At Work

Korean Basic Conversation 3

Chapter 6 ยท At Work: Meetings, Emails & Colleagues

๐Ÿข At Work โ€” ์ง์žฅ ์ƒํ™œ

In a Korean office, who you speak to decides how you speak. People are addressed by job title plus -๋‹˜ (๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜), and the honorific -(์œผ)์‹œ- is added to verbs whose actions belong to a senior person. This chapter explains that pattern in full and adds -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?, the polite way to ask a favour. Dialogs have a Hard words note, and a short reading text closes the chapter.

eo = ใ…“ (short, open "uh") eu = ใ…ก (unrounded "oo") kk, tt, pp, ss, jj = tense (tight, unaspirated) consonants

โ‘  The First Day โ€” ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

A:์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Pleased to meet you. I'm Minsu, who starts working here today.
B:๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€ ๊น€ ๊ณผ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Nice to meet you. I'm Manager Kim of the marketing team.
A:์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜.I look forward to working with you, Manager Kim.
B:์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ €์ชฝ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.Your desk is over there. If you don't know something, feel free to ask.
A:๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Yes, thank you. I'll work hard and learn.
Hard words: ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค boep-get-sseum-ni-da ยท ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€ ma-ke-ting-tim ยท ๊ณผ์žฅ gwa-jang ยท ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค bu-tak-deu-rim-ni-da ยท ์ž๋ฆฌ ja-ri ยท ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ pyeon-ha-ge

โ‘ก Asking for a Favour โ€” ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?

A:๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?Manager Kim, could you check this report for me?
B:๋„ค, ์ง€๊ธˆ ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ์š”. ์˜คํ›„์— ๋ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.Yes, I have a meeting now. I'll look at it for you in the afternoon.
A:๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ์‹œ์ฏค ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์„ธ์š”?Thank you. Around what time will you be free?
B:์„ธ ์‹œ ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ๋‹ค ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.After three is fine. When it's done, send it to me by email.
A:์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋”ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”์ผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Understood. I'll email you later.
Hard words: ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ bo-go-seo ยท ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š” hwa-gin-hae ju-si-ge-sseo-yo ยท ๋ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š” bwa deu-ril-ge-yo ยท ์ดํ›„ i-hu ยท ๋ฉ”์ผ me-il ยท ์ด๋”ฐ๊ฐ€ i-tta-ga

โ‘ข In a Meeting โ€” ํšŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„

A:ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.The team leader is coming in now. Let's begin the meeting.
B:์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•ˆ๊ฑด์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ค€๋น„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Today's agenda is preparing for next month's event.
C:์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.I've prepared the materials and will explain.
A:ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์„ธ์š”?Team leader, what do you think about this part?
B:์ข‹์€ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.That's a good opinion. But please check the budget again.
Hard words: ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ tim-jang-nim ยท ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค deu-reo-o-sim-ni-da ยท ์•ˆ๊ฑด an-geon ยท ํ–‰์‚ฌ haeng-sa ยท ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค mal-sseum-deu-ri-get-sseum-ni-da ยท ์˜๊ฒฌ ui-gyeon ยท ๋‹ค๋งŒ da-man

โ‘ฃ Writing an Email โ€” ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ

A:์ด ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์„๊นŒ์š”?How should I start this email?
B:"์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ๊น€ ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.Start with "Hello, Manager Kim. This is Minsu from the marketing team."
A:๋์—๋Š” ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”?What do I write at the end?
B:"๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ๋“œ๋ฆผ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์“ฐ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.You can write "Thank you. From Minsu".
A:์ฒจ๋ถ€ ํŒŒ์ผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ณด๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์žŠ์œผ๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋˜๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”.I have to send the attachment too, so I mustn't forget it.
Hard words: ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ i-me-il ยท ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š” si-ja-ka-se-yo ยท ๋“œ๋ฆผ deu-rim ยท ์“ฐ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค sseu-si-myeon doem-ni-da ยท ์ฒจ๋ถ€ ํŒŒ์ผ cheom-bu pa-il ยท ์žŠ์œผ๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋˜๊ฒ ๋„ค์š” i-jeu-myeon an doe-gen-ne-yo

โ‘ค After Work โ€” ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

A:๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋จผ์ € ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Manager Kim, I'll leave first. Thank you for your hard work.
B:๋„ค, ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ด์š”.Yes, good work. See you tomorrow.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋… ํšŒ์‹์€ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”?By the way, will you attend the company dinner this evening?
B:๋„ค, ๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ผ์ฐ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.Yes, I'll go. But I have to go home early.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด๋”ฐ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Then I'll see you at the restaurant later.
Hard words: ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค toe-geun-ha-get-sseum-ni-da ยท ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค su-go-ha-syeot-sseum-ni-da ยท ํšŒ์‹ hoe-sik ยท ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์‹ค cham-seo-ka-sil ยท ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์•ผ deu-reo-ga-ya

โ‘ฅ Two Colleagues (casual) โ€” ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•œ์ž”ํ• ๋ž˜?

