๐ Job Interviews: Common Questions & Answers | Intermediate Level (TOPIK 3–4)

Are you ready to impress in a Korean job interview?
Interviews in Korea often include predictable questions, but cultural expectations can make them tricky. This guide provides common questions, answers, and tips tailored for intermediate learners (TOPIK 3–4) to help you prepare with confidence.
๐ Table of Contents
- Common Korean Interview Questions
- Model Answers with Explanations
- Practice Dialogue
- Did You Know?
- Final Thoughts
๐ก Common Korean Interview Questions
1. ์๊ธฐ์๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
Please introduce yourself.
2. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์ ์ง์ํ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ฌด์์
๋๊น?
Why did you apply to our company?
3. ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์ฅ์ ๊ณผ ๋จ์ ์ ๋ฌด์์
๋๊น?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
4. 5๋
ํ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํฉ๋๊น?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
5. ์ด์ ์ง์ฅ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌด์์ด์์ต๋๊น?
What was your most memorable achievement in your previous job?
๐ Model Answers with Explanations
1. ์๊ธฐ์๊ฐ
์๋
ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ 5๋
๋์ ๋ง์ผํ
๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํด ์จ ํ๊ธธ๋์
๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ์๊ณผ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์บ ํ์ธ ๊ธฐํ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
Hello. My name is Hong Gil-dong, and I have worked in marketing for five years. I am skilled at customer analysis and planning online campaigns.
2. ์ง์ ๋๊ธฐ
๊ท์ฌ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ง์ผํ
์ ๋ต์ ๊ฐ๋ช
๋ฐ์์ ์ง์ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ํด์ธ ์์ฅ ํ์ฅ์ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
I applied because I was impressed by your company’s global marketing strategy. I believe my experience will help expand into international markets.
3. ์ฅ์ ๊ณผ ๋จ์
์ ์ฅ์ ์ ์ฑ
์๊ฐ ์๊ณ ์ฑ์คํ ์ ์
๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋๋ก ์ธ๋ถ ์ฌํญ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ง์คํด ์๋๊ฐ ๋๋ ค์ง ๋๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
My strength is being responsible and diligent. However, I sometimes focus too much on details, which can slow me down.
4. 5๋
ํ ๋ชฉํ
5๋
ํ์๋ ํ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋์ด ์๋ก์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ชฉํ์
๋๋ค.
In five years, I hope to become a team leader and lead new projects.
5. ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ
์๋
์๋ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ํ๋งค์จ์ 30% ์ฌ๋ฆฐ ์บ ํ์ธ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์งํํ์ต๋๋ค.
Last year, I successfully led a campaign that increased online sales by 30%.
๐ฃ Practice Dialogue
Interviewer: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์ ์ง์ํ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ฌด์์
๋๊น?
Uri hoesa-e jiwonhan iyuneun mueosimnikka?
Why did you apply to our company?
Applicant: ๊ท์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์น์ ๋น์ ์ด ์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ์ ๋ง๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ง์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
Gwisa-ui gachi-wa bijeon-i je gyeongheom-gwa jal matgi ttaemune jiwonhaetsseumnida.
I applied because your company’s values and vision match my experience.
๐งฉ Quick Check: How would you answer if asked, “What are your strengths?” in Korean?
๐ Did You Know?
In Korean job interviews, politeness and humility are highly valued. Even when discussing strengths, candidates often balance them by mentioning areas for improvement to show self-awareness.
๐ฆ Final Thoughts
Preparing for job interviews in Korean not only improves your language skills but also helps you understand workplace culture. Practice answering these questions aloud to build confidence and fluency.
Consistent preparation and cultural understanding will help you express yourself naturally and confidently when facing real Korean interviews.
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