beureikeuneun oenjjoge issgo gasok pedareun oreunjjoge issseupnida.

는 / 은 is the topic marker. It shows what the sentence is talking about.

• 브레이크는 = as for the brake
• 가속 페달은 = as for the accelerator pedal

In this sentence, the speaker is contrasting the two items:

• the brake → on the left
• the accelerator pedal → on the right

That contrast is one reason 는/은 sounds natural here.

Here, 에 marks a location.

• 왼쪽에 = on the left / at the left side
• 오른쪽에 = on the right / at the right side

With the verb 있다 (to exist / to be located), Korean often uses 에 to show where something is.

So:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있습니다 = The brake is on the left
• 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있습니다 = The accelerator pedal is on the right

있고 is 있다 + 고.

• 있다 = to be / to exist / to be located
• -고 = and, used to connect clauses

So 있고 means something like:

• is, and...
• is located, and...

In this sentence:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 ... = The brake is on the left, and...

It connects the first statement to the second one.

Because the first clause is not the end of the sentence. It is connected to the next clause with -고.

Structure:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 = The brake is on the left, and...
• 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있습니다 = the accelerator pedal is on the right.

Only the final clause needs the full sentence-ending form, here 있습니다.

So this is very similar to English:

• The brake is on the left, and the accelerator pedal is on the right.

Yes, but 있다 is also commonly used to mean to be located.

So in Korean, if something is physically in a place, 있다 is often the natural verb.

Examples:

• 책이 책상 위에 있습니다 = The book is on the desk
• 화장실은 오른쪽에 있습니다 = The restroom is on the right
• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있습니다 = The brake is on the left

So here, 있습니다 means is located.

있습니다 is the formal polite style.

Compare:

• 있습니다 = formal polite
• 있어요 = standard polite, less formal

So this sentence sounds like something you might hear:

• in a manual
• during a driving lesson
• in an announcement
• in a textbook

A more casual polite version would be:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있어요.

Both are correct; 있습니다 is just more formal.

브레이크 is a loanword from English brake.

Korean uses many loanwords, especially for modern objects and car-related vocabulary.

A few notes:

• Korean adapts English words to Korean sound patterns.
• 브레이크 is pronounced roughly like beu-re-i-keu.
• It does not sound exactly like English brake, even though it comes from it.

This is very common in Korean vocabulary.

가속 페달 means accelerator pedal.

It is made of:

• 가속 = acceleration
• 페달 = pedal (also a loanword)

So literally it is something like acceleration pedal.

In everyday English, we often say:

• accelerator
• gas pedal

In Korean, 가속 페달 is a clear and standard way to say it.

Korean often marks each topic or contrast clearly, especially when comparing two things.

So:

• 브레이크는 ... 가속 페달은 ...

feels neat and natural because it clearly sets up a contrast:

• the brake versus the accelerator pedal

You could think of it as:

• As for the brake, it’s on the left, and as for the accelerator pedal, it’s on the right.

Repeating the topic marker helps organize the sentence.

Yes, but the nuance changes.

• 은/는 highlights the topic and often gives a sense of contrast
• 이/가 is more purely a subject marker

In this sentence, 은/는 works well because the speaker is contrasting two pedals.

Natural version:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있습니다.

If you used 이/가:

• 브레이크가 왼쪽에 있고 가속 페달이 오른쪽에 있습니다.

This is grammatically possible, but it feels a little less like a contrastive explanation and more like simple factual description.

The basic pattern is:

• [topic] + [location] + [verb]

So:

• 브레이크는 = topic
• 왼쪽에 = location
• 있고 = verb + connector

Then again:

• 가속 페달은 = topic
• 오른쪽에 = location
• 있습니다 = verb

Korean usually puts the verb at the end of each clause, which is different from English.

So instead of:

• The brake is on the left

Korean is more like:

• Brake-topic left-side-at is

That word order is completely normal in Korean.

A natural casual-polite version would be:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있어요.

In even more casual speech, depending on context, someone might say:

• 브레이크는 왼쪽에 있고 가속 페달은 오른쪽에 있어.

The meaning stays the same. The main difference is the speech level:

• 있습니다 = formal polite
• 있어요 = standard polite
• 있어 = casual/informal

Grammatically, 있다 does have the idea of existence, so a very literal translation can sound like that. But in natural English, we would not say exists on the left here.

In this kind of sentence, 있다 is best understood as:

• is
• is located
• is positioned

So the natural meaning is:

• The brake is on the left, and the accelerator pedal is on the right.

That is how a learner should understand it in practice.