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๐Ÿ’ผ How to Talk About Jobs in Korean: Essential Beginner Phrases – Beginner Level (TOPIK 1–2)

How to Talk About Jobs in Korean: Essential Beginner Phrases | Beginner Korean (TOPIK 1–2)

Do you know how to ask someone about their job in Korean?

This lesson introduces simple phrases to talk about occupations, ask about someone’s work, and answer politely—perfect for beginner learners traveling, studying, or living in Korea.

๐Ÿ“š Table of Contents

๐Ÿ“ Basic Job Vocabulary

  • ํ•™์ƒ (hak-saeng) – student
  • ํšŒ์‚ฌ์› (hoe-sa-won) – office worker
  • ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜ (seon-saeng-nim) – teacher
  • ์˜์‚ฌ (ui-sa) – doctor
  • ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ (gan-ho-sa) – nurse
  • ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ (yo-ri-sa) – chef
  • ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๊ด€ (gyeong-chal-gwan) – police officer
  • ์šด์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ (un-jeon-gi-sa) – driver
  • ์ž์˜์—…์ž (ja-yeong-eop-ja) – self-employed
  • ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ (peu-ri-raen-seo) – freelancer

Tip: Add “์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค” (am/is/are) for polite introductions: “์ €๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.” (I am a student.)

❓ How to Ask About Jobs

  • ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? (Museun il haseyo?) – What do you do?
  • ์ง์—…์ด ๋ญ์˜ˆ์š”? (Jigeobi mwoyeyo?) – What is your job?
  • ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ์ผํ•ด์š”? (Eodieseo ilhaeyo?) – Where do you work?

๐Ÿ’ก Note: Use polite endings like **-์„ธ์š”** or **-์˜ˆ์š”** when asking about jobs, especially with someone you’ve just met.

๐Ÿ™‹ How to Answer Politely

  • ์ €๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์›์ด์—์š”. (Jeoneun hoesawon-ieyo) – I’m an office worker.
  • ์ €๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์ด์—์š”. (Jeoneun haksaeng-ieyo) – I’m a student.
  • ์ €๋Š” ๋ณ‘์›์—์„œ ์ผํ•ด์š”. (Jeoneun byeongwon-eseo ilhaeyo) – I work at a hospital.
  • ์ €๋Š” ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์˜ˆ์š”. (Jeoneun sikdang-eseo yorisa-yeyo) – I’m a chef at a restaurant.

Tip: You can add “์ €๋Š” ~์˜ˆ์š”/์ด์—์š”” to politely state your occupation.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Example Sentences

  • ์ €๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ์˜ˆ์š”. – I’m a freelancer.
  • ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? – What do you do?
  • ์ €๋Š” ๋ณ‘์›์—์„œ ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ผํ•ด์š”. – I work as a nurse in a hospital.
  • ์ €๋Š” ์ž์˜์—…์ž์˜ˆ์š”. – I’m self-employed.

๐Ÿงฉ Quick Check: Can you create your own sentence using “์ €๋Š” ___์ด์—์š”/์˜ˆ์š”” to describe your job?

๐Ÿ—ฃ Practice Dialogue

A: ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”? What do you do?

B: ์ €๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์›์ด์—์š”. ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์ผํ•ด์š”. I’m an office worker. I work in Seoul.

A: ์•„, ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ตฐ์š”. ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”? Oh, I see. Where is your company?

B: ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”. It’s in Gangnam.

๐Ÿงฉ Quick Check: Try rewriting this dialogue by changing the job to “teacher” and the location to “Busan.”

๐ŸŒ Did You Know?

Did you know? In Korea, asking about someone’s job is common when first meeting. It’s not considered rude, as it helps understand social context and age hierarchy. However, younger Koreans now often ask about **hobbies or interests** instead to make conversations friendlier.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Final Thoughts

Talking about jobs in Korean is simple once you know key vocabulary and polite patterns. Use these phrases to introduce yourself and learn about others—this is a great way to start conversations and make friends in Korea.

Keep practicing by asking and answering about jobs in Korean, and soon it will feel natural in real-life interactions!

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