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Learn Korean Phrase & Grammar, Jecheon (2026)

15/01/2026

My dear friend,
There is a truth that when we stay upset with someone for a long time, it will take us just as long—or even longer—to heal and make things right again.
So, I hope each of us can live with a little more kindness and understanding toward those who are by our side 🥰🥰🥰
친애하는 친구에게,
우리가 누군가에게 오래도록 마음을 닫고 서운해하면, 그만큼 혹은 그보다 더 오랜 시간이 지나야 다시 관계를 회복할 수 있다는 사실이 있어요.
그러니 우리 곁에 있는 사람들에게 조금 더 너그럽고 따뜻한 마음으로 살아가길 바라요 🥰🥰🥰

12/01/2026

My dear friend,
If one day you have to feel a certain sadness, let it be a sadness that comes from within yourself, not from the words or actions of others.
And if you choose to smile, let it be a smile born from joy, from knowing how wonderful you truly are — not because of anyone else 🥰
친애하는 친구에게,
언젠가 슬퍼해야 할 날이 온다면, 그 슬픔은 반드시 다른 사람의 말이나 행동 때문이 아니라 나 자신의 감정이기를 바라.
그리고 미소를 짓고 싶을 때에는, 그 미소가 누군가 때문이 아니라 기쁨에서 비롯되고, 있는 그대로의 내가 참으로 소중하다는 마음에서 나오기를 바랄게요 🥰

26/12/2025

My dear friend,
No matter where we are in this world, as long as we look up at the sky, we are all one family. ❤️❤️❤️
친애하는 친구에게,
우리가 이 세상 어디에 있든, 하늘을 올려다보기만 하면 우리는 모두 한 가족입니다. ❤️❤️❤️

14/12/2025

Hello my dear friends,
Today is Sunday, a day off for most people. I’m currently in Vietnam, and I’d love to introduce you to a Korean dish that uses a few Vietnamese seasonings. It’s rice cake soup, Tokbokki 😍

In my fridge, I only have some sausages, kimchi, sliced cheese, tofu cheese, and beef, so I decided to combine them all together. This dish is quite simple to make — just boil some water, then gently add the available ingredients one by one, seasoning to taste. The beef and sliced cheese are added at the very end.

In the end, we’ll have a pot of mildly spicy Tokbokki rice cake soup, fragrant with melted cheese. The sauce becomes slightly thick and incredibly delicious. If I were in Korea, I would add fish cakes and a few more seasonings, but even this simple version tastes amazing already. You should definitely give it a try🥰
This is before the dish was fully cooked 😂

친애하는 친구 여러분,
오늘은 대부분의 사람들이 쉬는 날인 일요일이에요. 저는 지금 베트남에 있고, 베트남의 몇 가지 양념을 활용한 한국 음식을 소개해 드리고 싶어요. 바로 떡볶이 국물 요리입니다 😍

냉장고에는 소시지, 김치, 슬라이스 치즈, 치즈 두부, 그리고 소고기만 남아 있어서 이 재료들을 함께 넣어 요리해 보려고 해요. 이 음식은 만드는 방법도 비교적 간단해요. 물을 끓인 뒤 준비된 재료들을 하나씩 넣고, 입맛에 맞게 간을 하면 돼요. 소고기와 슬라이스 치즈는 마지막에 넣어줍니다.

