Phones & News

Korean Basic Conversation 3

Chapter 8 ยท Technology & Media: Phones, Internet & the News

๐Ÿ“ฑ Phones & News โ€” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ๋‰ด์Šค

Phones, apps and the news are where you most often pass on what someone else said: "the news says it will rain", "my friend said the app is free". Korean does this with reported speech, built on -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” ("they say thatโ€ฆ"). It is the new tool of this chapter. The vocabulary covers phones, Wi-Fi, apps, repairs and the news. 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‘  A Broken Screen โ€” ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์ด ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”

A:ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๊นจ์กŒ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋–กํ•˜์ฃ ?My phone screen is cracked. What should I do?
B:์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.Go to the service centre. Ask how much the repair costs.
A:๋ณด์ฆ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๋๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ˆ์„ ๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?If the warranty has ended, do I have to pay?
B:๋„ค, ๋ณดํ†ต ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ์œ ๋ฃŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. ๋จผ์ € ์ „ํ™”๋กœ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•˜์„ธ์š”.Yes, they say screens are usually charged for. Book by phone first.
A:์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์“ธ ํฐ์ด ์—†์–ด์„œ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด์—์š”.I see. I'm worried because I'll have no phone to use during the repair.
Hard words: ํ™”๋ฉด hwa-myeon ยท ๊นจ์กŒ์–ด์š” kkae-jyeo-sseo-yo ยท ์–ด๋–กํ•˜์ฃ  eo-tteo-ka-jyo ยท ์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐ seo-bi-seu-sen-teo ยท ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„ su-ri-bi ยท ๋ณด์ฆ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ bo-jeung gi-gan ยท ์œ ๋ฃŒ yu-ryo

โ‘ก At the Service Centre โ€” ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ์ ‘์ˆ˜

A:์–ด์„œ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์˜ค์…จ์–ด์š”?Welcome. How can I help?
B:ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๊นจ์ ธ์„œ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”์–ด์š”.The screen is cracked, so I've come to have it repaired.
A:ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์‹ญ์˜ค๋งŒ ์›์ด๊ณ  ์ดํ‹€์ฏค ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.I'll check. The repair is 150,000 won and it is said to take about two days.
B:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?What happens to my data? Do I need to back it up?
A:๋„ค, ๋งก๊ธฐ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ผญ ๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.Yes, please be sure to back it up before leaving it with us.
Hard words: ์ ‘์ˆ˜ jeop-ssu ยท ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Ÿฌ su-ri-ha-reo ยท ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  geol-lin-da-go ยท ์ž๋ฃŒ ja-ryo ยท ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ de-i-teo ยท ๋ฐฑ์—… baek-eop ยท ๋งก๊ธฐ์‹œ๊ธฐ mat-gi-si-gi

โ‘ข Wi-Fi and the Internet โ€” ์™€์ดํŒŒ์ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”

A:์ง‘์—์„œ ์™€์ดํŒŒ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ ๋Š๊ฒจ์š”.The Wi-Fi at home keeps cutting out.
B:๊ณต์œ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ป๋‹ค ์ผœ ๋ณด์…จ์–ด์š”?Have you tried switching the router off and on again?
A:๋„ค, ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”. ์˜†์ง‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ๋А๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.Yes, but it still doesn't work. The neighbour also says the internet is slow.
B:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์ „ํ™”ํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์„ ๋ถ€๋ฅด์„ธ์š”.Then phone the internet company and call out an engineer.
A:๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ์€ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์จ์•ผ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.I'd better. In the meantime I'll have to use my phone data.
Hard words: ์™€์ดํŒŒ์ด wa-i-pa-i ยท ๋Š๊ฒจ์š” kkeun-kyeo-yo ยท ๊ณต์œ ๊ธฐ gong-yu-gi ยท ๊ป๋‹ค ์ผœ kkeot-tta kyeo ยท ๋А๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  neu-ri-da-go ยท ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋‹˜ gi-sa-nim ยท ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ geu-dong-an

โ‘ฃ The News โ€” ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ดค์–ด์š”?

A:์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ดค์–ด์š”? ๋‚ด์ผ ์ „๊ตญ์— ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.Did you see the news today? They say it will rain across the country tomorrow.
B:์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๋ชป ๋ดค์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ๋ดค์–ด์š”?No, I didn't. Where did you see it?
A:ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ์•ฑ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ํƒœํ’๋„ ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.I read an article on a phone app. They say a typhoon may come too.
B:๊ทธ๋ž˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋‚ด์ผ ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ์ทจ์†Œํ•ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”.Really? Then I'll have to cancel tomorrow's trip.
A:์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.Check the weather forecast again and then decide.
Hard words: ์ „๊ตญ jeon-guk ยท ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” on-da-go hae-yo ยท ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ gi-sa ยท ํƒœํ’ tae-pung ยท ์ทจ์†Œํ•ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š” chwi-so-hae-ya-gen-ne-yo ยท ์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ๋ณด il-gi-ye-bo

โ‘ค Apps and Messages โ€” ์นดํ†ก ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”

