May I sit 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

For a mat, a spot on the floor, or a station you aren’t sure about. A nod is the whole answer you’ll get, and it means yes.

What happens on the jjimjilbang floor

Upstairs, in the shirt and shorts, it feels like a different building. Families with small children, students with textbooks, couples, people sleeping off a long day, all on a heated floor in the same outfit. Nothing up here requires you to have used the bath floor, and nothing up here is loud.

From the same chapter

The Bathhouse and the Jjimjilbang

Card number 57 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