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.
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.
์ ์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ญ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์๋ฃธ์ด ์์๊น์?
(I'm looking for a jeonse โ is there a studio near a subway station?)
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๐๏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 ๋ถ๋์ฐ (real estate agent). These are essential practical phrases for life in Korea.
๐ Housing Need Expressions
Expression | Meaning | Notes |
์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm looking for a place | ๊ตฌํ๋ค = to look for/find |
์ ์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm looking for a jeonse | ์ ์ธ = lump-sum deposit, no monthly rent |
์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm looking for a monthly rent | ์์ธ = monthly rent |
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์? | How much is the deposit? | ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ = security deposit |
์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? | How much is the monthly rent? | standard wolse question |
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์? | Are maintenance fees included? | ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น = maintenance/management fee |
์ญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ | I'd like somewhere close to a station | proximity preference |
์๋ฃธ/ํฌ๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm looking for a studio/2-room | ์๋ฃธ = studio, ํฌ๋ฃธ = 2-room |
๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช ๊ฐ์์? | How many rooms are there? | basic inquiry |
ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ | I'd like a place with good sunlight | ํ๋น์ด ๋ค๋ค = sunlight comes in |
์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? | What floor is it? | ์ธต = floor/story |
์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์? | Are there convenience facilities nearby? | ํธ์์์ค = nearby amenities |
๊ณ์ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? | What is the contract period? | ๊ณ์ฝ = contract |
์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? | When can I move in? | ์
์ฃผ = moving in |
๐ก Key pattern: ์ ๋ [์กฐ๊ฑด]์ด/๊ฐ ์๋ [์ง ์ ํ]์ [๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋]๋ก ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์. = "I'm looking for a [home type] with [conditions] in the [price range]." This single sentence covers almost everything a ๋ถ๋์ฐ agent needs to hear.
๐ฌ Conversations in Action
Dialogue 1 โ ๋ถ๋์ฐ์์ (At the real estate office)
A: ์ด๋ค ์ง์ ์ฐพ์ผ์ธ์?
(What kind of place are you looking for?)
B: ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I'm looking for a studio near a subway station, and I'm looking for monthly rent.)
A: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด๋ ์์ธ ์์ฐ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ธ์?
(What kind of budget are you thinking for the deposit and monthly rent?)
B: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ 500๋ง ์ ์ ๋, ์์ธ๋ 50๋ง ์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(Around 5 million won for the deposit, and I'd like the monthly rent to be under 500,000 won.)
Dialogue 2 โ ์ง ๊ตฌํ๋ ์กฐ๊ฑด (Housing conditions)
A: ํน๋ณํ ์ํ๋ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์์ด์?
(Are there any particular conditions you want?)
B: ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํธ์์ ์ด๋ ๋งํธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊น์ฐ๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like a place with good sunlight. And it would be even better if a convenience store or mart is nearby.)
A: ์ธต์๋์?
(What about the floor?)
B: 1์ธต์ ์ข ๋ณ๋ก์ธ๋ฐ, ๋์ ์ธต์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
(The first floor is not ideal, and I think a higher floor would be better.)
๐ 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 50โ80% 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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<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
Describe your ideal housing situation using today's expressions. Answer each prompt out loud.
A. Say you're looking for a place to live.
์์ฆ ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
B. Specify whether you want jeonse or monthly rent.
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์ ์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์. / ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
C. Say what type of unit you're looking for.
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์๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์. / ํฌ๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์.
D. Ask how much the deposit is.
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๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์?
E. Ask about the monthly rent.
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์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์?
F. Ask if maintenance fees are included.
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๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์?
G. State a location preference.
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์ญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
H. Describe a condition you care about.
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ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
I. Ask what floor the unit is on.
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์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์?
J. Ask when you can move in.
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์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์?
