저기요
jeogiyo
Excuse me.
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
The single most useful word in a Korean restaurant. It orders food, gets you water, calls for the check, asks for anything at all.
How to flag down a server
No one is going to swing by your table to check on you. That’s not neglect — the assumption is that you’ll call when you need something, and until you do, you’re left in peace. Travelers used to servers circling the room read this as being ignored and sit there waiting.
From the same chapter
Eating Out
- 이거 주세요.igeo juseyo.
- 이거 더 주세요.igeo deo juseyo.
- 두 명이요.du myeongiyo.
- 저는 음식 알레르기가 있어요. 확인해 주세요.jeoneun eumsik allereugiga isseoyo. hwaginhae juseyo.
- 이 음식에 땅콩이 들어 있어요?i eumsige ttangkongi deureo isseoyo?
- 이 음식에 조개나 새우가 들어 있어요?i eumsige jogaena saeuga deureo isseoyo?
- 고기 없이 만들 수 있어요?gogi eopsi mandeul su isseoyo?
Card number 24 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