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Asking for a Favor in the Workplace

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IS #156 โ€” Asking for a Favor in the Workplace
How to make requests to colleagues and seniors in Korean โ€” with the right level of warmth, politeness, and humility.
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Iru Helper Note
In Korean workplaces, a favor isn't just a request โ€” it's a small moment of relationship-building. The way you ask signals whether you respect the other person's time and position.
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
(If it's okay, may I ask you for a favor?)
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๐Ÿค What You'll Learn Today

Asking for help in Korean at work is a balance between directness and politeness. Too direct can feel demanding; too indirect can be confusing. The most effective Korean requests open with a soft check, state the favor clearly, acknowledge the other person's time, and leave the door open for them to decline. This lesson gives you the expressions to ask confidently โ€” and gracefully.

๐Ÿ“Œ Workplace Favor Expressions

Expression
Meaning
Notes
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด
If it's okay with you
Softest opener for any request
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
May I ask you for one thing?
Polite, humble opener
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”
I need some help
Direct but warm
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
Do you have a moment?
Checks availability first
์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Could you check this part?
Specific request
๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”
I have something I'd like to ask
Warm opening signal
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
If possible, could you do it by today?
Adds timeline politely
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
I know it's a bother, but...
Acknowledges the inconvenience
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
If you have the bandwidth
For lower-priority requests
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
I'd be very grateful if you could help
Appreciation in advance
์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Could you take a look at this?
Casual-professional
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ
I know it's a lot to ask, but
For bigger favors
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
Please don't feel pressured
Lets them off the hook
์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
Around when would it be possible?
Flexible timeline question
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด / ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? โ†’ state the favor โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ / ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. Check โ†’ Request โ†’ Appreciate.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Asking a colleague to review a document:
๋‚˜: ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Me: Do you have a moment? Could you check this part? I know it's a bother, but I'd be very grateful if you could help.)
Asking a senior for a bigger favor:
๋‚˜: ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
(Me: If it's okay, may I ask you for one thing? I know it's a lot to ask, but if possible, could you do it by today? Please don't feel pressured.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” ๋ถ€ํƒ and Relationship Maintenance

In Korean culture, asking for a favor (๋ถ€ํƒ) is not just transactional โ€” it's an act of trust. When you ask someone for help, you're signaling that you trust them and value the relationship. That's why the framing matters: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ (I know it's a bother) and ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” (please don't feel pressured) aren't empty phrases โ€” they show you're being considerate of the other person, which makes them more likely to want to help.

<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
For each scenario, make an appropriate workplace request.
A. You want to check if a colleague is free before asking anything.
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์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
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B. You need someone to review a document. Make the request.
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ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
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C. You need help but acknowledge it might be inconvenient.
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๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”. ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
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D. You need something done today but don't want to pressure them.
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๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
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E. You're making a bigger-than-usual request. Acknowledge it.
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๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
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F. You don't want to set a rigid deadline. Ask flexibly.
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ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
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G. You need a quick look at something. Keep it casual-professional.
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์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค์š”.
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H. Signal warmly that you have a favor to ask before stating it.
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๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” โ€” ํ˜น์‹œ ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
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I. Express gratitude in advance for the help.
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๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
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J. Deliver a full favor request: check availability โ†’ signal โ†’ request โ†’ acknowledge inconvenience โ†’ appreciate.
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์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
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Expression Reference
Expression
Nuance/Key
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด
softest opener
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
humble opener
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
check availability first
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge inconvenience
์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
specific request
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€
polite deadline
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
low-pressure ask
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
appreciation in advance
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge big ask
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
lets them off the hook
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Tip: ํ˜น์‹œ
ํ˜น์‹œ = "by any chance / perhaps" โ€” it softens any question or request dramatically. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด is far gentler than ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด alone. Adding ํ˜น์‹œ is a tiny change with a big effect on tone.
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Want more reps?
Think of something you genuinely need help with at work or in your Korean studies. Formulate the full request in Korean: check โ†’ signal โ†’ request โ†’ acknowledge โ†’ appreciate. Say it out loud three times until it flows naturally.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” Asking for a Favor


