Polite Korean follow-up DMs with ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์ & ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค, plus deadline phrases and tone-fixes to sound clear, not pushyโmaster
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A 3-level politeness ladder plus deadline phrase bank rewrites 12 follow-up DMs so they sound clear, respectful, and not pushy.
ํน์ ๊ธ์ฃผ ๋ด๋ก ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?hoksi geumju naero jaryoreul goyuhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ Could you share the materials sometime this week?
A small cultural note from my first Korean workplace DM mistake: I once wrote the equivalent of โSend it nowโ in Korean, and the message didnโt get an angry replyโit got a long, quiet delay. Korean workplace tone often values leaving the other person room to say โIโm tied upโ without losing face.
Too direct โ better:
์ง๊ธ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์.jigeum bonae juseyo. โ Send it now. โ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon oneul jueuro bonae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you send it today?ํ์ธํ์ด์?hwaginhaesseoyo? โ Did you check? โ ํน์ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?hoksi hwaginhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ Could you check?Template you can reuse:
ํน์ [์๋๊ฐ ํด์ค ์ผ] ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?hoksi [sangdaega haejul il] jusil su isseulkkayo? โ Could you [do the thing]?๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด [๊ธฐํ]๊น์ง [์๋๊ฐ ํด์ค ์ผ] ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon [gihan]kkaji [sangdaega haejul il] jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you [do the thing] by [deadline]?Fix pushy tone, vague timing, and honorific mismatch:
Use this when you want extra respect or distance (cross-team, vendor, senior stakeholders), or when youโre following up a second time. It can sound stiff if you use it with close teammates all day; that โtoo formalโ feeling is the main trap.
์ค๋ ์คoneul jung / ๊ธ์ฃผ ๋ดgeumju nae / 1์ 3์ผ๊น์ง1wol 3ilkkaji.-์--si- and prefer ์ฃผ์คjusil / ์ฃผ์๋ฉดjusimyeon for workplace DMs.ํน์hoksi or ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉดganeunghasimyeon when you can.๋๋ฝ๋์์๊น ํ์ฌnurakdoeeosseulkka hayeo.์ค๋๊น์ง ์ค์.oneulkkaji jwoyo. โ Give it to me by today. โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon oneul jueuro goyuhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you share it today?๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ถํํด์.ppalri butakhaeyo. โ Please hurry. โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ํธํ์ค ๋ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon pyeonhasil ttae goyuhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you share it when you have a moment?์ ์์ง ์ ์์ฃ ?wae ajik an watjyo? โ Why hasnโt it arrived yet? โ Right: ํน์ ์งํ ์ํฉ์ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?hoksi jinhaeng sanghwaeul hwaginhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ Could you check the status?๋ด์ผ๊น์ง ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ณด๋ด์ธ์.naeilkkaji mujogeon bonaeseyo. โ You must send it by tomorrow. โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ๋ด์ผ๊น์ง ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon naeilkkaji bonae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you send it by tomorrow?ํ์ฅ๋, ๋ณด๋ด ์ค ์ ์์ด์?timjangnim, bonae jul su isseoyo? โ Boss, can you send it? โ Right: ํ์ฅ๋, ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?timjangnim, bonae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ Boss, could you send it?์๊ฐ ๋์ค ๋ ์ฃผ์ธ์.sigan doesil ttae juseyo. โ Give it when you have time. โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ๊ธ์ฃผ ๋ด๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?ganeunghasimyeon geumju naero goyuhae jusil su isseulkkayo? โ If possible, could you share it this week?Too direct โ better:
ํ์ธํด์ ๋ต ์ฃผ์ธ์.hwaginhaeseo dap juseyo. โ Check and reply. โ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.hwaginhae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Iโd appreciate it if you could check.์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.oneul jueuro haeya hapnida. โ It has to be done today. โ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.ganeunghasimyeon oneul jueuro cheorihae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ If possible, Iโd appreciate it if you could handle it today.Template you can reuse:
[์์ฒญ] ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.[yocheong] jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Iโd appreciate it if you could [request].๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง [๊ธฐํ]๊น์ง [์์ฒญ] ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.beongeorousigetjiman [gihan]kkaji [yocheong] jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Sorry to bother you, but Iโd appreciate it if you could [request] by [deadline].6 more rewrites (especially for second follow-ups and cross-team DMs):
๋ค์ ๋งํ์ง๋ง ์์ง ์ ๋ฐ์์ด์.dasi malhajiman ajik an badasseoyo. โ Again, I still havenโt received it. โ Right: ํน์ ๋๋ฝ๋์์๊น ํ์ฌ ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.hoksi nurakdoeeosseulkka hayeo dasi yeonrakdeuripnida. goyuhae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Reaching out again in case it was missed; Iโd appreciate it if you could share it.์ค๋ ๊ผญ ์ฃผ์ธ์.oneul kkok juseyo. โ Give it today for sure. โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ฉด ์ค๋ ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฌํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.ganeunghasimyeon oneul jueuro jeondalhae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ If possible, Iโd appreciate it if you could send it today.์ธ์ ๊น์ง ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ธ์?eonjekkaji ganeunghaseyo? โ Until when is it possible? โ Right: ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ ์ผ์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.ganeunghasin iljeoi itdamyeon alryeo jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ If you have a workable schedule, Iโd appreciate it if you could let me know.ํ์ธํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ตํด์.hwaginhamyeon baro daphaeyo. โ Reply immediately once you check. โ Right: ํ์ธ ํ ํ์ ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.hwagin hu hoesin jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Iโd appreciate your reply after checking.๊ฒํ ํด ์ฃผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํด์.geomtohae jumyeon gamsahaeyo. โ Iโd be thankful if you review (casual). โ Right: ๊ฒํ ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.geomtohae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Iโd appreciate it if you could review.๋ณด๋ด์ธ์.bonaeseyo. โ Send it. โ Right: ๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.beongeorousigetjiman bonae jusimyeon gamsahagetseupnida. โ Sorry to bother you, but Iโd appreciate it if you could send it.