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Vocab: Returns & Refunds

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๊ตํ™˜ / ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค / ํ™•์‹คํžˆ / ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • ๐Ÿ”„ ๊ตํ™˜ = swapping for another item; ํ™˜๋ถˆ = getting your money back โ€” know which you want before you walk in
  • ๐Ÿงพ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ is your golden ticket โ€” without it, returns get complicated fast
  • ๐Ÿ™ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค is how you politely acknowledge you're asking for extra effort; ํ™•์‹คํžˆ is how you make sure there's no ambiguity; ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค is the formal verb that makes it all official
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๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and hear today's sentences at natural speed. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ is a beautiful polite softener worth hearing in context. ๐Ÿงพ

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Returns and refunds in Korean require a specific combination of vocabulary, politeness, and clarity. You don't just say "refund" โ€” you explain the situation, present proof (์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ), acknowledge any inconvenience (๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค), confirm clearly (ํ™•์‹คํžˆ), and make a formal request (์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค). Getting this right will save you a lot of awkward moments at customer service counters.
These five words cover everything from the moment you hand over your ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ to the polite request that gets things resolved.

๐ŸŽจ The Core Returns & Refunds Family

1. ๊ตํ™˜ โ€” exchange (swapping an item) ๐Ÿ”„
๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค = to exchange. ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”? = Is an exchange possible? Used when you want a different size, colour, or item โ€” not your money back.
Related terms: ํ™˜๋ถˆ = refund (money back), ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ = return (sending the item back).
2. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ€” receipt ๐Ÿงพ
Your proof of purchase. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์˜ค๋‹ค = to bring the receipt. ์ „์ž ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ = electronic receipt. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด = if there's no receipt.
3. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ€” troublesome, inconvenient (for the other person) ๐Ÿ™
A ใ…‚-irregular adjective used to acknowledge you're causing extra effort. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ = I know it may be inconvenient for you, but... The gold standard polite opener at customer service. Also: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ด์š” = I'm sorry for troubling you.
4. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ โ€” clearly, definitely, with certainty ๐Ÿ“
Adverb meaning "for sure." ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ์ด์—์š” = It's definitely defective. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” = Please check clearly/definitely.
5. ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to formally request ๐Ÿ“‹
More formal than ๋ถ€ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค = to request a refund. ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค = to request an exchange. Standard in customer service, business, and official contexts.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”?
I brought the receipt โ€” is an exchange possible? ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„
โ€” -๋Š”๋ฐ = and/but (contextual connector)
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you please check? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ“
โ€” The classic polite customer service opener; -๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ = I imagine it is, but
์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
There's a problem with the product so I'd like to request a refund. ๐Ÿ“‹
โ€” -์•„/์–ด์„œ causal; -๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค polite want

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular ํ•˜๋‹ค: ๊ตํ™˜ํ•ด์š” / ๊ตํ™˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” / ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ†’ ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด ์ ˆ์ฐจ / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค
  • ํ™•์‹คํžˆ โ†’ adverb, no conjugation โ€” placed before verbs
  • ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular ํ•˜๋‹ค: ์š”์ฒญํ•ด์š” / ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค / ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
๐Ÿšจ ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ (honorific conditional)

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

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

๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ๊ตํ™˜ โ‰ˆ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋‹ค โ€” ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋‹ค = to swap/change (casual); ๊ตํ™˜ = exchange (formal customer service term)
  • ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ๋ถ€ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค = to ask/request (friendly); ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค = to formally request (professional/official)
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ๋ถˆํŽธํ•˜๋‹ค = inconvenient/uncomfortable; ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค = troublesome/burdensome (implies extra effort)
  • ํ™•์‹คํžˆ โ‰ˆ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ โ€” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ = clearly, obviously; ํ™•์‹คํžˆ = definitely, with certainty (both work in most contexts)

