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Explaining Directions over the Phone

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IS #186 โ€” Explaining Directions over the Phone
Give and receive directions clearly in Korean โ€” even without being able to point.
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Iru Helper Note
Giving directions over the phone is harder than in person because you can't point. Korean direction phrases are landmark-based โ€” you navigate by what you see, not compass points. ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด, ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด (when you come out) is a key linking phrase.
์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์— ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
(When you come out of the subway station, you'll see a convenience store right on the right. Just go straight from there.)
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๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ What You'll Learn Today

Today you'll learn how to give and receive directions over the phone in Korean โ€” using landmarks, relative directions, and distance cues. These expressions are essential for navigating Korea and helping others find you.

๐Ÿ“Œ Phone Direction Expressions

Expression
Meaning
Notes
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
Where are you right now?
starting point question
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
Where are you coming from?
์˜ค๋‹ค = to come
~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด
When you come out of ~
landmark-exit framing
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ/์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
Go to the right/left
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ/์™ผ์ชฝ
์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”
Just go straight
์ง์ง„ = going straight
~ ์ด/๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”
You'll see ~ / ~ is visible
arrival landmark
์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
Cross the traffic light
์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ = traffic light
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
Cross the crosswalk
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„ = crosswalk
~ ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
It's in front of ~
location via landmark
~ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
It's next to ~
relative position
๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ~ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
It's ~ minutes on foot
time estimate
๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
Go into the alley
๊ณจ๋ชฉ = alley/side street
ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Follow the main road
ํฐ ๊ธธ = main road
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Come just a little further from there
reassurance phrase
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: ~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด โ†’ [๋ฐฉํ–ฅ] โ†’ [landmark] ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด โ†’ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ [next instruction]. = "When you come out of ~, [direction], when you see [landmark], from there [next step]." This step-by-step landmark chain is how Koreans give directions naturally.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Dialogue 1 โ€” ์ „ํ™”๋กœ ๊ธธ ์•ˆ๋‚ด (Phone directions)
A: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(Where are you now? I can't find it.)
B: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
(Where are you coming from right now?)
A: ํ™๋Œ€์ž…๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์–ด์š”.
(I came out of Hongik University station.)
B: ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์˜† ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 3๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
(When you come out, go right immediately. When you see a convenience store, go into the alley next to it. It's 3 minutes on foot.)
Dialogue 2 โ€” ๊ธธ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์—์„œ (Mid-route directions)
A: ํฐ ๊ธธ๋กœ ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
(I came along the main road but I can't find it.)
B: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋”” ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
(Where are you now?)
A: ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ ์•ž์ด์š”.
(In front of the traffic light.)
B: ๊ทธ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„œ ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ์™ผ์ชฝ์— ์ €ํฌ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
(Cross that traffic light and just go straight. You'll see our building on the left.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” Landmark Navigation in Korea

Korean directions are almost always landmark-based, not street-name-based. Streets rarely have names in common usage โ€” instead, people say ํŽธ์˜์  ์˜†์— (next to the convenience store), ์€ํ–‰ ์•ž์— (in front of the bank), ์นดํŽ˜ ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ (past the cafรฉ). When you hear Korean directions, follow the landmarks, not abstract points. ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด (when you come out) and ~ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด (when you see ~) are the two most important linking phrases in any direction chain.

Answer
<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
Practice giving and receiving directions over the phone. Answer each prompt out loud in Korean.
A. Ask where the person is right now.
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
B. Ask where they're coming from.
Answer
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
C. Tell them when they come out of the station, go right.
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์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
D. Tell them to go straight.
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์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
E. Tell them to cross the crosswalk.
Answer
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”.
F. Say the building is next to the convenience store.
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ํŽธ์˜์  ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
G. Tell them it's 5 minutes on foot.
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๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 5๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
H. Tell them to follow the main road.
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ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.
I. Tell them to go into the alley.
Answer
๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
J. Reassure them to come just a little further.
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๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.
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Expression Reference
Expression
Nuance/Key
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
current location
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
starting point
~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด
when you exit ~
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ/์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
turn direction
์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”
go straight
~ ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”
you'll see ~
์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ/ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
cross traffic/crosswalk
~ ์˜†/์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
next to/in front of
๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ~ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
walking time
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋”
just a little further
๐Ÿ’ก
Delivery Tip
Give directions in steps, not all at once: ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด โ†’ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ ํŽธ์˜์  ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด โ†’ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ. Pause between each step so the caller can follow along. ํ™•์ธํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”? (Did you find it?) at each landmark keeps both of you on track.
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Want more reps?
Practice giving directions from a real Korean landmark you know (like Hongdae station or Gangnam station) to a cafรฉ or restaurant nearby. Use landmarks, not street names, and give each step one at a time.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” directions over the phone


