diff --git a/8.1-text-generation-with-lstm.ipynb b/8.1-text-generation-with-lstm.ipynb
index 6dbb154ab0..802b218740 100644
--- a/8.1-text-generation-with-lstm.ipynb
+++ b/8.1-text-generation-with-lstm.ipynb
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     "path = keras.utils.get_file(\n",
     "    'nietzsche.txt',\n",
     "    origin='https://s3.amazonaws.com/text-datasets/nietzsche.txt')\n",
-    "text = open(path).read().lower()\n",
+    "text = open(path, encoding='utf-8').read().lower()\n",
     "print('말뭉치 크기:', len(text))"
    ]
   },