그러면 살짝 매콤하면서도 치즈 향이 가득한 떡볶이 국물 요리가 완성돼요. 소스는 살짝 걸쭉해지면서 정말 맛있답니다. 만약 한국에 있었다면 어묵과 몇 가지 양념을 더 넣었을 거예요. 하지만 이렇게만 만들어도 이미 충분히 맛있어요. 여러분도 한 번 꼭 만들어 보세요 🥰
아직 요리가 다 되기 전 모습이에요 😂

08/12/2025

Hello my dear friend,
Today, I’d love to introduce to you kimchi – a traditional dish of Korea.
It carries the savory taste of salt, the warm spiciness of ginger, chili powder, and garlic, blended gently with the natural sweetness of pear and apple, along with the subtle fermentation created from cooked glutinous rice flour and sugar.
All of these come together to form a wonderfully appealing and delicious dish.
If you ever have the chance to visit Korea, don’t forget to give it a try🥰 🌶🧄🫚🍐🍎
사랑하는 친구에게,
오늘은 여러분께 한국의 전통 음식인 김치를 소개하고 싶어요.
소금의 짭짤한 맛과 생강, 고춧가루, 마늘의 알싸한 매운맛, 그리고 배와 사과의 은은한 달콤함이 잘 어우러지고, 찹쌀풀과 설탕이 더해져 자연스러운 발효 과정을 만들어 줘요.
이 모든 것이 모여 정말 매력적이고 맛있는 음식을 탄생시킨답니다.
혹시 한국에 방문할 기회가 있다면, 꼭 한 번 맛보세요🌶🧄🥬🫚🍐🍎

01/12/2025

Good morning, my dear.
Today is December 1st, 2025, a wonderfully beautiful day with a gentle breeze and soft sunlight, and the weather is slightly chilly.
There are encounters in life as beautiful as a radiant flower—beautiful just like today. ❤️
좋은 아침이에요, 사랑하는 당신.
오늘은 2025년 12월 1일, 산들바람과 은은한 햇살이 비치고, 약간 쌀쌀한 아주 아름다운 날이에요.
인생에는 눈부신 꽃처럼 아름다운 만남들이 있어요—바로 오늘처럼 아름다운 날처럼요. ❤️

08/11/2025

This morning, I had a steaming hot bowl of beef PHO - a super delicious Vietnamese PHO 🥰 You know what? When it’s cold and rainy, it makes us feel incredibly warm inside 🥰
오늘 아침에 뜨끈뜨끈한 소고기 쌀국수 한 그릇을 먹었어요 - 정말 맛있는 베트남 쌀국수였어요 🥰 있잖아요? 비 오고 추운 날에는 그게 우리 마음을 따뜻하게 해줘요 🥰

05/11/2025

The beautiful green color of the straight corn plants and the way my mother protected each ear of corn from the storm😀
Do you grow many kinds of this plant in your country?
곧게 자란 옥수수들의 아름다운 초록빛과 폭풍 속에서도 어머니가 한 대 한 대의 옥수수를 지켜내신 그 모습🥰
당신의 나라에서는 이 식물을 많이 재배하나요?

01/11/2025

안녕하세요 여러분,
11월의 첫날이에요. 겨울이 다가오고 있으니까, 밖에 나갈 때 따뜻하게 입으세요 🥰
오늘도 에너지 가득하고 즐거운 하루 보내세요 ❤️

01/01/2020

How to Say ‘Happy New Year’ in Korean?
Ready to try out your Korean skills while you bring in the new year? Then you should learn how to say ‘Happy New Year’ in Korean! We’ll show you how!

Formal ‘Happy New Year’ in Korean
1. 새해 복 많이 받으십시오 (saehae bok mani badeusipsio)

This phrase is often used in formal situations, greetings cards, and when speaking to people you want to show lots of respect towards. The 십시오 ending is the extra-formal way of saying -세요.

Standard ‘Happy New Year’ in Korean
1. 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (saehae bok mani badeuseyo)

This phrase is the go-to way of saying ‘Happy New Year‘ in Korean. 새해 is one of the words that means ‘new year’, 복 means ‘luck’, and 많이 means ‘many’ or ‘lots of’. 받으세요 is the honorific way of saying 받다, meaning ‘to receive’.

2. 행복한 새해 되세요 (haengbokan saehae doeseyo)

This Korean expression is an alternative to 새해 복 많이 받으세요 and still means ‘Happy New Year’. Use them both if you want to get extra practice!

