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Discussing Housing Needs (Jeonse/Wolse basics)

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IS #183 โ€” Discussing Housing Needs (Jeonse/Wolse basics)
Talk about what you're looking for in a home โ€” and understand how Korean housing works.
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Iru Helper Note
Korean housing has a unique system: ์ „์„ธ (jeonse) is a lump-sum deposit with no monthly rent; ์›”์„ธ (wolse) is monthly rent. Understanding and using these terms confidently opens up a whole world of practical Korean conversation.
์ „์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์—ญ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์›๋ฃธ์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
(I'm looking for a jeonse โ€” is there a studio near a subway station?)
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๐Ÿ—๏ธ What You'll Learn Today

Today you'll learn how to discuss housing needs in Korean โ€” describing what you're looking for, asking about lease types, and explaining your requirements to a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ (real estate agent). These are essential practical phrases for life in Korea.

๐Ÿ“Œ Housing Need Expressions

Expression
Meaning
Notes
์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I'm looking for a place
๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค = to look for/find
์ „์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I'm looking for a jeonse
์ „์„ธ = lump-sum deposit, no monthly rent
์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I'm looking for a monthly rent
์›”์„ธ = monthly rent
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
How much is the deposit?
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ = security deposit
์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
How much is the monthly rent?
standard wolse question
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Are maintenance fees included?
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ = maintenance/management fee
์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
I'd like somewhere close to a station
proximity preference
์›๋ฃธ/ํˆฌ๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
I'm looking for a studio/2-room
์›๋ฃธ = studio, ํˆฌ๋ฃธ = 2-room
๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ˆ์š”?
How many rooms are there?
basic inquiry
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
I'd like a place with good sunlight
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ๋“ค๋‹ค = sunlight comes in
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
What floor is it?
์ธต = floor/story
์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Are there convenience facilities nearby?
ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค = nearby amenities
๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
What is the contract period?
๊ณ„์•ฝ = contract
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
When can I move in?
์ž…์ฃผ = moving in
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: ์ €๋Š” [์กฐ๊ฑด]์ด/๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” [์ง‘ ์œ ํ˜•]์„ [๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€]๋กœ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. = "I'm looking for a [home type] with [conditions] in the [price range]." This single sentence covers almost everything a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ agent needs to hear.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Dialogue 1 โ€” ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ์—์„œ (At the real estate office)
A: ์–ด๋–ค ์ง‘์„ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
(What kind of place are you looking for?)
B: ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์›๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(I'm looking for a studio near a subway station, and I'm looking for monthly rent.)
A: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด๋ž‘ ์›”์„ธ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์€ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
(What kind of budget are you thinking for the deposit and monthly rent?)
B: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ 500๋งŒ ์› ์ •๋„, ์›”์„ธ๋Š” 50๋งŒ ์› ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Around 5 million won for the deposit, and I'd like the monthly rent to be under 500,000 won.)
Dialogue 2 โ€” ์ง‘ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด (Housing conditions)
A: ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
(Are there any particular conditions you want?)
B: ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šฐ๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like a place with good sunlight. And it would be even better if a convenience store or mart is nearby.)
A: ์ธต์ˆ˜๋Š”์š”?
(What about the floor?)
B: 1์ธต์€ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋†’์€ ์ธต์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
(The first floor is not ideal, and I think a higher floor would be better.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” ์ „์„ธ and ์›”์„ธ

์ „์„ธ (jeonse) is unique to Korea: instead of paying monthly rent, a tenant pays a large lump-sum deposit (typically 50โ€“80% of the property value) that is returned at the end of the lease. This protects both parties in a high-trust arrangement. ์›”์„ธ (wolse) is monthly rent plus a smaller deposit. Knowing this distinction isn't just vocabulary โ€” it signals cultural fluency and helps you navigate the housing market if you live in or visit Korea.

