{"id":79413,"date":"2020-01-13T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/easy-korean-words\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:03:22","slug":"easy-korean-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/korean\/easy-korean-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The First 128 Korean Words You Should Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking to boost your Korean vocabulary? In this post, you\u2019ll find the most useful Korean words and phrases<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll learn an assortment of basic terms related to family, numbers, greetings, honorifics, questions, Korean holidays, days of the week, months of the year, common adjectives, verbs and even Korean slang.<\/p>\n

You can get started with this video lesson<\/a> and then find additional easy Korean words in the post below:<\/p>\n

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Basic Korean Greetings and Courtesies<\/h2>\n

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\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694 <\/a>\n <\/td>An-nyeong-ha-se-yo<\/em><\/td>Hello\/Goodbye\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\uac10\uc0ac\ud569\ub2c8\ub2e4 <\/a>\n <\/td>Kam-sa-ham-ni-da<\/em><\/td>Thank you<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\ucc9c\ub9cc\uc5d0\uc694 <\/a>\n <\/td>Cheon-mahn-eh-yo<\/em><\/td>You\u2019re welcome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\uc7a0\uc2dc\ub9cc\uc694 <\/a>\n <\/td>Jam-shi-mahn-yo<\/em><\/td>Excuse me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
...\uc8fc\uc138\uc694 <\/a>\n <\/td>... Ju-seh-yo<\/em><\/td>Give me...<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\uc8c4\uc1a1\ud569\ub2c8\ub2e4 <\/a>\n <\/td>Chwae-song-ham-ni-da<\/em><\/td>I\u2019m sorry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\uc608 <\/a>\n <\/td>Ye<\/em><\/td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\uc544\ub2c8\uc694 <\/a>\n <\/td>A-ni-yo<\/em><\/td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Koreans aren’t generally your outgoing personalities who’ll casually strike up a conversation with strangers, they’re actually very warm and welcoming\u2014especially when formally introduced by a common friend.<\/p>\n

As a guest to the culture, you have to observe common courtesies. Learning a language<\/a> becomes a lot easier when you have plenty of opportunities to practice listening to the ways native speakers talk.<\/p>\n

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