 is one picture: something comes down over the body and stays there. Thick cloth covers your shoulders and you are dressing warmly; a suit wraps you and you are dressed for the room; the marks a typhoon left cover a house and the house has taken damage. A red scrape clings to a knee and you have taken an injury; a coat someone lent drapes over your shoulders and you have received their kindness. So with 입다, good or bad, the thing now rests on you.