IS #166 โ Asking for Contact Info: Networking Etiquette
How to exchange contact details naturally and politely in Korean professional and social settings.
Iru Helper Note
In Korea, KakaoTalk is often more important than a phone number for professional connections. Asking ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? is completely normal and professional โ it's the Korean equivalent of "Can I have your number?"
๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? ์๋๋ฉด ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋ ๊ตํํ ๊น์?
(Do you have a business card? Or shall we exchange KakaoTalk IDs?)
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๐ What You'll Learn Today
Whether you're at a networking event, a conference, or simply meeting someone interesting, knowing how to ask for contact information politely in Korean is essential. This lesson covers the phrases Koreans use to exchange details โ from business cards to KakaoTalk โ and how to do so without awkwardness.
๐ Contact Exchange Phrases
Expression | Meaning | Notes |
๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Do you have a business card? | Classic professional opener |
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | May we exchange contact info? | Polite, neutral request |
์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? | What's your KakaoTalk ID? | Very common in Korea |
์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Do you have an Instagram account? | Common in creative fields |
๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? | May I contact you later? | Permission to follow up |
์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? | What contact method is most convenient? | Considerate ask |
๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์? | Are you on LinkedIn? | International/startup context |
์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? | Could I have your email address? | Formal context |
QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | May I share via QR code? | Common with KakaoTalk |
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | May I save your contact info? | Polite number exchange |
๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | May I save your number? | Casual version |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | I'd like to stay in touch | Warm closing statement |
๐ก Key pattern: ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? is the polite way to ask for a piece of information โ literally "How does it go?" but used to mean "What is it?" e.g., ์ด๋ฆ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? (What's your name?), ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? (What's your ID?)
๐ฌ Conversations in Action
Conversation 1 โ At a professional event
A: ์ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์ ์ข์์ด์. ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
(It was great talking with you today. Do you happen to have a business card?)
B: ์, ์ค๋ ๋ช
ํจ์ ๋ค ์จ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์. ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋ ๊ตํํ ๊น์?
(Oh, I've used up all my cards today. Shall we exchange KakaoTalk IDs?)
A: ๋ค, ์ข์์. QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
(Yes, great. I'll share it with you via QR code.)
Conversation 2 โ After a creative collaboration meeting
A: ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ์, ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์?
(I'd like to stay in touch โ do you have an Instagram account?)
B: ๋ค, ์์ด์. ์์ด๋ ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ํธํ์ธ์?
(Yes, I do. I'll give you my ID. What contact method is more convenient for you?)
A: ์ ๋ ์นดํก์ด ํธํด์. ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
(I prefer KakaoTalk. May I save your number?)
๐ Cultural Note โ ๋ช ํจ (Business Card) Culture
In Korean business culture, the business card exchange (๋ช
ํจ ๊ตํ) is a small ritual โ you present and receive cards with two hands, and you take a moment to look at the card before putting it away. Stuffing it in your pocket immediately is considered rude. Even in informal settings, asking ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? is warm and professional. In more casual creative or startup contexts, KakaoTalk QR codes have largely replaced card exchanges โ but the respect behind the exchange remains the same.
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<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
Practice asking for contact info politely. For each prompt, use the expression shown.
A. You want to ask for a business card after a great conversation. (Use: ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?)
์ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์ ์ข์์ด์. ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
(It was great talking with you today. Do you happen to have a business card?)
B. You want to suggest exchanging contact information. (Use: ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?)
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์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(May we exchange contact info? I'd like to stay in touch.)
C. You want to ask for their KakaoTalk ID. (Use: ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?)
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์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
(What's your KakaoTalk ID? I'll share mine via QR code.)
D. You want to check what contact method they prefer. (Use: ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์?)
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์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ด๋ ์นดํก ๋ ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
(What contact method is most convenient for you? Email or KakaoTalk are both fine.)
E. You're in a more formal setting and want their email. (Use: ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?)
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ํน์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์.
(Could I have your email address? I'd like to send you some materials.)
F. You want to save their number before parting ways. (Use: ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?)
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ํน์ ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์.
(May I save your number? I'd like to reach out later.)
G. You're at a creative event and ask about Instagram. (Use: ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์?)
Answer
ํน์ ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? ์์
๋ฌผ์ ๊ผญ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(Do you have an Instagram account? I'd really love to see your work.)
