Offices & Paperwork
Korean Basic Conversation 4
Chapter 4 ยท Offices & Paperwork: Forms, Official Letters & Authorities
๐ Offices & Paperwork โ ๊ด๊ณต์์ ์๋ฅ
In this chapter you deal with the district office, the community centre and the immigration office, fill in a form and read a short official notice. The grammar is the formal language of notices: -(์ผ)์ญ์์ค ("please do", formal), -(์ผ)์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("we ask you to do") and the honorific -(์ผ)์-. For the background see Korean Grammar 2 1 (Speech Levels) and Korean Grammar 2 2 (Honorifics). All the procedures here are simplified illustrations: real requirements change, so always check the current rules with the office or its website.
โ At the Community Centre โ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ผํฐ์์
โก At the Immigration Office โ ์ถ์ ๊ตญยท์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌ๋ฌด์
โข Filling in a Form โ ์ ์ฒญ์ ์์ฑ
โฃ A Phone Call โ ์ ํ ๋ฌธ์
โค Reading a Notice โ ์๋ด๋ฌธ ์ฝ๊ธฐ
โฅ Between Friends (casual) โ ์๋ฅ ๋๋ฌธ์
๐ Key Phrases โ ์ค์ํ ํํ
| English | Polite (-์) | Formal (notices) |
|---|---|---|
| Please fill in the form. | ์ ์ฒญ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | ์ ์ฒญ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. |
| Please wait a moment. | ์ ๊น ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์. | ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค. |
| Please bring your ID. | ์ ๋ถ์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ค์ธ์. | ์ ๋ถ์ฆ์ ์ง์ฐธํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. |
| Please hand in the documents. | ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์ ์ถํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. |
| I'd like to extend my visa. | ๋น์๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. | ๋น์ ์ฐ์ฅ์ ์ ์ฒญํฉ๋๋ค. |
| What documents do I need? | ์ด๋ค ์๋ฅ๊ฐ ํ์ํด์? | ํ์ํ ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค. |
๐ค Three Verbs โ ๋์ฌ
| Verb | Dictionary | Polite present | Past | -(์ผ)์ญ์์ค |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| to fill in | ์์ฑํ๋ค | ์์ฑํด์ | ์์ฑํ์ด์ | ์์ฑํ์ญ์์ค |
| to hand in | ์ ์ถํ๋ค | ์ ์ถํด์ | ์ ์ถํ์ด์ | ์ ์ถํ์ญ์์ค |
| to wait | ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ค | ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์ | ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ์ด์ | ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ญ์์ค |
๐งฐ Grammar Tools โ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ
1. -(์ผ)์ญ์์ค: formal "please do"
The most formal command ends in -์ญ์์ค after a vowel stem and -์ผ์ญ์์ค after a consonant stem: ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ญ์์ค ("please wait"), ์์ผ์ญ์์ค ("please sit"). It is the imperative of the formal -ใ ๋๋ค style, heard in announcements, notices, signs and from staff in formal settings. In speech to a stranger, -์ธ์ or -์/์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ is the usual form. For a polite request use -์/์ด ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค ("kindly do for me"): ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค.
| Stem | -(์ผ)์ญ์์ค | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ค (vowel) | ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ญ์์ค | please wait |
| ์๋ค (consonant) | ์์ผ์ญ์์ค | please sit |
| ๋ฐ๋ค (consonant) | ๋ฐ์ผ์ญ์์ค | please receive |
| ์ด๋ค (ใน stem) | ์ฌ์ญ์์ค | please live (the ใน drops) |
2. -(์ผ)์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค: "we ask you toโฆ"
Notices avoid direct commands. Instead they say -(์ผ)์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("it is hoped that you willโฆ"). Add -์๊ธฐ to a vowel stem and -์ผ์๊ธฐ to a consonant stem, then ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค: ์ ์ถํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("please submit"), ํ์ธํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("please check"). With a helper: -์/์ด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("kindly do"), as in ํ์กฐํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค ("your cooperation is requested"). It is written, formal and impersonal.
| Notice | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ์ ๋ถ์ฆ์ ์ง์ฐธํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. | You are asked to bring ID. |
| ์ ์ฒญ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ์ฌ ์ ์ถํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. | Please fill in the form and submit it. |
| ์ค์ ์ ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. | Kindly queue. |
3. The honorific -(์ผ)์- in notices
Notices honour the reader, so the verb takes -(์ผ)์-: ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์๋ ๋ถ์ ("those who visit"), ์ ์ฒญํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค ("you can apply"). The honorific stays even in the middle of a long sentence. The person is called ๋ถ (honorific "person") or ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋, not ์ฌ๋.
| Plain | Honorific, in a notice |
|---|---|
| ์ ์ฒญํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ | ์ ์ฒญํ์๋ ๋ถ์ |
| ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค | ๋ฐ์ผ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค |
| ๋ผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค | ๋ด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค |
4. Paperwork words
| Korean | English |
|---|---|
| ์ฑ๋ช / ์๋ ์์ผ / ์ฃผ์ / ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ | full name / date of birth / address / contact details |
| ์ ์ฒญ / ์ ์ / ๋ฐ๊ธ / ์ ์ถ | application / receipt / issuing / submission |
| ์๋ช / ๋์ฅ | signature / seal |
| ์ฌ๊ถ / ์ ๋ถ์ฆ / ๋น์ | passport / ID / visa |
| ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ๋ผ๋ค | to obtain a certificate (spoken) |
๐ฐ Reading โ ์ฝ๊ธฐ
This is an invented notice, written in the style of a real one. Read it, then check the English and the word list. Then answer the true/false questions.