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

Pick the most natural phrase for each direction situation.
A. You want to ask where the person currently is:
  1. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
  2. ์–ด๋””์„œ ์™”์–ด์š”?
  3. ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์š”?
Answer
1 โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? is the natural current-location check.
B. You want to ask where they're coming from:
  1. ์–ด๋”” ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”?
  2. ์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
  3. ์–ด๋””๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„์š”?
Answer
2 โ€” ์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”? asks about their starting/departure point.
C. You want to say "when you come out of the station, turn right":
  1. ์—ญ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
  2. ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
  3. ์—ญ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์„ธ์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด is the "when you exit the station" construction.
D. You want to tell them to go straight:
  1. ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
  2. ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”
  3. ๋Œ์•„์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š” tells them to go straight.
E. You want to tell them to cross the crosswalk:
  1. ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
  2. ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
  3. ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š” specifically mentions the crosswalk.
F. You want to say the place is next to the bank:
  1. ์€ํ–‰ ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  2. ์€ํ–‰ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  3. ์€ํ–‰์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ์€ํ–‰ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” = next to the bank.
G. You want to say it's 10 minutes on foot:
  1. ์ฐจ๋กœ 10๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
  2. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 10๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
  3. 10๋ถ„ ํ›„์— ์™€์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ~ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š” specifies walking time.
H. You want to tell them to follow the main road:
  1. ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
  2. ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
  3. ํฐ ๊ธธ์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์„ธ์š”
Answer
2 โ€” ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š” tells them to follow the main road.
I. You want to tell them to go into the alley:
  1. ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
  2. ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์„ธ์š”
  3. ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
Answer
1 โ€” ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š” = go into the alley.
J. You want to reassure them to come just a little further:
  1. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋งž์•„์š”
  2. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์ด์—์š”
  3. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Answer
3 โ€” ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š” is the reassurance phrase.
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Quick Reference
Situation
Phrase
Current location
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
Starting point
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
When you exit
~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด
Go straight
์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”
Cross crosswalk
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”
Next to ~
~ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Walking time
๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ~ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
Follow main road
ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Into alley
๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
Just a bit further
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
๐Ÿšจ
Pitfall: ์•ž vs ์˜†
~ ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” = in FRONT of ~ (facing it). ~ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” = next to / BESIDE ~. These are different positions. ์นดํŽ˜ ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” means you're right at the cafรฉ entrance โ€” ์นดํŽ˜ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š” means you're to the side of it.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

Translate each direction phrase naturally.
A. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
Answer
Where are you now? I can't find it.
B. ํ™๋Œ€์ž…๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
Answer
When you come out of Hongik University station, go left immediately.
C. ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„œ ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
Answer
Cross the traffic light and just go straight.
D. ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์˜† ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
Answer
When you see the convenience store, go into the alley next to it.
E. ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์‹œ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์™ผ์ชฝ์— ์นดํŽ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
Answer
If you follow the main road, you'll see a cafรฉ on the left.
F. ์ €ํฌ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์€ ์€ํ–‰ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 2๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
Answer
Our building is right next to the bank. It's 2 minutes on foot.
G. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”!
Answer
Just come a little further from there. You're almost here!
H. ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Answer
When you cross the crosswalk, it's right on the right.
I. ์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”? ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์…จ์–ด์š”?
Answer
Where are you coming from? Did you come out of the subway station?
J. ๋งž์•„์š”, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”! ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
Answer
That's right, that's it! Come into the alley and you'll see it right away.
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Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Korean
English
์ง์ง„
going straight
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„
crosswalk
์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ
traffic light
๊ณจ๋ชฉ
alley/side street
ํฐ ๊ธธ
main road
๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋‹ค
to cross
๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค๋‹ค
to follow/come along
๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค
to come out
๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋‹ค
to go into
๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”
you're almost here
๐Ÿ’ก
Grammar Tip
-์‹œ๋ฉด (if/when you [do]) is the polite conditional: ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด = "when you come out," ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์‹œ๋ฉด = "when you cross." This makes directions sound guided and natural rather than commanding. ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š” = "if you go straight, that'll work / just go straight."

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

Fill in the blank.
A. ์ง€๊ธˆ __์˜ˆ์š”/์ด์—์š”?
(Where are you right now?)
Answer
์–ด๋””
B. ์—ญ์—์„œ __์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
(When you come out of the station, go right.)
Answer
๋‚˜์˜ค
C. __ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ๊ณ„์† ์ง์„ ์ด์—์š”.
(Just go straight. It's a straight line.)
Answer
์ง์ง„
D. __๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„ธ์š”. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ์— ์™ผ์ชฝ์ด์—์š”.
(Cross the crosswalk. Then it's on the left.)
Answer
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„
E. ํŽธ์˜์  __์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(It's next to the convenience store.)
Answer
์˜†
F. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ __๋ถ„์ด์—์š”. ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์™€์š”.
(It's 5 minutes on foot. You'll get here quickly.)
Answer
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G. ํฐ ๊ธธ __์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์— ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
(Follow the main road. You'll see it on the right.)
Answer
๋”ฐ๋ผ
H. __์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
(Go into the alley. It's inside.)
Answer
๊ณจ๋ชฉ
I. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ __๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”!
(Just come a little further from there. You're almost here!)
Answer
์กฐ๊ธˆ
J. ์–ด๋””์„œ __๊ณ„์„ธ์š”? ์–ด๋А ์—ญ์ด์—์š”?
(Where are you coming from? Which station?)
Answer
์˜ค๊ณ 
๐Ÿ“š
Direction Chain Template
Step
Phrase
1. Ask location
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
2. Starting point
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
3. Exit landmark
~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด
4. Direction
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ/์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
5. Landmark cue
~ ์ด/๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด
6. Next step
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ~ ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”
7. Reassurance
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
๐Ÿ’ก
Production Tip
Build your direction in the landmark chain: exit โ†’ direction โ†’ landmark โ†’ next step. ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด โ†’ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ ํŽธ์˜์  ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด โ†’ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ. Each step uses the previous landmark as the anchor for the next instruction.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

