All phrases

소주 한 병 주세요.

soju han byeong juseyo.

One bottle of soju, please.

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

Swap 소주 for 맥주 and you have ordered beer instead.

What is in the glass

Soju is sold in a green bottle of a size everyone recognizes, and it is drunk from a small glass, never a large one. That glass size is doing a job: it makes pouring for each other frequent, and pouring for each other is the social part.

From the same chapter

Drinking, and How to Leave

Card number 44 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