How to Take a Taxi in Korea ๐ / Essential Korean Phrases for Giving Your Destination
How to Take a Taxi in Korea ๐
Essential Korean Phrases for Giving Your Destination
๐ก Introduction
Taking a taxi in Korea can be convenient, fast, and surprisingly affordable.
But what if you don’t speak Korean? ๐
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.
ํ๊ตญ์์ ํ์๋ ํธ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ๋น ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ, ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ ๋ ดํฉ๋๋ค.
ํ์ง๋ง ํ๊ตญ์ด๊ฐ ์ต์ํ์ง ์๋ค๋ฉด ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋ ์ ์์ฃ .
์ด ํฌ์คํ
์์๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ฌํ์๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ์ ํํ๊ณผ ์ค์ฉ ๊ฟํ์ ์๋ ค๋๋ฆด๊ฒ์!
๐ Types of Taxis in Korea / ํ๊ตญ์ ํ์ ์ข ๋ฅ
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Regular Taxi (์ผ๋ฐ ํ์):
Orange, silver, or white cars. Basic fare starts around 4,800 KRW.
์ฃผํฉ์, ์์, ํฐ์ ์ฐจ๋. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๊ธ ์ฝ 4,800์๋ถํฐ. -
Deluxe Taxi (๋ชจ๋ฒ ํ์):
Black cars with professional drivers. More spacious and expensive.
๊ฒ์์ ์ฐจ๋, ๋๊ณ ์น์ ํ์ง๋ง ์๊ธ์ด ๋ ๋์. -
Kakao T Taxi (์นด์นด์คT ํ์):
App-based taxi service. Supports English UI and credit card payment.
์ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํ์ ์๋น์ค. ์์ด ์ง์ ๋ฐ ์นด๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ.
๐ก Tip: Foreign travelers often prefer Kakao T for ease and convenience.
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ฌํ์๋ผ๋ฉด ์นด์นด์คT ์ฌ์ฉ์ ์ถ์ฒํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฒ How to Get a Taxi / ํ์ ์ก๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
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By hand (๊ธธ์์ ์ก๊ธฐ)
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Raise your hand when a taxi with a “๋น์ฐจ” (Vacant) sign approaches.
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“์์ฝ” means Reserved, “์ดํ์ค” means In Use.
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์์ ๋ค์ด “๋น์ฐจ” ํ์๋ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ก์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
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Using an App (์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ธฐ)
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Kakao T or Tmap Taxi allow you to enter pickup/drop-off points.
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You can pay via the app, and no talking is needed.
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์นด์นด์คT๋ ํฐ๋งตํ์๋ ์ถ๋ฐ์ง์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ฅํ๊ณ , ์นด๋๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
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๐ฃ Key Phrases in the Taxi / ํ์ ์์์ ์ฐ๋ ํํ
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“Please go here.”
์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“Please go to this address.”
์ด ์ฃผ์๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“Please go to Gyeongbokgung.”
๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“Do you take cards?”
์นด๋ ๋ผ์? -
“Please stop here.”
์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ด๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“Can I put this in the trunk?”
ํธ๋ ํฌ์ ๋ฃ์ด๋ ๋ผ์? -
“Please speak slowly.”
์ฒ์ฒํ ๋งํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“Can I get a receipt, please?”
์์์ฆ ์ฃผ์ธ์.
๐ง Pro Tip: Always show the address in Korean. It helps the driver a lot!
์ฃผ์๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ํ๊ธ๋ก ์ค๋นํด๋๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋์ด ์ดํดํ๊ธฐ ์ฌ์์.
๐ฌ App Note Instructions / ์นด์นด์คT ์ฑ ๋ฉ๋ชจ ์์
When using Kakao T, you can leave a message to the driver like:
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“I’m a foreigner. Please come slowly.”
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ฒํ ์ ์ฃผ์ธ์. -
“I’m wearing white.”
ํฐ์ ์ท ์ ๊ณ ์์ด์. -
“In front of the Starbucks.”
์คํ๋ฒ ์ค ์์ ์์ด์.
These notes help the driver find you easily.
์ด๋ฐ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋์ด ์น๊ฐ์ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ฐ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐งพ Payment & Fare Tips / ๊ฒฐ์ ๋ฐ ์๊ธ ํ
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Basic Fare: ~4,800 KRW (first 1.6km)
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Payment: Cash, credit card, transportation card, or via app
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Night surcharge: 20–40% more from 10PM to 4AM
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๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๊ธ ์ฝ 4,800์, ์นด๋/ํ๊ธ/์ฑ ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ, ์ฌ์ผ ํ ์ฆ ์์
๐ก Tip: KakaoT shows the estimated fare in advance!
์นด์นด์คT์์๋ ์๊ธ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์ด์.
๐จ Emergency or Confusion / ๋นํฉํ์ ๋ ์ ์ฉํ ํํ
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“I don’t think this is the right place.”
์ฌ๊ธฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. -
“Where are we now?”
์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ด๋์์? -
“Please wait a moment.”
์ ๊น๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์.
๐ฅ 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 ๋ํ๊ฐ ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ค๋ฉด ๊ณง ์
๋ก๋๋ ์ผ์ธ ์์๋ ํจ๊ป ํ์ธํด ๋ณด์ธ์ ๐ฌ
✅ Summary
Top 3 phrases to remember:
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“○○์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์.” (Please go to ○○.)
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“์นด๋ ๋ผ์?” (Do you take cards?)
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“์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ด๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์.” (Please stop here.)
Always have your destination ready in Korean, and smile! ๐
๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ฅผ ํ๊ธ๋ก ์ค๋นํ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ฉด ํ๊ตญ ํ์ ์ฌํ์ ํจ์ฌ ์ฌ์์ง๋๋ค.
๐ ์ ํ๋ธ ์ผ์ธ ๋ก๋ ํจ๊ปํด์

๐ท ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ํด๋ฆญ ์ ์ ํ๋ธ๋ก ์ด๋ํฉ๋๋ค Go to YouTube when you click on the image
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