Taking a ํ์ (taek-si) in Korea is one of the most convenient ways to get around โ especially if youโre traveling with luggage, going to the airport, or heading somewhere late at night. But if you’re not fluent in Korean, communicating with the taxi driver can be tricky.
In this post, you’ll learn the most important Korean taxi vocabulary and practical expressions you can use when riding a taxi, giving directions, and paying for the ride. Whether you’re in Seoul, Busan, or Jeju, this guide will help you ride with confidence!
๐ Korean Taxi Vocabulary
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ํ์ | taek-si | Taxi |
| ํ์ ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ | taek-si jeong-ryu-jang | Taxi stand |
| ์ผ๋ฐ ํ์ | il-ban taek-si | Regular taxi |
| ๋ชจ๋ฒ ํ์ | mo-beom taek-si | Deluxe taxi |
| ์ฝํ์ | kol-taek-si | Call taxi |
| ๊ฐ์ธ ํ์ | gae-in taek-si | Private taxi |
| ์น๊ฐ | seung-gaek | Passenger |
| ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ | gi-sa-nim | Driver (honorific) |
| ๋ชฉ์ ์ง | mok-jeok-ji | Destination |
| ์๊ธ | yo-geum | Fare |
| ๋ฏธํฐ๊ธฐ | mi-teo-gi | Meter |
| ์นด๋ ๊ฒฐ์ | ka-deu gyeol-je | Card payment |
| ํ๊ธ | hyeon-geum | Cash |
| ์์์ฆ | yeong-su-jeung | Receipt |
๐บ๏ธ Giving Directions in a Taxi (in Korean)
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | yeo-gi-ro ga ju-se-yo | Please go here. |
| ์ด ์ฃผ์๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | i ju-so-ro ga ju-se-yo | Please go to this address. |
| ๊ณตํญ๊น์ง ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | gong-hang-kka-ji ga ju-se-yo | Please take me to the airport. |
| ํธํ ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | ho-tel-lo ga ju-se-yo | Please go to the hotel. |
| ์ง์งํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | jik-jin-hae ju-se-yo | Please go straight. |
| ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | o-reun-jjok-eu-ro ga ju-se-yo | Please turn right. |
| ์ผ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | oen-jjok-eu-ro ga ju-se-yo | Please turn left. |
| ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ์ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | yeo-gi-seo se-wo ju-se-yo | Please stop here. |
| ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | jo-geum deo ga ju-se-yo | Please go a little further. |
| ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | gol-mok an-eu-ro deu-reo-ga ju-se-yo | Please go into the alley. |
๐ฌ Useful Taxi-Related Expressions in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ํ์ ์ก์ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | taek-si ja-ba ju-se-yo | Please get me a taxi. |
| ๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ ์ด๊ณณ์ด์์. | mok-jeok-ji-neun i-got-i-e-yo | This is the destination. |
| ์นด๋๋ก ๊ณ์ฐํ ๊ฒ์. | ka-deu-ro gye-san-hal-ge-yo | Iโll pay by card. |
| ํ๊ธ๋ฐ์ ์์ด์. | hyeon-geum-bak-kke eop-seo-yo | I only have cash. |
| ์์์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | yeong-su-jeung ju-se-yo | Please give me a receipt. |
| ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋์์ด์? | eol-ma-na na-wat-seo-yo? | How much is it? |
| ํ์ ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฌ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | taek-si aep-eu-ro bul-leo ju-se-yo | Please call a taxi with the app. |
| ๊ธธ ์ข ๋์๊ฐ์ด์. | gil jom do-ra-gat-seo-yo | You took a longer route. |
| ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ธธ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | ppa-reun gil-lo ga ju-se-yo | Please take the fastest route. |
| ๊ณ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค / ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. | go-map-seum-ni-da / gam-sa-ham-ni-da | Thank you. |
๐ฑ Popular Taxi Apps in Korea
| App Name | Korean | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| Kakao T | ์นด์นด์ค T | Most popular taxi-hailing app in Korea |
| T map ํ์ | T map taek-si | Useful for navigation and calling taxis |
| International Apps | โ | Uber is limited in Korea but available in some areas |
Tip: Kakao T allows you to set pickup/drop-off locations in English and pay via the app.
๐ฏ Practice Time!
Try answering these in the comments:
1๏ธโฃ How do you say “Please take me to the airport” in Korean?
2๏ธโฃ What is the Korean word for โtaxi fareโ?
3๏ธโฃ How do you say โStop here, pleaseโ in Korean?
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