Informal ‘Happy New Year’ in Korean
1. 새해 복 많이 받아 (saehae bok mani bada)

Typically, most people wouldn’t use the informal version of this phrase. However, the informal phrase is ok to say between close friends and family.

17/10/2017

Asking Questions in Korean

Asking questions in Korean, at first glance, is very easy. For the most part, asking questions in Korean without the use of a “question” word (who/what/when/where/why/how/how much/how many) is incredibly simple.

Asking questions in English is unnecessarily complicated. If I asked you the question “Do you like sports?” In English, what is the meaning of the word “do” in that sentence? In English, whenever we ask a question (without a question word), we need to include the words did/do/will to make the listener know that we are asking a question.

Did you go to the park?
Do you like sports?
Will you eat with us?

It is so confusing in English, and my two sentence explanation doesn’t really explain it very well. Luckily, this is not an English learning website! You are here to learn how to ask questions in Korean. Enough of this English nonsense.

In Korean, if you are asking a question that does not require the use of a question word (one more time: who/what/when/where/why/how/how much/how many) you don’t need to do anything structurally to make that sentence a question. All you need to do is raise the intonation of the end of the sentence to make it sound like a question. For example, if you want to say “My mother ate” you already know that you can say:

엄마는 먹었어요 = My mom ate

But if you want to ask somebody “did you eat?” You just raise the intonation of the end of the sentence to make it sound like a question:

엄마는 먹었어요? = (literally means “did mom eat?”)

Remember that Korean people rarely say the word “you,” so if you ask a question to the person you are talking to about the person you are talking to, you can just omit the subject of the sentence.

밥을 먹었어? = Did (you) eat?
집에 갔어? = Did (you) go home?
소식을 들었어? = Did (you) hear the news?

If you are talking to somebody and the subject of the sentence is not the person who you are talking to, you can just use the subject as normal. Also notice that regardless of the tense of the sentence (past/present/future) you don’t need to do anything special other than raise the intonation at the end of the sentence:

남동생은 울었어요? = Did your brother cry?
한국은 좋은 나라야? = Is Korea a good country?
엄마도 올 거야? = Will mom come too?

As I said, you don’t need to change anything structurally in these sentences to make them questions. There are, however, a few ways that you can change the structure of a sentence to make the sentence a question (if you want).

💥Using Question Words

Depending on which question word you are using, building a question can be really easy or really confusing. I will teach you the easy examples in this lesson (who, when, where, why) and the more confusing examples in the next lesson (what, how, how much/how many).

👉 Why (왜)

Why (왜) is probably the easiest question word in Korean. ‘왜’ is an adverb, which means it can be used/placed as an adverb in sentences. Many of the question words that you will learn in this lesson (and the following lesson) are adverbs. As you know, adverbs can be used very freely in sentences and do not have any specific location that they need to be used. However, the most common position for these adverb-question words is before the verb. If there are other adverbs in the sentence (including the negative “안”) the question word is usually placed first.

With these adverb-question words, you can typically just take a statement and change it into a question by inserting the word into the sentence. For example:

만화책을 좋아합니까? = Do you like comic books?
만화책을 왜 좋아합니까? = Why do you like comic books?

(저는) 한국어를 공부하고 있어요 = I am studying Korean
한국어를 왜 공부하고 있어요? = Why are you studying Korean?

(저는) 너무 빨리 먹었어요 = I ate really fast
왜 너무 빨리 먹었어요? = Why did you eat so fast?

(저는) 어제 학교에 안 갔어요 = I didn’t go to school yesterday
어제 학교에 왜 안 갔어요? = Why didn’t you go to school yesterday?

👉 왜 is also used to respond when somebody calls your name (because they want you for some reason). In English, we would say “what,” but in Korean, they say “왜.” For example:

Person 1: Play슬기야! = Seulgi!
Person 2: Play왜? = Why/what do you want?