Expression Reference
Expression | Nuance/Key |
์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | looking for housing |
์ ์ธ/์์ธ๋ก | by jeonse/monthly rent |
์๋ฃธ/ํฌ๋ฃธ | unit size |
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์? | deposit amount |
์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? | monthly rent |
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น ํฌํจ? | maintenance included? |
์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ | near the station |
ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋ค์ด์ | good sunlight |
์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? | which floor? |
์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? | move-in date |
Delivery Tip
Lead with your lease type and unit preference, then add conditions: ์๋ฃธ์ ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๊ณ ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. 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 ๋ถ๋์ฐ 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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๐ฆ 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:
- ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์ง์ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ง์ ์ข์ํด์
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1 โ ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ is the natural "currently searching for housing" phrase.
B. You want to specify you're looking for monthly rent:
- ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์์ด์
- ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์ง์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
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2 โ ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ specifies the lease type you want.
C. You want to ask how much the deposit is:
- ์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์?
- ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์?
- ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์?
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3 โ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์? asks specifically about the deposit.
D. You want to ask if maintenance fees are included:
- ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์?
- ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์?
- ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๋ฅผ ๋ด์ผ ํด์?
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1 โ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์? is the standard "included?" check.
E. You want to say you'd prefer somewhere close to a station:
- ๋ฒ์ค ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ์ด ์์ด์?
- ์ญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์
- ์งํ์ฒ ์ ์ข์ํด์
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2 โ ์ญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ expresses a preference condition.
F. You want to say you're looking for a studio:
- ํฌ๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์๋ฃธ์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์ํํธ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์
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2 โ ์๋ฃธ is the Korean word for a studio apartment.
G. You want to describe wanting a place with good sunlight:
- ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ด ์๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์
- ๋ฐ์ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์
- ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์
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3 โ ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง is the specific natural phrase for sunlit housing.
H. You want to ask what floor the unit is on:
- ์ง์ด ์ด๋์์?
- ์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์?
- ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช ๊ฐ์์?
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2 โ ์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? asks about the floor/story.
I. You want to ask about nearby amenities:
- ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์?
- ํธ์์ ์ด ์ข์์?
- ๋งํธ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์?
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1 โ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์? covers all nearby facilities.
J. You want to ask when you can move in:
- ๊ณ์ฝ์ ์ธ์ ํด์?
- ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์ ์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์?
- ์ด์ฌ๋ ์ธ์ ํด์?
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2 โ ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? is the specific move-in availability question.
Quick Reference
Situation | Phrase |
Looking for housing | ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ |
Lease type | ์ ์ธ/์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํด์ |
Deposit | ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์? |
Monthly rent | ์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? |
Maintenance | ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์? |
Location preference | ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ |
Unit type | ์๋ฃธ/ํฌ๋ฃธ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์ |
Sunlight | ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง |
Floor | ์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? |
Move-in date | ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? |
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 ์ผ๋ง์์? (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. ์์ฆ ์๋ฃธ์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
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These days I'm looking for a studio. I'd like it to be near a subway station.
B. ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์?
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I'm looking for monthly rent โ how much is the deposit?
C. ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์? ํฌํจ์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
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Are maintenance fees included? It would be better if they're included.
D. ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๋จํฅ์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ณ ์.
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I'd like a place with good sunlight. South-facing would be even better.
E. ์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? 1์ธต์ ์ข ๋ณ๋ก์ธ๋ฐ์.
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What floor is it? The first floor isn't quite ideal.
F. ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์? ํธ์์ ์ด๋ ๋งํธ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
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Are there convenience facilities nearby? I'd like it if there's a convenience store or mart.
G. ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? ๋ค์ ๋ฌ ์ด์ ์ด์ฌํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
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When can I move in? I want to move at the beginning of next month.
H. ๊ณ์ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? 1๋
์ด๋ฉด ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
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What is the contract period? One year is fine.
I. ์ ์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง ์ ๋์์?
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I'm looking for a jeonse โ about how much is the deposit?
J. ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช ๊ฐ์์? ํผ์ ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์ ์๋ฃธ์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํด์.
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How many rooms are there? I'll be living alone so a studio is enough.
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Korean | English |
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ | security deposit |
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น | maintenance/management fee |
์
์ฃผ | moving in |
๊ณ์ฝ | contract |
๋จํฅ | south-facing |
ํธ์์์ค | convenience facilities |
์์ธ | monthly rent |
์ ์ธ | jeonse (lump-sum deposit) |
์๋ฃธ | studio apartment |
ํฌ๋ฃธ | two-room apartment |
Grammar Tip
-์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ / -(์ผ)๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ = "It would be good if ~" โ the standard way to express a housing preference politely. ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ (Near a station would be good). ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ (A sunny place would be good). Soft and specific at the same time.
Exercise 3 โ Complete the Sentence
Fill in the blank.
A. ์์ฆ ์ง์ __์์ด์.
(I'm looking for a place these days.)
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๊ตฌํ๊ณ
B. ์๋ฃธ์ __๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I'm looking for a studio as monthly rent.)
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์์ธ
C. __์ด ์ผ๋ง์์?
(How much is the deposit?)
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๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ
D. __๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์?
(Are maintenance fees included?)
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๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น
E. ์ญ์์ __๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like somewhere close to a station.)
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๊ฐ๊น์ด
F. ํ๋น์ด ์ __์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like a place with good sunlight.)
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๋๋
G. __์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์?
(What floor is it?)
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์ธต
H. ์ฃผ๋ณ์ __์ด ์์ด์?
(Are there convenience facilities nearby?)
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ํธ์์์ค
I. ๊ณ์ฝ __์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์?
(What is the contract period?)
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๊ธฐ๊ฐ
J. ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ __๊ฐ๋ฅํด์?
(When can I move in?)
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์
์ฃผ
Sentence Starters
Starter | Role |
์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | opener |
์ ์ธ/์์ธ๋ก | lease type |
์๋ฃธ/ํฌ๋ฃธ ์ฐพ์์ | unit type |
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด ์ผ๋ง์์? | deposit question |
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น ํฌํจ์ด์์? | fees check |
์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ | location preference |
ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง | condition |
์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? | floor inquiry |
ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์? | amenities |
์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? | move-in date |
Production Tip
Your full housing brief to a ๋ถ๋์ฐ agent: ์๋ฃธ์ ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๊ณ ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ด๋ ์์ธ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? Three sentences. Everything an agent needs to know.
Exercise 4 โ Dialogue Completion
Complete each housing conversation.
A.
A: ์ด๋ค ์ง์ ์ฐพ์ผ์ธ์?
B: __์/๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
์๋ฃธ โ ์๋ฃธ์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I'm looking for a studio.)
B.
A: ์ ์ธ๋ก ํ์ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ์, ์์ธ๋ก ํ์ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ์?
B: __๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
์์ธ โ ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I'm looking for monthly rent.)
C.
A: ์์ฐ์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋์์?
B: ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ 500๋ง ์ ์ ๋, ์์ธ๋ __์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Answer
50๋ง ์ โ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ 500๋ง ์ ์ ๋, ์์ธ๋ 50๋ง ์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(Around 5 million won deposit, and I'd like the monthly rent to be under 500,000 won.)
D.
A: ํน๋ณํ ์ํ๋ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ์์ด์?
B: ์ญ์์ __๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Answer
๊ฐ๊น์ด โ ์ญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like somewhere close to a station.)
E.
A: ์ธต์๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ธ์?
B: 1์ธต์ ์ข ๋ณ๋ก๊ณ , __์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Answer
๋์ ์ธต โ 1์ธต์ ์ข ๋ณ๋ก๊ณ , ๋์ ์ธต์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(The first floor isn't ideal, and I'd prefer a higher floor.)
F.
A: ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์?
