๐ The key of Korean dream ①Practical Topik [์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๋จ์ด, ๋ฌธ๋ฒ]: ๋ณด๊ณ ํ๋ค, ์๋ฃํ๋ค, ์์ฑํ๋ค, ๊ด๊ณ๋งบ๋ค
Beyond TOPIK: Mastering Korean Workplace Communication
Level: Intermediate to Advancedํ ํฝ ๋๋จธ: ํ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ ์ํต ๋ง์คํฐํ๊ธฐ
Hidden Grammar Gems within the Text (๋ณธ๋ฌธ ์์ ์จ์ด ์๋ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ ํฌ์ธํธ)
- -ใ ๋๋ค/์ต๋๋ค | [-(p)mnida/seumnida] | Formal polite verb ending (for statements)
- -๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค | [-neun geot gatseumnida] | It seems that... (polite opinion)
- -์ ๋ํด(์) | [-e daehae(seo)] | About..., Concerning... (topic)
- -๊น์ง | [-kkaji] | Until..., By... (time/point)
- -์/์ด/์ฌ์ง๋ค | [-a/eo/yeo-jida] | To become... (change of state)
- -(์ผ)ใน ๊ธฐํ | [-(eu)l gihoe] | Chance/opportunity to V
- ๋์๋ง (Honorifics) | [nop-im-mal] | Honorific language (using formal titles and verb endings in workplace)
Obtaining a TOPIK level and getting employed by a Korean company is a big step towards your Korean Dream. But the real challenge starts now! Korean workplace culture is unique, and the Korean used in a professional environment can differ from textbooks. This post will help you secure an advantageous position and successfully adapt by providing essential business Korean expressions and cultural tips for Korean company life. We'll focus on real situations like reporting status, meetings, and communication with colleagues.
์ฝ๋ฆฌ์๋๋ฆผ | Ko-ri-an deu-rim | Korean Dream
์ง์ฅ ๋ฌธํ | jik-jang mun-hwa | workplace culture
์ ๋ฌด ๋ณด๊ณ | eom-mu bo-go | work report
ํ์ | hoe-ui | meeting
์ํต | so-tong | communication
✅ Essential Business Korean Expressions (ํ์ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ)
1. ์ ๋ฌด ๋ณด๊ณ ์
"OOO ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์งํ ์ํฉ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค."
"์ค๋๊น์ง OOO์ ์๋ฃํ์ต๋๋ค."
"๋ค์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ OOO์
๋๋ค."
"OOO project progress update report."
"I've completed OOO by today."
"The next step is OOO."
๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค | bo-go-deu-ri-da | to report (honorific)
์๋ฃํ๋ค | wan-nyo-ha-da | to complete
๋จ๊ณ | dan-gye | step, phase
2. ํ์ ์ค/ํ
"์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ง๋ฌธ ์์ต๋๋ค."
"์ ์๊ฐ์๋ OOO์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค."
"ํ์๋ก ์์ฑํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค."
"I have a question about this part."
"In my opinion, it seems to be OOO."
"I will write the meeting minutes."
๋ถ๋ถ | bu-bun | part, section
์ ์๊ฐ์๋ | je saeng-gak-e-neun | in my opinion
ํ์๋ก | hoe-ui-rok | meeting minutes
์์ฑํ๋ค | jak-seong-ha-da | to write, to draft
๐ฐ๐ท Understanding Korean Workplace Culture (ํ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ ๋ฌธํ ์ดํดํ๊ธฐ)
Grace: "Titles and honorifics are crucial in Korean companies. It's easy to get confused at first."
์ง๊ธ | jik-geup | job position, rank
๋์๋ง | no-pim-mal | honorifics
ํท๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค | het-gal-li-da | to be confused
Mike: "Company dinners are unique too! But they're a chance to bond with colleagues and practice informal Korean."
ํน์ดํ๋ค | teuk-i-ha-da | to be unique/unusual
๋๋ฃ | dong-nyo | colleague
๊ฐ๊น์์ง๋ค | ga-kka-wo-ji-da | to become closer
๋น๊ฒฉ์์ | bi-gyeok-sik-jeok | informal
TOPIK ๊ธ์๋ ์ธ์ด ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ์ฆ๋ช ํ์ง๋ง, ์ค์ ํ์ฌ ์ํ์์๋ ์ค์ฉ ํ๊ตญ์ด์ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๊ตญ์ด๊ฐ ํ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ต๊ณผ์์๋ ์๋ ์ด์์๋ ํํ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ ์์ ํต์ฌ์ ๋๋ค.
While TOPIK proves your language ability, practical and business Korean are essential for real company life. Learning expressions not found in textbooks is key to successful adaptation.
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๐ก Closing Thoughts (๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ)
Grace: "High TOPIK scores matter, but communication skills are most important after getting hired."
์ทจ์ ํ | chwi-eop hu | after getting hired
์ํต ๋ฅ๋ ฅ | so-tong neung-nyeok | communication skills