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ๊ตํ™˜ (when you want your money back) โ†’ โœ… ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ€” ๊ตํ™˜ = swap item. ํ™˜๋ถˆ = money back. Very different outcomes.
โŒ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” โ€” ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ + ์•„์š” = ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š”.
โŒ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (to staff) โ†’ โœ… ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์˜ค์…จ๋‚˜์š”? โ€” Much more polite when staff are asking a customer. Use honorific -์‹œ-.
โŒ ์š”์ฒญํ•ด์š” (in formal written request) โ†’ โœ… ์š”์ฒญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค / ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ€” In formal service contexts, -ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค / -๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค is more appropriate.
๊ตํ™˜์ด๋“  ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด๋“  โ€” ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ผ์š”! ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ช
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ…‚-irregular forms of ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค.
1. ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
The size doesn't fit so I'd like to exchange it. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค = size doesn't fit.
2. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์˜ค์…จ๋‚˜์š”?
Did you bring the receipt? ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์˜ค์…จ๋‚˜์š”? -์‹œ- = honorific. ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์˜ค๋‹ค = to bring.
3. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check one more time? ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ. ใ…‚-irregular honorific conditional. The classic polite opener.
4. ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
There is definitely a problem with the product. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
5. ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I would like to request a refund. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Formal -์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
6. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์—†์–ด๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”?
Is an exchange possible even without a receipt? ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์—†์–ด๋„ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”? -์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด๋„ = even without.
7. ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์š”.
The process is a little troublesome. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š”. ใ…‚-irregular.
8. ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I want to clearly understand the exchange policy. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ทœ์ • = exchange policy.
9. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
The customer formally requested an exchange. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ณ ๊ฐ = customer.
10. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ด์š”.
I'm sorry for troubling you. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ด์š”. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to trouble/inconvenience. ์ฃ„์†กํ•˜๋‹ค = to be sorry.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ exchange (different item)
  • ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to exchange
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ refund (money back)
  • ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ โ†’ return (sending back)
  • ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ receipt
  • ์ „์ž ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ electronic receipt
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ†’ troublesome (ใ…‚-irregular)
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” โ†’ it's troublesome
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ โ†’ I know it may be inconvenient, but
  • ํ™•์‹คํžˆ โ†’ clearly, definitely
  • ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to formally request
  • ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ โ†’ defective product
Memory tips ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ๊ตํ™˜ vs ํ™˜๋ถˆ: ๊ตํ™˜ = change the item; ํ™˜๋ถˆ = return the money
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” โœ… (ใ…‚-irregular)
  • ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ = your proof โ€” always bring it

๐Ÿš€
Want more reps? Visit the Practice Hub when you're ready! ๐Ÿš€
๐Ÿ“ฆ
๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Returns & Refunds
๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ/๊ตํ™˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฑธ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ด์š”! ๐Ÿงพ This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ๊ตํ™˜, ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ, ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค, ํ™•์‹คํžˆ, ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” across five exercises covering real return and refund scenarios. By the end you'll handle any Korean customer service situation with confidence. ๐Ÿ”„
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ is particularly worth hearing โ€” the honorific conditional form sounds very natural in service contexts.
๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form. Watch for ใ…‚-irregular forms of ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค!

Exercise 1 โ€” At the Counter ๐Ÿช

A. ์ด ์˜ท์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์•„์š”.
I'd like to exchange this clothes. The size is small. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
Could you show me the receipt? ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
I know it may be inconvenient, but please check the receipt. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ. Classic polite opener.
D. ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ์ด์—์š”.
This product is definitely defective. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ์ด์—์š”. ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ = defective product.
E. ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I would like to formally request a refund. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = to request (humble/formal).
F. ๊ฐ™์€ ๋””์ž์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
Can I exchange it for the same design? ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ๊ฐ™์€ ๋””์ž์ธ์œผ๋กœ = for the same design.
G. ์ „์ž ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”?
Is an electronic receipt okay? ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์ „์ž ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”?
H. ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์›Œ์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'm sorry the process is troublesome. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์„œ. ใ…‚-irregular + -์•„/์–ด์„œ.
I. ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I definitely want to know if an exchange is possible. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
J. ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ ํ™˜๋ถˆ๋„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Can I also formally request a shipping fee refund? ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ = shipping fee.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๋‹ค/ํฌ๋‹ค โ†’ size is small/big
  • ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ํ’ˆ โ†’ defective product
  • ๊ฐ™์€ ๋””์ž์ธ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ for the same design
  • ์ „์ž ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ electronic receipt
  • ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ โ†’ shipping fee
  • ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to request (humble)
  • ์ ˆ์ฐจ โ†’ process, procedure
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก The three R's: ๊ตํ™˜ (exchange item) / ํ™˜๋ถˆ (money back) / ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ (return item). Know which you want before you speak โ€” asking for the wrong one causes confusion.