Complete each phone direction exchange.
A.
A: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”? ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
B: __์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
Answer
์–ด๋”” โ€” ์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”?
(Where are you coming from?)
B.
A: ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์–ด์š”.
B: ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด __์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
Answer
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ โ€” ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
(When you come out, go right.)
C.
A: ํฐ ๊ธธ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B: ํฐ ๊ธธ __์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
Answer
๋”ฐ๋ผ โ€” ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
(Follow the main road. You'll see a traffic light.)
D.
A: ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B: __๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„œ ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
Answer
์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ โ€” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์„œ ์ง์ง„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
(Cross the traffic light and just go straight.)
E.
A: ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”.
B: ํŽธ์˜์  __๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
Answer
์˜† โ€” ํŽธ์˜์  ์˜† ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
(Go into the alley next to the convenience store.)
F.
A: ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
B: __๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”!
Answer
์กฐ๊ธˆ โ€” ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”!
(Just come a little further. You're almost here!)
G.
A: ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์š”?
B: ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ __๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
Answer
5 (or any number) โ€” ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 5๋ถ„์ด์—์š”.
(It's 5 minutes on foot.)
H.
A: ์ €ํฌ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
B: ์€ํ–‰ __์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
Answer
๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜† โ€” ์€ํ–‰ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
(It's right next to the bank. You'll see it right away.)
I.
A: ๋งž๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ๋งž์•„์š”?
B: ๋„ค, __! ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋งž์•„์š”.
Answer
๋งž์•„์š” โ€” ๋„ค, ๋งž์•„์š”! ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋งž์•„์š”.
(Yes, that's right! That's the place.)
J.
A: ๋ชป ์ฐพ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
B: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ __์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์„๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋ณด์ด์„ธ์š”?
Answer
๋ฐ– (outside) โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์„๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋ณด์ด์„ธ์š”?
(I'll come outside now. Can you see me?)
๐Ÿ“š
Useful Phrases
Phrase
Meaning
๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”
You're almost here
๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”
You'll see it right away
๋งž๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”
You're going the right way
์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚˜์˜ฌ๊ฒŒ์š”
I'll come outside
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ๋งž์•„์š”
That's the right place
๐Ÿ’ก
Conversation Tip
If someone is lost, the most helpful thing to do is step outside: ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์„๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋ณด์ด์„ธ์š”? (I'll come outside now. Can you see me?) This immediately solves the problem without more complex directions.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

Give directions step by step out loud.
A. Ask the caller where they currently are.
Sample Answer
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
B. Ask where they're coming from.
Sample Answer
์–ด๋””์„œ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์„ธ์š”? ์–ด๋А ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์…จ์–ด์š”?
C. Tell them when they come out of the station, which direction to go.
Sample Answer
ํ™๋Œ€์ž…๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
D. Tell them to follow the main road.
Sample Answer
ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ญ‰ ์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”.
E. Give a landmark cue.
Sample Answer
ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.
F. Tell them to cross a crosswalk or traffic light.
Sample Answer
ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์™ผ์ชฝ์ด์—์š”.
G. Give a final location using a landmark.
Sample Answer
์นดํŽ˜ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ„ํŒ์ด ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
H. Give the walking time estimate.
Sample Answer
์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 5๋ถ„์ด์—์š”. ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ์˜ค์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
I. Reassure them they're almost there.
Sample Answer
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ์™”์–ด์š”!
J. Give the full direction chain in one go.
Sample Answer
ํ™๋Œ€์ž…๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์‹œ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์˜† ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”. ์ €ํฌ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 5๋ถ„์ด์—์š”!
๐Ÿ“š
Direction Chain
Step
Phrase
Start
์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?
Exit
~ ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด
Turn
์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ/์™ผ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
Road
ํฐ ๊ธธ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
Landmark
~ ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด
Alley
๊ณจ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”
Location
~ ์˜†/์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Time
๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ~ ๋ถ„์ด์—์š”
Reassure
์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋” ์˜ค์„ธ์š”
๐Ÿ†
Speaking Challenge
Give someone directions from a major Seoul subway station (e.g., ํ™๋Œ€์ž…๊ตฌ์—ญ or ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์—ญ) to a place you know. Use at least 5 steps, landmark-based. Then switch โ€” pretend you're the caller and receive the directions. Can you follow your own instructions?
์ „ํ™”๋กœ๋„ ๊ธธ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฅผ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”! โœจ
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