Lesson 1

• 안녕하세요


  Hello./Hi./How are you?/Good afternoon./Good evening./etc...
• 안녕+ 하세요

  안녕하세요
• 안녕


  well-being, peace, health
• 하세요


  you do, do you?, please do
• 안녕하세요 is the most common way of greeting someone in Korean. This greeting is in Ejon-claen-mal or polite/formal language.
• When someone greets you with 안녕하세요, simply greet the person back with 안녕하세요.
• 안녕하세요 was originally a question asking "Are you doing well", "Are you at peace?", or "Are you living well?", but since it is a very common expression, people began to not expect any special answers in reply.
• 안녕하세요 is exactly like asking "What's up?" in English, where you don't really expect an honest answer about what's going on.
• Honorifics


  Levels of politeness in Korean
• Two categories of Korean honorifics

  • Polite/formal language
  • Casual/intimate/formal language
• Sentences that end in -yo or -습니다 are most likely in polite/formal language.
• It is better to use polite/formal language because if you use casual/intimate/formal language in a situation where you should use polite/formal language, you might get into trouble.
• 감사합니다

  Thank you
• 감사+ 합니다

  감사합니다
• 감사


  appreciation, thankfulness, gratitude
• 합니다


  I do, I am doing
• 감사합니다 is the most common way to politely say "thank you".
• In Korean, the expression "thank you" does not include the word "you" because it's easy to guess to whom you are offering thanks.