Offices & Paperwork

Korean Basic Conversation 4

Chapter 4 ยท Offices & Paperwork: Forms, Official Letters & Authorities

๐Ÿ“„ Offices & Paperwork โ€” ๊ด€๊ณต์„œ์™€ ์„œ๋ฅ˜

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: -(์œผ)์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ("please do", formal), -(์œผ)์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("we ask you to do") and the honorific -(์œผ)์‹œ-. 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€” ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ

A:์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์„œ ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.Hello. I've moved house and have come to report my new address.
B:๋„ค, ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค์…จ์–ด์š”?Yes. Did you bring your ID and the lease?
A:์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Here are my alien registration card and the contract.
B:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ฃผ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์“ฐ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.Then please fill in this form. Just write your address and contact number.
A:์„œ๋ช…์€ ์–ด๋””์— ํ•ด์š”? ๋„์žฅ์€ ์—†๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.Where do I sign? I don't have a seal.
B:๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ์„œ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.That's fine. You can sign instead. Please do it here.
Hard words: ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ  jeon-ip-sin-go report of moving in ยท ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ im-dae-cha-gye-yak-seo lease ยท ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๋‹ค jak-seong-ha-da fill in ยท ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜ yeol-lak-cheo contact details ยท ์„œ๋ช… seo-myeong signature

โ‘ก At the Immigration Office โ€” ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ

A:๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”?I've come to extend my visa. What should I do?
B:๋จผ์ € ์ž…๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋ฒˆํ˜ธํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฝ‘์œผ์„ธ์š”. ์ˆœ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.First take a number ticket at the entrance. They'll call you when it's your turn.
A:์˜ˆ์•ฝ์€ ์•ˆ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์„๊นŒ์š”?I didn't make an appointment. Will that be all right?
B:์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„์ด ๋จผ์ €์˜ˆ์š”. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ข€ ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.People with appointments go first. It may take a while.
A:ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”?What documents do I need?
B:์—ฌ๊ถŒ, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ, ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์นด๋“œ๋กœ๋„ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.Your passport, alien registration card, the application form and the fee. You can pay the fee by card too.
Hard words: ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค yeon-jang-ha-da extend ยท ๋ฒˆํ˜ธํ‘œ beon-ho-pyo number ticket ยท ๋ฝ‘๋‹ค ppop-da take, pull ยท ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ye-yak appointment ยท ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ su-su-ryo fee

โ‘ข Filling in a Form โ€” ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ

A:์ฃ„์†กํ•œ๋ฐ, ์ด ์นธ์€ ๋ญ˜ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”?Sorry, what do I write in this box?
B:๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ƒ๋…„์›”์ผ์ด์—์š”. ์—ฐ๋„, ์›”, ์ผ ์ˆœ์„œ๋กœ ์“ฐ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.That's the date of birth. Write it in the order year, month, day.
A:์„ฑ๋ช…์€ ํ•œ๊ธ€๋กœ ์จ์•ผ ํ•ด์š”, ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์จ๋„ ๋ผ์š”?Must I write my name in Hangul, or can I write it in English?
B:์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์“ฐ์„ธ์š”.Write it in English, as it appears in your passport.
A:์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์—†์Œ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์“ธ๊นŒ์š”?Shall I write "not applicable" in this part?
B:๋„ค, ๋งž์•„์š”. ๋‹ค ์“ฐ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ ‘์ˆ˜ ์ฐฝ๊ตฌ์— ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์„ธ์š”.Yes, that's right. When you've finished, hand it in at the reception counter.
Hard words: ์นธ kan box, space ยท ์ƒ๋…„์›”์ผ saeng-nyeon-wol-il date of birth ยท ํ•ด๋‹น ์—†์Œ hae-dang eop-eum not applicable ยท ์ ‘์ˆ˜ jeop-su reception ยท ์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋‹ค je-chul-ha-da hand in

โ‘ฃ A Phone Call โ€” ์ „ํ™” ๋ฌธ์˜

A:์—ฌ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๊ตฌ์ฒญ ๋ฏผ์›์‹ค์ด์ฃ ? ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”.Hello. Is this the district office service desk? I'd like to get a certificate issued.
B:๋„ค, ์–ด๋–ค ์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์„ธ์š”?Yes. Which document do you need?
A:๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋ฅ˜์š”. ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?A document certifying where I live. Do I have to go in person?
B:์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ถ€24 ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.You can also apply on the internet. Try the Government24 site.
A:๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?If I visit, until what time is it possible?
B:ํ‰์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 9์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜คํ›„ 6์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ์„ ๊ผญ ์ง€์ฐธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.Weekdays from 9 am to 6 pm. Please be sure to bring your ID.
Hard words: ๋ฏผ์›์‹ค min-won-sil public service desk ยท ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›๋‹ค bal-geup-bat-da get issued ยท ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค jeung-myeong-ha-da certify ยท ํ‰์ผ pyeong-il weekday ยท ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜๋‹ค ji-cham-ha-da bring with you

