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Vocab: Coworker Interactions

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๋™๋ฃŒ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค / ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ / ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿค ๋™๋ฃŒ is the neutral word for coworker โ€” not friend, not subordinate, just colleague
  • ๐Ÿ”„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ = collaboration; ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = sharing info โ€” these two make any team run
  • ๐ŸŒŠ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ is the adverb every Korean manager loves: "smoothly, without friction"
๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets to hear today's words at natural speed. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ in particular has a lovely flow โ€” very appropriate for a word that means "smoothly." ๐ŸŒŠ

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Korean workplace vocabulary has a specific register โ€” warm enough to maintain relationships, professional enough to signal competence. These five words cover the core of colleague interaction: who you work with (๋™๋ฃŒ), how you work together (ํ˜‘๋ ฅ), the spirit you bring (์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค), how things should flow (์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ), and what keeps everyone on the same page (๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค).
In Korean work culture, ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต (smooth communication) and ํ˜‘๋ ฅ (collaboration) are recurring values โ€” you'll hear them in meetings, performance reviews, and daily conversation alike.

๐ŸŽจ The Core Coworker Vocabulary Family

1. ๋™๋ฃŒ โ€” colleague, coworker ๐Ÿ‘ฅ
The neutral professional term for someone you work alongside. Not as warm as ์นœ๊ตฌ (friend), not as formal as ์ง์› (employee). ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋‹ค = to work together with colleagues. ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋ฃŒ = a good coworker.
2. ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ€” collaboration, cooperation ๐Ÿ”„
The noun for working together toward a shared goal. ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค = to collaborate. ํŒ€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ = team collaboration. ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค = collaboration is needed.
3. ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to be kind, friendly, helpful ๐Ÿ˜Š
A key quality word in professional Korean. ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค = to be kind to colleagues. Note: ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค in professional contexts often means helpful/considerate, not just generally nice.
4. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ€” smoothly, without friction, fluidly ๐ŸŒŠ
The adverb form of ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค (to be smooth/fluid). ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค = to communicate smoothly. ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = work proceeds smoothly. Very common in professional Korean.
5. ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to share (information, files, updates) ๐Ÿ“ค
More transactional than ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋‹ค โ€” used for sharing information, documents, data, or status updates. ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to share information. ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to share a file.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ผ์ด ๋” ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ผ์š”.
When you collaborate with colleagues, work proceeds more smoothly. ๐Ÿ”„๐ŸŒŠ
โ€” -๋ฉด conditional; ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = to proceed (passive)
ํŒ€์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ ธ์š”.
When you treat team members kindly, good colleague relationships are built. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
โ€” -์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค = to treat; ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = to be built/created
์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ผญ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please make sure to share progress updates with your colleagues. ๐Ÿ“ค
โ€” ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ = progress/status; ๊ผญ = definitely/make sure

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular ํ•˜๋‹ค: ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์š” / ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค
  • ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ ํ•˜๋‹ค adjective: ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š” / ์นœ์ ˆํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ
  • ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ ํ•˜๋‹ค adjective: ์›ํ™œํ•ด์š” / ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต / ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ (adverb)
  • ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular ํ•˜๋‹ค: ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์š” / ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” / ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ํŒŒ์ผ
  • ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ noun: ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ / ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ / ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค (plural) / ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋ฃŒ

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

All vocabulary and conjugations cross-checked against korean.go.kr โœ…

๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ๋™๋ฃŒ โ‰ˆ ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ / ํŒ€์› โ€” ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ = workplace colleague (more explicit); ํŒ€์› = team member (more specific to team membership)
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ‰ˆ ํ˜‘์กฐ โ€” ํ˜‘์กฐ = cooperation (slightly more formal/bureaucratic); ํ˜‘๋ ฅ = collaboration (more active, team-oriented)
  • ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋‹ค โ€” ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to share (information, files โ€” transactional); ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋‹ค = to share (warmly, relationally โ€” emotional)
  • ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ‰ˆ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ โ€” ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ = smoothly/without hitches (more about things going as planned); ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ = smoothly/fluidly (emphasises flow)

