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[jamiekarin]

Hey I know this is a dumb question, and I could probably find it online and do it myself, but I have been in Korea for 1 week and have no idea how to count money. When they ask me for money at convenience stores I don't know what they are saying. If someone can give a brief break down of how to say 1000-10000 won in korean, and 10000-100000won I would be greatful

[Qinella]

Are you talking about this?




Cash money!

[icicle]

[peacemaker]

Counting is a piece of cake.

100 won=paek won (백원)
1000 won=cheon won (천웡)
10000 won=man won (만원)
100,000 won=ship man won (lit. ten ten-thousand won-십만원)

1-il (일)
2-i (이)
3-sam (삼)
4-sa (사)
5-o (오)
6-yuk (육)
7-chil (칠)
8-pal (팔)
9-gu (구)

So if you want to say 34500 won, you say "sam man sa cheon o paek won" (three ten-thousand, four thousand, five hundred won). It's difficult to get the hang of at first because Koreans count in 10,000s for big numbers, but it's not too tough.

Hope that helps.

[mrsquirrel]

2 months and you can't count.

That is bad.

I can't do anything else but I learn to count fast so i can't get ripped off as quickly.

[hubba bubba]

1000 won= Chun won, or "Chun'un"

After that, you just add the Chinese words for two, three, four, etc.

so, 2000 = "ee" chun'un

3000 = sam chun'un

I'm sure there's a website that liests the rest of the numbers, not gonna write it all out.

Once you get to 10,000 it changes. The unit for 10,000 is "man", so, 10000 = man won, or "man'un"

11,000 = Man chun'n
12,000 = Man "ee" chun'un

etc.

for twenty, thirty, etc, you put the Chinese numbers in front of "man",

so, 20,000 = "ee" man'un
etc.

Hundred, is "Baek", so two hundred is "ee" baek, etc.

It's not that hard once you can get the 1-10 numbers down. Might take awhile to understand what the cashier is saying. After two years, I still mostly rely on the display.

Sorry, this is written a bit hastily. Not so much time.

Good Luck

[shaunew]

you should beable to count and ask how much in Korean. these are just basics.

[Buff]

[Qinella]

[Buff]

Dude's only been here for seven days.

He was trying to learn even if he was a little behind according to your time schedule, Q. There's nothing moronic about trying to learn once you get here. Give him a break.