The Ultimate Korean Shopping Vocabulary List [EN+DE]
Hi There!
I am super thrilled to present to you today part II of my Ultimate Asian Beauty Shopping Vocabulary Lists: the Korean Version! (Find the Japanese version here) This table is almost identical in content with the Japanese one, only that I did some minor additions (such as BB cushion) that are prevalent in Korea as well as a big list of Korean brands instead of Japanese at the end. (and yes, I know Hada Labo is Japanese but it is widely available in Korea too so I added the Korean name as well. Just in case.) Which makes sense, I guess. The Korean version was highly requested after I posted the Japanese one – I originally wanted to put everything in one table (Japanese and Korean) but then I decided it wouldn’t been that easy to read for those that have no knowledge of either language, so I split it. My Japanese is much much better than my Korean so I felt more comfortable posting the first table – a very good Korean friend of mine (Susan, you’ve seen her on here!) helped me out and proofread the contents ๐ ์์ฐ, ๊ณ ๋ง์~
If you thought Japanese pronounciation was random: Be prepared. I highly advise you to copy and paste the desired phrases into google translate and listen to the pronounciation there as it is very difficult to adequately present the words in the Roman alphabet. Also: prepare for your tongue to be broken. It’s probably me because I started with Japanese and didn’t speak Korean for that long but I find the Korean pronounciation much harder than Japanese and it resulted in lots of misunderstandings while in Korea (…..I learnt to type what I want into my phone beforehand just in case anything went wrong, haha. #sadbuttrue)
| Korean
Useful phrases |
How to write it | How to pronounce it | English/German |
|---|---|---|---|
| ์๋ ํ์ธ์ | annyeonghaseyo | ann-yong-haseyo | Hello/Guten Tag |
| ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค | gamsahabnida | (k)gamsa hamnida | Thank you/Danke |
| ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค | butagdeulibnida | butak deu-rimnida | Please/Bitte |
| ์/๋ค | ye/ne | ye/ne | Yes/Ja |
| ์๋์ | aniyo | aniyo | No/Nein |
| ์ด๊ฒ | igeos | i-got’ | This/Dies |
| …์ฃผ์ธ์ | …juseyo | …juseyo | Please (give)…/ …..(Geben) Sie mir bitte |
| ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฃผ์ธ์ | igeo juseyo | i-go juseyo | (Give me) this, please/ Dies hier bitte |
| (์ด๊ฒ์) ์ผ๋ง์์? |
(i goseun) eolma-eyo? |
(i gos’eun) olma e-yo? |
How much (is this)?/Wieviel kostet (dies hier)? |
| X๋ ์ด๋์ ๋๊น? | Xใneun eodiใibnikka? | X neun o-di imnikka? | Where is X?/Wo finde ich X? |
| X๋ ๋ฌด์์ ๋๊น? | X neun mueos-ibnikka? | X neun mu-osh’ imnikka? | What is X?/Was ist X? |
| ์ด๊ฑด ๋ญ์์? | igeon mwoyeyo? | I-gon muo-ye-yo? | What is this?/Was ist das hier? |
| ์นด๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ๋ผ์? | kadeu gyeolje dwaeyo? | kadeu gyol-je dwae yo? | Can I pay by card? Kann ich mit Karte bezahlen? |
| ์ ์ด๋ด๋ ๋ ๊น์? | ib-eo bwado doelkkayo? | ib-o bwa do dwael kka yo? | Can I try this on?/Darf ich das einmal anprobieren? |