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ๋™๋ฃŒํ•œํ…Œ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š” (with ํ•œํ…Œ when being formal) โ†’ โœ… ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š” โ€” In professional writing, ์—๊ฒŒ is the standard particle with ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ•œํ…Œ is fine in spoken casual context.
โŒ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์–ด์š” (for sharing work info) โ†’ โœ… ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” โ€” For professional/work information sharing, ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค is the natural word. ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋‹ค sounds too personal/emotional.
โŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ๋์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์›ํ™œํ–ˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = to be achieved/realised is the more natural verb with ํ˜‘๋ ฅ.
โŒ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ โœ… ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š” โ€” ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ is an adverb; it modifies verbs and can't stand alone as a predicate.
๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜๋ผ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ๋„ ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”! ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ”„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋ฉด โ€” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํŒ€์ด ๋ผ์š”. ๐Ÿ’ช
Try this exercise
Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Pay attention to whether the blank needs a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.
1. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œ์š”.
Working with colleagues is enjoyable. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ•จ๊ป˜ = together.
2. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ํŒ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.
Team collaboration is important for this project. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ํŒ€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ = project.
3. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”.
All of our team's colleagues are kind. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š”. ๋ชจ๋‘ = all/everyone.
4. ์†Œํ†ต์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”.
I hope communication happens smoothly. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ. ์†Œํ†ต์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = communication happens. -์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค = I hope that.
5. ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํŒ€์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I shared the materials with team members. ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ž๋ฃŒ = materials/data. ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค past = ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
6. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์€ ์ง์žฅ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ˆ์š”.
Being kind to colleagues is good workplace culture. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค. -์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค = to treat (someone). ์ง์žฅ ๋ฌธํ™” = workplace culture.
7. ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
For work to proceed smoothly, collaboration is needed. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. -๋ ค๋ฉด = in order to. ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = to proceed.
8. ํšŒ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Can you share the meeting content with me? ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋‹ค = to do for someone (honorific). ํšŒ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ = meeting content.
9. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™€์š”.
When we collaborate, better results come out. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด. ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค + -(์œผ)๋ฉด conditional. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค = results come out.
10. ๊ทธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”.
That colleague is really kind so everyone likes them. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”. -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal. ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค = everyone likes.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ colleague, coworker
  • ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค โ†’ colleagues (plural)
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ collaboration, cooperation
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to collaborate
  • ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be kind/helpful
  • ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ†’ kindly (adverb)
  • ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be smooth/fluid
  • ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ†’ smoothly (adverb)
  • ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to share (info/files)
  • -์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to treat someone
  • ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to proceed (passive)
  • ์ž๋ฃŒ โ†’ materials, data
Memory tips ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ๋™๋ฃŒ = ๅŒๅƒš (same + colleague) = same-level colleague
  • ์›ํ™œ = ๅœ“ๆป‘ = round + smooth = flowing smoothly
  • ๊ณต์œ  = ๅ…ฑๆœ‰ = together + have = to share jointly

๐Ÿš€
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐Ÿš€
๐Ÿ“ฆ
๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Coworker Interactions
ํŒ€์›Œํฌ ์‹œ์ž‘! ๐Ÿค This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ๋™๋ฃŒ, ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค, ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” across five themed exercises covering real Korean workplace collaboration scenarios. By the end you'll sound like someone who actually thrives in a Korean office. ๐Ÿ’ผ
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค has a particularly satisfying rhythm at natural speed.
๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Pay attention to whether you need noun, verb, adjective, or adverb form.

