Learn how to talk about health, sickness, and medical conditions in Korean!
Whether you’re visiting a hospital in Korea, describing your symptoms, or watching a K-drama with medical scenes, it’s essential to know how to express common illnesses and health conditions in Korean.
In this post, you’ll learn 50+ essential Korean health-related vocabulary terms and practical expressions, complete with pronunciation and English translations. ๐ฅ๐ฌ
๐ฉบ Common Illnesses and Health Conditions in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ฐ๊ธฐ | gam-gi | Cold |
| ๋ ๊ฐ | dok-gam | Flu |
| ๊ธฐ์นจ | gi-chim | Cough |
| ์ด | yeol | Fever |
| ๋ํต | du-tong | Headache |
| ๋ณตํต | bok-tong | Stomachache |
| ๊ทผ์กํต | geu-nyuk-tong | Muscle pain |
| ๋ชฉ ์ํ | mok a-peum | Sore throat |
| ์ฝง๋ฌผ | kot-mul | Runny nose |
| ์ฝ๋งํ | ko-mak-him | Stuffy nose |
| ์ค์ฌ | seol-sa | Diarrhea |
| ๋ณ๋น | byeon-bi | Constipation |
| ํผ๋ถ์ผ | pi-bu-yeom | Dermatitis |
| ์๋ ๋ฅด๊ธฐ | al-le-reu-gi | Allergy |
| ์ฒ์ | cheon-sik | Asthma |
| ๋น๋จ๋ณ | dang-nyo-byeong | Diabetes |
| ๊ณ ํ์ | go-hyeol-ap | High blood pressure |
| ์ ํ์ | jeo-hyeol-ap | Low blood pressure |
| ํ๋ ด | pye-ryeom | Pneumonia |
| ๊ธฐ๊ด์ง์ผ | gi-gwan-ji-yeom | Bronchitis |
| ์ฌ์ฅ๋ณ | sim-jang-byeong | Heart disease |
| ์ | am | Cancer |
| ์ฐ์ธ์ฆ | u-ul-jeung | Depression |
| ๋ถ๋ฉด์ฆ | bul-myeon-jeung | Insomnia |
| ์์ค๋ | sik-jung-dok | Food poisoning |
๐จโโ๏ธ Symptoms & Medical Descriptions
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ํ๋ค | a-peu-da | To be sick / hurt |
| ์ด์ด ๋๋ค | yeol-i na-da | To have a fever |
| ๊ธฐ์นจํ๋ค | gi-chim-ha-da | To cough |
| ๋ํต์ด ์๋ค | du-tong-i it-da | To have a headache |
| ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ๋ค | bae-ga a-peu-da | Stomach hurts |
| ํผ๊ณคํ๋ค | pi-gon-ha-da | To be tired |
| ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ ฅํ๋ค | mu-gi-ryeok-ha-da | To feel weak |
| ๊ตฌ์ญ์ง ๋๋ค | gu-yeok-jil na-da | To feel nauseous |
| ์ด์ง๋ฝ๋ค | eo-ji-reop-da | To feel dizzy |
| ์จ์ด ์ฐจ๋ค | sum-i cha-da | To be short of breath |
๐ฃ๏ธ Useful Korean Phrases for Talking About Illness
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ด๋ ์ํ์? | eo-di a-pa-yo? | Are you feeling sick? |
| ๋ชธ์ด ์ ์ข์์. | mom-i an jo-a-yo | I donโt feel well. |
| ์ด์ด ์์ด์. | yeol-i it-seo-yo | I have a fever. |
| ๊ธฐ์นจ์ด ๋์. | gi-chim-i na-yo | Iโm coughing. |
| ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํ์. | meo-ri-ga a-pa-yo | I have a headache. |
| ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ์. | bae-ga a-pa-yo | My stomach hurts. |
| ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ผ ํด์. | byeong-won-e ga-ya hae-yo | I need to go to the hospital. |
| ์ฝ๊ตญ์ด ์ด๋์์? | yak-guk-i eo-di-ye-yo? | Where is the pharmacy? |
| ์ด ์ฝ์ ๋จน์ด์ผ ํด์. | i yak-eul meog-eo-ya hae-yo | You need to take this medicine. |
| ๋ง์ด ์ฌ์ธ์. | ma-ni swi-se-yo | Get plenty of rest. |
๐งช Bonus: At the Doctorโs Office Vocabulary
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ณ์ | byeong-won | Hospital |
| ์ฝ๊ตญ | yak-guk | Pharmacy |
| ์์ฌ | ui-sa | Doctor |
| ๊ฐํธ์ฌ | gan-ho-sa | Nurse |
| ํ์ | hwan-ja | Patient |
| ์ง์ฐฐ | jin-chal | Medical check-up |
| ์น๋ฃ | chi-ryo | Treatment |
| ์ฝ | yak | Medicine |
| ์ฃผ์ฌ | ju-sa | Injection |
| ์ฒ๋ฐฉ์ | cheo-bang-jeon | Prescription |
๐ฏ Practice Time!
Try using these sentences in real conversations or write them in your journal:
1๏ธโฃ โI have a coldโ in Korean is?
2๏ธโฃ How do you say โMy stomach hurtsโ in Korean?
3๏ธโฃ Whatโs the word for โmedicineโ in Korean?
Comment your answers below! ๐
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