Korean Vocabulary: The city and public places
– Useful words you should know –
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Want to learn the Korean language? Hereโs a complete list of the most basic, common and useful words in Korean with their translation in English, on the topic of the city and public places. Ideal to help you boost your Korean vocabulary!
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| ENGLISH | KOREAN | PRONUNCIATION |
| a city | ๋์ | dosi |
| the suburbs | ๊ต์ธ | gyooe |
| the capital | ์๋ | sudo |
| the crowd | ๊ตฐ์ค | gunjung |
| the police | ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ | gyeongchal |
| the pollution | ์ค์ผ | oyeom |
| the firemen | ์๋ฐฉ๊ด | sobang-gwan |
| the toilets | ํ์ฅ์ค | hwajangsil |
| clean | ๊นจ๋ํ | kkaekkeushan |
| dirty | ๋๋ฌ์ด | deoleoun |
| safe | ์์ ํ | anjeonhan |
| quiet | ์กฐ์ฉํ | joyonghan |
| an apartment | ์ํํธ | apateu |
| a bus stop | ๋ฒ์ค ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ | beoseu jeonglyujang |
| a bar | ์ ์ง | suljib |
| a post office | ์ฐ์ฒด๊ตญ | uchegug |
| a shopping center | ์ผํ ์ผํฐ | syoping senteo |
| a city center | ๋์ฌ | dosim |
| a castle | ์ฑ | seong |
| a cemetery | ๋ฌ์ง | myoji |
| a cinema | ์ํ | yeonghwa |
| a police station | ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ | gyeongchalseo |
| a dentist | ์น๊ณผ ์์ฌ | chigwa uisa |
| an atm | atm | atm |
| a traffic jam | ๊ตํต ์ ์ฒด | gyotong jeongche |
| a garage | ์ฐจ๊ณ | chago |
| a skyscraper | ๊ณ ์ธต ๋น๋ฉ | gocheung bilding |
| a hospital | ๋ณ์ | byeong-won |
| a hotel | ํธํ | hotel |
| a building | ๋น๋ฉ | bilding |
| an apartment | ์ํํธ | apateu |
| a store | ๊ฐ๊ฒ | gage |
| a market | ๋ง์ผ | makes |
| a doctor | ์์ฌ | uisa |
| a subway | ์งํ์ฒ | jihacheol |
| a monument | ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌผ | ginyeommul |
| a museum | ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด | bagmulgwan |
| a park | ๊ณต์ | gong-won |
| a parking lot | ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ | juchajang |
| a bridge | ๋ค๋ฆฌ | dali |
| a neighborhood | ๋๋ค | dongne |
| a restaurant | ๋ ์คํ ๋ | leseutolang |
| a stadium | ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ฅ | gyeong-gijang |
| a supermarket | ์ํผ๋ง์ผ | syupeomakes |
| a theater | ๊ทน์ฅ | geugjang |
| a sidewalk | ๋ณด๋ | bodo |
| a village | ๋ง์ | ma-eul |
| a neighbor | ์ด์ | ius |
| a zoo | ๋๋ฌผ์ | dongmul-won |
| a bank | ์ํ | eunhaeng |
| a library | ๋์๊ด | doseogwan |
| a cathedral | ๋์ฑ๋น | daeseongdang |
| a school | ํ๊ต | haggyo |
| a church | ๊ตํ | gyohoe |
| a queue | ๋๊ธฐ์ด | daegiyeol |
| a fountain | ๋ถ์ | bunsu |
| a train station | ๊ธฐ์ฐจ์ญ | gichayeog |
| a bus station | ๋ฒ์ค ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ | beoseu jeonglyujang |
| a bookstore | ์์ | seojeom |
| a mosque | ๋ชจ์คํฌ | moseukeu |
| a pharmacy | ์ฝ๊ตญ | yaggug |
| a swimming pool | ์์์ฅ | suyeongjang |
| a bicycle path | ์์ ๊ฑฐ ๋๋ก | jajeongeo dolo |
| a pedestrian street | ๋ณดํ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ | bohaengja geoli |
| a street | ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ | geoli |
| a main street | ๋๋ก | daelo |
| an alley | ๊ณจ๋ชฉ | golmog |
| an avenue | ๊ธธ | gil |
| a highway | ๊ณ ์๋๋ก | gosogdolo |
| a gas station | ์ฃผ์ ์ | juyuso |
| a statue | ์กฐ๊ฐ์ | jogagsang |
| a synagogue | ํ๋น | hoedang |
| a university | ๋ํ๊ต | daehaggyo |
| a factory | ๊ณต์ฅ | gongjang |
| a garbage can | ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐํต | sseulegitong |
| a prison | ๊ฐ์ฅ | gam-og |
โก๏ธ More Korean vocabulary lists:
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- Basic words to learn
- 100 most common Korean verbs
- Useful adverbs
- Useful adjectives
- Family and friends
- The human body, head and face
- Contrary words
- Travel and tourism
- The calendar (days, months, seasons)
- Colors and shapes
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