House & Rooms 집

Rooms and parts of a Korean home.

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jip house / home

This set covers the rooms and parts of a Korean home: living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, entrance, balcony and more. You will use these words when you rent a room, talk with a host family or landlord, or describe where things are at home. More than half of Korean households live in apartments, and many homes still have heated floors called ondol. A cultural note: you take your shoes off at the entrance, so the entrance has a small lower floor for shoes. Look at each picture, say the word, and then walk around your own home naming every room and part in Korean.

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Say the name of each room out loud as you walk into it. Do it for one week and the words will stay.

Word list

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  • 집
    jip house / home
  • 방
    bang room
  • 거실
    geosil living room
  • 부엌
    bueok kitchen
  • 안방
    anbang master bedroom
  • 화장실
    hwajangsil restroom / bathroom
  • 욕실
    yoksil bathroom
  • 현관
    hyeongwan entrance hall
  • 베란다
    beranda balcony / veranda
  • 창문
    changmun window
  • 문
    mun door
  • 지붕
    jibung roof
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  • 벽
    byeok wall
  • 바닥
    badak floor
  • 천장
    cheonjang ceiling
  • 계단
    gyedan stairs
  • 마당
    madang yard
  • 옥상
    oksang rooftop
  • 아파트
    apateu apartment
  • 온돌
    ondol ondol (heated floor)

Ready-to-use sentence

  • 집이 어디예요?Where is your home?
  • 저는 아파트에 살아요.I live in an apartment.
  • 방이 몇 개예요?How many rooms are there?
  • 신발 벗어야 해요?Do I need to take off my shoes?
  • 화장실이 어디예요?Where is the restroom?

Frequently asked questions

Why do Koreans take off shoes at home?

The floor is used for sitting and sleeping, and ondol heating makes it a clean, warm surface, so shoes stay at the entrance.

What is ondol?

A traditional floor heating system; modern homes use hot water pipes under the floor.

House & Rooms — 20 Korean words with pictures

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