B: __ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์?
Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ โ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์?
(Are maintenance fees included?)
G.
A: ์ฃผ๋ณ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฑธ ์ํ์ธ์?
B: ํธ์์ ์ด๋ ๋งํธ ๊ฐ์ __์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Answer
ํธ์์์ค โ ํธ์์ ์ด๋ ๋งํธ ๊ฐ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like it if there are convenience facilities like a convenience store or mart.)
H.
A: ์ด์ฌ๋ ์ธ์ ์๊ฐํ์ธ์?
B: __๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Answer
๋ค์ ๋ฌ ์ด โ ๋ค์ ๋ฌ ์ด๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
(I'd like it to be available to move in from the beginning of next month.)
I.
A: ๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง๋ฆฌ ์ฐพ์ผ์ธ์?
B: ํผ์ ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์ __์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํด์.
Answer
์๋ฃธ โ ํผ์ ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์ ์๋ฃธ์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํด์.
(I'll be living alone so a studio is enough.)
J.
A: ๊ณ์ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ธ์?
B: __์ด/๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? 1๋
์ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
Answer
๊ณ์ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ โ ๊ณ์ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? 1๋
์ ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
(What is the contract period? One year is fine.)
Useful Phrases
Phrase | Meaning |
1์ธต์ ์ข ๋ณ๋ก์์ | The first floor isn't ideal |
์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ | I'd like it to be under ~ |
ํผ์ ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ์ | Since I'll be living alone |
์ด์ฌํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | I want to move |
๋จํฅ์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์ | South-facing would be good |
Conversation Tip
At a ๋ถ๋์ฐ, start with your non-negotiables first: lease type, unit size, budget. Then add preferences: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๊ณ ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. 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
์์ฆ ์ง์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
B. Specify the lease type and unit you want.
Sample Answer
์์ธ๋ก ์๋ฃธ์ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
C. State your budget for deposit and monthly rent.
Sample Answer
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ์ 500๋ง ์, ์์ธ๋ 50๋ง ์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
D. Describe your location preference.
Sample Answer
์ญ์์ ๊ฑธ์ด์ 10๋ถ ์ด๋ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
E. Describe a housing condition that's important to you.
Sample Answer
ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ์ง์ด๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๋ฎ์ ํํ๋ฉด ์ข์์.
F. Ask whether maintenance fees are included.
Sample Answer
๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ผ ์์ด์? ํฌํจ์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
G. Ask about the floor.
Sample Answer
์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ผ์? ์ ๋ ๋์ ์ธต์ ์ ํธํด์.
H. Ask about nearby amenities.
Sample Answer
์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํธ์์์ค์ด ์์ด์? ๋งํธ๋ ํธ์์ ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
I. Ask when you can move in.
Sample Answer
์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? ๋ค์ ๋ฌ ์ด์ ์ด์ฌํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
J. Give your full housing brief in one go โ all conditions at once.
Sample Answer
์๋ฃธ์ ์์ธ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ 500์ ์์ธ 50๋ง ์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๊ณ ์, ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ๊ณ ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉด ๋ ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์. ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น ํฌํจ์ธ์ง๋ ํ์ธํ๊ณ ์ถ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ฌ ์ด๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
Housing Brief Checklist
Item | Your Phrase |
Lease type | ์ ์ธ/์์ธ๋ก |
Unit | ์๋ฃธ/ํฌ๋ฃธ |
Budget | ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธ ~, ์์ธ ~ ์ดํ |
Location | ์ญ ๊ทผ์ฒ |
Sunlight | ํ๋น์ด ์ ๋๋ |
Maintenance | ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น ํฌํจ? |
Floor | ์ธต์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ? |
Move-in | ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ ์
์ฃผ? |
Speaking Challenge
Roleplay visiting a ๋ถ๋์ฐ (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!
์ํ๋ ์ง์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ค๋ช
ํด ๋ณด์ธ์! โจ
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