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Describe your ideal housing situation using today's expressions. Answer each prompt out loud.
A. Say you're looking for a place to live.
์š”์ฆ˜ ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. Specify whether you want jeonse or monthly rent.
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์ „์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. / ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
C. Say what type of unit you're looking for.
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์›๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. / ํˆฌ๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
D. Ask how much the deposit is.
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๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
E. Ask about the monthly rent.
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์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
F. Ask if maintenance fees are included.
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๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
G. State a location preference.
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์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
H. Describe a condition you care about.
Answer
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
I. Ask what floor the unit is on.
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์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
J. Ask when you can move in.
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์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
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Expression Reference
Expression
Nuance/Key
์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
looking for housing
์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๋กœ
by jeonse/monthly rent
์›๋ฃธ/ํˆฌ๋ฃธ
unit size
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
deposit amount
์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
monthly rent
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํฌํ•จ?
maintenance included?
์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜
near the station
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“ค์–ด์š”
good sunlight
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
which floor?
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
move-in date
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Delivery Tip
Lead with your lease type and unit preference, then add conditions: ์›๋ฃธ์„ ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๊ณ  ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. One sentence covers unit type, lease type, location, and condition. Agents love a clear brief.
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Want more reps?
Roleplay a conversation with a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ agent โ€” say what you're looking for, ask about the price, and ask about move-in date. Being able to navigate this conversation in Korean is a genuinely useful life skill for anyone living in or visiting Korea.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” housing needs and jeonse/wolse


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

Pick the most natural phrase for each housing situation.
A. You want to say you're looking for a place to live:
  1. ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  2. ์ง‘์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
  3. ์ง‘์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”
Answer
1 โ€” ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” is the natural "currently searching for housing" phrase.
B. You want to specify you're looking for monthly rent:
  1. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  2. ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  3. ์ง‘์„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” specifies the lease type you want.
C. You want to ask how much the deposit is:
  1. ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
  2. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
  3. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
Answer
3 โ€” ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? asks specifically about the deposit.
D. You want to ask if maintenance fees are included:
  1. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
  2. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
  3. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
Answer
1 โ€” ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? is the standard "included?" check.
E. You want to say you'd prefer somewhere close to a station:
  1. ๋ฒ„์Šค ์ •๋ฅ˜์žฅ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
  2. ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
  3. ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š” expresses a preference condition.
F. You want to say you're looking for a studio:
  1. ํˆฌ๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  2. ์›๋ฃธ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  3. ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์›๋ฃธ is the Korean word for a studio apartment.
G. You want to describe wanting a place with good sunlight:
  1. ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
  2. ๋ฐ์€ ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
  3. ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
Answer
3 โ€” ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘ is the specific natural phrase for sunlit housing.
H. You want to ask what floor the unit is on:
  1. ์ง‘์ด ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
  2. ์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
  3. ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ˆ์š”?
Answer
2 โ€” ์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? asks about the floor/story.
I. You want to ask about nearby amenities:
  1. ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
  2. ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ์ข‹์•„์š”?
  3. ๋งˆํŠธ์— ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”?
Answer
1 โ€” ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? covers all nearby facilities.
J. You want to ask when you can move in:
  1. ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ์–ธ์ œ ํ•ด์š”?
  2. ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
  3. ์ด์‚ฌ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ ํ•ด์š”?
Answer
2 โ€” ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”? is the specific move-in availability question.
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Quick Reference
Situation
Phrase
Looking for housing
์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Lease type
์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•ด์š”
Deposit
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
Monthly rent
์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
Maintenance
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Location preference
์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
Unit type
์›๋ฃธ/ํˆฌ๋ฃธ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Sunlight
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘
Floor
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
Move-in date
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
๐Ÿšจ
Pitfall: ์ „์„ธ vs ์›”์„ธ confusion
์ „์„ธ = a large lump-sum deposit (no ongoing monthly rent). ์›”์„ธ = monthly rent + smaller deposit. These are fundamentally different systems. Saying ์ „์„ธ ์›”์„ธ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? (how much is the jeonse monthly rent?) contradicts itself โ€” ์ „์„ธ has no monthly payment.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

