Survival Korean: What to Say at Restaurants, Shops, Cafes, and in a Taxi

A street food display at a market in Seoul

A few months in, I stopped relying on a translation app for most of my day. Not because my Korean got that much better, it didn’t, but because I realized most interactions in Korea follow a script. Restaurants, clothing stores, taxis, convenience stores, they all have their own short exchange, and once you know the … Read more