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20 Essential Korean Words for Shopping

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Korean Vocabulary - Shopping

Shopping in Korea is not only a practical experience but also a cultural one. Whether you're visiting a local market, a convenience store, or a department store, knowing the right vocabulary can make your experience smoother and more enjoyable. Here are 20 essential Korean words for shopping that will help you navigate any store with confidence!



house icon

๊ฐ€๊ฒŒย [ga-ge]

์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์—์„œ ์˜ท์„ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Store

You can buy clothes at this store.

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school icon

์‹œ์žฅย [si-jang]

์ฃผ๋ง์—๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๊ฐ€์š”.

Market

I go to the market on weekends.

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hospital icon

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย [ga-gyeok]

์ด ์˜ท์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”?

Price

What is the price of this clothing?

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hotel icon

ํ• ์ธย [ha-rin]

์ง€๊ธˆ ํ• ์ธ ์ค‘์ด์—์š”.

Discount

It's on discount now.

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department store icon

๊ณ„์‚ฐย [gye-san]

๊ณ„์‚ฐ์€ ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ํ•ด์š”?

Payment

Where do I make the payment?

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bank icon

ํ˜„๊ธˆย [hyeon-geum]

ํ˜„๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”.

Cash

I will pay with cash.

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church icon

์นด๋“œย [ka-deu]

์นด๋“œ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ œ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?

Card

Can I pay with a card?

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castle icon

์˜์ˆ˜์ฆย [yeong-su-jeung]

์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

Receipt

Please give me the receipt.

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post office icon

๋ฌผ๊ฑดย [mul-geon]

์ด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์•„์š”.

Item

This product is very good.

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factory icon

์‡ผํ•‘๋ฐฑย [syo-ping-baek]

์‡ผํ•‘๋ฐฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.

Shopping Bag

I need a shopping bag.

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convenience store icon

ํ™˜๋ถˆย [hwan-bul]

ํ™˜๋ถˆ ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?

Refund

Can I get a refund?

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stadium icon

๊ตํ™˜ย [gyo-hwan]

์ด๊ฑฐ ๊ตํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

Exchange

Can I exchange this?

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park icon

์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆย [sa-i-jeu]

์ด ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋‚˜์š”?

Size

Does this size fit?

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supermarket icon

์ƒ‰๊น”ย [saek-kkal]

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ‰๊น” ์žˆ์–ด์š”?

Color

Do you have another color?

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cinema icon

๋น„์‹ธ๋‹คย [bi-ssa-da]

์ด ์‹ ๋ฐœ์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น„์‹ธ์š”.

Expensive

These shoes are too expensive.

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cinema icon

์‹ธ๋‹คย [ssa-da]

์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์€ ์ •๋ง ์‹ธ์š”.

Cheap

This bag is really cheap.

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pharmacy icon

์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐย [syo-ping-mol]

์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ์— ๊ฐ”์–ด์š”.

Shopping Mall

I went to the shopping mall with my friend.

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airport icon

์žฌ๊ณ ย [jae-go]

์ด ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์š”.

Stock

This product is out of stock.

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barber shop icon

๋ฌด๋ฃŒย [mu-ryo]

์ด๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Free

This is provided for free.

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fire station icon

์ถ”์ฒœย [chu-cheon]

์ถ”์ฒœํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

Recommendation

Do you have any recommended items?

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Learning these essential shopping-related words will help you confidently navigate stores in Korea, understand signs, and communicate with shop assistants. Happy shopping, and remember to practice these phrases in real-life situations!



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