saideumireo deokbune pyeonghaeng juchaga swiwossseupnida.

Thanks to the side-view mirror, parallel parking was easy.

Breakdown of saideumireo deokbune pyeonghaeng juchaga swiwossseupnida.

• 쉽다: easy
• 덕분에: thanks to
• 사이드미러: the side-view mirror
• 평행 주차: the parallel parking

Questions & Answers about saideumireo deokbune pyeonghaeng juchaga swiwossseupnida.

What does 덕분에 mean here, and how is it different from 때문에?

덕분에 means thanks to or due to, and it usually implies a positive result.

So in this sentence, 사이드미러 덕분에 means thanks to the side mirrors.

Compare:

• 덕분에 = because of X, and the result is good/helpful
• 때문에 = because of X, more neutral, but often used when the result is negative or just factual

Examples:

• 친구 덕분에 시험에 합격했어요.
  = I passed the exam thanks to my friend.

• 비 때문에 경기가 취소됐어요.
  = The game was canceled because of rain.

You could say 사이드미러 때문에 평행 주차가 쉬웠습니다, but 덕분에 sounds more natural because the side mirrors helped.

Why is 사이드미러 written in Hangul? Is it a Korean word?

Yes, it is a Korean word in the sense that Koreans use it normally, but it is a loanword from English: side mirror.

Korean often borrows English words and writes them in Hangul. These borrowed words may not always match standard English usage exactly, but they are common in Korean.

So:

• 사이드미러 = side mirror

A native Korean equivalent exists in some contexts, but 사이드미러 is very common in everyday speech.

Why does 평행 주차 have after it instead of ?