A:์˜ค๋Š˜ ํšŒ์˜ ์ง„์งœ ๊ธธ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ ๋ง์”€์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์œผ์…”.Today's meeting was so long. The team leader talks so much.
B:์‰ฟ! ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์…”!Shh! The team leader is coming right now!
A:์•—, ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ. ์•„๋ฌดํŠผ ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•œ์ž”ํ• ๋ž˜?Oops, thanks. Anyway, shall we have a drink after work?
B:์ข‹์•„! ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ์•„์ง ์•ˆ ๋๋‚ฌ์–ด. ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด.Sure! But my report isn't finished yet. Go on ahead.
A:์•Œ์•˜์–ด. ๋๋‚˜๋ฉด ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด.Got it. Contact me when you're done.
Hard words: ๊ธธ์—ˆ๋‹ค gi-reot-tta ยท ๋ง์”€ mal-sseum ยท ๊ณ„์…” gye-syeo ยท ์•„๋ฌดํŠผ a-mu-teun ยท ํ•œ์ž”ํ• ๋ž˜ han-jan-hal-lae ยท ๋๋‚ฌ์–ด kkeun-na-sseo

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Key Phrases โ€” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

SituationPolite / formalCasual (to a friend)
Pleased to meet you (first day).์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด.
Could you check this for me?ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ค„๋ž˜?
I'll send it by email.๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ผ๊ฒŒ.
Thank you for your hard work.์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ–ˆ์–ด.
I'm leaving first.๋จผ์ € ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋จผ์ € ๊ฐˆ๊ฒŒ.
Please excuse my lateness.๋Šฆ์–ด์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋Šฆ์–ด์„œ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด.

๐Ÿ”ค Three Verbs with Honorific Forms โ€” ๋™์‚ฌ

Plain verbHonorific (for a senior)Humble (for yourself, to a senior)
์žˆ๋‹ค (be; stay)๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”โ€”
๋งํ•˜๋‹ค (say)๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ค์š”
์ฃผ๋‹ค (give)์ฃผ์‹œ๋‹ค โ†’ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋“œ๋ ค์š”

๐Ÿงฑ Tools for the Office

1. The honorific -(์œผ)์‹œ- in full

To show respect to the subject of a sentence (the person doing the action), insert -์‹œ- after a vowel stem and -์œผ์‹œ- after a consonant stem, before the ending: ๊ฐ€๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”, ์ฝ๋‹ค โ†’ ์ฝ์œผ์„ธ์š”, ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Formal: -(์œผ)์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค; past: -(์œผ)์…จ์–ด์š” / -(์œผ)์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). ใ„น stems drop ใ„น: ๋งŒ๋“ค๋‹ค โ†’ ๋งŒ๋“œ์„ธ์š”. A few verbs have their own honorific words: ์žˆ๋‹ค โ†’ ๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค, ๋จน๋‹ค โ†’ ๋“œ์‹œ๋‹ค, ์ž๋‹ค โ†’ ์ฃผ๋ฌด์‹œ๋‹ค, ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค. Two points: never use -(์œผ)์‹œ- for yourself (use the humble forms instead), and use it for the person being respected, not for the person being spoken to if they are not the subject.

2. Titles and ๋‹˜

Colleagues are addressed by title + ๋‹˜ (ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜, ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜), not by name alone. A common ladder of ranks, from junior to senior, is ์‚ฌ์› โ†’ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ โ†’ ๊ณผ์žฅ โ†’ ์ฐจ์žฅ โ†’ ๋ถ€์žฅ โ†’ ์ด์‚ฌ โ†’ ์‚ฌ์žฅ. A junior colleague may be called by name plus ์”จ (๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ). Say your own title or role without ๋‹˜: ์ €๋Š” ๊น€ ๊ณผ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. "Could youโ€ฆ?" โ€” -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?

Add -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? to ask a favour politely ("would you be so kind as toโ€ฆ?"): ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?, ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?. It uses ์ฃผ๋‹ค ("give") in its honorific form, so it is for the person doing you the favour. For a more direct request, -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”; for offering to do something for a senior, the humble -์•„/์–ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š” / -์•„/์–ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๋ฉ”์ผ ๋ณด๋‚ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

LevelExampleUse
very polite requestํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?to a superior or someone you don't know
polite requestํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.to a colleague or when in doubt
humble offerํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.when you do something for a senior
casual requestํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ค„๋ž˜?to a friend

๐Ÿ“– Reading โ€” ์ฝ๊ธฐ: ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ์˜ ์ฒซ ์ถœ๊ทผ

๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ์˜ ์ฒซ ์ถœ๊ทผ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๋Š” ์›”์š”์ผ์— ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€์—์„œ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์นจ ์•„ํ™‰ ์‹œ์— ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด์„œ ๊น€ ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜์„ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค์ „์—๋Š” ํŒ€ ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๋Š” ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋ฉ”๋ชจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์‹ฌ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” ํŒ€ ์„ ๋ฐฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‹์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•  ๋•Œ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๋Š” "์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํŒ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํŽธํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Word list: ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค (to tell; to show) ยท ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค (to explain) ยท ๋ฉ”๋ชจํ•˜๋‹ค (to take notes) ยท ๊ธด์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค (to be nervous) ยท ์„ ๋ฐฐ (senior colleague)

True or false? (๋งž์œผ๋ฉด O, ํ‹€๋ฆฌ๋ฉด X)

1. ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…ํŒ€์—์„œ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
2. ๊น€ ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
3. ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
4. ๋ฏผ์ˆ˜ ์”จ๋Š” ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•  ๋•Œ "์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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1. O ยท 2. O (notice the honorific ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) ยท 3. X (the team leader explained it, ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) ยท 4. O

๐Ÿ“– Vocabulary โ€” ์–ดํœ˜

#KoreanSay itEnglishType
1ํšŒ์˜hoe-uimeetingnoun
2๋ณด๊ณ ์„œbo-go-seoreportnoun
3ํŒ€์žฅtim-jangteam leadernoun
4๊ณผ์žฅgwa-jangsection managernoun
5๋ถ€์žฅbu-jangdepartment headnoun
6์„ ๋ฐฐseon-baesenior (colleague or schoolmate)noun
7ํ›„๋ฐฐhu-baejunior (colleague or schoolmate)noun
8๋™๋ฃŒdong-nyocolleaguenoun
9ํšŒ์‹hoe-sikcompany dinner or outingnoun
10์ถœ๊ทผchul-geungoing to worknoun
11ํ‡ด๊ทผtoe-geunleaving worknoun
12์ด๋ฉ”์ผi-me-ilemailnoun
13์ฒจ๋ถ€ ํŒŒ์ผcheom-bu pa-ilattachmentnoun
14๋ถ€ํƒํ•˜๋‹คbu-ta-ka-dato ask a favour; to requestverb
15ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹คhwa-gin-ha-dato check; to confirmverb
16์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹คseol-myeong-ha-dato explainverb
17์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๋‹คcham-seo-ka-dato attendverb
18์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜๋‹คsu-go-ha-dato work hard; to go to troubleverb
19์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹คchin-jeo-la-dato be kindadj
20๊ธด์žฅํ•˜๋‹คgin-jang-ha-dato be nervous; tenseverb
Titles and Hierarchy (a general picture) Guides describe Korean titles as a seniority ladder, often compared to military rank, based largely on experience and length of service and not always tied to the duties of the job. You address colleagues by title (such as ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜, ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ด์‚ฌ๋‹˜) and using a name alone, without a title, can feel disrespectful. English translations of titles are inconsistent, so learn the Korean title. Some companies are moving away from titles, so practice varies by workplace: listen to what colleagues call each other and follow.
์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค and ํšŒ์‹ (usage varies) ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("thank you for your hard work") is a very common farewell at the end of the day or after a task. Some people feel that ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜๋‹ค sounds like praise from a senior to a junior, and prefer to say ๋จผ์ € ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค or ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ต™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค to a boss. Opinions differ by workplace. ํšŒ์‹ is a company dinner or drinking evening; whether attendance feels optional varies by company. These are customs and email habits from general knowledge, so check what your own office does.
As Heard in Dramas โ€” ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์—์„œ Office dramas run on the title ladder (the well-known workplace drama ๋ฏธ์ƒ follows a newcomer at a trading company). You will hear ๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋ถ€๋ฅด์…จ์–ด์š”? ("You called for me, sir?"), ๋ณด๊ณ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("I'll report to you"), and the sad ์‚ฌ์ง์„œ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("I'll hand in my resignation").
Grammar Pointer You met the formal -ใ…‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค/-์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค in Chapter 5 of this course, where the honorific appeared in ์ง€์›ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ and -(์œผ)์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. The humble ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค is the honorific partner of ์ฃผ๋‹ค, and ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค is the humble form of ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค, both used in this chapter's dialogs. Reported speech (-๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”), which also needs honorific care, comes in Chapter 8.

โœ๏ธ Try It Yourself โ€” ์—ฐ์Šต

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1. Say to your manager "Could you check this report?"

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๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?

2. Say "The team leader is coming in now."

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ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์„ธ์š”. (formal: ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)

3. Say humbly "I'll send you the email later."

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์ด๋”ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”์ผ ๋ณด๋‚ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. Say "Manager Kim, I'm leaving first. Thank you for your hard work."

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๊ณผ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋จผ์ € ํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

5. Make the verb honorific: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋จน์–ด์š”. (Our department head is having lunch.)

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์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋“œ์„ธ์š”. (๋จน๋‹ค becomes ๋“œ์‹œ๋‹ค)

6. Tell a colleague casually "Contact me when you're done."

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๋๋‚˜๋ฉด ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด.