Discussing Logistics
Learn to coordinate the practical details of meeting up โ who, where, how, and when โ naturally in Korean.
Iru Helper Note
When coordinating plans in Korean, the key questions are: ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋์? (Where do we meet?), ๋ช ์์ ๋ด์? (What time do we meet?), ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์? (How are you getting there?), ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์? (Are we going separately or together?). The most natural logistics opener is ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? โ "So how shall we handle it?"
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ ์์ด ํธํด์.
(So where shall we meet? I'll be taking Line 2, so the area in front of Hongdae Station is convenient for me.)
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๐ What You'll Learn Today
Today you'll learn how to discuss the practical logistics of meeting up in Korean. You'll use ~๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒ์ (I'll go by ~), ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? (Where shall we meet?), and ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์ ์๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์? (Shall we go separately or together?). These phrases let you coordinate real meetups in Korean without the conversation grinding to a halt over details.
๐ Logistics Vocabulary
Expression | Meaning | Notes |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? | Key coordination question |
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? | What time shall we meet? | ๋ด์ = meet |
์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์? | How are you going to get there? | ~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ |
๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค / ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ค | Go separately / go together | ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์? |
์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค | Go by subway | ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒ์ |
๊ทผ์ฒ | Nearby | ๊ทผ์ฒ์์ ๋ง๋์ |
์ถ๊ตฌ ์ | In front of the exit | 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์์ |
๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค | Arrive first | ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ ๊ฒ์ |
๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๊ฒ์ | I'll wait | ์์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๊ฒ์ |
์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you | ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ |
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? | So how shall we handle it? | Decision-making opener |
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? | Which subway line do you take? | 2ํธ์ ํ์ |
์นดํํ ๊น์? | Shall we carpool? | ๊ฐ์ด ์ฐจ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊น์? |
์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๋ค | To get/hold a seat | ๋จผ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ |
๐ก Key pattern: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? ์ ๋ [transport/location] ํธํ๋ฐ, [meeting point] ์ด๋์? = "So where shall we meet? [X] is convenient for me โ how about [meeting point]?" This two-part question + suggestion structure drives logistics conversations naturally forward.
๐ฌ Conversations in Action
Conversation 1 โ Coordinating where to meet
A: ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐฅ ๋จน์ด์! ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? (Let's eat together this weekend! Where shall we meet?)
B: ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ ์์ด ํธํด์. (I'll be taking Line 2, so the area in front of Hongdae Station is convenient for me.)
A: ์ข์์. ๋ช ๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์์? (Good. In front of which exit?)
B: 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ๋ด์. ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. (Let's meet in front of Exit 9. If I arrive first, I'll contact you.)
Conversation 2 โ Handling who goes where
A: ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? (Shall we go together or separately?)
B: ์ ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์, ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think I'll be a little late, so it might be better to go separately.)
A: ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํด์. (Then I'll go ahead and get a seat. Contact me when you arrive.)
B: ๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ด์. 30๋ถ ํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (Okay, got it. I think I'll arrive in about 30 minutes.)
๐ Cultural Note โ Korean Meetup Logistics
Koreans are very specific about meeting points. Rather than "let's meet at Hongdae," they say ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์ (in front of Exit 9 of Hongdae Station). Subway exits are the most common meeting landmark in Korea. Also note: ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ (I'll go ahead and get a seat) is a common, considerate offer โ arriving first to hold a spot is a small but meaningful social gesture.
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Coordinate a meetup logistics in Korean, step by step.
A. Ask where you and a friend should meet.
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๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? ํธํ ๊ณณ ์์ด์? (So where shall we meet? Is there anywhere convenient for you?)
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B. Suggest meeting in front of a subway exit.
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์ ๋ 3ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ญ 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ ์ด๋์? (I'll be taking Line 3, so how about in front of Exit 3 at Gyeongbokgung Station?)
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C. Ask what time you should meet.
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๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? ์ ๋ ์คํ 2์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. (What time shall we meet? Any time after 2pm works for me.)
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D. Say you'll go ahead and hold a seat.
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์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํด์. (I'll go ahead and get a seat. Contact me when you arrive.)
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E. Ask if you should go together or separately.
