All phrases

표 남아 있어요?

pyo nama isseoyo?

Are there any tickets left?

Why this spelling

This romanisation is not the spelling copied letter by letter. It is built from the National Institute of Korean Language’s Revised Romanization, which writes what the word sounds like once the sounds next to each other have changed it.

When you would say it

For a ticket window or a bus terminal counter. If the answer is no, the next question is the one below.

Getting around: the tickets go first

Holiday train seats don’t go on sale with everything else. They open on their own date, announced ahead of time by the national rail operator, and a lot of them are gone within the day. That date moves every year, so the habit worth having isn’t memorizing it. **It’s looking it up the moment you know your travel dates.**

From the same chapter

Holidays, and What Closes

Card number 65 of the book

The guidebook prints these as numbered cards, so you can hold up a number instead of trying to pronounce it. The Korean edition comes with it and has the same numbers in the same places.

See the guidebook