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

Choose the best expression for each situation.
A. You want the softest possible opener before making a request.
a) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š” b) ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด c) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ d) ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
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b) ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด โ€” the softest opener for any request.
B. You want to check if the other person has time before saying anything else.
a) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” b) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ c) ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? d) ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
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c) ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? โ€” checks availability first.
C. You want to acknowledge that your request might be inconvenient.
a) ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ b) ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด c) ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” d) ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
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a) ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ โ€” "I know it's a bother, but..."
D. You need something done today but don't want to be pushy.
a) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ b) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” c) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? d) ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
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c) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? โ€” polite deadline request.
E. You want to let the other person decline without embarrassment.
a) ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ b) ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” c) ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”? d) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”
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b) ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please don't feel pressured."
F. You want to express gratitude before they've even agreed.
a) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ b) ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? c) ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š” d) ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
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c) ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š” โ€” appreciation in advance.
G. You're making a bigger-than-normal ask and want to acknowledge it.
a) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ b) ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด c) ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? d) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”
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a) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ โ€” "I know it's a lot to ask."
H. You want to ask for a look at a document in a casual-professional tone.
a) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š” b) ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? c) ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด d) ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
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b) ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? โ€” casual-professional request.
I. You want to ask for a timeline without pressure.
a) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ b) ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”? c) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” d) ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
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b) ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”? โ€” flexible timeline question.
J. You want to warmly signal you have a favor to ask before stating it.
a) ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด b) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” c) ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ d) ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
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b) ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” โ€” warm signal before the actual request.
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Quick Reference
Expression
Use Case
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด
softest opener
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
check availability
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge inconvenience
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€
polite deadline
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
lets them off the hook
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
appreciation in advance
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge big ask
์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
casual-professional
์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
flexible timeline
๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”
warm pre-signal
๐Ÿšจ
Pitfall: Jumping straight to the request
Starting with the actual favor without any softener (e.g., ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š” with no opener) can feel blunt or demanding in Korean professional settings. Always open with ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด or ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? first โ€” these two seconds of framing make the whole request land better.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

Translate each sentence naturally.
A. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
<summary>Answer
If it's okay with you, may I ask you for one thing?
B. ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”.
<summary>Answer
Do you have a moment? I need some help.
C. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
<summary>Answer
I know it's a bother, but could you check this part?
D. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
If possible, could you do it by today? Please don't feel pressured.
E. ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
I know it's a lot to ask, but I'd be very grateful if you could help.
F. ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
<summary>Answer
If you have the bandwidth, around when would it be possible?
G. ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
Could you take a look at this? I'd be grateful.
H. ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š” โ€” ํ˜น์‹œ ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
<summary>Answer
I have something I'd like to ask โ€” do you have a moment by any chance?
I. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
<summary>Answer
I know it's a bother, but may I ask you to do it by today?
J. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋งŒ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
If it's okay with you, I'd be very grateful if you could just check this part.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word
Meaning
ํ˜น์‹œ
by any chance / perhaps
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค
to be bothersome / troublesome
์—ฌ์œ 
bandwidth / spare capacity
๋ถ€ํƒ
favor / request
๋ถ€๋‹ด
pressure / burden
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค
to be possible
ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค
to check / verify
๐Ÿ’ก
Grammar Tip: -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
This is the most polite request form in Korean. Literal: "Would you be able to do [X] for me?" The -์ฃผ- signals doing something for someone's benefit. The -ใ„น๊นŒ์š”? ending adds uncertainty and softness. Together they're the gold standard for workplace requests to seniors.

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

Fill in the blank with a natural favor expression.
A. _ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? (Softest opener)
<summary>Answer
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
B. ์ž ๊น _ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. (Check availability)
<summary>Answer
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.
C. _ ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ฌธ์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? (Acknowledge inconvenience)
<summary>Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ฌธ์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
D. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด _ ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? (Polite deadline)
<summary>Answer
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
E. _ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”๋„ ๋ผ์š”. (Lets them off the hook)
<summary>Answer
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”๋„ ๋ผ์š”.
F. ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง _ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (Appreciation in advance)
<summary>Answer
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
G. _ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ผญ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (Acknowledge big ask)
<summary>Answer
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ผญ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
H. ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ _ ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (Casual-professional look)
<summary>Answer
์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
I. ํ˜น์‹œ _ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”? (Low-pressure bandwidth ask)
<summary>Answer
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
J. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, __ ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. __ ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด _ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. (Full sequence)
<summary>Answer
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Function
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด
softest opener
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
check availability
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge inconvenience
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€
polite deadline
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
lets them off the hook
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
appreciation in advance
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ
big ask acknowledgment
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
low-pressure bandwidth
๐Ÿ’ก
Production Tip
Before making a request, pause and think: how important is this, and what's this person's current load? Choose your opener accordingly. For urgent asks: ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? For lower-priority ones: ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด. Matching tone to urgency is part of Korean workplace fluency.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

