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Everyday Korean: 28 lessons, from hello to the news

980 words, in teaching order

Words 801–900
설날
Korean New Year; Lunar New Year celebrated in Korea
Noun
추석
Mid-Autumn Festival, three day harvest festival (August 15 in lunar calendar)
Name
어린이날
Children's Day; a national holiday in South Korea, celebrated on May 5th
Name
한글날
Hangul Day (national holiday observed on different dates in North and South Korea)
Name
명절
festive day; holiday
Noun
떡국
tteokguk (a Korean dish consisting of sliced tteok, beef, and egg, traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year)
Noun
송편
songpyeon (Korean food made of rice powder, traditionally consumed during the Chuseok festival)
Noun
세배
New Year's greetings/call/visit; (historically) a bow of respect to one's elders on New Year's Day
Noun
세뱃돈
red envelope; hongbao
Noun
문화
culture; civilization
Noun
전통
full connection (This sense describes the condition in which roads, tracks, or similar constructions—whether provisional or subsidiary—are completely continuous, ensuring an uninterrupted passage from one end to the other.); comprehensive mastery (This usage indicates a state in which one has attained deep and complete knowledge or mastery over every aspect or principle of a subject. It signifies an all-encompassing understanding or proficiency.); entirety (Refers to the totality or complete collection of something—the sum of all its parts, leaving nothing out. It denotes everything that exists in a given context.); undivided whole (Describes a single, intact unit or mass that remains unfragmented and complete. It emphasises the integrity and wholeness of an object or concept without any divisions.); administration (This sense refers to the act or process of governing or managing a domain, wherein one is entrusted with the responsibility to rule or oversee affairs. It is used in formal or classical contexts to denote the exercise of authority and the administration of responsibilities.); message communication (Abbreviated from 전언 통신 (jeoneon tongsin), this term refers to the urgent notification of official business transmitted from a superior institution to a subordinate institution using telecommunication means.); message text (Abbreviated from 전언 통신문 (jeoneon tongsinmun), this term denotes the written document or textual content that conveys official information from a superior institution to a subordinate institution.); tradition (Refers to the established system or form of ideas, customs, and behaviours that have been developed in a group or community over past eras and passed down through generations.); report case (This term refers to the container used to hold the official report that was submitted to the king during times when the nation experienced auspicious or inauspicious events.); arrow container (This term is the original word for what is now known as 전동 (jeondong). It denotes a container used to hold arrows, typically a cylindrical or tubular case—often made of bamboo in traditional archery—to store arrows securely for transport and use.)
Noun
역사
history (the process of transformation, rise, and decline of human society, or the record of such events); history (the chronology or record of the existence and development of a particular object or fact); history (the traces or record of natural phenomena and the changes they have undergone over time); history (the academic study of past events in human society); Histories (a historical work written around 425 BC by the Greek Herodotus, which narrates the history of the Persian Wars in a narrative style and is divided into nine books); History (a historical work written around 400 BC by the Greek Thucydides, chronicling the Peloponnesian War with a focus on political and military events based on a practical view of history); station building (a building that serves as a station, providing lodging or facilities for travellers, messengers, or officials); construction project (a large-scale engineering or building work); divine work (the work performed by god, or deeds attributed to divine intervention); strongman (a person who possesses extraordinary physical strength, an exceptionally powerful man); …
Noun
왕
king; monarch; king
Noun
궁
house, residence; palace; king, palace; bow; poverty; exhaustion; investigation
Noun
경복궁
Gyeongbokgung (main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty)
Name
불교
Buddhism
Noun
한옥
hanok (a type of traditional Korean house first designed and built in the 14th century during the Joseon era)
Noun
김장
gimjang, the traditional process of preparation and preservation of kimchi; alternatively, the kimchi in such process; planting napa cabbage, radish, etc. for the purpose of making kimchi; alternatively, the napa cabbage, radish, etc. used in kimchi-making; Chungcheong, Gangwon, Gyeongsang, and Jeolla dialect form of 간장 (ganjang)
Noun
군대
army
Noun
태극기
Taegeukgi, the official flag of South Korea
Name
애국가
Any patriotic song.; Any national anthem, regardless of country.
Noun
명동
Myeongdong (a dong in Seoul, South Korea)
Name
한강
Han River (in Seoul, South Korea); Han River (Shaanxi and Hubei, China); Han River (in Guangdong, China)
Name
제주도
Jeju Province (officially the Jeju Special Autonomous Province), South Korea; Jeju island
Name
공휴일
public holiday, legal holiday
Noun
정부
national government, particularly the executive branch
Noun
대통령
president of a country
Noun
국회
A national parliament or assembly.
Noun
시청
city hall; watch and listen, especially to television
Noun
법
law; dharma; grammatical mood
Noun
권리
right; privilege
Noun
자유
freedom, liberty
Noun
전쟁
war
Noun
평화
peace; harmony
Noun
안전
safety; security
Noun
경제
economy; economics
Noun
사회
society; a class, a world of a certain group; social studies; moderation of a meeting or ceremony; moderator
Noun
국민
people of a nation
Noun
선거
election; any process to select an officer
Noun
정치
politics; governmental affairs
Noun
기자
reporter, journalist, newsman, correspondent
Noun
법원
court (of law)
Noun
범죄
crime
Noun
사고
an accident; thought; reflection
Noun
사건
a noteworthy or remarkable incident
Noun
시위
demonstration; protest; bowstring
Noun
계약
contract
Noun
세금
tax, duty
Noun
연구
research
Noun
과학
science
Noun
기술
technology; skill; technique; description; jugglery; sleight of hand
Noun
환경
environment, as a general concept; the natural environment
Noun
인구
population; rumor; popular speech
Noun
미래
the future
Noun
과거
the past; one's past; past tense; civil service examination (to select officials in dynastic China, Korea, and Vietnam); measles; living on one's own as a widow; excessive behaviour
Noun
현재
now, at present; currently
Adverb
국제
international, internationality
Noun
발전
development; growth; power generation
Noun
통일
unification or reunification
Noun
북한
North Korea (a country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea; official name: 조선민주주의인민공화국(朝鮮民主主義人民共和國) (Joseon Minjujuui Inmin Gonghwaguk); capital: 평양(平壤) (Pyeong'yang))
Name
것
thing; something; that which; what; used to designate any object, action, or phenomenon, forming noun phrases.; an object belonging to an owner; forms constructions equivalent to English possessive pronouns. Colloquially pronounced 꺼 (kkeo) with initial tensing.; Emphasizes the speaker's certainty about the preceding verb or adjective.; Used as an element in a number of verbal suffixes; see the "Derived terms" section.
Noun
곳
place
Noun
이유
reason; cause; weaning
Noun
결과
as a result of
Adverb
목적
a goal; an objective; a pipe instrument played by a shepherd
Noun
가능
possibility; potentiality
Noun
기회
opportunity
Noun
생활
lifestyle, way of life; daily living
Noun
삶
life; living
Noun
죽음
death, dying; Death (Tarot card)
Noun
부분
portion; section; part
Noun
종류
type, kind, category
Noun
모양
surface appearance; with copula -이다 (-ida): it looks, it appears that; a condition or situation
Noun
시작
start, beginning; composition of poetry
Noun
끝
end, final
Noun
가운데
center; the middle; out of, among; amid, as, with, indicating in the course of doing something
Noun
혼자
solitude; alone, (all) by oneself, (all) on one's own
Noun
다른
different, other
Determiner
상태
condition, status
Noun
변화
change; variation
Noun
경험
experience
Noun
성공
success
Noun
실패
failure; spool, reel, bobbin
Noun
도움
help; assistance; favour, favor
Noun
계획
a plan
Noun
결정
decision; crystal
Noun
선택
selection; choice; option
Noun
힘
strength; power; force; Strength (Tarot card)
Noun
가치
value
Noun
수준
a standard or criterion level
Noun
질
quality; nature, disposition; matter; vagina; folding case, wrapper (for books); Classifier for a set of books. volume; potter's clay; unglazed clay; official ranks; official salaries; soy sauce
Noun
방법
way; means; manner; method
Noun
관계
connection; relationship
Noun
가져오다
to bring something; to incur; to entail
Verb
옮기다
to move; to shift; to transfer, to change; to carry out, to execute; to infect (a disease), to transmit (germs); to translate
Verb
잡다
to take, to hold, to grab, to seize, to arrest; to catch, to seize; to slaughter, to butcher, to kill (an animal); to occupy, to take up, to seize, to take; to manage, to arrange, to reserve, to settle; to extinguish
Verb
넣다
to put in, to include, to insert
Verb
빼다
to pull, to remove, to take out; to subtract; to lose weight; to resemble
Verb
짓다
to make something (food, a house, etc.), to build
Verb
부수다
to break; to smash
Verb