Travel & Hotel 여행

These twenty words cover a trip to Korea from start to finish: the passport and boarding pass at the airport, immigration, a hotel check-in, a map for sightseeing and a souvenir to take home. You will hear most of them at counters, so they are useful both to read and to say aloud. Many are Sino-Korean words built from short syllables, for example 여권 (passport) and 예약 (reservation), which makes them easy to recognise once you learn a few syllables. At Korean hotels, check-in is usually in the afternoon and check-out before noon, and many airports have a free tourist information desk with English-speaking staff. Learn these words and your first day in Korea will be much smoother.