Staying at a ํธํ (ho-tel) in Korea? Whether you’re visiting for a short trip or a long stay, knowing hotel-related Korean vocabulary will make your experience smoother. From booking your room to asking for extra towels, this post covers the most important Korean hotel expressions and words every traveler should know.
Letโs dive into this helpful list and make your hotel stay in Korea stress-free and enjoyable!
๐๏ธ Korean Hotel Vocabulary: General Terms
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ํธํ | ho-tel | Hotel |
| ํ๋ก ํธ | peu-ron-teu | Front desk / Reception |
| ์ฒดํฌ์ธ | che-keu-in | Check-in |
| ์ฒดํฌ์์ | che-keu-a-ut | Check-out |
| ์์ฝ | ye-yak | Reservation |
| ๋ฐฉ | bang | Room |
| ๊ฐ์ค | gaek-sil | Guest room |
| ํค ์นด๋ | ki ka-deu | Key card |
| ์๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํฐ | el-li-be-i-teo | Elevator |
| ๋ก๋น | ro-bi | Lobby |
| ์ธต | cheung | Floor (e.g. 3์ธต = 3rd floor) |
| ์๋ฐ | suk-bak | Accommodation / Stay |
| ํฌ์๊ฐ | tu-suk-gaek | Hotel guest |
| ์กฐ์ | jo-sik | Breakfast |
| ๋ฃธ์๋น์ค | rum-seo-bi-seu | Room service |
| ํ์ฐ์คํคํ | ha-u-seu-ki-ping | Housekeeping |
๐๏ธ Room Types & Hotel Facilities in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฑ๊ธ๋ฃธ | sing-geul-rum | Single room |
| ๋๋ธ๋ฃธ | deo-beul-rum | Double room |
| ํธ์๋ฃธ | teu-win-rum | Twin room |
| ์ค์ํธ๋ฃธ | seu-wi-teu-rum | Suite room |
| ์์ค | yok-sil | Bathroom |
| ์ค์์ค | sya-wo-sil | Shower room |
| ์๊ฑด | su-geon | Towel |
| ๋ฒ ๊ฐ | be-gae | Pillow |
| ์ด๋ถ | i-bul | Blanket |
| ์์ด์ปจ | e-eo-keon | Air conditioner |
| ์์ดํ์ด | wa-i-pa-i | Wi-Fi |
| ์์์ฅ | su-yeong-jang | Swimming pool |
| ์ฒด์ก๊ด / ํฌ์ค์ฅ | che-yuk-gwan / hel-seu-jang | Gym |
| ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ผํฐ | bi-jeu-ni-seu sen-teo | Business center |
| ์ฃผ์ฐจ์ฅ | ju-cha-jang | Parking lot |
๐ฃ๏ธ Useful Korean Hotel Expressions & Phrases
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์์ฝํ์ด์. | ye-yak-haet-seo-yo | I have a reservation. |
| ์ฒดํฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. | che-keu-in-ha-go sip-eo-yo | Iโd like to check in. |
| ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ผ๋ก ์์ฝํ์ด์. | je i-reum-eu-ro ye-yak-haet-seo-yo | I made a reservation under my name. |
| ๋ฐฉ ํ๋ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | bang ha-na ju-se-yo | Please give me one room. |
| ์ฒดํฌ์์ํ๋ ค๊ณ ์. | che-keu-a-ut-ha-ryeo-go-yo | Iโd like to check out. |
| ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | i bang-eu-ro ba-kkwo ju-se-yo | Please change this room. |
| ์์ดํ์ด ๋น๋ฐ๋ฒํธ๊ฐ ๋ญ์์? | wa-i-pa-i bi-mi-beon-ho-ga mwo-ye-yo? | Whatโs the Wi-Fi password? |
| ์๊ฑด ๋ ์ฃผ์ธ์. | su-geon deo ju-se-yo | Please give me more towels. |
| ์์ด์ปจ์ด ์ ๋ผ์. | e-eo-keon-i an dwae-yo | The air conditioner isnโt working. |
| ๋ช ์์ ์ฒดํฌ์์์ด์์? | myeot si-e che-keu-a-ut-i-e-yo? | What time is checkout? |
| ์กฐ์์ ์ด๋์ ๋จน์ด์? | jo-sik-eun eo-di-seo meog-eo-yo? | Where do I eat breakfast? |
๐งณ Extra Travel Tips for Hotel Stays in Korea
- ID is often required for check-in. Passport or Alien Registration Card (ARC) is usually accepted.
- Most hotels accept credit cards, but smaller guesthouses may prefer cash.
- If you need late check-out, say:
โค ๋ฆ๊ฒ ์ฒดํฌ์์ํ ์ ์์ด์? (neut-ge che-keu-a-ut-hal su it-seo-yo?) โ “Can I check out late?”
๐ฏ Practice Time!
Try answering these questions in the comments below:
1๏ธโฃ How do you say โIโd like to check inโ in Korean?
2๏ธโฃ Whatโs the word for โreservationโ in Korean?
3๏ธโฃ How do you say โCan I have more towels?โ in Korean?
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