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๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? ์ด๋ ์ชฝ์ด ํธํด์? (Shall we go together or separately? Which is more convenient for you?)
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F. Say you'll be going by subway and tell which line.
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์ ๋ ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. (I'll be going by subway โ I'll take Line 2.)
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G. Say you think it might be better to go separately because you'll be late.
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์ ๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ฃ์กํด์. (I think I'll be a little late so it might be better to go separately. Sorry.)
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H. Tell someone you'll contact them when you arrive.
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๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ์๋์ง ์๋ ค์ค์. (I'll contact you right when I arrive. Let me know where you are then.)
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I. Ask which subway line someone is taking to get there.
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์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ ๊ฑฐ์์? ๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? (How are you getting here? Which subway line do you take?)
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J. Wrap up logistics with a confirmation of the plan.
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๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ์คํ 2์์ ๋ด์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํด์. (Then let's meet in front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station at 2pm. Contact me when you arrive.)
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Expression Reference
Expression | Nuance/Key |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? |
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? | What time shall we meet? |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ | In front of exit ~ |
๋ฐ๋ก / ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ค | Go separately / together |
~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ | I'll go by ~ |
์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๋ค | Get/hold a seat |
๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค | Arrive first |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you on arrival |
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? | Which subway line? |
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? | So how shall we handle it? |
Speaking Tip
For a natural logistics conversation, cover these four points in order: (1) Where โ ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์?, (2) How to get there โ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์?, (3) Together or separate โ ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์?, (4) On-arrival plan โ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. This sequence mirrors how Koreans actually coordinate in real life.
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Want more reps?
Pick a real or imagined Seoul destination. Plan a full meetup in Korean out loud: (1) suggest a meeting point using ~์ญ ~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์, (2) give a time with ๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์?, (3) say how you're getting there with ~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์, (4) close with ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. Four moves, one complete coordination.
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๐ฆ Practice Hub โ Discussing Logistics
Exercise 1 โ Choose the Right Expression
Pick the most natural Korean expression for each situation.
A. You want to ask where to meet.
(1) ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์? (2) ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? (3) ์ด๋์ ์์ด์? (4) ์ด๋ ์ข์์?
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(2) ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? โ ์ด๋์ = where (at/from); ๋ง๋ ๊น์ = shall we meet? This is the standard logistics question.
B. You want to ask what time to meet.
(1) ์ธ์ ๋ด์? (2) ๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? (3) ์๊ฐ์ด ์์ด์? (4) ๋ช ์์์?
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(2) ๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? โ ๋ช ์์ = at what time; ๋ณผ๊น์ = shall we meet? Most natural coordination question.
C. You want to say "I'll be going by subway."
(1) ์งํ์ฒ ์์ด์ (2) ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ (3) ์งํ์ฒ ํ์ (4) ์งํ์ฒ ์ด์์
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(2) ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ โ ~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ = I'll go by ~. ~๋ก is the instrument/method particle.
D. You want to suggest meeting in front of Exit 3.
(1) 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ๋ง๋์ (2) 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ์์ ๋์์ (3) 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์์ (4) 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์์
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(1) 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ๋ง๋์ โ ์์์ = in front of. This is the standard Korean meeting point format.
E. You want to ask if you should go separately or together.
(1) ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์? (2) ๊ฐ์ด ์์ด์? (3) ํผ์ ๊ฐ์? (4) ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์?
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(1) ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์? โ ๊ฐ์ด = together; ๋ฐ๋ก = separately. The A ์๋๋ฉด B? pattern = A or B?
F. You want to say "I'll go ahead and get a seat."
(1) ๋จผ์ ์์๊ฒ์ (2) ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ (3) ๋จผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๊ฒ์ (4) ์๋ฆฌ ์์ด์
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(2) ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ โ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ = going first; ์๋ฆฌ ์ก๋ค = to get/claim a seat. Most complete and natural.
G. You want to say "I'll contact you when I arrive."
(1) ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ (2) ๋์ฐฉํด์ (3) ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ (4) ๋์ฐฉํ ๋ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์
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(1) ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ โ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด = when/if I arrive; ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ค = to contact. This is the standard phrase.
H. You want to ask which subway line someone is taking.
(1) ์งํ์ฒ ์ด๋์์? (2) ๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? (3) ์ด๋ค ์งํ์ฒ ์ด์์? (4) ์งํ์ฒ ๋ญ ํ์?