H. You want permission to follow up later. (Use: ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?)
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๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ผํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(May I contact you later? I'd love to work together in this field.)
I. You want to share via QR code. (Use: QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?)
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์นด์นด์คํก QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
(May I share via KakaoTalk QR code?)
J. You close the networking exchange warmly. (Use: ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์)
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์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ค๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์๊ฐ์ด์์ด์.
(I'd like to stay in touch. Today was really a great time.)
Expression Reference
Expression | Nuance/Key |
๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Business card request |
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Neutral contact exchange |
์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? | KakaoTalk ID request |
์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Social media (creative) |
๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Permission to follow up |
์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? | Ask preferred method |
์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? | Formal email request |
QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Modern KakaoTalk exchange |
๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Number save request |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | Warm close |
ํน์ = Politeness Booster
Adding ํน์ before any of these requests makes them sound more considerate: ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? (Do you happen to have a business card?) is warmer than just ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? โ it implies you understand they might not have one.
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Want more reps?
Think about the last time you met someone professionally or at an event. Script how you would have asked for their contact info in Korean โ and how you'd have responded if they asked for yours.
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๐ฆ Practice Hub โ contact exchange & networking
Exercise 1 โ Choose the Right Expression
Pick the most natural phrase for each situation.
A. You just had a great conversation at a business conference. The classic opener is:
- ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ๋ช ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์?
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2 โ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? is the classic professional opener in Korean business settings.
B. You're at a creative meetup and want to follow a designer's work:
- ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?
- ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ๋ช ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
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2 โ ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? is the natural ask in creative and artistic contexts.
C. You want to exchange KakaoTalk quickly and efficiently:
- ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?
- QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- Either works equally well
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3 โ Both are natural. QR code is faster in person; asking for the ID works remotely or verbally.
D. You want to ask which contact method they prefer:
- ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์?
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
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2 โ ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? shows consideration for their preference.
E. You're in a formal B2B meeting and need to send documents:
- ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?
- ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?
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3 โ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? is the most appropriate in formal document-exchange contexts.
F. You want to end the encounter with a warm statement about staying in touch:
- ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
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2 โ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ is a genuine, warm closing that signals ongoing interest.
G. You ran out of business cards but still want to exchange info:
- ๋ช ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ์นด์นด์คํก QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?
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2 โ QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? is the modern workaround when you don't have cards.
H. You want to save their number before they leave:
- ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ๋ช ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?
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1 โ ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? is the direct, polite number-save request.
I. You met someone at a startup event and want to connect on LinkedIn:
- ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์?
- ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์?
- ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?
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2 โ ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์? is natural in startup and international professional settings.
J. You want to ask permission to reach out after the event:
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
- ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?
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3 โ ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? specifically asks for permission to follow up.
Quick Reference
Situation | Phrase |
Business event | ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? |
Creative context | ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? |
KakaoTalk ID | ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? |
Preferred method | ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? |
Formal email | ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? |
Warm close | ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ |
QR swap | QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? |
Save number | ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? |
Permission to follow up | ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? |
LinkedIn | ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์? |
Pitfall: Skipping Permission
Saving someone's number or info without asking can feel presumptuous in Korean culture. Always ask first โ ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? or ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? โ before reaching for your phone.
Exercise 2 โ Korean โ English Translation
Translate each networking phrase naturally.
A. ์ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์ ์ข์์ด์. ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
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It was great talking with you today. Do you happen to have a business card?
B. ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํ ๊ฒ์.
Answer
What's your KakaoTalk ID? I'll share mine via QR code.
C. ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ด๋ ์นดํก ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
Answer
What contact method is most convenient for you? Email or KakaoTalk are both fine.
D. ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? ๊ฐ์ด ํ์
ํด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์.
Answer
May I contact you later? I'd like to try collaborating together.
E. ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? ์์
๋ฌผ์ด ์ ๋ง ์ธ์์ ์ด์์ด์.
Answer
Do you have an Instagram account? Your work was really impressive.
F. ํน์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์.
Answer
Could I have your email address? I'd like to send you some materials.
G. ๋ช
ํจ์ ๋ค ์จ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์. QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
Answer
I've used up all my business cards. May I share via QR code?
H. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
Answer
I'd like to stay in touch. May I save your number?
I. ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์? ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ฉด ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
Answer
Are you on LinkedIn? I think it'd be great to connect there.
J. ์ค๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ด ๋ฐฐ์ ์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์.
Answer
I learned a lot today. I'm counting on you going forward.
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Korean | English |
๋ช
ํจ | business card |
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ | contact information |
๊ตํํ๋ค | to exchange |
๊ณต์ ํ๋ค | to share |
์ ์ฅํ๋ค | to save |
์ธ์์ ์ด๋ค | to be impressive |
ํ์
| collaboration |
์๋ฃ | materials / data |
์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ค | to connect |
Grammar Tip
~์/์ด๋ ๋ ๊น์? = "May I...?" โ the -๋ ๋ ๊น์? ending asks for permission gently. ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? (May I save?), ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? (May I share?). It's one of the most useful permission phrases in Korean.
Exercise 3 โ Complete the Sentence
Fill in the blank with the right networking phrase.
A. ํน์ __? ์ ๋ฌ๋๋ฆด ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ์์ด์์.
(Do you happen to have a business card? I have some materials to pass along.)
Answer
๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์
B. ์นด์นด์คํก __? ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ฉด ํธํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
(What's your KakaoTalk ID? I think it'd be convenient to contact you there.)
Answer
์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์
C. __ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? ์์ผ๋ก ์์ฃผ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(May we exchange contact info? I'd like to be in touch often going forward.)
Answer
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ
D. ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก __? ์ ๋ ์นดํก์ด ์ ์ผ ํธํด์.
(What contact method is most convenient for you? KakaoTalk is easiest for me.)
Answer
์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์
E. ํน์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ __? ๊ณ์ฝ์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
(Could I have your email address? I'll send you the contract.)
Answer
์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์
F. QR ์ฝ๋๋ก __?
(May I share via QR code?)
Answer
๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์
G. ์์ผ๋ก๋ __. ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ๋ถ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
(I'd like to stay in touch. I feel like I met a really wonderful person.)
Answer
์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
H. ํน์ ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ __? ํ๋ก์ฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(Do you happen to have an Instagram account? I'd like to follow you.)
Answer
๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์
I. ๋ฒํธ __? ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
(May I save your number? I'll reach out later.)
Answer
์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์
J. ๋์ค์ __? ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ฌ์ญค๋ณผ ๊ฒ ์์ด์์.
(May I contact you later? I have some questions about the project.)
Answer
์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์
Sentence Starters
Starter | Use |
ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Biz card request |
์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? | KakaoTalk ID |
์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ ๊ตํํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | General exchange |
์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? | Preferred method |
์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? | Email request |
QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | QR swap |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | Warm closing |
๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Permission to follow up |
Production Tip
Pair your contact request with a reason: ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? ํ์
๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์์. (May I contact you later? I think there might be collaboration opportunities.) Giving a reason makes the request feel warm and purposeful, not transactional.
Exercise 4 โ Dialogue Completion
Complete each exchange naturally.
A.
A: ์ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ง ์ข์์ด์. ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์?
B: __
Answer
์, ์ค๋ ๋ช
ํจ์ ๋ค ์จ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์. ์นด์นด์คํก์ผ๋ก ๊ตํํ ๊น์?
(Oh, I've used up all my cards today. Shall we exchange via KakaoTalk?)
B.
A: ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์?
B: __
Answer
์ ์์ด๋๋ iru_korea์์. QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
(My ID is iru_korea. I'll share it via QR code.)
C.
A: ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์?
B: __
Answer
์ ๋ ์นดํก์ด ์ ์ผ ํธํด์. ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ ๋ต์ฅ์ด ์ข ๋ฆ์ด์์.
(KakaoTalk is most convenient for me. I tend to reply slowly to emails.)
D.
A: ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? ์์
๋ฌผ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ข์์์.
B: __
Answer
๋ค, ์์ด์. @iru_studio์์. ํ๋ก์ฐํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ด์.
(Yes, I do. It's @iru_studio. I'd be grateful if you followed me.)
E.
A: ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?
B: __
Answer
๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์์. ๋ฒํธ ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ์ธ์ ๋ ์ง ์ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์ธ์.
