30-Minute Business Korean๐ค Day 24 ' ๊ทธ ๋์ ์๋ ํ์ จ์ด์?' : ๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ์ ์๋ถ๋ฌป๊ธฐ naturally greeting
24์ผ์ฐจ. ๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ์ ์๋ถ ๋ฌป๊ธฐ
Day 24. Asking about a client's well-being
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ํ์ธ์! ํ๋ฃจ 5๋ถ, ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๊ตญ์ด ์์ฑ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ 30์ผ ์ฝ์ค์
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Hello! This is a 30-day course aiming to master business Korean in just 5 minutes a day.
ํ๋ด์! ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ ๋ ์ด์ ์ด๋ ต์ง ์์์!
Even just 5 minutes a day makes learning Korean easier. Let’s stay strong!

์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ด๊ณ์ ์์, ์ง์ฌ์ ๋ด์ ์๋ถ ์ธ์ฌ์ ๋๋ค.
์ฃผ์ ํํ Key Expressions
๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ์ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋, ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๋ ๋ค์ํ ํํ๋ค์ ๋ฐฐ์๋ด ์๋ค.
Let's learn various expressions for naturally greeting a client when you meet them.
- ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
It's been a long time since I've seen you. (Formal)
- ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋
ํ์
จ์ด์?
How have you been in the meantime?
- ๋๋ถ์ ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
I'm doing well, thanks to you. (Polite response)
- ์์ฆ ์ฌ์
์ ์ด๋ ์ธ์?
How is your business these days?
- ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋ค๋ค ํธ์ํ์ ์ง์?
I hope your family members are all well. (Very polite)
๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ (Client, Business partner)
A company or a person that you do business with. It refers to a business partner or a client.
๋๋ถ์ (Thanks to ~)
It is used to express gratitude for someone's help or a positive situation. It is often used to respond to greetings.
ํธ์ฐฎ๋ค (To be sick, to be unwell) - ๋์๋ง
It is the honorific form of '์ํ๋ค' (to be sick). It is used when talking about a senior or a person you need to show respect to.
๋ํ ์ฐ์ต Conversation Practice
์ค์ ๋ํ ์ํฉ์ ํตํด ์ค๋ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํํ๋ค์ ํ์ฉํด ๋ด ์๋ค.
Let's use the expressions we learned today in a real conversation.
- ๋ฐ ํ์ฅ: ๊น ์ฌ์ฅ๋, ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ต๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋
ํ์
จ์ด์?
Manager Park: Mr. Kim, it's been a long time since I've seen you. How have you been?
- ๊น ์ฌ์ฅ: ๋ค, ๋๋ถ์ ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ ํ์ฅ๋์ ์ด๋ ์ธ์?
Mr. Kim: Yes, I'm doing well, thanks to you. How about you, Manager Park?
- ๋ฐ ํ์ฅ: ์ ๋ ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฆ ์ฌ์
์ ์ด๋ ์ธ์? ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์์์ฃ ?
Manager Park: I'm also doing well. How is your business these days? You must be busy, right?
-(์ผ)์๊ฒ ์ด์?
This is a polite and respectful way to ask a question or make a suggestion. It is a more formal version of `-(์ผ)์ค๋์?`.
์์) “์ฐจ ํ์ ํ์๊ฒ ์ด์?” (Would you like a cup of tea?)
-(์ผ)์ญ์์ค
This is a formal command or imperative ending used in business or official situations. It is a very respectful instruction.
์์) “ํ์์ค๋ก ์ค์ญ์์ค.” (Please come to the meeting room.)
-(์ผ)ใด ์ง
This grammar pattern is used to indicate the period of time since a certain action or event took place.
์์) “ํ๊ตญ์ ์จ ์ง 3๋ ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค.” (It has been 3 years since I came to Korea.)
์ฐ์ต ๋ฌธ์ Practice Problem
๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ์์ฑํด ๋ณด์ธ์.
Complete the following conversation.
A: ๊น ์ฌ์ฅ๋, ์์ฆ ________? (์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ ์ธ์?)
Mr. Kim, how is your business these days?
B: ๋ค, ๋๋ถ์ ________. (์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.)
Yes, I'm doing well, thanks to you.
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