โ‘ค Reading a Notice โ€” ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฌธ ์ฝ๊ธฐ

A:์ด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฌธ์— "์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์“ฐ์—ฌ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋œป์ด์—์š”?This notice says "์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค". What does it mean?
B:"์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”"๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ด์—์š”. ์•„์ฃผ ๊ณต์†ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด์—์š”.It means "please hand in the documents". It's a very polite expression.
A:๊ทธ๋Ÿผ "์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค"๋Š”์š”?And what about "์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค"?
B:๊ทธ๊ฑด "์ž ๊น ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”"์˜ˆ์š”. ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐฉ์†ก์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์ด ์จ์š”.That's "please wait a moment". It's used a lot in announcements and on notice boards.
A:๋งํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?Do I have to talk like that when speaking too?
B:์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๋ณดํ†ต ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” "-์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”"๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด์š”.No, in everyday speech "-์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”" is enough.
Hard words: ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฌธ an-nae-mun notice ยท ๊ณต์†ํ•˜๋‹ค gong-son-ha-da be courteous ยท ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐฉ์†ก an-nae bang-song announcement ยท ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ ge-si-pan notice board

โ‘ฅ Between Friends (casual) โ€” ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—

A:์•„, ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋˜ ๋–ผ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ๋ผ. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ท€์ฐฎ์•„.Ugh, I have to go and get another certificate. So annoying.
B:์ •๋ถ€24์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋ผ? ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ ฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ž–์•„.Can't you do it on Government24? You can print it at home.
A:์ง„์งœ? ๋ชฐ๋ž์–ด. ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ผ?Really? I didn't know. Do I just log in?
B:์‘, ๋ณธ์ธ ํ™•์ธ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ผ. ๋‚˜๋„ ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ์— ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์–ด.Yes, you just verify who you are. I did that last week too.
Hard words: ๋–ผ๋‹ค tte-da get (a certificate) ยท ๊ท€์ฐฎ๋‹ค gwi-chan-ta be a nuisance ยท ์ถœ๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค chul-lyeo-ka-da print ยท ๋ณธ์ธ ํ™•์ธ bon-in hwa-gin identity check

๐Ÿ”‘ Key Phrases โ€” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

EnglishPolite (-์š”)Formal (notices)
Please fill in the form.์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Please wait a moment.์ž ๊น ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.
Please bring your ID.์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Please hand in the documents.์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'd like to extend my visa.๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.๋น„์ž ์—ฐ์žฅ์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
What documents do I need?์–ด๋–ค ์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”?ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

๐Ÿ”ค Three Verbs โ€” ๋™์‚ฌ

VerbDictionaryPolite presentPast-(์œผ)์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
to fill in์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๋‹ค์ž‘์„ฑํ•ด์š”์ž‘์„ฑํ–ˆ์–ด์š”์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
to hand in์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋‹ค์ œ์ถœํ•ด์š”์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ์–ด์š”์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค
to wait๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์š”๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ์–ด์š”๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค

๐Ÿงฐ Grammar Tools โ€” ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•

1. -(์œผ)์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค: formal "please do"

The most formal command ends in -์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค after a vowel stem and -์œผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค after a consonant stem: ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ("please wait"), ์•‰์œผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ("please sit"). It is the imperative of the formal -ใ…‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค style, heard in announcements, notices, signs and from staff in formal settings. In speech to a stranger, -์„ธ์š” or -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” is the usual form. For a polite request use -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ("kindly do for me"): ์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

Stem-(์œผ)์‹ญ์‹œ์˜คMeaning
๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ค (vowel)๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜คplease wait
์•‰๋‹ค (consonant)์•‰์œผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜คplease sit
๋ฐ›๋‹ค (consonant)๋ฐ›์œผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜คplease receive
์‚ด๋‹ค (ใ„น stem)์‚ฌ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜คplease live (the ใ„น drops)

2. -(์œผ)์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: "we ask you toโ€ฆ"

Notices avoid direct commands. Instead they say -(์œผ)์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("it is hoped that you willโ€ฆ"). Add -์‹œ๊ธฐ to a vowel stem and -์œผ์‹œ๊ธฐ to a consonant stem, then ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("please submit"), ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("please check"). With a helper: -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("kindly do"), as in ํ˜‘์กฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("your cooperation is requested"). It is written, formal and impersonal.

NoticeMeaning
์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.You are asked to bring ID.
์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Please fill in the form and submit it.
์ค„์„ ์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Kindly queue.

3. The honorific -(์œผ)์‹œ- in notices

Notices honour the reader, so the verb takes -(์œผ)์‹œ-: ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์€ ("those who visit"), ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("you can apply"). The honorific stays even in the middle of a long sentence. The person is called ๋ถ„ (honorific "person") or ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜, not ์‚ฌ๋žŒ.

