Need to visit a car repair shop (์๋์ฐจ ์ ๋น์) in Korea? Whether youโre a resident, traveler, or Korean learner, understanding the most common Korean words and phrases for car repairs and auto services can be a lifesaver.
In this post, you’ll learn must-know Korean auto service vocabulary, including car parts, repair types, and useful expressions to help you explain issues and understand technicians.
Letโs dive in and get your Korean vehicle vocab tuned up! ๐ง
๐ ๏ธ Auto Repair Shop Vocabulary in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์๋์ฐจ ์ ๋น์ | ja-dong-cha jeong-bi-so | Car repair shop |
| ์ ๋น์ | jeong-bi-so | Repair shop |
| ์๋์ฐจ | ja-dong-cha | Car, automobile |
| ์ฐจ | cha | Car (casual) |
| ์ ๋น์ฌ | jeong-bi-sa | Mechanic |
| ๊ฒฌ์ ์ | gyeon-jeok-seo | Estimate |
| ์๋ฆฌ | su-ri | Repair |
| ์ ๊ฒ | jeom-geom | Inspection |
| ์์ง์ค์ผ | en-jin o-il | Engine oil |
| ํ์ด์ด | ta-i-eo | Tire |
| ๋ธ๋ ์ดํฌ | beu-re-i-keu | Brake |
| ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ | bae-teo-ri | Battery |
| ์์ดํผ | wa-i-peo | Wiper |
| ๋ผ์ดํธ | ra-i-teu | Headlight |
| ์์ด์ปจ | e-eo-keon | Air conditioner |
| ๋ผ๋์์ดํฐ | ra-di-e-i-teo | Radiator |
| ํธ๋ ํฌ | teu-reong-keu | Trunk |
| ์์ ๋ฆฌ | ap-yu-ri | Windshield |
| ๋ฒํผ | beom-peo | Bumper |
๐ง Types of Car Services in Korean
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ํ์ด์ด ๊ต์ฒด | ta-i-eo gyo-che | Tire replacement |
| ์์ง์ค์ผ ๊ตํ | en-jin o-il gyo-hwan | Engine oil change |
| ๋ธ๋ ์ดํฌ ์๋ฆฌ | beu-re-i-keu su-ri | Brake repair |
| ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ต์ฒด | bae-teo-ri gyo-che | Battery replacement |
| ์ ๊ธฐ ์ ๊ฒ | jeong-gi jeom-geom | Regular maintenance check |
| ์ฐจ๋ ์ง๋จ | cha-ryang jin-dan | Vehicle diagnosis |
| ๋ถํ ๊ต์ฒด | bu-pum gyo-che | Part replacement |
| ์์ด์ปจ ์๋ฆฌ | e-eo-keon su-ri | AC repair |
| ๋๊ฐ์ ๋ณด์ถฉ | naeng-gak-su bo-chung | Coolant refill |
| ์ ์กฐ๋ฑ ๊ต์ฒด | jeon-jo-deung gyo-che | Headlight replacement |
๐ฃ๏ธ Useful Korean Phrases at a Car Repair Shop
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐจ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์ด์. | cha-e mun-je-ga i-sseo-yo. | Thereโs something wrong with my car. |
| ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ํด์. | so-ri-ga i-sang-hae-yo. | Itโs making a strange sound. |
| ์์ง ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฑ์ด ์ผ์ก์ด์. | en-jin gyeong-go-deung-i kyeo-jyeo-sseo-yo. | The engine warning light came on. |
| ์๋์ด ์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์. | si-dong-i an geol-lyeo-yo. | The engine wonโt start. |
| ์ ๊ฒ ์ข ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. | jeom-geom jom hae ju-se-yo. | Please check it for me. |
| ํ์ด์ด๋ฅผ ๊ต์ฒดํด์ผ ํด์. | ta-i-eo-reul gyo-che-hae-ya hae-yo. | I need to change the tire. |
| ๋ธ๋ ์ดํฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋ค์ด์. | beu-re-i-keu-ga jal an deu-reo-yo. | The brakes arenโt working well. |
| ๊ฒฌ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์๊น์? | gyeon-jeok-seo ba-deul su i-sseul-kka-yo? | Can I get an estimate? |
| ์ธ์ ๋๋๋์? | eon-je kkeut-na-na-yo? | When will it be done? |
| ์นด๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์? | ka-deu gyeol-je ga-neung-hae-yo? | Can I pay by card? |
๐งฐ Extra Vehicle Terms You May Hear
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ณดํ | bo-heom | Insurance |
| ์ฌ๊ณ | sa-go | Accident |
| ๊ณ ์ฅ | go-jang | Malfunction |
| ์ ์ | jeop-su | Reception (at the shop) |
| ์๋ฆฌ๋น | su-ri-bi | Repair cost |
| ์ ๋น ๊ธฐ๋ก | jeong-bi gi-rok | Maintenance record |
| ๋๊ธฐ ์๊ฐ | dae-gi si-gan | Wait time |
๐ฌ Practice Time!
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1๏ธโฃ How do you say โengine oil changeโ in Korean?
2๏ธโฃ Whatโs the Korean word for โmechanicโ?
3๏ธโฃ How do you say โThe brakes donโt work wellโ in Korean?
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