K-beauty, K-food, K-dramas and K-pop, explained
These 20 basic Korean phrases for travelers will get you through meals, shops, subways and taxis. Most of them end in -yo or juseyo, two small polite endings that make you sound courteous to any stranger in Seoul. Learn the table below and say each line out loud a few times. You’ll open your translation app far less often.
How to learn Hangul fast: drill its 24 basic letters over one weekend, then read them in blocks. Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was built in the 1440s to be learned quickly, and its letter shapes carry clues about how each sound is made. If you know how to learn Hangul fast, which means learning that logic first and not memorizing romanized spellings, you can be sounding out menus, K-drama titles and K-pop lyrics by Su…