Is it bedtime where you are right now? Hopefully, everyone is sleeping well! Like saying good morning in Korean, saying good night has different levels of formality depending on who you are talking to. 안녕히 주무세요 (an-nyeong-hi ju-mu-se-yo) For saying good night formally, I use this often with my mother and father in law and … Read more
There are two common phrases that you will hear for “good job”. From my experience, the first one is more casual than the second and I hear it used towards younger people a lot.
The second one is what you can use towards coworkers and workers you may see at shops.
They say laughter is contagious! Who doesn’t love a good laugh? Whether you’re watching your favorite comedy show, or hanging around your friends who have a knack for perfect timing with their jokes, laughter can change your mood instantly.
Like all other languages, the Korean language has many ways to express laughter. The most popular being ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’. You’ve probably seen ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’ in a lot of places, especially as captions on TV shows in Korea. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been in Korea for so long, but using ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’ feels almost more natural than ‘lol’ for me now.
You would also write these using internet slang and text messaging very frequently. Here is a breakdown of the most common and easiest ways to express the equivalent of ‘lol’ in Korean.
In Korea, it is not polite to address a teacher by their name. So for example in this west, we might call a teacher Ms. or Mrs. Johnson/Mr. Johnson, but in Korea, the teacher will literally just be called teacher by the students.
This is one of the easiest and most important phrases for you to learn as you start learning Korean. You eat all day and every day so knowing how to express your feeling about the food you’re eating is important in Korea. You will often hear Korean say “맛있어요” over and over which may seem a little overboard.
If you want to learn how to say I’m hungry in the Korean language, then you will have a very easy time learning it. The phrase for hungry and full are very easy to remember even with the formal versions added.
Saying good morning in Korean is very easy to learn and is one of the many greetings you should learn from the very beginning. 안녕하세요 (an-nyeong-ha-se-yo) ‘안녕하세요’ is the most common way people greet each other in the morning. You may know this phrase to mean ‘Hello’ in Korean, but this phrase is also used … Read more
We did a post earlier on Korean slang. It is very short and I’ve always wanted to do something with a little more depth to all the Korean slang out there. This graphic shows the basic meanings of each word and some have a red dot next to it indicating it can be rude or have negative connotations.
You can find many of these used on the internet, in text messages, and in real life. These phrases and words are meant to be used with close friends of yours. There is waaaay more slang out there than this (including phrases that we don’t want to include here hehe) and there are lots of resources and other books on Korean slang that will get you a deeper understanding of the words as well. For now, you can use this post as a quick reference.
So this basic phrase is very simple to learn and easy to use (in the right situation of course ;p)
We wanted to touch a bit more on this topic as we have already done two graphics about love related vocabulary (Terms of Endearment and Dating terms). As you can see, there are quite a few ways to express how you feel about someone aside from just I love you. There are actually several more that we may touch on in the near future so this may be a part 1.
