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Vocab: Returning a Faulty Product

Keywords
๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ํ•˜์ž / ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค
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๐ŸŽฏ
TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿ”„ ๊ตํ™˜ = exchange; ํ™˜๋ถˆ = refund โ€” the two outcomes when returning a faulty item
  • โš ๏ธ ํ•˜์ž = defect/flaw โ€” the reason behind your request
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿคฒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain; ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ = carefully/cautiously โ€” how you communicate the issue politely
๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and listen to today's vocabulary at natural speed. ์ œํ’ˆ์— ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์–ด์š” packs all five words into one natural sentence. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
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๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Returning a faulty product in Korea takes more than just pointing at the problem โ€” you need to ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค (explain) the situation ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ (carefully/tactfully) so staff clearly understand the ํ•˜์ž (defect), then decide whether you want a ๊ตํ™˜ (exchange) for a working item or a ํ™˜๋ถˆ (refund) of your money. Politeness and clarity go a long way at the customer service counter.

๐ŸŽจ The Core Returns & Refunds Family

1. ๊ตํ™˜ โ€” exchange ๐Ÿ”„
๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค = to exchange. ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”? = Is an exchange possible? ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š” = If you have the receipt, I'll exchange it for you. ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ = exchange period. The first option staff usually offer.
2. ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ€” refund ๐Ÿ’ฐ
ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•˜๋‹ค / ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋‹ค = to refund / to receive a refund. ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค = to request a refund. ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = Please give me a full refund. Usually requires the original receipt and packaging.
3. ํ•˜์ž โ€” defect, flaw โš ๏ธ
ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค/์—†๋‹ค = there is/isn't a defect. ์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š” = I found a defect in the product. ํ•˜์ž ์ƒํ’ˆ = defective item. More specific than ๊ณ ์žฅ โ€” ํ•˜์ž usually refers to a flaw present from manufacturing, not damage from use.
4. ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ€” carefully, cautiously ๐Ÿคฒ
From ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค (ใ…‚ irregular). ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain carefully/tactfully. ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋‹ค = to handle with care. Implies tact and sensitivity, not just physical caution.
5. ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to explain ๐Ÿ’ฌ
์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain. ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain the situation. ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” = I explained the reason to the staff. A regular ํ•˜๋‹ค verb.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

์ œํ’ˆ์— ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
There was a defect in the product, so I carefully explained the situation to the staff. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ
โ€” ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค; ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค
๊ตํ™˜๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
They said both an exchange and a refund were possible. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
โ€” ๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ + ๋„ ... ๋„ (both... and...)
ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ํ›„์— ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”.
After explaining the defect, I received a full refund. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ’ฐ
โ€” ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค; ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฐ›๋‹ค

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ noun/ํ•˜๋‹ค verb: ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด์š” / ๊ตํ™˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ / ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ noun/ํ•˜๋‹ค verb: ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด์š” / ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋‹ค / ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์š”์ฒญ / ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ
  • ํ•˜์ž โ†’ noun: ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค/์—†๋‹ค / ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋‹ค / ํ•˜์ž ์ƒํ’ˆ
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ adverb (from ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค, ใ…‚ irregular): ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ + verb
  • ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular ํ•˜๋‹ค verb: ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์š” / ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘ / ์„ค๋ช…ํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”

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๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ํ•˜์ž โ‰ˆ ๊ณ ์žฅ โ€” ๊ณ ์žฅ = broken (mechanical, from use); ํ•˜์ž = defect/flaw (often present from manufacturing)
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ‰ˆ ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ โ€” ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ = returning the item itself; ํ™˜๋ถˆ = getting your money back (often used together: ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋‹ค)
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ‰ˆ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ€” ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ = carefully/prudently in decision-making; ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ = carefully/tactfully in manner or handling
  • ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค = to say/tell (general); ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค = to explain (with reasons/details)

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์›ํ•ด์š” (no context) โ†’ โœ… ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์›ํ•ด์š” โ€” always state the reason (ํ•˜์ž) before requesting ๊ตํ™˜/ํ™˜๋ถˆ.
โŒ ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” (too blunt) โ†’ โœ… ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? โ€” soften requests, especially when reporting a problem.
โŒ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ = ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ โ†’ โœ… ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ = careful/tactful (manner); ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ = slowly (speed). Different dimensions.
โŒ ํ•˜์ž = ์ž˜๋ชป โ†’ โœ… ์ž˜๋ชป = mistake/fault (general); ํ•˜์ž = defect (specifically about a product).

ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋‹น๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜์„ธ์š”! โš ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐโœจ
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form.
1. ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”์–ด์š”.
I brought this because there's a defect in this product. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ.
2. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you have the receipt, you can exchange it. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
3. ์ „์•ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”.
I received a full refund. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด์š”.
4. ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I explained the situation to the staff. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
5. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋‹ค๋ค„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please handle it carefully. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ค„ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
6. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•ด์„œ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I found a defect and requested an exchange. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•ด์„œ.
7. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์•ˆ ๋˜๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๋„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
If an exchange isn't possible, please at least give me a refund. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ์•ˆ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด๋ผ๋„.
8. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ์ง์›์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•ด ์คฌ์–ด์š”.
When I carefully explained the reason, the staff understood. ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ.
9. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.
The exchange period has passed, so an exchange is difficult. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.
10. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If there's a defect, after explaining carefully, you can exchange it or get a refund. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž / ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช… / ๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์„œ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. All five words. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to exchange
  • ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”? โ†’ Is an exchange possible?
  • ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ โ†’ exchange period
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋‹ค โ†’ to receive a refund
  • ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ full refund
  • ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค โ†’ there's a defect
  • ํ•˜์ž ์ƒํ’ˆ โ†’ defective item
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ carefully/cautiously
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋‹ค โ†’ to handle with care
  • ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to explain
  • ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to explain the situation
Key pitfalls ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ํ•˜์ž โ‰  ๊ณ ์žฅ (defect โ‰  broken from use)
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ†’ soften: ํ™˜๋ถˆํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ‰  ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ

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๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Returning a Faulty Product
ํ•˜์ž ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ, ๋‹น๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ! ๐Ÿ›๏ธ This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ๊ตํ™˜, ํ™˜๋ถˆ, ํ•˜์ž, ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ, ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” across five exercises.
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence.

Exercise 1 โ€” Spotting the Defect โš ๏ธ

A. ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
This bag has a defect. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
If you find a defect, please let me know right away. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋ฉด.
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์—†๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ” ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please exchange it for a product without defects. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž ์—†๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ.
D. ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I checked whether the product has a defect. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์ง„์—ด๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Defective items are displayed separately. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž ์ƒํ’ˆ์€.
F. ์ด ์ปต์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊นจ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”.
This cup has a defect so it breaks easily. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ท์€ ์„ธ์ผ ์ฝ”๋„ˆ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Clothes with defects are in the sale corner. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ท์€.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์ฐ์–ด์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คฌ์–ด์š”.
I took a photo of the defect and showed it. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
The defect was so severe that I couldn't use it. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ•ด์„œ.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Carefully check whether there's a defect. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ.
๐Ÿ“š
ํ•˜์ž vocabulary:
  • ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค/์—†๋‹ค โ†’ there is/isn't a defect
  • ํ•˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to find a defect
  • ํ•˜์ž ์ƒํ’ˆ โ†’ defective item
  • ํ•˜์ž ์—ฌ๋ถ€ โ†’ whether there's a defect
  • ํ•˜์ž ์—†๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ โ†’ a product without defects

Exercise 2 โ€” Requesting an Exchange ๐Ÿ”„

A. ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋งž์•„์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
The size doesn't fit so I want to exchange it. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
B. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Can I exchange it for a different color? ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ฉฐ์น ์ด์—์š”?
How many days is the exchange period? ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„.
D. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ ์—†์ด๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?
Is an exchange possible even without a receipt? ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?
E. ์ƒˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
I'll exchange it for a new product for you. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํฌ์žฅ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค์„ธ์š”.
To exchange it, please bring the packaging as is. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด.
G. ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”.
This product can't be exchanged. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ์•ˆ ๋ผ์š”.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ดค์–ด์š”.
I checked the exchanged product again. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please fill out the exchange request form. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋ฉฐ์น  ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
It took a few days to exchange it. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ.
๐Ÿ“š
๊ตํ™˜ vocabulary:
  • ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to exchange
  • ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ โ†’ exchange-possible period
  • ๊ตํ™˜ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ โ†’ exchange request form
  • ๊ตํ™˜์ด ์•ˆ ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ can't be exchanged
  • ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to exchange (for someone, polite)