Exercise 2 โ€” Explaining the Problem ๐Ÿ”

A. ์ƒ‰์ƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
The colour is different from what I ordered so I'd like to exchange it. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์ƒ‰์ƒ = colour. ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค = different from what was ordered.
B. ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋‹น์ผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
I lost the receipt the day of purchase. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋‹น์ผ = the day of purchase. ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = to lose.
C. ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
The button definitely doesn't work. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”. ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค = to work/operate.
D. ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”์–ด์š”.
I came to formally request a refund. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”์–ด์š”. -๋Ÿฌ ์˜ค๋‹ค = to come in order to do.
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šด ์ ˆ์ฐจ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ผญ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
It's a troublesome process but it must be done. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด ์ ˆ์ฐจ. ใ…‚-irregular modifier: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด + noun.
F. ํฌ์žฅ์ด ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
The packaging is open so the receipt needs to be confirmed. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ํฌ์žฅ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = packaging is opened.
G. ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
This product definitely has a defect. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ•˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ž = defect, flaw.
H. ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋งž์•„์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
The size didn't fit so I formally requested an exchange. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•œ๋ฐ, ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
I'm sorry for the trouble, but please check one more time. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to cause trouble.
J. ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'll show the receipt and formally request a refund. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = to show (humble).
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ƒ‰์ƒ โ†’ colour
  • ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค โ†’ different from ordered
  • ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to lose
  • ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to work/operate
  • ํ•˜์ž โ†’ defect, flaw
  • ํฌ์žฅ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ packaging is opened
  • ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด โ†’ troublesome (modifier)
  • ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to show (humble)
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค ใ…‚-irregular: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” (pres) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์› ์–ด์š” (past) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด (modifier) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ (honorific conditional).

Exercise 3 โ€” Polite Service Language ๐Ÿ™

A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ ์—†์ด๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ์•Œ๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you let me know if it's possible without a receipt? ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”์œผ๋‹ˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I brought the receipt so I'd like to request an exchange. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. -์œผ๋‹ˆ = since/because.
C. ํ™˜๋ถˆ ๊ทœ์ •์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I definitely want to know what the refund policy is. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ํ™˜๋ถˆ ๊ทœ์ • = refund policy. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค = how it works.
D. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The customer has formally requested an exchange. ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. -์‹œ- = honorific.
E. ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์›Œ์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
The processing may be troublesome so it could take time. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์„œ. ใ…‚-irregular + -์•„์„œ.
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํ™˜๋ถˆ์€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.
To be clear, a refund is not possible. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด = to be clear/definitive (humble). ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค = impossible.
G. ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please check whether the refund I formally requested last week has been processed. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•œ ํ™˜๋ถˆ. ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค modifier = ์š”์ฒญํ•œ. ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜๋‹ค = to be processed.
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ถ„์‹คํ•˜์…จ์œผ๋ฉด ์นด๋“œ ๋‚ด์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you've lost the receipt, a card statement can substitute. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๋ถ„์‹คํ•˜์…จ์œผ๋ฉด. ๋ถ„์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค = to lose. ์นด๋“œ ๋‚ด์—ญ = card statement. ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to substitute.
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check one more time clearly? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ“
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ / ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? Both polite words together. โœ…
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
If you confirm the receipt and formally request an exchange I'll process it. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = to process for you. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ํ™˜๋ถˆ ๊ทœ์ • โ†’ refund policy
  • ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to be processed
  • ๋ถ„์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to lose (formal)
  • ์นด๋“œ ๋‚ด์—ญ โ†’ card statement
  • ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to substitute
  • ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ impossible
  • ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to say (humble)
  • ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to process for you
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ = the most powerful polite opener in Korean customer service. It acknowledges the other person's effort before making a request. Use it freely.

