숙박이요.
sukbagiyo.
Overnight, 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
Say this at a motel desk and you’ll be quoted for the night rather than for a few hours.
The motel, without the rumor
Visitors read the word through two lenses at once: the roadside motel from back home, and the rumor that Korean motels are for couples. Neither gets you a useful picture. Here, a motel is a building of private rooms rented by the night at the cheap end of the market. Business travelers use them. Students use them. Families driving somewhere use them.
From the same chapter
Where You Sleep
Card number 68 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