Notice that saying “why” in English is unnatural. This is how they say it in Korean.

👉 When (언제)

The usage of ‘when’ (언제) is very similar to the usage of ‘왜’ in Korean. As an adverb, it can be used to ask “when” something happens. For example:

집에 갔어? = Did you go home?
집에 언제 갔어? = When did you go home?

집에 갈 거야? = Will you go home?
집에 언제 갈 거야? = When will you go home?

그 여자가 사라졌어요 = That girl disappeared
그 여자가 언제 사라졌어요? = When did that girl disappear?

낮잠을 잤어요? = Did you take a nap?
낮잠을 언제 잤어요? = When did you take a nap?

아빠가 왔어요? = Did dad come?
아빠가 언제 왔나요? = When did dad come?

💣 Particles like ~부터 and ~까지, which are often used to indicate from/until when something happens can be attached to 언제 to indicate that it is unknown “from/until when” something happens. For example:

어제부터 아팠어요 = I have been sick since yesterday
언제부터 아팠어요? = Since when have you been sick?
Notice that 어제 and 언제 are not the same word.

한국에서 내년까지 있을 거예요 = I will be in Korea until next year
한국에서 언제까지 있을 거예요? = Until when will you be in Korea?

작년부터 한국어를 공부했어요 = I have been studying Korean since last year
언제부터 한국어를 공부했어요? = Since when have you been studying Korean?

👉 언제 can also be attached to “이다” to ask “when” something is. In these cases as well, it replaces the noun that would normally be attached to 이다. For example:

결혼식은 내일이야 = The wedding is tomorrow
결혼식은 언제야? = When is the wedding?

방학은 다음 주야 = Vacation is next week
방학은 언제야? = When is vacation?

The grammatical principle ~든지 is commonly attached to 언제 to form 언제든지. For now, you can think of this simply as a word that means “whenever.” When you learn about the function of ~든지 in Lesson 106, you will understand how this meaning is formed.

👉 Where (어디)

어디 works very much like언제. It can be used to ask “where” something happened if the place is unknown. For example:

집에 가고 싶어요= I want to go home
어디 가고 싶어요? = Where do you want to go?

한국에 살아요 = I live in Korea
어디 살아요? = Where do you live?

Just like 여기, ~에 is often omitted from “어디.” 어디에서 is often contracted to 어디서.

More examples:
그것을 집에서 하고 싶어요 = I want to do that at home
그것을 어디서 하고 싶어요? = Where do you want to do that?

한국에서 왔어요 = I came from Korea
어디에서 왔어요? = Where are you from (from where did you come?)

👉 The particle ~까지 is commonly attached to 어디. ~부터 is not commonly attached to 어디 for the same reason that ~부터 is not commonly attached to a place, as described in Lesson 12. For example:

부산까지 가고 싶어요 = I want to go until Busan
어디까지 가고 싶어요? = How far/until where do you want to go?

지하철을 서울역까지 탈 거예요 = We will take/ride the Subway until Seoul Station
지하철을 어디까지 탈 거예요? = Until where will we ride the subway?

Like 언제, it can be used as the noun before 이다 to ask where something “is.”

Placing 어디 before 이다 is really only done if asking somebody directly where they are:

어디야? = Where are you?

Or when asking where a place is:
너의 집이 어디야? = Where is your house?
그곳이 어디야? = Where is that place?
학교가 어디예요? = Where is the/your school?

When asking where another person, or an object is, it is more natural to use 있다 in these sentence. For example:

친구가 어디에 있어요? = Where is your friend?
엄마가 어디에 있어요? = Where is mom?
펜이 어디에 있어요? = Where is the pen?
아빠가 어디에 있어? = Where is dad?
그 만화책이 어디에 있어? = Where is that comic?

These would be unnatural:

아빠가 어디야?
그 만화책이 어디야?

Just like 언제, there are of course more complicated ways that 어디 can be used. For now, this is good enough.