Translate each housing phrase naturally.
A. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์›๋ฃธ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
These days I'm looking for a studio. I'd like it to be near a subway station.
B. ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
Answer
I'm looking for monthly rent โ€” how much is the deposit?
C. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ํฌํ•จ์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
Are maintenance fees included? It would be better if they're included.
D. ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋‚จํ–ฅ์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ณ ์š”.
Answer
I'd like a place with good sunlight. South-facing would be even better.
E. ์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? 1์ธต์€ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ์ธ๋ฐ์š”.
Answer
What floor is it? The first floor isn't quite ideal.
F. ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
Are there convenience facilities nearby? I'd like it if there's a convenience store or mart.
G. ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”? ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ์— ์ด์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
Answer
When can I move in? I want to move at the beginning of next month.
H. ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? 1๋…„์ด๋ฉด ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.
Answer
What is the contract period? One year is fine.
I. ์ „์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ ์ •๋„์˜ˆ์š”?
Answer
I'm looking for a jeonse โ€” about how much is the deposit?
J. ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ˆ์š”? ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์„œ ์›๋ฃธ์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด์š”.
Answer
How many rooms are there? I'll be living alone so a studio is enough.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Korean
English
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ
security deposit
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„
maintenance/management fee
์ž…์ฃผ
moving in
๊ณ„์•ฝ
contract
๋‚จํ–ฅ
south-facing
ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค
convenience facilities
์›”์„ธ
monthly rent
์ „์„ธ
jeonse (lump-sum deposit)
์›๋ฃธ
studio apartment
ํˆฌ๋ฃธ
two-room apartment
๐Ÿ’ก
Grammar Tip
-์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š” / -(์œผ)๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š” = "It would be good if ~" โ€” the standard way to express a housing preference politely. ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š” (Near a station would be good). ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š” (A sunny place would be good). Soft and specific at the same time.

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

Fill in the blank.
A. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์ง‘์„ __์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(I'm looking for a place these days.)
Answer
๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ 
B. ์›๋ฃธ์„ __๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(I'm looking for a studio as monthly rent.)
Answer
์›”์„ธ
C. __์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
(How much is the deposit?)
Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ
D. __๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
(Are maintenance fees included?)
Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„
E. ์—ญ์—์„œ __๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like somewhere close to a station.)
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด
F. ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ __์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like a place with good sunlight.)
Answer
๋“œ๋Š”
G. __์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
(What floor is it?)
Answer
์ธต
H. ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— __์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
(Are there convenience facilities nearby?)
Answer
ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค
I. ๊ณ„์•ฝ __์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
(What is the contract period?)
Answer
๊ธฐ๊ฐ„
J. ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ __๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
(When can I move in?)
Answer
์ž…์ฃผ
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Role
์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
opener
์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๋กœ
lease type
์›๋ฃธ/ํˆฌ๋ฃธ ์ฐพ์•„์š”
unit type
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?
deposit question
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํฌํ•จ์ด์—์š”?
fees check
์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
location preference
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘
condition
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
floor inquiry
ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
amenities
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”?
move-in date
๐Ÿ’ก
Production Tip
Your full housing brief to a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ agent: ์›๋ฃธ์„ ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๊ณ  ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด๋ž‘ ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? Three sentences. Everything an agent needs to know.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

