Whether you’re a student in Korea, a Korean language learner, or a teacher working with Korean students, mastering classroom-related Korean vocabulary is key to effective communication.
In this post, youโll learn 70+ must-know Korean classroom words and phrases โ including school objects, classroom commands, people, and useful expressions. Perfect for daily use in educational settings!
๐ซ Classroom Objects in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ต์ค | gyo-sil | Classroom |
| ์น ํ | chil-pan | Blackboard / Whiteboard |
| ๋ถํ | bun-pil | Chalk |
| ๋ง์ปค | ma-keo | Marker |
| ์ฑ ์ | chaek-sang | Desk |
| ์์ | ui-ja | Chair |
| ์ฑ | chaek | Book |
| ๊ณต์ฑ / ๋ ธํธ | gong-chaek / no-teu | Notebook |
| ์ฐํ | yeon-pil | Pencil |
| ์ง์ฐ๊ฐ | ji-u-gae | Eraser |
| ํํต | pil-tong | Pencil case |
| ์ | ja | Ruler |
| ๊ฐ์ | ga-wi | Scissors |
| ํ | pul | Glue |
| ์ข ์ด | jong-i | Paper |
๐ฉโ๐ซ People in the Classroom
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ ์๋ | seon-saeng-nim | Teacher |
| ํ์ | hak-saeng | Student |
| ๋๊ธ์ | dong-geup-saeng | Classmate |
| ๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ | ban chin-gu | Classmate (lit. โclass friendโ) |
| ๊ต์ฅ์ ์๋ | gyo-jang seon-saeng-nim | Principal |
| ์กฐ๊ต | jo-gyo | Assistant teacher / TA |
๐๏ธ Common School Subjects in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ตญ์ด | guk-eo | Korean language |
| ์์ด | yeong-eo | English |
| ์ํ | su-hak | Math |
| ๊ณผํ | gwa-hak | Science |
| ์ญ์ฌ | yeok-sa | History |
| ์ฌํ | sa-hwe | Social studies |
| ์ฒด์ก | che-yuk | Physical education |
| ์์ | eum-ak | Music |
| ๋ฏธ์ | mi-sul | Art |
๐ Classroom Activities & Verbs
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค | gong-bu-ha-da | To study |
| ์์ ํ๋ค | su-eop-ha-da | To conduct a class |
| ์ง๋ฌธํ๋ค | jil-mun-ha-da | To ask a question |
| ๋๋ตํ๋ค | dae-dap-ha-da | To answer |
| ๋ฃ๋ค | deut-da | To listen |
| ์ฐ๋ค | sseu-da | To write |
| ์ฝ๋ค | ilk-da | To read |
| ์ธ์ฐ๋ค | oe-u-da | To memorize |
| ๋ฐํํ๋ค | bal-pyo-ha-da | To present |
| ์์ ํ๋ค | suk-je-ha-da | To do homework |
๐ข Useful Korean Classroom Expressions
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์กฐ์ฉํ ํ์ธ์. | jo-yong-hi ha-se-yo | Please be quiet. |
| ์ฑ ์ ํด์ธ์. | chaek-eul pyeo-se-yo | Open your book. |
| ์ฑ ์ ๋ฎ์ผ์ธ์. | chaek-eul deo-peu-se-yo | Close your book. |
| ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ฝ์ผ์ธ์. | tta-ra ilk-eu-se-yo | Repeat after me. |
| ์ง๋ฌธ ์์ด์? | jil-mun iss-eo-yo? | Do you have any questions? |
| ์ดํดํ์ด์? | i-hae-haet-seo-yo? | Did you understand? |
| ์์ ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ธ์. | suk-je-reul nae-se-yo | Turn in your homework. |
| ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋งํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | da-si han-beon mal-hae ju-se-yo | Please say it again. |
| ์ํ์ด์! | jal-haet-seo-yo! | Good job! |
| ์ง์คํ์ธ์. | jip-jung-ha-se-yo | Please focus. |
โ Practice Challenge!
1๏ธโฃ How do you say โhomeworkโ in Korean?
2๏ธโฃ What is the Korean word for โchalkboardโ?
3๏ธโฃ How do you say โstudentโ in Korean?
๐ฌ Share your answers in the comments and test yourself!
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