Exercise 1 โ€” Daily Team Life ๐Ÿ‘ฅ

A. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์™€ ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
I have a meeting with a colleague today. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ํšŒ์˜. ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค = to have a meeting.
B. ํŒ€์ด ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”.
The team collaborated well so the project finished quickly. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์„œ. ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค + -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal. ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋‚˜๋‹ค = to finish quickly.
C. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ค˜์„œ ์ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•ด์š”.
Our team leader treats us kindly so it's comfortable to work. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ค˜์„œ. ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค = to treat kindly. ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ = team leader (honorific).
D. ์†Œํ†ต์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Communication is happening smoothly. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค. -๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค = ongoing state.
E. ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I shared the report with all colleagues. ๐Ÿ“ค๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ = report.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์ด ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์ ธ์š”.
Seeing a collaborating colleague makes you want to work together. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด. ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” = collaborating (modifier). -์œผ๋ฉด = when/if.
G. ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please check before sharing the file. ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—. ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค + -๊ธฐ ์ „์— = before sharing. ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค = to check.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ํŒ€ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์š”.
A kind colleague improves the whole team's atmosphere. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆํ•œ / ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋Š”. ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ + noun. ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to improve atmosphere.
I. ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Work is proceeding smoothly. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = to proceed. -๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค = ongoing.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋“ค๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™€์š”.
When you collaborate with colleagues, better results come out. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด. -๋ฉด conditional. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค = results emerge.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ํŒ€์žฅ๋‹˜ โ†’ team leader (honorific)
  • ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ โ†’ report
  • ํŒŒ์ผ โ†’ file
  • ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ โ†’ atmosphere, vibe
  • ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to check, confirm
  • ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค โ†’ to happen, be achieved
  • ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋‚˜๋‹ค โ†’ to finish quickly
  • ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋‹ค โ†’ results come out
  • ์ „์ฒด โ†’ whole, entire
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ is the gold standard adverb in Korean professional life. ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต / ์›ํ™œํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ โ€” wherever there's smooth flow, ์›ํ™œ is there.

Exercise 2 โ€” Collaboration in Action ๐Ÿ”„

A. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์—์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
Collaboration went well in this project. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = collaboration happens/is achieved.
B. ์„œ๋กœ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์–ด์š”.
While sharing ideas with each other we found a better direction. ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ. -๋ฉด์„œ = while. ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค = to find a direction.
C. ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ž˜ ๋ผ์•ผ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด์š”.
Inter-department collaboration needs to work well for the company to grow. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ. ๋ถ€์„œ = department. ๊ฐ„ = between. ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค = to grow.
D. ๋ชจ๋“  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
You need to share information with all colleagues. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ์ •๋ณด = information.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด์—์š”.
Teams that collaborate smoothly are the most efficient. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€. ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๋‹ค = to be efficient.
F. ์ด ํŒ€์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ •์‹ ์ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜์š”.
This team has outstanding collaborative spirit. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ •์‹ . ์ •์‹  = spirit/mindset. ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜๋‹ค = outstanding/excellent.
G. ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ๋‘๋ฉด ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ผ์š”.
If you share materials in advance, meetings proceed more smoothly. ๐Ÿ“ค๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
๊ณต์œ  / ์›ํ™œ โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ๋‘๋ฉด ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ผ์š”. -์•„/์–ด ๋‘๋‹ค = to do in advance and leave ready. ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ = in advance.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์„œ๋กœ ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํŒ€์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ ธ์š”.
Colleagues need to collaborate well with each other for the team to become strong. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์„œ๋กœ ์ž˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ. ๋“ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ = among themselves. ๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค = to become strong.
I. ์—…๋ฌด ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ์š”.
If you don't share work content, misunderstandings arise. ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด. -์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด = if not doing. ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋‹ค = misunderstandings arise.
J. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์–ด์š”.
Through this collaboration I learned a lot. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด. -์„/๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด = through/via. ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋‹ค = to learn a lot.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๋ถ€์„œ โ†’ department
  • ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ โ†’ inter-department
  • ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to grow
  • ์ •๋ณด โ†’ information
  • ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๋‹ค โ†’ to be efficient
  • ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ •์‹  โ†’ collaborative spirit
  • ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ โ†’ in advance
  • -์•„/์–ด ๋‘๋‹ค โ†’ to do in advance/prepare
  • ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋‹ค โ†’ misunderstandings arise
  • -์„/๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด โ†’ through/via
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = transactional sharing (info, files, updates). The subject + ์—๊ฒŒ + ๋ชฉ์ ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค pattern: ํŒ€์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

Exercise 3 โ€” Being Kind at Work ๐Ÿ˜Š

A. ๊ทธ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด์š”.
That colleague is always kind so everyone likes them. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์„œ. ํ•ญ์ƒ = always.
B. ์‹ ์ž… ์‚ฌ์›์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.
It's important to kindly inform new employees. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค. ์‹ ์ž… ์‚ฌ์› = new employee. ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค = to inform/teach.
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•ด์š”.
If you have a kind coworker, work is comfortable. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ. ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ. ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ = workplace colleague.
D. ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์š”.
If you're kind to each other, you build a good colleague relationship. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ / ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ผ์š”. ๊ด€๊ณ„ = relationship.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์„ ์คฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I helped kindly and they said thank you. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ๋‹ค. -๋”๋‹ˆ = and then (with result). ๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค = to say thank you.
F. ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ๋•Œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€์ค€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”.
I'm grateful for the colleague who kindly helped when things were hard. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ / ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€์ค€ ๋™๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”. ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋‹ค = to help (for someone). ๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค = to be grateful.
G. ์ง์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์—์š”.
In the workplace, treating all colleagues kindly is the basics. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์—์š”. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด๋‹ค = to be the basics/foundation.
H. ๊ทธ ๋ถ„์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค˜์„œ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์› ์–ด์š”.
That person explained kindly so it was easy to understand. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค˜์„œ. ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain. ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๋‹ค = easy to understand.
I. ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์˜จ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I greeted the newly arrived colleague kindly. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ โ†’ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์˜จ ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์˜ค๋‹ค = to newly arrive/join.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Thanks to kind colleagues, I can work happily. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆํ•œ / ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๋•๋ถ„์—. ๋•๋ถ„์— = thanks to. ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•˜๋‹ค = to work happily.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์‹ ์ž… ์‚ฌ์› โ†’ new employee
  • ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ๋‹ค โ†’ to inform, teach
  • ์ง์žฅ ๋™๋ฃŒ โ†’ workplace colleague
  • ๊ด€๊ณ„ โ†’ relationship
  • ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ๋‹ค โ†’ to give help
  • ๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค โ†’ to be grateful, thankful
  • ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด๋‹ค โ†’ to be the basics
  • ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to explain
  • ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์˜ค๋‹ค โ†’ to newly join/arrive
  • ๋•๋ถ„์— โ†’ thanks to
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค in professional Korean = kind AND helpful AND considerate. It's a package deal โ€” being ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ means going slightly above the minimum.

Exercise 4 โ€” Smooth Communication ๐ŸŒŠ

A. ํŒ€ ์†Œํ†ต์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
Team communication needs to become smooth. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค = to become smooth. -์•„/์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‹ค = need to.
B. ํšŒ์˜๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”.
The meeting proceeded smoothly. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”. ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค past = ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”.
C. ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
For work to go smoothly, everyone needs to collaborate. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. -๋ ค๋ฉด = in order to. ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ = everyone.
D. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ†ตํ•ด์š”.
We communicate regularly for smooth work progress. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด ์ง„ํ–‰. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์›ํ™œํ•œ. ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ = regularly.
E. ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋•Œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”.
If you share reports on time, work goes smoothly. ๐Ÿ“ค๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
๊ณต์œ  / ์›ํ™œ โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ™œํ•ด์š”. ์ œ๋•Œ = on time. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๋‹ค = to be smooth.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€์ด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋„ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
Teams that communicate smoothly also have good results. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์›ํ™œ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€. ์„ฑ๊ณผ = performance/results. ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค = to communicate.
G. ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”.
Because information wasn't shared, work didn't go smoothly. ๐Ÿ“ค๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
๊ณต์œ  / ์›ํ™œ โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ์›ํ™œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์–ด์š”. -์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ = because not doing.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์™€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If there's smooth communication and collaboration, most problems can be solved. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ = most. ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค = to solve.
I. ์ผ์ •์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you share the schedule, everyone can move smoothly. ๐Ÿ“ค๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
๊ณต์œ  / ์›ํ™œ โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ผ์ • = schedule. ์›€์ง์ด๋‹ค = to move/act.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ํŒ€์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์™€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
For smooth teamwork, colleagues and collaboration are needed. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œ / ๋™๋ฃŒ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ํŒ€์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋™๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. -์„/๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด = for the purpose of.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to communicate
  • ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ regularly
  • ์ œ๋•Œ โ†’ on time
  • ์„ฑ๊ณผ โ†’ performance, results
  • ์ผ์ • โ†’ schedule
  • ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to solve
  • ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ โ†’ most (of)
  • ์›€์ง์ด๋‹ค โ†’ to move, act
  • ํŒ€์›Œํฌ โ†’ teamwork
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ + ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค/์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค/์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = the three most natural verb pairings with ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ in professional Korean.