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(2) ๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? โ ๋ช ํธ์ = which line number; ํ๋ค = to take/ride. This is the natural question form.
I. You want to open a logistics discussion.
(1) ๊ทธ๋์์? (2) ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? (3) ์ด๋ป๊ฒ์? (4) ๋ญ ํด์?
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(2) ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? โ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด = then/so; ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์ = how shall we handle it? Best coordination opener.
J. You want to confirm the final plan.
(1) ์๊ฒ ์ด์ (2) ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ~์์ ~์์ ๋ด์ (3) ๋์ค์ ๋ด์ (4) ๊ฐ๊ฒ์
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(2) ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ~์์ ~์์ ๋ด์ โ repeating the key details (where + when) as a confirmation is the clearest and most natural closing for logistics.
Quick Reference
Expression | Meaning |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? |
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? | What time shall we meet? |
~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ | I'll go by ~ |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ | In front of exit ~ |
๊ฐ์ด/๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค | Go together/separately |
์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๋ค | Get/hold a seat |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you on arrival |
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? | Which subway line? |
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? | So how shall we handle it? |
๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ | Going ahead first |
Pitfall
Don't say ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋์? when making a suggestion โ this asks what the other person thinks. Use ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? (where shall we meet? โ open question) or [location]์์ ๋ง๋์ (let's meet at [location] โ direct suggestion). Mixing these up can create confusion about who's deciding.
Exercise 2 โ Korean โ English Translation
Translate each sentence naturally into English.
A. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์?
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So where shall we meet?
B. ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ด ํธํด์.
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I'll be taking Line 2, so the area in front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station is convenient for me.
C. ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์?
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Shall we go together or separately?
D. ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์.
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I'll go ahead and get a seat.
E. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์.
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I'll contact you right when I arrive.
F. ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
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I think I'll be a little late so it might be better to go separately.
G. ๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? ์ ๋ ์คํ 2์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
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What time shall we meet? Any time after 2pm works for me.
H. ๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? ์ ๋ 3ํธ์ ์ด์์.
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Which subway line do you take? I'm on Line 3.
I. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ์คํ 2์์ ๋ด์.
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Then let's meet in front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station at 2pm.
J. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ ์๋์ง ์๋ ค์ค์.
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Let me know where you are when you arrive.
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word | Meaning |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์ | In front of exit ~ |
๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค | Go separately |
๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๋ค | Go together |
์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๋ค | Hold a seat |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด | When I arrive |
์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you |
๋ช ํธ์ | Which line number |
์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ | After ~ is all fine |
์๋ ค์ค์ | Let me know |
Grammar Tip
~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ vs. ~์/๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์: ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ = I'll go by subway (method). ์งํ์ฒ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ = I'll go riding the subway (action). Both are natural, but ~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ is shorter and more common in logistics conversation.
Exercise 3 โ Complete the Sentence
Fill in the blank with the correct word or ending.
A. ์ด๋์ ___ํ ๊น์? (shall we meet)
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๋ง๋ โ ๋ง๋๋ค โ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? = shall we meet?
B. ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, 9๋ฒ ___์์์ ๋ด์. (exit)
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์ถ๊ตฌ โ ์ถ๊ตฌ = exit. 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ = in front of Exit 9.
C. ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ___๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? (or)
<summary>Answer
์๋ โ ์๋๋ฉด = or. A ์๋๋ฉด B = A or B.
D. ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ___์๊ฒ์. (hold a seat)
<summary>Answer
์ก โ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๋ค โ ์ก์๊ฒ์ = I'll get/hold a seat.
E. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ___ํ ๊ฒ์. (contact)
<summary>Answer
์ฐ๋ฝ โ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ค โ ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ = I'll contact you.
F. ๋ช ___์ ํ์? (which line)
<summary>Answer
ํธ โ ๋ช ํธ์ = which line number (ํธ = number/counter for lines).
G. ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ___๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (separately)
<summary>Answer
๋ฐ โ ๋ฐ๋ก = separately.
H. ์คํ 2์ ___๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. (after)
<summary>Answer
์ดํ โ ์ดํ๋ฉด = after/from ~. 2์ ์ดํ๋ฉด = if it's after 2pm.
I. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ ์๋์ง ___์ค์. (let me know)
<summary>Answer
์๋ ค โ ์๋ฆฌ๋ค โ ์๋ ค์ค์ = please let me know.
J. ๊ทธ___๋ฉด ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ์์ 2์์ ๋ด์. (then)
<summary>Answer
๋ฌ โ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด = then/so.
Sentence Starters
Pattern | Use |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? |
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? | What time shall we meet? |
~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ | I'll go by ~ |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ | In front of exit ~ |
๊ฐ์ด/๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์? | Go together/separately? |
๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ | I'll go ahead and hold a seat |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you on arrival |
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? | Which subway line? |
์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ | After ~ is all fine |
์๋ ค์ค์ | Let me know |
Production Tip
When coordinating logistics, always confirm the final plan by repeating the key details: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด [place]์์ [time]์ ๋ด์. This prevents misunderstandings and shows you were listening. It's the Korean equivalent of "so we're on for [place] at [time] โ confirmed."
Exercise 4 โ Dialogue Completion
Complete B's line in each dialogue.
A. A: ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ๋ง๋์! ์ด๋์ ๋ณผ๊น์? / B: ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ ___ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ด ํธํด์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ด ํธํด์. (I'll be taking Line 2, so Exit 9 in front of Hongdae Station is convenient for me.)
B. A: ๋ช ์์ ๋ด์? / B: ์ ๋ ์คํ 2์ ___๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๋ ์คํ 2์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. (Any time after 2pm works for me.)
C. A: ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? / B: ์ ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ___ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (I think I'll be a little late so it might be better to go separately.)
D. A: ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ์. / B: ๋ค, ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ___ ์ก์๊ฒ์.
<summary>Answer
๋ค, ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์. (Okay, I'll go ahead and get a seat.)
E. A: ์ธ์ ๋์ฐฉํด์? / B: 30๋ถ ํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ___ ํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์.
<summary>Answer
30๋ถ ํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. (I think I'll arrive in about 30 minutes. I'll contact you when I arrive.)
F. A: ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์? / B: ์ ๋ ์งํ์ฒ ___๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. 3ํธ์ ์ด์์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๋ ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. 3ํธ์ ์ด์์. (I'll be going by subway. It's Line 3.)
G. A: ๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? / B: ์ ๋ ___ํธ์ ํ์. ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ญ์์ ๋ด๋ ค์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๋ 3ํธ์ ํ์. ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ญ์์ ๋ด๋ ค์. (I take Line 3. I get off at Gyeongbokgung Station.)
H. A: ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ ๊น์? / B: ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์์์ ___ ๋ฆด๊ฒ์.
<summary>Answer
์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๊ฒ์. (If I arrive first, I'll wait out front.)
I. A: ์ด๋์ ์ ํํ ๋ด์? / B: 3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ___์์ ๋ด์.
<summary>Answer
3๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ๋ด์. (Let's meet in front of Exit 3.)
J. A: ํ์ธํด์ โ ์ด๋์ ๋ช ์์ ๋ด์? / B: ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ___ 2์์ ๋ด์.
<summary>Answer
ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ์คํ 2์์ ๋ด์. (In front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station at 2pm.)
Useful Phrases
Phrase | Meaning |
์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | Where shall we meet? |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ | In front of exit ~ |
์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ | After ~ all works |
๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ | Better to go separately |
์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ | I'll hold a seat |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you on arrival |
์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ | I'll go by subway |
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? | Which subway line? |
๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆด๊ฒ์ | I'll wait |
ํ์ธํด์ | Let's confirm |
Conversation Tip
The four-question logistics sequence Koreans use: (1) ์ด๋์? โ where, (2) ๋ช ์์? โ when, (3) ์ด๋ป๊ฒ? โ how (transport), (4) ๊ฐ์ด? ๋ฐ๋ก? โ together or separate. Cover all four and close with ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด [place]์์ [time]์ ๋ด์ โ you've handled everything.
Exercise 5 โ Free Speaking Practice
Answer each prompt out loud in Korean using lesson expressions.