A:์ œ๊ฐ€ ์นดํ†ก์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฐ›์œผ์…จ์–ด์š”?I sent photos on KakaoTalk; did you get them?
B:์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ์•„์ง ์•ˆ ์™”์–ด์š”. ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ์•ˆ ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.No, they haven't come yet. I think it's because the internet isn't working.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด ์•ฑ์„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊น”์•„ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.Then try installing this app. They say it's free.
B:๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜์ฃ ?Thank you. I need to create a new password too, right?
A:๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ธ์ฆ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ž๋กœ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.Yes, and they say a verification code comes by text message.
Hard words: ์นดํ†ก ka-tok ยท ๊น”์•„ ๋ณด์„ธ์š” kka-ra bo-se-yo ยท ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ mu-ryo ยท ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธ bi-mil-beon-ho ยท ์ธ์ฆ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ in-jeung-beon-ho ยท ๋ฌธ์ž mun-jja

โ‘ฅ Two Friends (casual) โ€” ๊ทธ ์†Œ์‹ ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด?

A:๋„ˆ ๊ทธ ์†Œ์‹ ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด? ๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘”๋Œ€.Did you hear the news? They say Minji is quitting her job.
B:์ง„์งœ? ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด?Really? Who said so?
A:์ธ์Šคํƒ€์— ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋Œ€. ์ƒˆ ์ผ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ.She posted it on Instagram, they say. It said she's starting a new job.
B:๋Œ€๋ฐ•! ๋‚˜๋„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ.Wow! I'll go and have a look too.
A:๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์งœ ๋‰ด์Šค์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด. ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด.But it could be fake news. Ask her yourself.
Hard words: ์†Œ์‹ so-sik ยท ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘”๋Œ€ geu-man-dun-dae ยท ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋Œ€ ol-lyeot-ttae ยท ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ han-da-go ha-deo-ra ยท ๊ฐ€์งœ ga-jja ยท ์ง์ ‘ jik-jjeop

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

SituationPoliteCasual
My phone is broken.ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์ด ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”.ํฐ์ด ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚ฌ์–ด.
The internet doesn't work.์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”.์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ์•ˆ ๋ผ.
What is the Wi-Fi password?์™€์ดํŒŒ์ด ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?์™€์ดํŒŒ์ด ๋น„๋ฒˆ์ด ๋ญ์•ผ?
Did you see the news?๋‰ด์Šค ๋ณด์…จ์–ด์š”?๋‰ด์Šค ๋ดค์–ด?
They say it's true.์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๋ž˜.
Send it to me by message.๋ฌธ์ž๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.๋ฌธ์ž๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ค˜.

๐Ÿ”ค Three Verbs for Gadgets โ€” ๋™์‚ฌ

VerbEveryday polite (-์š”)Formal (-ใ…‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)Casual
to turn on (์ผœ๋‹ค)์ผœ์š”์ผญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค์ผœ
to turn off (๋„๋‹ค)๊บผ์š”๋•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๊บผ
to search (๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค)๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด์š”๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด

๐Ÿงฑ The Tool of the Chapter: Reported Speech -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”

1. Statements โ€” "They say thatโ€ฆ"

To pass on what someone said, take the plain sentence ending (-๋‹ค), add -๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค, and conjugate ํ•˜๋‹ค. So ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™€์š” becomes ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” ("they say it will rain"). The form of the plain ending depends on the word type:

TypeReported endingExample
verb, present-ใ„ด๋‹ค๊ณ  / -๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”๊ฐ€์š” โ†’ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”, ๋จน์–ด์š” โ†’ ๋จน๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”
adjective, and ์žˆ๋‹ค / ์—†๋‹ค-๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”๋А๋ ค์š” โ†’ ๋А๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”, ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ†’ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”
past (verb or adjective)-์•˜/์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”์™”์–ด์š” โ†’ ์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”
future-(์œผ)ใ„น ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”๊ฐˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ ๊ฐˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”
noun + is(์ด)๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”๋ฌด๋ฃŒ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”

Verbs whose stem ends in ใ„น drop it before -ใ„ด: ์‚ด๋‹ค โ†’ ์‚ฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. Present-tense verbs use the plain -ใ„ด๋‹ค / -๋Š”๋‹ค form even though everyday speech uses -์•„/์–ด์š”.

2. Contracted forms in conversation

In talk, -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” is often shortened to -๋Œ€์š” (๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋Œ€์š”), and the casual form is -๋Œ€ (ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘”๋Œ€). Both mean "they sayโ€ฆ", and are heard very often in dramas. In the polite style, the longer -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” is clearer; the shorter -๋Œ€์š” is natural in speech. You can show that something was said earlier with -๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” ("they said thatโ€ฆ").

3. Questions and commands (a short look)

Reported questions end in -(์œผ)๋ƒ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค (์–ด๋””์— ๊ฐ€๋ƒ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”, "she asks where I'm going"), and reported commands end in -(์œผ)๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค (๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”, "they tell me to back it up"). A reported suggestion uses -์ž๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค (๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ€์ž๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”, "she suggests going together"). You will practise the statement form first; treat these three as a preview.