| ์ด๊ฑด์? | igeon yo? | i-gon yo? | And this [item]?/Und das hier? |
| ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ | gwaenchanh-ayo | gwaen-chan-a yo | Okay/In Ordnung |
| โฆ ์์ด์? | โฆ iss-eoyo? | …iss-o yo? | Do you have…?/Gibt es hier…? |
| ์ ๋ X๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ด์ |
jeoneun X leul chajgoiss-eoyo | jo neun X reul chad’ go iss-o yo | I’m looking for X/ Ich suche nach X |
| X ํ์์? | X pa-ra-yo? | X pa-ra yo? | Do you sell X?/Verkaufen Sie X? |
| [X๋ฅผ] ๋ณด์ฌ ์ฃผ์ธ์ |
[X leul] boyeo juseyo | [ X reul] po-yo juseyo | Please show me X/ Zeigen Sie mir bitte X |
| [X๋ฅผ] ์ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | [X leul] sago sip-eoyo | [X reul] sago ship-o yo |
I want to buy X/Ich mรถchte X kaufen |
| ๋ฐํ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์ | ban-pum hae juseyo | ban-pum hae juseyo | Refund (this) please/Einen Umtausch, bitte |
| ๋ฐํํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ์ | ban-pum ha go shipeun deyo | ban-pum ha go shipeun deyo | I’d like a refund for this/ Ich mรถchte das hier umtauschen |
| ์ธ์ผ ์ค์ด์์? | seil jung-ieyo? | se-il jung i-e-yo? | Do you have a sale going on? Haben Sie Angebote/Schlussverkauf? |
| ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค | joesong habnida | jwi-song hamnida | I apologize/Verzeihung. |
| ์ค๋กํฉ๋๋ค,… | sillyehabnida | shillye hamnida | Excuse me,… /Entschuldigung,… |
| ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด์/ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์ |
moleugess-eoyo/ mollayo |
moreu-gesso-yo/ molla yo |
I don’t understand/Ich verstehe nicht |
| ๋์์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์? | dowajusigess-eoyo? | dowa jushi gesso yo? | Could you please help me? Kรถnnten Sie mir bitte helfen? |
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Clothing
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| ์ท | os | ot’ | Clothes/Kleidung |
| ํฐ์ ์ธ , ํฐ | tisyeocheu, ti | tisha-cheu, also: ti | T-shirt |
| ๋ฐ์ง | baji | baji | Pants/Hose |
| ์ฒญ๋ฐ์ง | cheongbaji | chong baji | Denim Pants/Jeans |
| ์ํผ์ค | wonpiseu | won-pies’ | One-piece/dress/Kleid |
| ์ค์ปคํธ | seukeoteu | seukoh-te | Skirt/Rock |
| ์ ์ธ | syeocheu | shache(u) | Shirt/Hemd |
| ์ค์จํฐ | seuweteo | sewetoh | Sweatshirt/Pullover |
| ์ฝํธ | koteu | kote(u) | Coat/Jacke |
| ์๋ง | yangmal | yangmal | Socks/Socken |
| ์ ๋ฐ
Skincare |
sinbal | shinbal | Shoes/Schuhe |
| ์คํจ์ผ์ด | seukinkeeo | seekin-keo | Skincare/Hautpflege |
| ์ผ๊ตด | eolgul | ol-gul | Face/Gesicht |
| ํผ๋ถ | pibu | pibu | Skin/Haut |
| ์คํจ | seukin | s(eu)kin | Skin|Toner/Gesichtswasser |
| ๋ก์ | losyeon | roshon | Emulsion/Feuchtigkeitsfluid |
| ํด๋ ์ง | keullenjing | ke(u)llenjing’ | Cleansing/Reinigung |
| ํด๋ ์ง ํฌ๋ฆผ | keullenjing keulim | ke(u)llenjing’ ke(u)rim | Cleansing cream/Reinigungscreme |
| ํด๋ ์ง ์ค์ผ | keullenjing oil | ke(u)llenjing’ oil | Cleansing oil/Reinigungsรถl |
| ์ธ๋ผ | serom | serom | Serum |
| ์์ผ์ค | esenseu | esense(u) | Essence/Essenz |
