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Korean Phrases for Work: Emails, Meetings, and Calls Korean workplaces lean heavily on polite and formal registers. This guide gives you 20 phrases for email openings, meeting moments, and phone calls โ the polite-speech sentences that help you fit in at a Korean office.
4/17/2026, 3:27:54 AM
Explore Korean by Topic Korean workplaces run on polite and formal registers. The default speech level is ํ์ญ์์ค-์ฒด or ํด์-์ฒด , never casual banmal unless you've been explicitly invited into it. Below are 20 phrases, grouped by scenario, that cover 80% of what you'll say at a Korean office in your first months.
Email openings and closings (6)
์๋
ํ์ธ์. โโํ โโโ์
๋๋ค.annyeonghaseyo. โโtim โโโipnida. โ "Hello. This is โโโ from the โโ team." (email opener)
๋ฐ์์ ์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ ค ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค.bappeusin jue yeonrakdeuryeo joesonghapnida. โ "Sorry to contact you during a busy time."
์๋์ ๊ฐ์ด ์๋ด๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.araewa gati annaedeuripnida. โ "I'd like to inform you as follows." (bullet points below)
ํ์ธ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.hwagin butakdeuripnida. โ "Please confirm."
๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.gamsahapnida. โ "Thank you." (closer)
โโโ ๋๋ฆผโโโ deurim โ "Sincerely, โโโ" (literal: "given by โโโ")
Meetings (7)
ํ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.hoeui sijakhagetseupnida. โ "Let's begin the meeting."
์๊ฒฌ ์์ผ์ ๋ถ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์? โ "Does anyone have thoughts?"
Phone calls (4)
์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์.yeoboseyo. โ "Hello?" (answering a call)
โโํ โโโ์
๋๋ค.โโtim โโโipnida. โ "This is โโโ from โโ team." (self-identification)
์ง๊ธ ํตํ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ธ์?jigeum tonghwa ganeunghaseyo? โ "Are you available to talk now?"
๋์ค์ ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.najue dasi yeonrakdeurigetseupnida. โ "I'll contact you again later."
Requests and apologies (3)
์ฃ์กํ๋ฐ, ํน์ ๋ถํ ํ๋ ๋๋ ค๋ ๋ ๊น์?joesonghande, hoksi butak hana deuryeodo doelkkayo? โ "Sorry โ could I ask a small favor?"
๋ฆ์ด์ ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค.neujeoseo joesonghapnida. โ "Sorry I'm late."
์ ๊ฐ ์๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค.jega jalmothaetseupnida. โ "I was in the wrong." (formal apology)
Tone rules that matter more than vocabulary
Always use the polite or formal ending (ํด์/ํฉ๋๋ค). Never banmal.
Address colleagues by role + ๋ (e.g., ๋งค๋์ ๋, ์ ๋ฐฐ๋, ์ฌ์ฅ๋), rarely by first name.
For written email, open with a self-intro line even if you've met before โ it's standard etiquette.
"์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค" (I'm sorry) is used liberally for both apology and social smoothing; don't take it as literal admission.
Vocabulary
ํ์ฌ (hoesa) โ company
์
๋ฌด (eommu) โ work / task
ํ์ (hoeui) โ meeting
์ด๋ฉ์ผ (imeil) โ email
๋ง๊ฐ (magam) โ deadline
Expressions in this post#1 vocabulary Lv 2
company
A common Korean word meaning "company". Appears in the post "Korean Phrases for Work: Emails, Meetings, and Calls" and related contexts.
ํ์ฌ โ company
hoesa โ company
#2 vocabulary Lv 2
work / task
A common Korean word meaning "work / task". Appears in the post "Korean Phrases for Work: Emails, Meetings, and Calls" and related contexts.
์
๋ฌด โ work / task
eopmu โ work / task
#3 vocabulary Lv 2
meeting
A common Korean word meaning "meeting". Appears in the post "Korean Phrases for Work: Emails, Meetings, and Calls" and related contexts.
ํ์ โ meeting
hoeui โ meeting
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uigyeon isseusin bun gyesingayo?
์ ์๊ฒฌ์ ~์
๋๋ค.je uigyeoneun ~ipnida. โ "My opinion is ~."
์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ค๋ช
ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์?jogeum deo seolmyeonghae jusigesseoyo? โ "Could you explain a little more?"
๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.ne, algetseupnida. โ "Yes, understood."
๋ค์ ์ฃผ ์์์ผ๊น์ง ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.daeum ju woryoilkkaji mamurihagetseupnida. โ "I'll finish it by next Monday."
์ค๋ ํ์๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง์
๋๋ค.oneul hoeuineun yeogikkajiipnida. โ "That's all for today's meeting."Korean Phrases for Work: Emails, Meetings, and Calls - Korean Business Expressions | Korean TokTok