How to Take a Taxi in Korea ๐Ÿš• / Essential Korean Phrases for Giving Your Destination

 


How to Take a Taxi in Korea ๐Ÿš•

Essential Korean Phrases for Giving Your Destination 


๐ŸŸก Introduction

Taking a taxi in Korea can be convenient, fast, and surprisingly affordable.
But what if you don’t speak Korean? ๐Ÿ˜…
Don’t worry — in this post, we’ll give you the key phrases and tips you need to get around safely and smoothly by taxi in Korea.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํƒ์‹œ๋Š” ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ €๋ ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ .
์ด ํฌ์ŠคํŒ…์—์„œ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ์‹ค์šฉ ๊ฟ€ํŒ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”!


๐Ÿš– Types of Taxis in Korea / ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํƒ์‹œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜

  • Regular Taxi (์ผ๋ฐ˜ ํƒ์‹œ):
    Orange, silver, or white cars. Basic fare starts around 4,800 KRW.
    ์ฃผํ™ฉ์ƒ‰, ์€์ƒ‰, ํฐ์ƒ‰ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์š”๊ธˆ ์•ฝ 4,800์›๋ถ€ํ„ฐ.

  • Deluxe Taxi (๋ชจ๋ฒ” ํƒ์‹œ):
    Black cars with professional drivers. More spacious and expensive.
    ๊ฒ€์€์ƒ‰ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰, ๋„“๊ณ  ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์š”๊ธˆ์ด ๋” ๋†’์Œ.

  • Kakao T Taxi (์นด์นด์˜คT ํƒ์‹œ):
    App-based taxi service. Supports English UI and credit card payment.
    ์•ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํƒ์‹œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค. ์˜์–ด ์ง€์› ๋ฐ ์นด๋“œ ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ.

๐Ÿ’ก Tip: Foreign travelers often prefer Kakao T for ease and convenience.
์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋ผ๋ฉด ์นด์นด์˜คT ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ“ฒ How to Get a Taxi / ํƒ์‹œ ์žก๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  1. By hand (๊ธธ์—์„œ ์žก๊ธฐ)

    • Raise your hand when a taxi with a “๋นˆ์ฐจ” (Vacant) sign approaches.

    • “์˜ˆ์•ฝ” means Reserved, “์šดํ–‰์ค‘” means In Use.

    • ์†์„ ๋“ค์–ด “๋นˆ์ฐจ” ํ‘œ์‹œ๋œ ํƒ์‹œ๋ฅผ ์žก์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  2. Using an App (์•ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ธฐ)

    • Kakao T or Tmap Taxi allow you to enter pickup/drop-off points.

    • You can pay via the app, and no talking is needed.

    • ์นด์นด์˜คT๋‚˜ ํ‹ฐ๋งตํƒ์‹œ๋Š” ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ง€์™€ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์นด๋“œ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.


๐Ÿ—ฃ Key Phrases in the Taxi / ํƒ์‹œ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„


  • “Please go here.”
    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “Please go to this address.”
    ์ด ์ฃผ์†Œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “Please go to Gyeongbokgung.”
    ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “Do you take cards?”
    ์นด๋“œ ๋ผ์š”?

  • “Please stop here.”
    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “Can I put this in the trunk?”
    ํŠธ๋ ํฌ์— ๋„ฃ์–ด๋„ ๋ผ์š”?

  • “Please speak slowly.”
    ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋งํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “Can I get a receipt, please?”
    ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

๐Ÿง  Pro Tip: Always show the address in Korean. It helps the driver a lot!
์ฃผ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•œ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด๋‘๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”.


๐Ÿ’ฌ App Note Instructions / ์นด์นด์˜คT ์•ฑ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ ์˜ˆ์‹œ

When using Kakao T, you can leave a message to the driver like:

  • “I’m a foreigner. Please come slowly.”
    ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ์™€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • “I’m wearing white.”
    ํฐ์ƒ‰ ์˜ท ์ž…๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

  • “In front of the Starbucks.”
    ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค ์•ž์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

These notes help the driver find you easily.
์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์ด ์Šน๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿงพ Payment & Fare Tips / ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๋ฐ ์š”๊ธˆ ํŒ



  • Basic Fare: ~4,800 KRW (first 1.6km)

  • Payment: Cash, credit card, transportation card, or via app

  • Night surcharge: 20–40% more from 10PM to 4AM

  • ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์š”๊ธˆ ์•ฝ 4,800์›, ์นด๋“œ/ํ˜„๊ธˆ/์•ฑ ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ, ์‹ฌ์•ผ ํ• ์ฆ ์žˆ์Œ

๐Ÿ’ก Tip: KakaoT shows the estimated fare in advance!
์นด์นด์˜คT์—์„œ๋Š” ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.



๐Ÿšจ Emergency or Confusion / ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • “I don’t think this is the right place.”
    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.

  • “Where are we now?”
    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋””์˜ˆ์š”?

  • “Please wait a moment.”
    ์ž ๊น๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


๐ŸŽฅ Coming Soon: YouTube Shorts

Want to hear these phrases in action?
Watch our upcoming Shorts where a foreign traveler takes a taxi and uses these expressions with a local driver!
์‹ค์ œ ๋Œ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ณง ์—…๋กœ๋“œ๋  ์‡ผ์ธ  ์˜์ƒ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š” ๐ŸŽฌ


✅ Summary

Top 3 phrases to remember:

  1. “○○์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.” (Please go to ○○.)

  2. “์นด๋“œ ๋ผ์š”?” (Do you take cards?)

  3. “์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.” (Please stop here.)

Always have your destination ready in Korean, and smile! ๐Ÿ˜Š
๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ•œ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฏธ์†Œ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ ํƒ์‹œ ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ”— ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์‡ผ์ธ ๋กœ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์š”

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๐Ÿ“ท ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ํด๋ฆญ ์‹œ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค Go to YouTube when you click on the image


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