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You have been sightseeing all day in Korea with your family! You are all famished and decide to duck into a small Korean restaurant to grab a bite to eat. The Korean host seats the five of you at a table and gives you menus to look at. Your wife and kids have no idea how to read or speak in Korean, so as father of the family, they look to you for the lead. You get to play the hero and impress them with the Korean language skills you have learned over the past few months! That is until you yell out loudly in Korean for a waiter! A Korean waiter promptly comes to the table and you place your order in Korean…but he forgot a drink. Never to fear! Much to your wife’s horror-and your kids’ amusement-you yell out “waiter” in Korean again and he promptly returns to your table. Much to your dismay, your wife is not the slightest bit amused by your sudden rude behavior in Korea.

 

Learning Korean with KoreanClass101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Korean! In this Korean Newbie lesson, you will learn how to make requests in Korean with the phrase, “please give me.” You will also learn how to say “excuse me” in Korean to get someone’s attention. Finally, we will discuss Korean etiquette for calling your waiter in restaurants. Don’t forget to visit us at KoreanClass101 where you will find tons of great Korean lessons and learning materials! Leave us a comment while you are there!

Korean Restaurant

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie Season 2 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

19 Responses to “Newbie S2 #10 - Get Their Attention…and Get What You Want in Korea!”

KoreanClass101.com says:

여러분… 이런 곳에 가 본 적이 있니요?
(Everyone… have you ever been to a place like this?)

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Jason says:

I was at a restaurant once and we couldn’t get anyone’s attention to get the check. So I said-”Let’s get up and start to leave. That’ll get their attention” But it didn’t! :mad:

We loitered at the cash register a minute, and then just left without paying. That was bad service and it cost them.

I just hope in this lesson that 손님 hasn’t lost his wallet.

That seems to happen often around here! :lol:

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Jeff (rooster) says:

haha, jasons comment was funny

and im happy cause i finally think ive graduated from newbie lessons :mrgreen: the past few lessons, ive been able to understand the whole thing!….cool

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Jacquelline (쟈클린) says:

Can i say 손님는 왕입니다 ? :mrgreen:

Jeff (rooster),졸업 축하해요! :mrgreen:

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

저도 이런 곳에 가 본 적 있어요! 그런데 일부러 무례하게 하는 곳이었어요. :-)
(I’ve been to a place like this too! But they were being rude on purpose :D )

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Jason :-)
ㅋㅋㅋ
그렇게 불친절한 식당이라면,
정말 그래도 싸요!! (It serves them right!!)

Jeff :-)
Congratulations!! 축하 축하!! :D

Jacqueline :-)
yeah you can say 손님은 왕입니다, 손님이 왕이다, 손님이 왕이에요, whichever you want :-)

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Keith says:

I went to a hotdog shop in chicago called the Weiner Circle. The people there are famous for being rude, and people go there for the BAD service. But they were nice to me! :mrgreen:

Jason - Was the food good at least? I’ll take a free meal any day. And they seemed to really deserve losing out on a check :P

Jeff - Great to hear that you feel like you’re progressing! Some of the future Newbies are good to listen to. But how about jumping into the Beginner Lessons? Maybe Season 1 if you’re up to it ;)

Jacqueline - Do you have a saying like that in the Dominican Republic? How’s the service there?

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Joe says:

I don’t know where to begin! Help some one! I’m so confused where to begin!

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Keith says:

Hey Joe :) You’re in luck! We just set up our new “Where to Start” guide :)

Please go here and find out a little more ;) If you still have some questions, feel free to let us know.

http://www.koreanclass101.com/help-center/the-courses/

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Jeff (Javis) says:

Wow, what uncanny timing. :cool:

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Shan says:

Congratulations, Jeff (rooster)! I feel the same way too! :grin: When I do the beginner lessons I sometimes feel like my head’s exploding, but when I do a newbie, I suddenly feel like I know something after all! :grin:

There’s a Chinese restaurant in London’s Chinatown that’s also infamous for rude service and mediocre food. But curious tourists just flock there!! If there are, say, only 2 of you and it’s a 4-seat table, they make you sit side-by-side so as to share the table with other customers! Extremely strange. And when you ask for more chilli oil, they will point to the bottle and say there’s some more, use up to the last drop before you ask for more!! :???:

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Jeff (rooster) says:

haha, i already listen to beginner lessons :] …. infact i listen to everything on this website :mrgreen: m ITS ALL SO FASCINATING!!!

and thank you Shan, Hyunwoo, and Jacqueline :grin:
you guys create such a positive learning environment

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Bouks says:

Shan, I know exactly how you feel…newbie lessons are too easy, but my head is still spinning from the last beginner lesson :mrgreen:

Once at an Italian restaurant, I couldn’t finish my pasta because the serving was huge. The manager was walking around and when he got to my table and saw how much food I’d left, he said in a very concerned way, “What’s the matter? You didn’t finish your pasta!” He wasn’t rude, just…maybe worried that I didn’t like it? It was cute. That’s the first and only time I was asked that in a restaurant.

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theresa says:

i heard that there’s this country, i don’t know where but if you ask for ketchup or chilli or tobasco or any other spices the chef will get pissed and come out to tick you off cuz it means that the food doesn’t taste good on its own. it’s really funny cuz i can’t eat anything without sauce, no matter how tasty it is!!!

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선현우(Hyunwoo Sun) says:

Jeff :-) Thank YOU for actively participating in the conversation!! :-) 고마워요 :grin:

Bouks,
ㅋㅋㅋ i know what you mean :) I don’t have to worry about making the owner of the restaurant worried because I usually don’t leave much food untouched, but sometimes when I do, I get this look from 아줌마 or 아저씨 of the restaurant, and i can read their mind “왜 다 안 먹어? 아깝잖아. (Why aren’t you eating all of it? It’s gonna be wasted.) ” ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Theresa :-)
저도 그 얘기 들어 본 것 같아요 :) ㅎㅎㅎ

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Chris says:

I don’t really go out a lot since it’s pricy here. I’ve only been to a halful of places, but I think the service in Norway’s ok, and I remember it being good in Italy. Here the waiter will only ask you if you liked the food.

Hangul was easy to learn, but it takes time to reckognise the syllable blocks. It was reaaly nice to be able to see that today’s lesson had ㅈ,ㅊ, and ㅉ, because I still have problems hearing the difference (and I can forget about ever being able to pronounce them).

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Keith says:

Chris, later in the year we plan to have a pronunciation series which will help everyone! I hope you enjoy it… (it’ll be late 2008 though… :P )

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John says:

Would you ever use jeogiyo as “excuse me” in the “pardon me” context? For instance if you accidentally bump into someone?

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Hyunwoo Sun(선현우) says:

John :)

Well, not really. In that case specifically, you can use “죄송합니다(joe song hamnida)” :)

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