Korean Phrases for Travelers - Learn Hangul with Fun

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Each set includes the one before it, so you can start small and keep going.

10 Survival 10 생존 10 10 phrases Learn them on the plane. These ten get you through greetings, thanks, prices and the restroom.

안녕하세요Hello
감사합니다Thank you
네 / 아니요Yes / No

Open the list → 30 First-day 30 첫날 30 +20 new · 30 total Order food, pay, ask for help and find the subway — everything for a first day in Seoul.

안녕히 계세요Goodbye (you leave, they stay)
안녕히 가세요Goodbye (they leave)
고맙습니다Thank you

Open the list → 50 Confident 50 자신감 50 +20 new · 50 total Small talk, cafés, fitting rooms, buses and check-in: move around without pointing at your phone.

만나서 반갑습니다Nice to meet you.
저는 미국에서 왔어요I’m from the U.S.
이름이 뭐예요?What’s your name?

Open the list → 100 Complete 100 완벽 100 +50 new · 100 total Allergies, lost wallets, transfers and table manners — travel like you have been here before.

실례합니다Excuse me (may I…?)
미안해요Sorry
맞아요That’s right.

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Three habits that make you understood

-요

End with 요

Korean changes its endings with politeness. Every phrase here ends in -요 or -니다, the polite forms — safe with shop staff, drivers and strangers of any age.

이거 주세요

Point and say 주세요

주세요 means “please give me.” Point at anything — a menu photo, a snack, a ticket — and say 이거 주세요. It is the single most useful frame in the language.

가요? ↗

Raise your tone to ask

Many questions look exactly like statements. 가요 is “(it) goes”; 가요? with a rising tone is “does it go?” — no extra words needed.

How to read the pronunciation

Korean is spelled the way words are built, not always the way they sound. When letters meet, sounds shift: 감사합니다 is spelled with ㅂ but said [감사함니다], gam-sa-ham-ni-da. On every card, the part in [ brackets ] shows the real pronunciation in Hangul, and the romanization follows the sound, not the spelling. Learning the letters and how syllables stack makes the brackets click instantly.

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