{"id":6063,"date":"2018-09-19T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2018-09-21T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:29:52","slug":"hello-and-hi-in-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/hello-and-hi-in-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHello\u201d and \u201cHi\u201d in Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how to greet someone in Korean? Learning how to say \u201chello\u201d in Korean would be a great way to initiate conversation with Korean speakers. In this post, I will introduce you to three different ways to greet someone in Korean.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <span style=\"color: #808000\"><i><span lang=\"KO\">\uc601\uc5b4\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>(English), <span style=\"color: #808000\"><i><span lang=\"KO\">\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>(the Korean language) does not have separate <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc778\uc0ac\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(greetings) for <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc544\uce68\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(morning), <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc810\uc2ec\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(afternoon), and <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc800\ub141\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(evening). Once you learn the following, you can use them any time of the day when you greet someone. Therefore, you can kill three birds, not two, with one stone in this case.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4511\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\"wp-image-4511 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean-1024x322.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean-1024x322.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean-350x110.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean-768x241.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean.png 1864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by KLM<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>How to say \u201cHi!\u201d in Korean: If you greet your <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uce5c\uad6c\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(friends) or someone that you use <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\ubc18\ub9d0\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(casual speech pattern), \u00a0you can wave your <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc190\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(hand) from side to side as Americans do, while you say this simple greeting in the following:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">1. \u00a0<em style=\"color: #808000\">\uc548\ub155<\/em><em style=\"color: #808000\">!<\/em><span style=\"color: #808000\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>[an-nyeong] \u00a0:\u00a0 Hi!\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Informal<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"640\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/09\/Hello_-and-_Hi_-in-Korean.m4a'>\"Hello\" and \"Hi\" in Korean<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":false,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":false,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/09\/Hello_-and-_Hi_-in-Korean.m4a\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"\\\"Hello\\\" and \\\"Hi\\\" in Korean\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Hello and \\\"Hi\\\" in Korean\\\".\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"by KLM\",\"length_formatted\":\"0:13\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<ul>\n<li>How to say \u201cHello\u201d in Korean: You can say one of the following greetings, depending on your <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uad00\uacc4\u00a0<\/em><\/span>relationship with the speaker:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"color: #808000\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">2.<\/span> \u00a0\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc2ed\ub2c8\uae4c<\/em><em>! \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span>[an-nyeong-ha-sip-ni-kka]\u00a0 :\u00a0 Hello!\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0Formal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694<\/em><em>! \u00a0<\/em><\/span>[an-nyeong-ha-se-yo] \u00a0:\u00a0 Hello!\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Polite<\/p>\n<p>Here is a useful tip on how to bow. When you use \u201c<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc2ed\ub2c8\uae4c<\/em><\/span>\u201d or \u201c<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694<\/em><\/span>,\u201ddon\u2019t forget to bow to the person <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uacf5\uc190\ud788\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(politely). Showing \u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #808000\">\uc874\uacbd\uc2ec<\/span><\/em> (respect) for seniority and age is a significant part of Korean <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\ubb38\ud654<\/em> <\/span>(culture). In formal situations, you can bend your <span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uba38\ub9ac<\/em> <\/span>(head) and <em><span style=\"color: #808000\">\ud5c8\ub9ac<\/span><\/em> (waist) about 45 degrees while looking down (no eye contact with the other person). To be polite, you can bend your head and waist about 15 or 30 degrees (no eye contact with the other person)\u00a0depending on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another useful tip relating to \u201c<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548\ub155<\/em><\/span>.\u201d As soon as learn to say\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548<span style=\"color: #808000\">\ub155<\/span><\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #808000\">!<\/span> <\/em>(Hi!) in Korean, you will be able to say \u201cBye\u201d to your friends in Korean. Unlike formal and polite forms of \u201cHello\u201d in Korean, informal\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>\uc548\ub155<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #808000\">!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/em>can be used for both \u201cHi!\u201d and \u201cBye!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I hope the above examples will help you to build fluency in your Korean learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000\">\uac10\uc0ac\ud569\ub2c8\ub2e4<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #808000\"><strong><em>!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong>(Thank you!)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/09\/How-to-Greet-Say-Goodbye-Like-a-Korean-350x110-350x110.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Do you know how to greet someone in Korean? Learning how to say \u201chello\u201d in Korean would be a great way to initiate conversation with Korean speakers. In this post, I will introduce you to three different ways to greet someone in Korean. Unlike \uc601\uc5b4\u00a0(English), \ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4\u00a0(the Korean language) does not have separate \uc778\uc0ac\u00a0(greetings) for \uc544\uce68\u00a0(morning)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/hello-and-hi-in-korean\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[2871,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korean-language","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}