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก ์๋ด
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ ํ์๋ ค๋ ๋ถ์ ์ ๊ตญํ ๋ ๋ถํฐ 90์ผ ์ด๋ด์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญยท์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌ๋ฌด์๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์ค ๋์๋ ์ฌ๊ถ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ง ํ ์ฅ, ์ ์ฒญ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ฐธํ์ฌ ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค. ์ ์ฒญ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ ์๋ด ๋ฐ์คํฌ์์ ๋ฐ์ผ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์๋ฃ๋ ์ ์ฉ์นด๋๋ก๋ ๋ด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ ํ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ์ด ๋ฐ๊ธ๋๊ธฐ๊น์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
English: Alien registration notice. Those wishing to register as a foreign resident should visit the immigration office within 90 days of entering the country. When you visit, please bring your passport, one photo and the application form. You can pick up the form at the information desk. The fee can also be paid by credit card. After the documents are received, it may take some time until the registration card is issued.
Words: ์ ๊ตญํ๋ค enter the country ยท ์ด๋ด within ยท ์๋ด ๋ฐ์คํฌ information desk ยท ๋ฐ๊ธ๋๋ค be issued
1. You should visit within 90 days of entering the country.
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True: ์ ๊ตญํ ๋ ๋ถํฐ 90์ผ ์ด๋ด.
2. You can only get the application form from a website.
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False: you get it at the information desk.
3. The fee can be paid by credit card.
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True: ์ ์ฉ์นด๋๋ก๋ ๋ด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
4. The card is issued immediately.
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False: it may take some time (์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค).
๐ Vocabulary โ ์ดํ
20 key words for offices and paperwork.
| # | Korean | Say it | English | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ๊ตฌ์ฒญ | gu-cheong | district office | noun |
| 2 | ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ผํฐ | ju-min-sen-teo | community centre (local office) | noun |
| 3 | ์๋ฅ | seo-ryu | document, papers | noun |
| 4 | ์ ์ฒญ์ | sin-cheong-seo | application form | noun |
| 5 | ๋์ฅ | do-jang | seal, stamp | noun |
| 6 | ์๋ช | seo-myeong | signature | noun |
| 7 | ์ฌ๊ถ | yeo-gwon | passport | noun |
| 8 | ์ ๋ถ์ฆ | sin-bun-jeung | ID card | noun |
| 9 | ๋น์ | bi-ja | visa | noun |
| 10 | ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ | oe-gu-gin-deung-nok-jjeung | alien registration card | noun |
| 11 | ์ถ์ ๊ตญยท์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌ๋ฌด์ | chul-ip-guk oe-gu-gin sa-mu-so | immigration office | noun |
| 12 | ์์๋ฃ | su-su-ryo | fee | noun |
| 13 | ๋ฒํธํ | beon-ho-pyo | number ticket | noun |
| 14 | ์ฆ๋ช ์ | jeung-myeong-seo | certificate | noun |
| 15 | ์ ์ | jeop-su | reception (of documents) | noun |
| 16 | ์์ฑํ๋ค | jak-seong-ha-da | fill in, draw up | verb |
| 17 | ์ ์ถํ๋ค | je-chul-ha-da | hand in, submit | verb |
| 18 | ๋ฐ๊ธ๋ฐ๋ค | bal-geup-bat-da | get issued | verb |
| 19 | ์ ์ฒญํ๋ค | sin-cheong-ha-da | apply for | verb |
| 20 | ์ฐ์ฅํ๋ค | yeon-jang-ha-da | extend | verb |
โ๏ธ Try It Yourself โ ์ฐ์ต
Say each answer out loud first, then click to check.
1. Say "I'd like to extend my visa."
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๋น์๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
2. Write a notice line: "Please bring your passport."
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์ฌ๊ถ์ ์ง์ฐธํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
3. Make the formal "please wait" for an announcement.
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์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค.
4. Ask "Where do I sign?"
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์๋ช ์ ์ด๋์ ํด์?
5. Tell a friend casually "Do it on Government24."
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์ ๋ถ24์์ ํด.
6. Why is it better to say ์ ๊น ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์ than ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ญ์์ค to a clerk at the counter?
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-์ญ์์ค belongs to announcements and notices; in everyday speech -์/์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ sounds more natural.