Navigate Korea's excellent public transportation system, ask for directions, and understand location words. Korea's subway, bus, and KTX systems are world-class and easy to use.
Estimated Time: 45โ55 minutes
| Korean | Meaning | Korean | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| ์ | above / on top | ์๋ | below / under |
| ์ | in front | ๋ค | behind |
| ์ | beside / next to | ์ฌ์ด | between |
| ์ | inside | ๋ฐ | outside |
| ์ผ์ชฝ | left | ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ | right |
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ | here | ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ | there |
| ์ ๊ธฐ | over there | ๊ทผ์ฒ | nearby |
| Korean | Meaning |
|---|---|
| [place] ์ด๋์์? | Where is [place]? |
| [place] ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์? | How do I get to [place]? |
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๊น์์? | Is it close from here? |
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฉ์ด์? | Is it far from here? |
| ์ง์งํ์ธ์. | Go straight. |
| ์ผ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์. | Go left. |
| ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์. | Go right. |
| ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๋ช ๋ถ์ด์์? | How many minutes on foot? |
| Korean | Meaning | Korean | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| ์งํ์ฒ | subway | ๋ฒ์ค | bus |
| ํ์ | taxi | ๊ธฐ์ฐจ | train |
| KTX | high-speed train | ๋นํ๊ธฐ | airplane |
| ์ญ | station (subway) | ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ | bus stop |
| ๊ณตํญ | airport | ์ถ๊ตฌ | exit |
| ์ ๊ตฌ | entrance | ํ์น | transfer |
| ๊ตํต์นด๋ | transit card (T-money) | ์๊ธ | fare |
Get a T-money card at any convenience store โ it works on all subways, buses, and even taxis and some shops. Tap on when boarding, tap off when exiting. You can recharge at convenience stores and subway machines. It's cheaper than buying single tickets!
| Korean | Meaning |
|---|---|
| [station name]์ญ์์ ๋ด๋ ค์. | I get off at [station] station. |
| ๋ช ํธ์ ์ด์์? | Which line number is it? |
| ํ์นํด์ผ ๋ผ์? | Do I need to transfer? |
| [number]๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ๋ก ๋๊ฐ์ธ์. | Go out exit number [number]. |
| ์ด ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋ [place]์ ๊ฐ์? | Does this train go to [place]? |
| ๋ค์ ์ญ์ด ๋ญ์์? | What's the next station? |
| Korean | Meaning |
|---|---|
| [place]๊น์ง ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | Please take me to [place]. |
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ์ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | Please stop here. |
| ์ผ๋ง์์? | How much is it? |
| ํธ๋ ํฌ ์ด์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | Please open the trunk. |
| ์นด๋๋ก ํด๋ ๋ผ์? | Can I pay by card? |
๐ก Culture Note: Korean taxis are safe, metered, and relatively affordable. Regular taxis (์ผ๋ฐ ํ์) are silver or white; deluxe taxis (๋ชจ๋ฒ ํ์) are black and more expensive but more comfortable. Late at night, you may need to use a taxi app like Kakao Taxi.
A: ์ค๋กํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ช ๋์ญ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์? (Excuse me. How do I get to Myeongdong Station?)
B: ์ง์งํด์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฌ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ผ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์. (Go straight and turn left at the second intersection.)
A: ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฉ์ด์? (Is it far from here?)
B: ์๋์, ๊ฑธ์ด์ ์ค ๋ถ์ฏค์ด์์. (No, it's about 5 minutes on foot.)
A: ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค! (Thank you!)