Learn Must-Know Words, Expressions, and Practical Info for Using Appliances in Korea (๊ฐ์ ์ ํ)
Whether youโve just moved to Korea or youโre navigating a Korean household, understanding key ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ (home appliances) terms and phrases will make daily life smoother and more efficient.
๐งบ Must-Know Home Appliances Vocabulary in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ | ga-jeon-je-pum | Home appliances |
| ๋์ฅ๊ณ | naeng-jang-go | Refrigerator |
| ์ธํ๊ธฐ | se-tak-gi | Washing machine |
| ๊ฑด์กฐ๊ธฐ | geon-jo-gi | Dryer |
| ์์ด์ปจ | e-eo-keon | Air conditioner |
| ์ ํ๊ธฐ | seon-pung-gi | Electric fan |
| ์ ์๋ ์ธ์ง | jeon-ja-re-in-ji | Microwave |
| ์ค๋ธ | o-beun | Oven |
| ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐฅ์ฅ | jeon-gi-bap-sot | Electric rice cooker |
| ์ปคํผ๋จธ์ | keo-pi-meo-sin | Coffee machine |
| ์ ์๊ธฐ | jeong-su-gi | Water purifier |
| ์ฒญ์๊ธฐ | cheong-so-gi | Vacuum cleaner |
| ์๊ธฐ์ธ์ฒ๊ธฐ | sik-gi-se-cheok-gi | Dishwasher |
| ๊ฐ์ค๋ ์ธ์ง | ga-seu-re-in-ji | Gas stove |
| ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ธ์ง | jeon-gi-re-in-ji | Electric stove |
| ํ ๋ ๋น์ | tel-le-bi-jeon | Television |
| ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ปจ | ri-mo-keon | Remote control |
| ์กฐ๋ช | jo-myeong | Lighting |
| ๋ณด์ผ๋ฌ | bo-il-leo | Boiler (heater) |
| ์จ์๊ธฐ | on-su-gi | Water heater |
๐ Useful Appliance-Related Verbs & Phrases in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ผ๋ค / ๋๋ค | kyeo-da / kkeu-da | To turn on / off |
| ์๋ํ๋ค | jak-dong-ha-da | To operate / work |
| ๊ณ ์ฅ ๋๋ค | go-jang na-da | To be broken |
| ์๋ฆฌํ๋ค | su-ri-ha-da | To repair |
| ์ถฉ์ ํ๋ค | chung-jeon-ha-da | To charge |
| ์ฝ์ผํธ์ ๊ฝ๋ค | kon-sen-teu-e kkot-da | To plug in |
| ์ ์์ ์ผ๋ค | jeon-won-eul kyeo-da | To power on |
| ์์ฝ ์ค์ ํ๋ค | ye-yak seol-jeong-ha-da | To set a timer |
| ์ธ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ค | se-gi jo-jeol-ha-da | To adjust strength / level |
| ์์์ด ์ฌํ๋ค | so-eum-i sim-ha-da | To be noisy |
๐ฃ๏ธ Common Appliance-Related Expressions in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐฅ์ฅ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์จ์? | jeon-gi-bap-sot eo-tteo-ke sseo-yo? | How do I use the rice cooker? |
| ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ปจ์ด ์ ๋ผ์. | ri-mo-keon-i an dwae-yo. | The remote isnโt working. |
| ์ธํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ ํด์. | se-tak-gi-ga jak-dong-eul an hae-yo. | The washing machine isnโt working. |
| ๊ณ ์ฅ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. | go-jang nan geot gat-a-yo. | I think itโs broken. |
| ์ด๋์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์ด์? | eo-di-seo su-ri-bat-eul su iss-eo-yo? | Where can I get it fixed? |
| ํํฐ๋ฅผ ๊ต์ฒดํด์ผ ํด์. | pil-teo-reul gyo-che-hae-ya hae-yo. | I need to change the filter. |
| ์ค๋ช ์ ์์ด์? | seol-myeong-seo iss-eo-yo? | Do you have the manual? |
| ์ด ์ ํ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ง์์. | i je-pum in-gi man-a-yo. | This product is very popular. |
| ์๋์ง ์ ์ฝํ์ด์์. | e-neo-ji jeol-yak-hyeong-i-e-yo. | Itโs energy-saving. |
โก Home Appliances in Korea โ Tips & Cultural Notes
๐๏ธ Buying Appliances in Korea
- You can shop at ํ์ด๋งํธ (Hi-Mart), ์ ์๋๋ (Electronic Land), or ์ฟ ํก (Coupang) for appliances.
- Used options are available on ์ค๊ณ ๋๋ผ (Joonggonara) or ๋น๊ทผ๋ง์ผ (Danggeun Market).
- Look for ์๋์ง ํจ์จ ๋ฑ๊ธ (energy efficiency rating) stickers on appliances.
๐ Appliance Rental & Maintenance
- Many homes, especially ์๋ฃธ (one-room apartments), come with basic appliances like a ๋์ฅ๊ณ (fridge) and ์ธํ๊ธฐ (washing machine).
- If your appliance breaks down, ask your landlord for a AS ์์ฒญ (after-service request) or contact the brand’s ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผํฐ (customer service).
๐ Voltage & Compatibility
- Korea uses 220V outlets with round two-prong plugs.
- Make sure any foreign appliance is ํธํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ (compatible) or use a ๋ณ์๊ธฐ (voltage converter).
๐ง Appliance Culture in Korea
- Korean homes typically use ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐฅ์ฅ (electric rice cookers) daily.
- ์ฒญ์๊ธฐ (vacuum cleaners) may include high-tech ๋ก๋ด์ฒญ์๊ธฐ (robot vacuums).
- ๋ณด์ผ๋ฌ (floor heating system) is common and often has ๋๋ฐฉ ์กฐ์ ๊ธฐ (heating controls) on the wall.
๐งพ Bonus Vocabulary for Appliance Use & Maintenance
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐ์ฅ์ | yeon-jang-seon | Extension cord |
| ๋ฉํฐํญ | meol-ti-taep | Power strip |
| ์๋ชจํ | so-mo-pum | Consumables (e.g., filters) |
| ๋์ ์ฐจ๋จ๊ธฐ | nu-jeon cha-dan-gi | Circuit breaker |
| ์จ๋ ์กฐ์ | on-do jo-jeol | Temperature control |
| ์๊ฐ ์ค์ | si-gan seol-jeong | Timer setting |
| ๋๋๋ฐฉ๊ธฐ | naeng-nan-bang-gi | Heating & cooling unit |
| ์ ๋ ฅ ์๋น | jeon-ryeok so-bi | Power consumption |
| ์๋ ์ฒญ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ | ja-dong cheong-so gi-neung | Self-cleaning function |
| ์์ ์ฅ์น | an-jeon-jang-chi | Safety device |
๐ฏ Vocabulary Quiz
- How do you say โmicrowaveโ in Korean?
- Whatโs the phrase for โItโs brokenโ?
- Translate: โHow do I use this air conditioner?โ
๐ฌ Comment your answers below and share what appliance you use the most in your home!
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