Complete each dialogue with a natural favor request.
A. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๋„ค, ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค์š”.
B. ์ƒ์‚ฌ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐ”์œ๋ฐ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€์š”?
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
C. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”? ํž˜๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
D. ์„ ๋ฐฐ: ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋งํ•ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ž๋ฃŒ ์ข€ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
E. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ข€ ์—ฌ์œ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
F. ์ƒ์‚ฌ: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ์Šค์ผ€์ค„์ด ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”?
G. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ์–ด? ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”?
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๋„ค, ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
H. ์„ ๋ฐฐ: ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ๋งํ•ด์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ์ž๋ฃŒ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
I. ๋™๋ฃŒ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋งˆ๊ฐ์ด ์–ธ์ œ์˜ˆ์š”?
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
์˜ค๋Š˜ 5์‹œ์˜ˆ์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
J. ์ƒ์‚ฌ: ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์•Œ๋ ค์ค˜์š”.
๋‚˜: _
<summary>Answer
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ โ€” ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Useful Phrases
Phrase
Meaning
์ž๋ฃŒ
material / document
๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋‹ค
to review
์Šค์ผ€์ค„
schedule
๋งˆ๊ฐ
deadline
ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ
regarding the project
์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€
anytime
์‚ฌ์‹ค
actually / in fact
๐Ÿ’ก
Conversation Tip
If someone says ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” ("don't feel pressured") to you, it's often an invitation to feel comfortable making your request more directly. Respond warmly: ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. Don't misread it as a rejection โ€” it's a sign they trust you.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

Speak your answer aloud in Korean. Use at least one favor expression per prompt.
A. Ask a classmate to look over your Korean homework.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ๋ฉด, ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด.
B. Ask your manager to review a report before you send it to a client.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
C. Ask a colleague to cover for you in a meeting.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€ํƒ์ธ ์ค„ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฏธํŒ…์—์„œ ์ € ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
D. Ask a senior for advice on a difficult decision.
<summary>Suggested Approach
๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ์–ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
E. Ask for help without a specific deadline โ€” leave it open.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค๊นŒ์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
F. Make a full favor request to a senior from start to finish.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
G. Practice ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ in three different request contexts.
<summary>Suggested Approach
[Review a doc]: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ฌธ์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
[Join a call]: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ํ†ตํ™”์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
[Give feedback]: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
H. You need something urgently but don't want to create pressure.
<summary>Suggested Approach
์ฃ„์†กํ•œ๋ฐ, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” โ€” ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
I. Ask a language exchange partner for help with a Korean sentence.
<summary>Suggested Approach
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ฌธ์žฅ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด? ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋งˆ์šธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.
J. Imagine you need to ask three different people for three different favors. Make each request slightly differently.
<summary>Suggested Approach
[Friend]: ์ด๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด? ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด!
[Colleague]: ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
[Senior]: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Use
ํ˜น์‹œ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด
softest opener
์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
check availability
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ
acknowledge inconvenience
๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”
warm pre-signal
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๊นŒ์ง€
polite deadline
๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”
release pressure
๋„์™€์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
advance appreciation
ํ˜น์‹œ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹œ๋ฉด
low-pressure
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Speaking Challenge
Make five different favor requests to five different "people" (imagine a friend, classmate, colleague, senior, and manager). Use a different opener for each relationship level. Notice how the structure (check โ†’ signal โ†’ request โ†’ acknowledge โ†’ appreciate) stays the same even as the formality changes.
๋ถ€ํƒ์„ ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด์—์š” โ€” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋” ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด์—์š”. โœจ
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