Complete each housing conversation.
A.
A: ์–ด๋–ค ์ง‘์„ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
B: __์„/๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Answer
์›๋ฃธ โ€” ์›๋ฃธ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(I'm looking for a studio.)
B.
A: ์ „์„ธ๋กœ ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”, ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
B: __๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Answer
์›”์„ธ โ€” ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(I'm looking for monthly rent.)
C.
A: ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์˜ˆ์š”?
B: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ 500๋งŒ ์› ์ •๋„, ์›”์„ธ๋Š” __์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
50๋งŒ ์› โ€” ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ 500๋งŒ ์› ์ •๋„, ์›”์„ธ๋Š” 50๋งŒ ์› ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Around 5 million won deposit, and I'd like the monthly rent to be under 500,000 won.)
D.
A: ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
B: ์—ญ์—์„œ __๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด โ€” ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like somewhere close to a station.)
E.
A: ์ธต์ˆ˜๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์„ธ์š”?
B: 1์ธต์€ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ๊ณ , __์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
๋†’์€ ์ธต โ€” 1์ธต์€ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ๊ณ , ๋†’์€ ์ธต์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(The first floor isn't ideal, and I'd prefer a higher floor.)
F.
A: ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”?
B: __ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ โ€” ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
(Are maintenance fees included?)
G.
A: ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์€ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฑธ ์›ํ•˜์„ธ์š”?
B: ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆํŠธ ๊ฐ™์€ __์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค โ€” ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆํŠธ ๊ฐ™์€ ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like it if there are convenience facilities like a convenience store or mart.)
H.
A: ์ด์‚ฌ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์„ธ์š”?
B: __๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ โ€” ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I'd like it to be available to move in from the beginning of next month.)
I.
A: ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์งœ๋ฆฌ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š”?
B: ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์„œ __์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด์š”.
Answer
์›๋ฃธ โ€” ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์„œ ์›๋ฃธ์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด์š”.
(I'll be living alone so a studio is enough.)
J.
A: ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์„ธ์š”?
B: __์ด/๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? 1๋…„์€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.
Answer
๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ โ€” ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? 1๋…„์€ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.
(What is the contract period? One year is fine.)
๐Ÿ“š
Useful Phrases
Phrase
Meaning
1์ธต์€ ์ข€ ๋ณ„๋กœ์˜ˆ์š”
The first floor isn't ideal
์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
I'd like it to be under ~
ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์„œ
Since I'll be living alone
์ด์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
I want to move
๋‚จํ–ฅ์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”
South-facing would be good
๐Ÿ’ก
Conversation Tip
At a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ, start with your non-negotiables first: lease type, unit size, budget. Then add preferences: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๊ณ  ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. Non-negotiables first, preferences second โ€” this is how you get the most relevant options quickly.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

Practice describing your ideal housing situation.
A. Say you're currently looking for a place.
Sample Answer
์š”์ฆ˜ ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. Specify the lease type and unit you want.
Sample Answer
์›”์„ธ๋กœ ์›๋ฃธ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
C. State your budget for deposit and monthly rent.
Sample Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ 500๋งŒ ์›, ์›”์„ธ๋Š” 50๋งŒ ์› ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
D. Describe your location preference.
Sample Answer
์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 10๋ถ„ ์ด๋‚ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
E. Describe a housing condition that's important to you.
Sample Answer
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ด๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๋‚ฎ์— ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์•„์š”.
F. Ask whether maintenance fees are included.
Sample Answer
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ํฌํ•จ์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
G. Ask about the floor.
Sample Answer
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”? ์ €๋Š” ๋†’์€ ์ธต์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•ด์š”.
H. Ask about nearby amenities.
Sample Answer
์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ํŽธ์˜์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๋งˆํŠธ๋‚˜ ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
I. Ask when you can move in.
Sample Answer
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”? ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ์— ์ด์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
J. Give your full housing brief in one go โ€” all conditions at once.
Sample Answer
์›๋ฃธ์„ ์›”์„ธ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ 500์— ์›”์„ธ 50๋งŒ ์› ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๊ณ ์š”, ์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜๊ณ  ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํฌํ•จ์ธ์ง€๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๊ณ , ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Housing Brief Checklist
Item
Your Phrase
Lease type
์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๋กœ
Unit
์›๋ฃธ/ํˆฌ๋ฃธ
Budget
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ~, ์›”์„ธ ~ ์ดํ•˜
Location
์—ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜
Sunlight
ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Š”
Maintenance
๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํฌํ•จ?
Floor
์ธต์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ?
Move-in
์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž…์ฃผ?
๐Ÿ†
Speaking Challenge
Roleplay visiting a ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ (real estate office). You're looking for a monthly-rent studio near Hongdae, under 500,000 won monthly, sunlit, on a high floor, with nearby convenience stores. State everything in Korean in under 90 seconds. This is a real-life scenario you may encounter in Korea!
์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง‘์„ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”! โœจ
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