All phrases

먼저 일어나겠습니다.

meonjeo ireonagetseumnida.

I’ll head off first.

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 standard line for leaving before the group does. Say it, nod, and go; it is complete on its own.

The two legal points, and leaving early

Two things are written down rather than customary, and both are easy to get right.

From the same chapter

Drinking, and How to Leave

Card number 46 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