PlainHonorific, in a notice
์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์€
๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋ฐ›์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋‚ด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Watch out: formal written style is not for chatting -์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค and -์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค belong to notices and announcements. If you say them to a clerk across the counter they sound stiff or even cold. Speak with -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” and use the formal forms for reading and writing.

4. Paperwork words

KoreanEnglish
์„ฑ๋ช… / ์ƒ๋…„์›”์ผ / ์ฃผ์†Œ / ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜full name / date of birth / address / contact details
์‹ ์ฒญ / ์ ‘์ˆ˜ / ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ / ์ œ์ถœapplication / receipt / issuing / submission
์„œ๋ช… / ๋„์žฅsignature / seal
์—ฌ๊ถŒ / ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ / ๋น„์žpassport / ID / visa
์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋–ผ๋‹คto obtain a certificate (spoken)

๐Ÿ“ฐ 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.

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก ์•ˆ๋‚ด

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ•˜์‹œ๋ ค๋Š” ๋ถ„์€ ์ž…๊ตญํ•œ ๋‚ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 90์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํ•œ ์žฅ, ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ์—์„œ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ๋กœ๋„ ๋‚ด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ํ•œ ํ›„ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์ด ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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: ์ž…๊ตญํ•˜๋‹ค enter the country ยท ์ด๋‚ด within ยท ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ information desk ยท ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋˜๋‹ค be issued

1. You should visit within 90 days of entering the country.

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True: ์ž…๊ตญํ•œ ๋‚ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 90์ผ ์ด๋‚ด.

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: ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ๋กœ๋„ ๋‚ด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. The card is issued immediately.

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False: it may take some time (์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค).

๐Ÿ“– Vocabulary โ€” ์–ดํœ˜

20 key words for offices and paperwork.

#KoreanSay itEnglishType
1๊ตฌ์ฒญgu-cheongdistrict officenoun
2์ฃผ๋ฏผ์„ผํ„ฐju-min-sen-teocommunity centre (local office)noun
3์„œ๋ฅ˜seo-ryudocument, papersnoun
4์‹ ์ฒญ์„œsin-cheong-seoapplication formnoun
5๋„์žฅdo-jangseal, stampnoun
6์„œ๋ช…seo-myeongsignaturenoun
7์—ฌ๊ถŒyeo-gwonpassportnoun
8์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆsin-bun-jeungID cardnoun
9๋น„์žbi-javisanoun
10์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆoe-gu-gin-deung-nok-jjeungalien registration cardnoun
11์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œchul-ip-guk oe-gu-gin sa-mu-soimmigration officenoun
12์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒsu-su-ryofeenoun
13๋ฒˆํ˜ธํ‘œbeon-ho-pyonumber ticketnoun
14์ฆ๋ช…์„œjeung-myeong-seocertificatenoun
15์ ‘์ˆ˜jeop-sureception (of documents)noun
16์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๋‹คjak-seong-ha-dafill in, draw upverb
17์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋‹คje-chul-ha-dahand in, submitverb
18๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›๋‹คbal-geup-bat-daget issuedverb
19์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋‹คsin-cheong-ha-daapply forverb
20์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๋‹คyeon-jang-ha-daextendverb
As Heard in Dramas โ€” "๋„์žฅ ์ฐ์ž" In dramas a character who agrees to a deal or promise may say ๋„์žฅ ์ฐ์ž ("let's stamp on it"), a figure of speech for sealing the agreement. Office scenes also show people taking a ๋ฒˆํ˜ธํ‘œ, and a clerk saying ์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ("your documents are incomplete").
Real Korean Tip โ€” Online Services Many certificates can be requested online through the government portal ์ •๋ถ€24, and immigration appointments can be booked on the HiKorea site. Offices often use a number ticket (๋ฒˆํ˜ธํ‘œ) system, and staff are used to foreigners asking for help, so do not be shy about asking ์ด๊ฑฐ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์จ์š”?
Register โ€” Offices Staff usually speak in polite -์š” or formal -์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค style and use honorifics for you: ์„ฑํ•จ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„ธ์š”? ("What is your name?"). Reply politely with -์š” or -์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค; do not use ๋ฐ˜๋ง with officials.

โœ๏ธ Try It Yourself โ€” ์—ฐ์Šต

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1. Say "I'd like to extend my visa."

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๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.

2. Write a notice line: "Please bring your passport."

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์—ฌ๊ถŒ์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. Make the formal "please wait" for an announcement.

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์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

4. Ask "Where do I sign?"

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์„œ๋ช…์€ ์–ด๋””์— ํ•ด์š”?

5. Tell a friend casually "Do it on Government24."

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์ •๋ถ€24์—์„œ ํ•ด.

6. Why is it better to say ์ž ๊น ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” than ์ž ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค to a clerk at the counter?

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-์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค belongs to announcements and notices; in everyday speech -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” sounds more natural.