| ์ฌํฌ๋ฆผ | sseonkeulim | sson ke(u)rim | Sunscreen/Sonnenschutz |
| ํ์ด๋๋ก๊ฒ (๋ง์คํฌ) |
haideurogel (maseukeu) | haide(u)rogehl mas’ke(u) |
Hydrogel mask |
| ๋ง์คํฌ | maseukeu | mas’ke(u) | Sheet mask/Tuchmaske |
| ๋ง์คํฌ์์์คํ | maseukeu wosiopeu | mas’ke(u) wosh’ope(u) | Wash-off mask |
| (์ฌ๋ฆฌํ) ํฉ | (seulliping) paek | (seulliping) paek | (Sleeping) Pack/Mask |
| ์ฌ๋๋ฆ | yeodeuleum | yodeureum | Pimples/Pickel |
| ๋ชจ๊ณต | mogong | mogong | Pores/Pore |
| ๊ฑด์ฑ ํผ๋ถ | geonseong pibu | gonsong pibu | Dry skin/Trockene Haut |
| ์ง์ฑ ํผ๋ถ
Beauty |
jiseong pibu | ji-song pibu | Oily Skin/Fettige Haut |
| ํ์ฅ | hwajang | hwajang | Make-up (in general/allgemein) |
| BBํฌ๋ฆผ | BB keulim | BB ke(u)rim | BB Cream |
| BB์ฟ ์ | BB kusyeon | BB kushon | BB Cushion |
| ๋ฒ ์ด์ค | beiseu | beise(u) | Base Make-up/Grundierung |
| ํ๋ผ์ด๋จธ | peulaimeo | peuraimoh | Primer |
| ํ์ด๋ฐ์ด์ | paundeisyeon | paundeishon | Foundation |
| ์ปจ์ค๋ฌ | keonsilleo | konshill(e)o | Concealer/Abdeckstift |
| ํ์ฐ๋ / ํฉํธ |
paudeo/ paekteu |
paud(e)o/ paekte(u) |
Face Powder/Gesichtspuder |
| ์์ด๋ธ๋ก์ฐ | aibeulou | aibeuro-(u) | Eyebrow/Augenbraue |
| ๋ง์ค์นด๋ผ | maseukala | mase(u)kara | Mascara/Wimperntusche |
| ์์ด์๋์ฐ | aisyaedou | aishaedo-(u) | Eyeshadow/Lidschatten |
| ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ | libseutig | ribse(u)tik | Lipstick/Lippenstift |
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Haircare |
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| ๋จธ๋ฆฌ(์นด๋ฝ) | meoli(kalag) | mori(karag) | Hair/Haare |
| ํค์ด ์ผ์ด | heeo keeo | heo keo | Haircare/Haarpflege |
| ์ดํธ | syampu | shampu | Shampoo |
| ๋ฆฐ์ค or ์ปจ๋์ ๋ |
rinse(u) or kondisyeoneo |
rinse(u) or kondishono |
Conditioner/Haarspรผlung |
| ๋ํผ | dupi | dupi | Scalp/Kopfhaut |
| ํค์ด ๋ฏธ์คํธ | heeo miseuteu | heo mise(u)te(u) | Overnight treatment/Haarmaske fรผr die Nacht |
| ์์ธ์ ์ฐจ๋จ ํค์ด์คํ๋ ์ด
Measurements |
jaoeseon chadan heeoseupeulei | jawoson chadan heo se(u)pe(u)rei | Heat protection spray/Hitzeschutz fรผr die Haare |
| ํฌ๋ค | keuda | keuda | Big/Groร |
| ์๋ค | jagda | jagda | Small/Klein |
| ๋ณดํต | botong | botong | Regular/Normal |
| ์๋ค | yalbda | yalbda | Slim/Schlank/Dรผnn |
| ๋๊ป๋ค | dukkeobda | dukkobda | Fat/Dick |
| ๊ธธ๋ค | gilda | gilda | Long/Lang |
| ์งง๋ค | jjalbda | jjalbda | Short/Kurz |
| ์ธ๋ค | ssada | ssada | Cheap/Affordable/Gรผnstig |
| ๋น์ธ๋ค | bissada | bi-ssada | Expensive/Teuer |
| ๋๋ฌด ๋น์ธ๋ค
Sales |
neomu bissada | nohmu bi-ssada | Too Expensive/Zu Teuer |
| ๋งค์ง | maejin | maeijin | Sold out/Ausverkauft |
| ํ์ ํ | hanjeongpan | hanjong pan | Limited edition/Limitiertes Produkt |
| ํผํ ๋ฃธ | pitinglum | piting rum | Fitting room/Anprobe |
| ๋น๋๋ด์ง | binilbongji | binil bongji | Plastic bag/Plastiktรผte |
| ์ผ์๋ถ | ilsibul | ilshi bul | Single payment/Einmalige Zahlung |
| ๋ฉด์ธ | myeonse | myonse | Taxfree/Steuerfrei |
| ๊ณ์ฐ | gyesan | gyesan | Checkout/Bill Kasse/Rechnung |
| ๊ณ์ฐ๋ | gyesandae | gyesandae | Checkout/Kasse |
| ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผํฐ | gogaegsenteo | gogaek sentoh | Service counter/Information |
| ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ ์นด๋ | membeosib kadeu | membohship kadeu | Membership card/Mitgliedskarte |
| ๋ฐํ | ban-pum | ban-pum | Return/Umtausch |
| ํ ์ธ | hal-in | hal-in | Discount/Rabatt |
| ์ฟ ํฐ
Brands |
kupon | kupon | Discount coupon/Rabattcoupon |
| ํ๋ค๋ผ๋ณด | hadarabo | hada rabo | Hada Labo |
| ์ด๋์คํ๋ฆฌ | iniseupeuri | inise(u)pe(u)ri | Innisfree |
| ์๋ฐ๋ํ์ฐ์ค | ettwideuhauseu | etwide-hause(u) | Etude House |
| ์๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ | alittaum | arittaum | Aritaum |
| ์ฝ์ค์์์ค | koseual-egseu | kos’-al ekse(u) | COSRX |
| ์จ๋ผํด | ssilakeul | (s)shirakeul | Ciracle |
| ์คํจํธ๋ | seukinpudeu | s(eu)kinp(f)ude | Skinfood |
| ํ ๋๋ชจ๋ฆฌ | toni mori | toni mori | Tony Moly |
| ํ๋ฆฌ์นดํ๋ฆฌ์นด | hollika hollika | hollika hollika | Holika Holika |
| ์ดํจ | eopyu | oh-pyu | A’pieu |
| ๋ฏธ์ค | misya | misha | Missha |
| ๋์ | deo saem | doh saem | The Saem |
| ์์ด์คํ | aiope | aiope | IOPE |
| ๋ผ๋ค์ฆ | lanejeu | laneje(u) | Laneige |
| ๋ฆฌ์ค์๋ฆฌ | lio-elli | lio-elli | Lioele |
| ํ๋ฆฌํ๋ผ | pelipela | peri pera | Peripera |
| ์์ดํธ๋ฃจ | eiteulu | ei-te(u)ru | A’true |
| ๋ค์ด์ฒ๋ฆฌํผ๋ธ๋ฆญ | neicheo lipeobeullig | neicho ripobe(u)llig | Nature Republic |
| ํฌ์ฟจํฌ์ค์ฟจ | tukul po seukul | tu kul po se(u)kul | Too Cool For School |
| ํด๋ฆฌ์ค | keullio | keullio | Clio |
| โ๋ฐ๋๋ผ์ฝ | banilla ko | banilla ko | Banila Co |
| ๋ํ์ด์ค์ต | deo peiseu syab | do peise(u) shab | The Face Shop |
| ๋ฉ๋ํ | medihil | medihil | Mediheal |
| ์์ธ ์คํจ | ischeu seukin | it’ che(u) s(eu)kin | It’s Skin |
| ๋ฏธ์ฆ์จ | mijeuon | mije(u)on | Mizon |
| ๋ง๋ชฝ๋ | mamongdeu | mamon(g)de(u) | Mamonde |
| ์จ37 | sum37 | sum37 | Su:m37ยฐ |
| ์คํ์ | seolhwasu | solhwasu | Sulwhasoo |
| ๋ผํฐ์๋ฅดํธ | dakt(e)o jare(u)te(u) | dakt(e)o jareuteu | Dr. Jart |
| ํค๋ผ | hera | hera | Hera |
| ์ธ์ด๋ | ssainik | ssainik | Scinic |
| ๋ธ์ด๋์ | beuidiel | bwi-di-el | VDL |
| ์์ค์์ด | eseubbeueo | esbbe(u)o | Espoir |
| ์ฐจ์ค๋ฐํ์ฅํ | chaenbakhwa jangpum |
cha-aen bakhwa jangpum |
CNP |
| ๋ฒคํผ | benteun | benteun | Benton |
I really hope this little table will be useful to anyone with travel desires to Korea! If I missed anything important you’d like to know, please feel free to leave a comment and I will add it to the list. Now that you know how to “write” all those fancy Korean words, I also highly recommend to download the app Hwahae, a Korean skincare and beauty community where I source all my English ingredients list from. Vy from VVML1007 made a great introduction post about how to use Hwahae among other resources ๐ However, you can totally write a brand in it’s “English” name and the app will gladly be able to find it, so you don’ necessarily need this to use the app successfully ๐
I do hope that this table will be a useful source for anyone who wants to conquer the vast Korean beauty market or for those who try to venture farther down the Korean online shopping rabbit hole! Happy shopping and have a nice Sunday ๐
Lots of love,
Sam
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