All phrases

여기가 아파요.

yeogiga apayo.

It hurts here.

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

Say it while pointing. That’s a complete consultation opener.

Feeling ill

For anything short of an emergency, a pharmacy is your first stop, not your last resort. They’re everywhere, marked 약국, and the pharmacist will handle ordinary complaints on the spot.

From the same chapter

When Something Goes Wrong

Card number 51 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