๐Ÿƒ Essential Korean for Jogging & Running ๐Ÿฅ‡

์กฐ๊น…ํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ผญ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•  ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„ & ์–ดํœ˜ ์™„์ „ ์ •๋ฆฌ!

Whether youโ€™re running at Han River (ํ•œ๊ฐ•), doing laps in your neighborhood park, or joining a local 5K, hereโ€™s your must-know Korean vocabulary and expressions for jogging and running!


๐Ÿƒ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์กฐ๊น… ๊ด€๋ จ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์–ดํœ˜

KoreanPronunciationEnglish
์กฐ๊น…jo-gingJogging
๋Ÿฐ๋‹reon-ningRunning (Konglish)
์šด๋™ํ™”un-dong-hwaRunning shoes
์šด๋™๋ณตun-dong-bokWorkout clothes
ํŠธ๋ž™teu-raekTrack
๋Ÿฌ๋‹๋จธ์‹ reo-ning-meo-sinTreadmill
๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹คdal-li-daTo run
์ˆจ์ฐจ๋‹คsum-cha-daOut of breath
์ค€๋น„ ์šด๋™jun-bi un-dongWarm-up
์ •๋ฆฌ ์šด๋™jeong-ri un-dongCool-down
์ฒด๋ ฅche-ryeokStamina
๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌgeo-riDistance
์†๋„sok-doSpeed
ํŽ˜์ด์Šค ์กฐ์ ˆpe-i-seu jo-jeolPace control
๋•€ttamSweat

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Real-Life Jogging Expressions in Korean

KoreanEnglish
์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ์— ์กฐ๊น…ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.I went jogging this morning.
์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์„ธ์š”.Run slowly.
์ˆจ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฐจ์š”.Iโ€™m so out of breath.
๋ช‡ km ๋›ฐ์—ˆ์–ด์š”?How many kilometers did you run?
๋Ÿฌ๋‹๋จธ์‹ ์—์„œ 30๋ถ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์–ด์š”.I ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes.
์š”์ฆ˜ ์กฐ๊น…์„ ์ž์ฃผ ํ•ด์š”.I jog often these days.
์ฒด๋ ฅ์ด ์ข‹์•„์กŒ์–ด์š”.My stamina has improved.
์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊น…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์•„์š”.The weather is perfect for jogging today.

๐Ÿ’ก ๋ฌธํ™” ํŒ & ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ •๋ณด

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท 1. ์กฐ๊น… ์ธ๊ตฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘

Korea has a growing fitness culture, and ์กฐ๊น… or ๋Ÿฐ๋‹ is popular, especially along rivers and parks like ํ•œ๊ฐ•๊ณต์›, ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ๊ณต์›, and even mountain trails.

๐ŸŽฝ 2. ๋งˆ๋ผํ†ค ๋Œ€ํšŒ ๋ฌธํ™”

Local ๋งˆ๋ผํ†ค (marathon) events and fun runs are common, including 5K, 10K, and charity runs. If youโ€™re learning Korean, these are great for immersion!

๐ŸงŠ 3. ์ค€๋น„ ์šด๋™์€ ํ•„์ˆ˜!

Warm-up and cool-down are strongly emphasized. Koreans often say:
โ€œ์ค€๋น„ ์šด๋™ ์•ˆ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‹ค์ณ์š”!โ€ (Youโ€™ll get injured if you skip warm-up!)

๐Ÿ•’ 4. ์ธ๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€

Most joggers run early in the morning or in the evening to avoid heat or pollution. Avoid midday runs, especially in summer.


๐Ÿงพ Useful Extra Words

KoreanEnglish
์šด๋™ ๋ฃจํ‹ดworkout routine
์šด๋™ ์•ฑfitness app
๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ์Šค ํ•˜์ดrunnerโ€™s high (Konglish)
๋‚˜์ดํ‚ค ๋Ÿฐ ํด๋ŸฝNike Run Club (popular app)
๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธก์ •distance tracking
๋งŒ๋ณด๊ณ„pedometer
์•ผ์™ธ ์šด๋™outdoor workout

๐ŸŽฏ Mini Quiz

  1. Whatโ€™s the Korean word for โ€œwarm-upโ€?
  2. How do you say โ€œIโ€™m out of breathโ€ in Korean?
  3. What does “ํŽ˜์ด์Šค ์กฐ์ ˆ” mean?

๐Ÿ“ฉ Share your answers or leave a comment: Do you like ์กฐ๊น… or ๋Ÿฐ๋‹?


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