Exercise 5 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. โŒ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์–ด์š” (for work info) โ†’ โœ… ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”
I shared the information. ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to share (professional/transactional). ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋‹ค = to share (warm/emotional). โœ…
B. โŒ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ โœ… ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋์–ด์š”
Work proceeded smoothly. ๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์ง„ํ–‰ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”. ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ is an adverb โ€” it needs a verb. ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋‹ค = to proceed. โœ…
C. ๋ชจ๋“  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”.
I treat all colleagues kindly and share information. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ / ๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์š”. Three words in one sentence. โœ…
D. โŒ ๋™๋ฃŒํ•œํ…Œ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š” (formal context) โ†’ โœ… ๋™๋ฃŒ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š”
I'm kind to my colleagues. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Answer
์—๊ฒŒ โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•ด์š”. In formal/written professional Korean, ์—๊ฒŒ is more appropriate than ํ•œํ…Œ. โœ…
E. ํŒ€์ด ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”.
The team collaborated well so work proceeded smoothly. ๐Ÿ”„๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ์›ํ™œ โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์„œ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š”. -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal. โœ…
F. โŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ๋์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์กŒ์–ด์š”
Collaboration was achieved well. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์ด๋ฃจ์–ด โ†’ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋‹ค = to be achieved/realised. More natural with ํ˜‘๋ ฅ. โœ…
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋“ค๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ , ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ , ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํŒ€์ด ๋ผ์š”.
If you collaborate with colleagues, communicate smoothly, and share information โ€” you become the best team. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ”„๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ์›ํ™œ / ๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ , ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํŒ€์ด ๋ผ์š”. All five vocabulary words. โœ…
H. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please kindly share materials with the new colleague. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ“ค
Answer
๋™๋ฃŒ / ์นœ์ ˆ / ๊ณต์œ  โ†’ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. -์•„/์–ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = please do for them. โœ…
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต๊ณผ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ข‹์€ ํŒ€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
Smooth communication and sincere collaboration create a good team. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์›ํ™œ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ โ†’ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต๊ณผ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ข‹์€ ํŒ€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์š”. ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ = sincere/heartfelt. โœ…
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ€” ์ข‹์€ ์ง์žฅ์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด์—์š”.
Kind colleagues, smooth collaboration, fluidly โ€” these are the conditions of a good workplace. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ”„๐ŸŒŠ
Answer
์นœ์ ˆํ•œ / ๋™๋ฃŒ / ์›ํ™œํ•œ / ํ˜‘๋ ฅ / ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋™๋ฃŒ, ์›ํ™œํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ€” ์ข‹์€ ์ง์žฅ์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด์—์š”. ์กฐ๊ฑด = conditions. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box โ€” Pitfall Recap
  • โŒ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆด์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (professional info = ๊ณต์œ )
  • โŒ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ์˜ˆ์š” โ†’ โœ… ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋์–ด์š” (adverb needs verb)
  • โŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ๋์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ž˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
  • โŒ ๋™๋ฃŒํ•œํ…Œ (formal) โ†’ โœ… ๋™๋ฃŒ์—๊ฒŒ (in writing/formal)
  • โœ… All five together: ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ , ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋ฉด = the perfect Korean workplace.
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์›ํ™œํ•œ + noun (modifier) vs ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ + verb (adverb). ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต (smooth communication, noun phrase) vs ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋‹ค (to communicate smoothly, verb phrase).
๐ŸŽ‰ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ! ๐Ÿค You now have the vocabulary to thrive in any Korean workplace โ€” with ๋™๋ฃŒ, ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ์นœ์ ˆํ•จ, ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต, and ๊ณต์œ  in your toolkit, you're ready for meetings, team projects, and everything in between. ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ผ ๋ด์š”! ๐Ÿ’ผโœจ