๐Ÿ“– Reading โ€” ์ฝ๊ธฐ: ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ๋‰ด์Šค

ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ๋‰ด์Šค ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ๋Š” ์•„์นจ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ ๋‚ด์ผ ์ „๊ตญ์— ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ณง ํŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ์˜ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์€ ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๊นจ์ ธ์„œ ๊ณ ์ณ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์ดํ‹€์ฏค ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์„ ์‚ด๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ € ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Word list: ๊ณง (soon) ยท ๋ชจ๋ธ (model) ยท ํŒ”๋‹ค (to sell) ยท ๊ณ ์น˜๋‹ค (to fix) ยท ๋งก๊ธฐ๋‹ค (to leave in someone's care)

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

1. ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ๋Š” ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
2. ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ ๋‚ด์ผ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
3. ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ์˜ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
4. ์ˆ˜์•„ ์”จ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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1. O ยท 2. O ยท 3. X (the screen is cracked and needs fixing) ยท 4. O (๋งก๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฑ์—…ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)

๐Ÿ“– Vocabulary โ€” ์–ดํœ˜

#KoreanSay itEnglishType
1ํœด๋Œ€ํฐhyu-dae-ponmobile phonenoun
2ํ™”๋ฉดhwa-myeonscreennoun
3์•ฑaepappnoun
4์™€์ดํŒŒ์ดwa-i-pa-iWi-Finoun
5์ธํ„ฐ๋„ทin-teo-netinternetnoun
6๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธbi-mil-beon-hopasswordnoun
7์ถฉ์ „๊ธฐchung-jeon-gichargernoun
8์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐseo-bi-seu-sen-teoservice centre; repair centrenoun
9์ˆ˜๋ฆฌsu-rirepairnoun
10๋‰ด์Šคnyu-seunewsnoun
11๊ธฐ์‚ฌgi-sanews articlenoun
12์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ๋ณดil-gi-ye-boweather forecastnoun
13๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋‹คgeom-sae-ka-dato search (online)verb
14์ผœ๋‹คkyeo-dato turn onverb
15๋„๋‹คkkeu-dato turn offverb
16๊ณ ์น˜๋‹คgo-chi-dato fix; to repairverb
17๊นจ์ง€๋‹คkkae-ji-dato break; to crackverb
18๋Š๊ธฐ๋‹คkkeun-ki-dato be cut off; to dropverb
19๋А๋ฆฌ๋‹คneu-ri-dato be slowadj
20๋ฌด๋ฃŒmu-ryofree of chargenoun
Repairs and Service Centres (a general picture) A 2020 report said Samsung and LG each had well over 150 official repair centres in Korea, against 85 for Apple, and that Apple itself operates only its Apple Store in Gangnam and uses authorised service centres elsewhere. A 2025 report said Samsung was trialling "Baro Service", repairing some Galaxy problems directly inside Samsung Stores. These figures are dated, so check the maker's own site for the nearest centre. The Korean for a repair centre is usually ์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐ; AS (after service) is the common shorthand, and a repair under warranty is ๋ฌด์ƒ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ (free), otherwise ์œ ์ƒ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ (paid).
Everyday Media Words ์นดํ†ก is the everyday short name for KakaoTalk, the messaging app most Koreans use; people say ์นดํ†ก ๋ณด๋‚ด for "message me". ๋ฌธ์ž is a text message (SMS) and also the word for "character" in other contexts. ์ธ์ฆ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ is the verification code you receive when logging in or paying. Naver and Kakao are the big local search and map services. These uses are from general knowledge, so check each app's own language settings.
As Heard in Dramas โ€” ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์—์„œ Dramas are full of reported speech: ์†Œ๋ฌธ ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด? ๋‘˜์ด ์‚ฌ๊ท„๋Œ€! ("have you heard the rumour? They say the two are dating!") and ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค์˜จ๋Œ€์š” ("the reporters are swarming in"). An anxious character who gets a message says ์ „ํ™” ์ข€ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ž˜์š” ("they say to pick up the phone"). A character who suspects a story is false says ๊ฐ€์งœ ๋‰ด์Šค์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Grammar Pointer The honorific -(์œผ)์‹œ- from Chapter 6 matters in reported speech: if the speaker is senior, use -(์œผ)์‹œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š” (๋ถ€์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ์˜ค์‹ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”). The form -(์œผ)ใ„น ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  builds on the future -(์œผ)ใ„น ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š” from Korean Basic Conversation 2, Chapter 3 (Plans). The explaining ending -๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” is from Chapter 7.

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1. Say "They say it will rain tomorrow."

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๋‚ด์ผ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

2. Say "They say this app is free."

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์ด ์•ฑ์€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

3. Say "My neighbour says the internet is slow."

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์˜†์ง‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์ด ๋А๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

4. Say "The service centre says it takes two days."

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์„œ๋น„์Šค์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ดํ‹€์ฏค ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

5. Say "My phone screen is cracked, so I've come to have it repaired."

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ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๊นจ์ ธ์„œ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”์–ด์š”.

6. Tell a friend casually "They say Minji is quitting her job."

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๋ฏผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘”๋Œ€.