Want to visit the zoo (๋๋ฌผ์) or aquarium (์์ฟ ์๋ฆฌ์) in Korea? Whether you’re going to Seoul Grand Park, Lotte Aquarium, or Busan Sea Life, knowing key Korean words and phrases will help you navigate exhibits, understand signs, and have a more immersive experience.
In this post, youโll learn:
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100+ important Korean words related to zoos and aquariums
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Hangul + Romanization + English for each entry
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Must-know Korean expressions for animal lovers and tourists
Letโs explore the animal kingdom in Korean!
๐ฆ Zoo & Aquarium Basics
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋๋ฌผ์ | dong-mul-won | Zoo |
| ์์ฟ ์๋ฆฌ์ | a-ku-a-ri-um | Aquarium |
| ์ ์ฅ๊ถ | ip-jang-kkwon | Admission ticket |
| ์ ์ฅ๋ฃ | ip-jang-ryo | Entrance fee |
| ๊ด๋ ์๊ฐ | gwan-ram si-gan | Viewing hours |
| ๊ฐ์ด๋ ํฌ์ด | ga-i-deu tu-eo | Guided tour |
| ์ง๋ | ji-do | Map |
| ์ ์๊ด | jeon-si-gwan | Exhibition hall |
| ๋จน์ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ | meok-i ju-gi | Feeding time |
| ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ | gi-nyeom-pum-jeom | Gift shop |
| ํ์ฅ์ค | hwa-jang-sil | Restroom |
๐ฏ Animals You Might See at the Zoo
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฌ์ | sa-ja | Lion |
| ํธ๋์ด | ho-rang-i | Tiger |
| ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ | ko-kki-ri | Elephant |
| ๊ธฐ๋ฆฐ | gi-rin | Giraffe |
| ์์ญ์ด | won-sung-i | Monkey |
| ๊ณฐ | gom | Bear |
| ํ๋ง | ha-ma | Hippo |
| ์ผ๋ฃฉ๋ง | eol-luk-mal | Zebra |
| ์บฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฃจ | kaeng-geo-ru | Kangaroo |
| ํ๋ค | pan-da | Panda |
| ๋๋ | neuk-dae | Wolf |
| ์ฌ์ฐ | yeo-u | Fox |
๐ Aquarium Animals
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ | mul-go-gi | Fish |
| ์์ด | sang-eo | Shark |
| ํดํ๋ฆฌ | hae-pa-ri | Jellyfish |
| ๋ฌธ์ด | mun-eo | Octopus |
| ๊ฐ์ค๋ฆฌ | ga-o-ri | Stingray |
| ํด๋ง | hae-ma | Seahorse |
| ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์ด | geo-buk-i | Turtle |
| ๋๊ณ ๋ | dol-go-rae | Dolphin |
| ํญ๊ท | peng-gwin | Penguin |
| ๋ฐ๋คํ๋ฒ | ba-da-pyo-beom | Seal |
| ์๋ฌ | su-dal | Otter |
| ๊ณ ๋ | go-rae | Whale |
๐ฃ๏ธ Useful Phrases at the Zoo or Aquarium
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ ์ฅ๋ฃ๋ ์ผ๋ง์์? | ip-jang-ryo-neun eol-ma-ye-yo? | How much is the entrance fee? |
| ์ด๋์์ ํฐ์ผ์ ์ฌ์? | eo-di-e-seo ti-ket-eul sa-yo? | Where can I buy tickets? |
| ์ฌ์ง ์ฐ์ด๋ ๋ผ์? | sa-jin jjik-eo-do dwae-yo? | Can I take photos? |
| ๋จน์ด ์ฃผ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ธ์ ์์? | meok-i ju-neun si-gan-eun eon-je-ye-yo? | When is feeding time? |
| ์ด๋ค ๋๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์์ด์? | eo-tteon dong-mul-deul-i i-sseo-yo? | What animals are here? |
| ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์ธ์. | ga-kka-i ga-ji ma-se-yo | Please donโt get too close. |
| ๋ง์ง๋ฉด ์ ๋ผ์. | man-ji-myeon an dwae-yo | Donโt touch. |
| ์กฐ์ฉํ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | jo-yong-hi hae ju-se-yo | Please be quiet. |
| ์ด ๋๋ฌผ์ ์ด๋์์ ์์ด์? | i dong-mul-eun eo-di-e-seo wat-seo-yo? | Where is this animal from? |
๐ Fun & Descriptive Words
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ท์ฝ๋ค | gwi-yeop-da | Cute |
| ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ค | sin-gi-ha-da | Amazing |
| ๋ฌด์ญ๋ค | mu-seop-da | Scary |
| ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค | ppa-reu-da | Fast |
| ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค | neu-ri-da | Slow |
| ํ๋ฐํ๋ค | hwal-bal-ha-da | Active |
| ์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค | jo-yong-ha-da | Quiet |
| ํฌ๋ค | keu-da | Big |
| ์๋ค | jak-da | Small |
| ๋ฌผ์์์ ์ฐ๋ค | mul-sok-e-seo san-da | Lives in water |
๐ Want to Learn More?
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โ๏ธ Amusement Park Vocabulary
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