Goodbye.

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

said by the person leaving, to the person staying. This is the one you’ll use on your way out of a shop.

Leaving, and thanking

Korean has two goodbyes, and the difference is who’s leaving. It looks fussy on the page; it’s automatic within a day.

The other half of the pair

안녕히 가세요

annyeonghi gaseyo

Korean has two goodbyes and two of several other pairs: which one you say depends on who is leaving. Both are here so you can pick.

From the same chapter

Greetings, and What to Call People

Card number 8 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