Exercise 3 โ€” Getting a Refund ๐Ÿ’ฐ

A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I'd like to get a refund. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
B. ์ „์•ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”?
Is a full refund possible? ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด.
C. ์นด๋“œ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ์นด๋“œ๋กœ ๋ผ์š”.
If you paid by card, the refund is also by card. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋„ ์นด๋“œ๋กœ.
D. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ๋‹นํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I requested a refund but was refused. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
It took a week to get the refund. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐ.
F. ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
They said only a partial refund is possible. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋งŒ.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Check the refund policy in advance. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์ •์ฑ…์„.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ข€ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์š”.
Processing the refund takes some time. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์—.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I checked the refunded amount. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ธˆ์•ก์„.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
To get a refund, you need the receipt. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด.
๐Ÿ“š
ํ™˜๋ถˆ vocabulary:
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๋‹ค โ†’ to receive a refund
  • ์ „์•ก/๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ full/partial refund
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์ •์ฑ… โ†’ refund policy
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ โ†’ refund processing
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to request a refund

Exercise 4 โ€” Explaining Carefully ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ

A. ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I explained the problem to the staff. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ƒ์ž๋ฅผ ์—ด์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
Please open the box carefully. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์—ด์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
C. ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ์–ด๋ ค์› ์–ด์š”.
It was a bit difficult to explain the reason. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€.
D. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
May I cautiously share my opinion? ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„.
E. ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์–ด์š”.
They explained how to use it. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์–ด์š”.
F. ๊นจ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šฐ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
It breaks easily, so please move it carefully. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
G. ์™œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋Š”์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please explain why the defect occurred. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž / ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋Š”์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค๋”๋‹ˆ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ตํ•ด ์คฌ์–ด์š”.
When I asked cautiously, they answered kindly. ๐Ÿคฒ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค๋”๋‹ˆ.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you don't explain, misunderstandings can arise. ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์„œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I cautiously approached and explained the situation. ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์„œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ + ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค:
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋‹ค โ†’ to handle with care
  • ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌป๋‹ค โ†’ to ask cautiously
  • ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to explain the situation
  • ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to explain the reason
  • ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? โ†’ Could you explain?

Exercise 5 โ€” ์ข…ํ•ฉ ์—ฐ์Šต ๐ŸŽฏ

A. ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
The product has a defect. โš ๏ธ
Answer
ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I'd like to exchange it or get a refund. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
C. ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I carefully explained the situation to the staff. ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ
Answer
์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
D. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Check the exchange-possible period. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„.
E. ์ „์•ก ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I requested a full refund. ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ์ „์•ก ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๊ตํ™˜๋ผ์š”.
Products with defects are exchanged immediately. โš ๏ธ
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ํ•˜์ž โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์€.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋‹ค๋ค„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด์—์š”.
It's an item that needs to be handled carefully. ๐Ÿคฒ
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์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ค„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”.
H. ์™œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please explain why you want a refund. ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ’ฌ
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ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์•ˆ ๋˜๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด๋ผ๋„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
If an exchange isn't possible, please at least give a refund. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
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๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ์•ˆ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด๋ผ๋„.
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ํ›„์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š”.
If there's a defect, after explaining carefully, exchange it or get a refund. โš ๏ธ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐ
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ํ•˜์ž / ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ / ์„ค๋ช… / ๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ํ›„์— ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š”. All five words. โœ…
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ํ•˜์ž ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ โ†’ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช… โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ ๋˜๋Š” ํ™˜๋ถˆ ์š”์ฒญ! โš ๏ธ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐโœจ
๐ŸŽ‰ ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ & ๊ตํ™˜ ์–ดํœ˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ! ๐Ÿ›๏ธ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ตํ™˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๋‹น๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ฐโœจ