(Of course. I'll give you my number. Please reach out any time.)
F.
A: ํน์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์?
B: __
Answer
๋ค, iru@example.com์ด์์. ์๋ฃ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ํ์ธํ ๊ฒ์.
(Yes, it's iru@example.com. If you send materials, I'll check right away.)
G.
A: ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
B: __
Answer
์ ๋์. ๊ฐ์ด ์ผํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๋ฒํธ ๊ตํํด์.
(Same here. I hope there's an opportunity to work together. Let's exchange numbers.)
H.
A: ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์?
B: __
Answer
๋ค, ํด์. ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒ์ํ์๋ฉด ๋์์. ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์์ฒญ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
(Yes, I do. You can find me by searching my name. Please send a connection request.)
I.
A: QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์?
B: __
Answer
๋ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์์. ์ ๊น๋ง์, ์ด๊ฒ์.
(Yes, of course. Just a moment โ let me open it.)
J.
A: ์ค๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ๋ถ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
B: __
Answer
์ ๋์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์.
(Same here. I'd like to stay in touch going forward. I'm counting on you.)
Useful Phrases
Phrase | Use |
ํ๋ก์ฐํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ด์ | "I'd be grateful if you followed" |
์ธ์ ๋ ์ง ์ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์ธ์ | "Please reach out any time" |
์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์์ฒญ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ | "Please send a connection request" |
์ ๊น๋ง์, ์ด๊ฒ์ | "Just a moment, let me open it" |
์ข์ ๋ถ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | "I feel like I met a wonderful person" |
๊ฐ์ด ์ผํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉด | "If there's an opportunity to work together" |
Conversation Tip
End every contact exchange with a warm closing. ์ค๋ ์ข์ ์๊ฐ์ด์์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์ (Today was a great time. I'm counting on you going forward) is the natural, complete Korean networking close.
Exercise 5 โ Free Speaking Practice
Respond to each scenario in 2โ3 sentences.
A. You just had a great conversation at a business event. Ask for their card.
Sample Answer
์ค๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์ ์ ๋ง ์ข์์ด์. ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
B. You don't have cards but want to exchange KakaoTalk.
Sample Answer
๋ช
ํจ์ ๋ค ์จ๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์. ์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
C. You want to ask which contact method they prefer.
Sample Answer
์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? ์ ๋ ์นดํก์ด๋ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
D. A designer just showed you their portfolio. Ask to follow them.
Sample Answer
์์
๋ฌผ์ด ์ ๋ง ์ธ์์ ์ด์์ด์. ํน์ ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ๊ณ์ ์์ผ์ธ์? ํ๋ก์ฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
E. You need to send them a document. Ask for their email.
Sample Answer
ํน์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์๊น์? ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์.
F. Close a networking exchange on a warm, professional note.
Sample Answer
์ค๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์๊ฐ์ด์์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์.
G. Ask permission to follow up about a potential collaboration.
Sample Answer
๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? ๊ฐ์ด ํ์
ํด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๊ฐ ์์ด์์.
H. Someone asks for your contact info. Offer your preferred method.
Sample Answer
์ ๋ ์นดํก์ด ์ ์ผ ํธํด์. QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์. ์ ๊น๋ง์.
I. You're at a startup event and want to connect on LinkedIn.
Sample Answer
ํน์ ๋งํฌ๋์ธ ํ์ธ์? ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ฉด ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒ์ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
J. You want to save their number before the event ends.
Sample Answer
๋ฒํธ ์ ์ฅํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? ๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์.
Sentence Starters
Starter | Use When |
ํน์ ๋ช
ํจ ์์ผ์ธ์? | Opening a card exchange |
์นด์นด์คํก ์์ด๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์ธ์? | KakaoTalk swap |
์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฒ ํธํ์ธ์? | Preferred method |
๋์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Follow-up permission |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | Warm closing statement |
QR ์ฝ๋๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | Quick digital swap |
์ ๋ถํ๋๋ ค์ | Final professional close |
Speaking Challenge
Imagine you're at a Korean networking event. Script the full contact exchange: opening line after a conversation โ request for info โ sharing yours โ warm close. Say it out loud as if the person is standing in front of you.
๋คํธ์ํนํ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ๊ตํํ ์ ์์ด์! โจ
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