👉 Who (누구)

In Korean, 누구 has the function of a pronoun.

Actually, some of the ways you say 언제 and 어디 being used were as pronouns in Korean. I chose not to explain this to you because the definition of a pronoun in Korean and English is not exactly the same. 언제 and 어디 can act as pronouns in Korean, but this same usage would be called an adverb in English. I actually had an explanation typed out, but decided not to include it into this lesson because it makes things more confusing than they actually are. However, knowing that 누구 is a pronoun in English and Korean is helpful (if you know what pronouns are).

As a pronoun, 누구 can be used in the place of a noun in a sentence – that is, it can be used to replace the object, the subject or as a noun before 이다.

This is the same in English – as you can see in the following three examples:

Who will study Korean tomorrow? – ‘who’ is the subject of the sentence
Who will you meet tomorrow? – ‘who’ is the object of the sentence -“you” is the subject
Who is that person? = ‘who’ is ‘that person’ in the sentence

However, this is confusing in English because in all three cases “who” is the first word of the sentence regardless of its role.
In Korean, instead of always placing ‘who’ at the start of the sentence, it should be placed in the location of the subject (usually the start of the sentence), the object (usually somewhere in the middle of the sentence) or before 이다. I will show you an example of each:

In the third sentence below you can see an example of 누구 being used as a subject. The subject is underlined in each case. When 누구 is used as the subject of a sentence, it is changed to 누가.

너는 내일 한국어를 공부할 거야 = You will study Korean tomorrow
너는 내일 한국어를 공부할 거야? = Will you study Korean tomorrow?
누가 내일 한국어를 공부할 거야? = Who will study Korean tomorrow?

In the third sentence below you can see an example of 누구 being used as an object. The object is underlined in each case. The object particles can be used if 누구 is the object.

너는 내일 친구를 만날 거야 = You will meet a friend tomorrow
너는 내일 친구를 만날 거야? = Will you meet a friend tomorrow?
너는 내일 누구(를) 만날 거야? = Who will you meet tomorrow?

In the third sentence below you can see an example of 누구 being used before 이다:

그 사람은 너의 아버지야 = That person is your dad
그 사람은 너의 아버지야? = Is that person your dad?
그 사람은 누구야? = Who is that person?

16/10/2017

Korean Phrases and Common Sentences

👉Greetings;

English Korean Greetings:

Hi! 안녕하세요
Good morning! 안녕히 주무셨어요? 안녕하세요?
Good evening! 식사하셨어요? 안녕하세요?
Welcome! (to greet someone) 환영합니다.
How are you? 잘 지내셨어요?
I'm fine, thanks! 네. 잘 지냈어요.
Good/ So-So. 잘 지냈어요. / 그저 그래요.
Thank you (very much)! (너무) 감사합니다!
You're welcome! (for "thank you") 아니에요.
Hey! Friend! 야! 친구! (informal)
I missed you so much! 너무 보고 싶었어요.
What's new? 별일이 없으셨어요?
Nothing much 네. 없었어요.
Good night! 안녕히 주무세요!
See you later! 나중에 봬요!
Good bye! 안녕히 가세요! /or/ 안녕히 계세요!

👉Asking for Help and Directions;

I'm lost 길을 잃어버렸어요.
Can I help you? 무엇을 도와 드릴까요?
Can you help me? 좀 도와주실 수 있으시나요?
Where is the (bathroom/ pharmacy)? (화장실/약국)이 어디예요?
Go straight! then turn left/ right! 쭉 가세요! 그 다음에 왼/오른
쪽으로 좀 가세요.
I'm looking for john. 잔이란 사람을 찾고 있습니다.
One moment please! 잠깐만요!
Hold on please! (phone) 잠시만요!
How much is this? 이게 얼마예요?
Excuse me ...! (to ask for something) 실례지만…
Excuse me! ( to pass by) 실례하겠습니다.
Come with me! 따라 오세요

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