๐ŸŽฎ Korean Gaming Vocabulary: 60+ Essential Words & Phrases for Gamers

Learn Important Korean Words for Playing, Streaming, and Talking About Games

Whether you’re into PC gaming, mobile apps, console titles, or online multiplayer, knowing gaming-related Korean vocabulary will boost your fluency and help you connect with Korean gamers. In this guide, youโ€™ll learn over 60 useful Korean words and expressions for gaming, chatting, streaming, and more!

Ideal for Korean learners, gamers, Twitch streamers, or anyone interacting in Korean gaming communities.


๐Ÿง  Basic Gaming Vocabulary in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๊ฒŒ์ž„ge-imGame
ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ดpeul-le-i-eoPlayer
๊ฒŒ์ด๋จธge-i-meoGamer
๊ฒŒ์ž„ํ•˜๋‹คge-im-ha-daTo play a game
์Šน๋ฆฌseung-riVictory / Win
ํŒจ๋ฐฐpae-baeDefeat / Loss
์ ์ˆ˜jeom-suScore
๋ ˆ๋ฒจre-belLevel
๊ฒฝํ—˜์น˜gyeong-heom-chiExperience (EXP)
์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐkae-rik-teoCharacter
์•„์ดํ…œa-i-temItem
๋ฌด๊ธฐmu-giWeapon
์Šคํ‚ฌseu-kilSkill
์žฅ๋น„jang-biEquipment
๋ณด์Šคbo-seuBoss
๋˜์ „deon-jeonDungeon
๋งตmaepMap

๐Ÿ’ฌ Useful Korean Expressions for Playing Games

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„ํ• ๋ž˜์š”?ga-chi ge-im-hal-lae-yo?Want to play together?
ํ•œ ํŒ ํ•˜์ž!han pan ha-ja!Letโ€™s play a round!
๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”.neo-mu eo-ryeo-wo-yoItโ€™s too hard.
์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”!jae-mi-it-seo-yoItโ€™s fun!
๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•ด์š”.da-si hae-yoLetโ€™s try again.
์ด๊ฒผ์–ด์š”!i-gyeot-seo-yoI won!
์กŒ์–ด์š”โ€ฆjeot-seo-yoI lostโ€ฆ
๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ด๊ฒผ์–ด!geo-ui i-gyeot-seo!We almost won!
๋ ‰ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์š”.raek geol-lyeo-yoItโ€™s lagging.
์„œ๋ฒ„๊ฐ€ ํ„ฐ์กŒ์–ด์š”.seo-beo-ga teo-jyeot-seo-yoThe server crashed.

๐Ÿ–ฅ Online Multiplayer & Streaming Terms

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ฒŒ์ž„on-la-in ge-imOnline game
๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ดmeol-ti-peul-le-i-eoMultiplayer
์„œ๋ฒ„seo-beoServer
์œ ์ €yu-jeoUser
ํด๋žœkeul-laenClan
๊ธธ๋“œgil-deuGuild
์ฑ„ํŒ…chae-tingChatting
์Œ์„ฑ ์ฑ„ํŒ…eum-seong chae-tingVoice chat
๋””์Šค์ฝ”๋“œdi-seu-ko-deuDiscord
์ƒ๋ฐฉ์†ก / ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐsaeng-bang-song / seu-teu-ri-mingLive stream
ํŠธ์œ„์น˜teu-wi-chiTwitch
์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ๊ฒŒ์ž„yu-tu-beu ge-imYouTube gaming
์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋จธseu-teu-ri-meoStreamer

๐Ÿงฉ Popular Gaming Genres in Korean

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋กคํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ž‰ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ (RPG)rol-peul-le-ing ge-imRole-playing game
์•ก์…˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„aek-syeon ge-imAction game
์ „๋žต ๊ฒŒ์ž„jeon-ryak ge-imStrategy game
์ŠˆํŒ… ๊ฒŒ์ž„syu-ting ge-imShooting game
ํผ์ฆ ๊ฒŒ์ž„peo-jeul ge-imPuzzle game
๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ri-deum ge-imRhythm game
์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๊ฒŒ์ž„seu-po-cheu ge-imSports game
๊ณตํฌ ๊ฒŒ์ž„gong-po ge-imHorror game
์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„si-myul-le-i-syeon ge-imSimulation game
์ธ๋”” ๊ฒŒ์ž„in-di ge-imIndie game

๐Ÿง  Common Korean Gaming Verbs & Phrases

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹คsi-jak-ha-daTo start
๋๋‚˜๋‹คkkeut-na-daTo end / finish
์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋‹คseol-chi-ha-daTo install
๋‹ค์šด๋กœ๋“œํ•˜๋‹คda-un-lo-deu-ha-daTo download
์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•˜๋‹คeop-de-i-teu-ha-daTo update
๊ณต๊ฒฉํ•˜๋‹คgong-gyeok-ha-daTo attack
๋ฐฉ์–ดํ•˜๋‹คbang-eo-ha-daTo defend
์ฃฝ์ด๋‹ค / ์ฃฝ๋‹คjuk-i-da / juk-daTo kill / To die
์ด๊ธฐ๋‹คi-gi-daTo win
์ง€๋‹คji-daTo lose
๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์—…ํ•˜๋‹คre-bel-eop-ha-daTo level up

๐Ÿ“ฑ Mobile & Casual Gaming Vocabulary

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ๊ฒŒ์ž„mo-ba-il ge-imMobile game
ํด๋ฆญ ๊ฒŒ์ž„keul-lik ge-imClicker game
๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋ณด์ƒgwang-go bo-sangAd reward
ํ˜„์งˆhyeon-jilPay-to-win (in-game purchases)
๊ณผ๊ธˆgwa-geumPayment / Charge
๋ฌด๊ณผ๊ธˆmu-gwa-geumFree-to-play
์ด๋ฒคํŠธi-ben-teuEvent
๋ณด์ƒbo-sangReward
์—…์ eop-jeokAchievement

๐ŸŽฏ Practice Time!

1๏ธโƒฃ How do you say โ€œLetโ€™s play a roundโ€ in Korean?
2๏ธโƒฃ Whatโ€™s the Korean word for โ€œcharacterโ€?
3๏ธโƒฃ Translate โ€œItโ€™s laggingโ€ into Korean.

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