A. Start a logistics conversation. Ask where you should meet and suggest a subway station exit.
<summary>Sample Answer
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ ์ด๋์? (So where shall we meet? I'll be taking Line 2, so how about in front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station?)
B. Propose a meeting time and say what's convenient for you.
<summary>Sample Answer
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? ์ ๋ ์คํ 1์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. ํธํ ์๊ฐ ์์ด์? (What time shall we meet? Any time after 1pm works for me. Is there a time that's convenient for you?)
C. Say you'll be going by subway and say which line.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ ๋ ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์. 5ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ดํ๋ฌธ์ญ์์ ๋ด๋ฆด ๊ฑฐ์์. (I'll be going by subway. I'll take Line 5 and get off at Gwanghwamun Station.)
D. Ask if you should go together or separately, and give your preference.
<summary>Sample Answer
๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์? ์ ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. (Shall we go together or separately? I think I'll be a bit late so going separately might be better.)
E. Offer to go ahead and hold a seat.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํด์ค์. (I'll go ahead and get a seat. Contact me when you arrive.)
F. Say you'll arrive in 20 minutes and you'll contact them when you do.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ 20๋ถ ํ์ ๋์ฐฉํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. ์ด๋ ์๋์ง ์๋ ค์ค์. (I think I'll arrive in about 20 minutes. I'll contact you right when I arrive. Let me know where you are.)
G. Confirm the full logistics plan at the end of a conversation.
<summary>Sample Answer
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ์คํ 2์์ ๋ด์. ์ ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ๊ณ , ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. (Then let's meet in front of Exit 9 at Hongdae Station at 2pm. I'll go by subway, and I'll contact you when I arrive.)
H. Ask which subway exit is most convenient for someone coming from a different line.
<summary>Sample Answer
๋ช ํธ์ ํ์? ์ด๋ ์ถ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ํธํด์? ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋ง์ถฐ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ณณ ์ ํด์. (Which subway line do you take? Which exit is convenient for you? Let's decide where to meet based on that.)
I. Handle the scenario where plans change last minute โ suggest adjusting the meeting point.
<summary>Sample Answer
์ฃ์กํ๋ฐ์, ์ง๊ธ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐ ์์ด์์. ๋ง๋ ์ฅ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์์๊น์? ์ดํ์์ญ 4๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ ์ด๋์? (I'm sorry, but I'm somewhere else right now. Would it be possible to change the meeting place? How about in front of Exit 4 at Itaewon Station?)
J. Full role-play: coordinate an entire meetup โ where, when, how, and who arrives first.
<summary>Sample Answer
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? ์ ๋ 2ํธ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฐ, ํ๋์
๊ตฌ์ญ 9๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์ด ํธํด์. ๋ช ์์ ๋ด์? ์ ๋ ์คํ 2์ ์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์? ์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ๋ฉด ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์์ค์. ๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์. (So where shall we meet? I'll be taking Line 2, so Exit 9 in front of Hongdae Station works for me. What time? Any time after 2pm is fine. Together or separate? I think I'll be a bit late so going separately might be better. If you get there first, hold a seat. I'll contact you when I arrive.)
Sentence Starters
Starter | Use |
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์? | So where shall we meet? |
๋ช ์์ ๋ณผ๊น์? | What time shall we meet? |
์ ๋ ~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์ | I'll go by ~ |
~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์์์ ๋ด์ | Meet at exit ~ |
๊ฐ์ด/๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๊น์? | Go together/separately? |
๋จผ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๊ฒ์ | I'll go hold a seat |
๋์ฐฉํ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝํ ๊ฒ์ | I'll contact you on arrival |
์ดํ๋ฉด ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ | After ~ all works |
์ด๋ ์๋์ง ์๋ ค์ค์ | Let me know where you are |
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ~์์ ~์ ๋ด์ | Confirming: meet at ~, ~time |
Speaking Challenge
Simulate a full logistics text exchange out loud: you initiate (์ด๋์ ๋ง๋ ๊น์?), suggest a location (~๋ฒ ์ถ๊ตฌ ์), give a time (๋ช ์), say how you're getting there (~๋ก ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์์), settle on together or separate, and close with a confirmation. Five moves, one complete coordination.
์ฝ์์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฅ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์. ์ค๋ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํํ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ ์กฐ์จํด๋ด์. โจ
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