Exercise 4 โ€” Conjugation Focus ๐Ÿ”ง

A. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์ธ๋ฐ ๊ผญ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. (troublesome, modifier)
It's a troublesome procedure but it must be done. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด ์ ˆ์ฐจ. ใ…‚-irregular modifier.
B. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์–ด์š”. (if exchange is possible)
I asked if an exchange was possible. ๐Ÿ”„
Answer
๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€. -ใ„ด์ง€ = whether/if (indirect question).
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”. (keeping the receipt)
It's important to keep the receipt. ๐Ÿงพ
Answer
์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๋‹ค = to keep/make sure to bring. ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๋‹ค = to make sure to have.
D. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด์—์š”. (that's definitely the right way)
That is definitely the right way. ๐Ÿ“
Answer
ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด์—์š”.
E. ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (won't request anymore)
I won't make any more formal requests. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. -์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค = won't do (formal).
F. ์ •๋ง ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด๋„ค์š”. (what a troublesome situation)
What a troublesome situation this is. ๐Ÿ™
Answer
๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ. ์ƒํ™ฉ = situation.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. (will check clearly and reply)
I'll check clearly and get back to you. ๐Ÿ“
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ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค = to give a reply (humble).
H. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (will process the request)
We will process the customer's formal request. ๐Ÿ“‹
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์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜ = customer (honorific).
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๋นจ๋ผ์š”. (with receipt, exchange is faster)
If you have the receipt, the exchange is faster. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„
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์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๋นจ๋ผ์š”. -์ด/๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด = if you have (honorific).
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•œ๋ฐ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”?
I'm sorry for the trouble โ€” did you definitely formally request the refund? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“‹
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๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ / ํ™•์‹ค / ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•œ๋ฐ, ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”? โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๋‹ค โ†’ to make sure to have/bring
  • ์ƒํ™ฉ โ†’ situation
  • ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค โ†’ to give a reply (humble)
  • ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜ โ†’ customer (honorific)
  • ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ†’ will process (formal)
  • -์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ†’ won't do (formal)
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค forms: ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” (pres) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์› ์–ด์š” (past) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šด (modifier) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ (hon. conditional) / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค (to cause trouble).

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

A. โŒ ๊ตํ™˜ (when wanting money back) โ†’ โœ… ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
I'd like to request a refund. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
ํ™˜๋ถˆ โ†’ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ๊ตํ™˜ = swap item; ํ™˜๋ถˆ = money back. โœ…
B. โŒ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์š”
It's troublesome. ๐Ÿ™
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์›Œ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š”. ใ…‚-irregular. โœ…
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
I brought the receipt and I definitely want to know if an exchange is possible. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“
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์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ / ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. โœ…
D. โŒ ์š”์ฒญํ•ด์š” (in formal written service) โ†’ โœ… ์š”์ฒญ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋‹ค
I formally request. ๐Ÿ“‹
Answer
ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ โ†’ ์š”์ฒญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Or ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. In formal customer service, -ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค is more appropriate. โœ…
E. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
I know it may be inconvenient, but could you check the receipt and process the exchange? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„
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๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ / ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ / ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? โœ…
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'm sorry for the trouble. We will process it clearly/definitely. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ“
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๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ / ํ™•์‹ค โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โœ…
G. ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
There is definitely a problem with the product so I will formally request a refund. ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“‹
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ํ™•์‹ค / ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โœ…
H. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์—†์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If there's no receipt, the exchange may be troublesome. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ™
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์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ / ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ด ์—†์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ตํ™˜์ด ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ๋‹ค + -(์œผ)ใ„น ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค = may be troublesome. โœ…
I. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์ง ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”.
I showed the receipt and formally requested a refund but it hasn't been processed yet. ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ“‹
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์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ํ™˜๋ถˆ / ์š”์ฒญ โ†’ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํ™˜๋ถˆ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์ง ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋์–ด์š”. ์•„์ง = still/yet. โœ…
J. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํžˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I know it may be inconvenient, but I'd be grateful if you could clearly check the receipt and process the exchange. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ“๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ“‹
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๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ / ํ™•์‹ค / ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ / ๊ตํ™˜ / ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ โ†’ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. All five words. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box โ€” Pitfall Recap
  • โŒ ๊ตํ™˜ (money back) โ†’ โœ… ํ™˜๋ถˆ (๊ตํ™˜ = item swap)
  • โŒ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กญ์–ด์š” โ†’ โœ… ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›Œ์š” (ใ…‚-irregular)
  • โŒ ์š”์ฒญํ•ด์š” (formal service) โ†’ โœ… ์š”์ฒญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค/๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
  • โœ… ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ = golden ticket for any return
  • โœ… ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ = the most powerful polite opener
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก Full return sentence: ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตํ™˜์„ ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. All five words, perfectly natural. ๐Ÿงพโœจ
๐ŸŽ‰ ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ/๊ตํ™˜ ์–ดํœ˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ! ๐Ÿงพ Now you can navigate any Korean return or refund situation โ€” bring your ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ, acknowledge the ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›€, confirm ํ™•์‹คํžˆ, and ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค what you need. ๊ตํ™˜์ด๋“  ํ™˜๋ถˆ์ด๋“  โ€” ์ด์ œ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”! ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ’ช