Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Passions]

How would you say this in Korean? "Can you please split the bill evenly?"

Meaning if I'm in a group of 5, can you split the bill among 5 people evenly?

I'm in Koreatown Houston with co-workers and need separate bills for each co-worker.

Thanks.

[Atavistic]

Koreans don't usually split bills. How Korean are these people you're with? What's the context? Whom are you speaking to?

[DrunkenMaster]

Say "dutch pay". You should establish it beforehand with either the group or the waiter.

[brento1138]

Don't even bother. If you hang out with these Koreans regularly, then it'll all work out to be dutch pay in the end. Person A gets the bill first time, person B the next, Person C.. etc etc. I think it's more simple than splitting the bill every single time you go out. Sure you might lose 500 won in the end, but ahhh, cest la vie.

[Suwoner10]

Cheap Charlie. Frikin estimate it. What, are you a chick?

[Michelle]

[Hyeon Een]

I dated a chick who had a younger brother who worked in an Outback steakhouse here in Korea.

He and his co-workers hated having foreign customers. Not because of the language barrier and not because they hated non-Koreans but because usually the non-koreans all wanted to pay individually. It's not like they just wanted to split the bill 5 ways or whatever, they all wanted to pay item by item for whatever they had ordered. Sure it's fair, but it pisses off the poor waiter or waitress who has to manage the affair.

This wasn't a one off thing, apparantely this happens so regularly that us foreigners are famous for it and that's why they don't like us ^^

[Passions]

Oh this is not for splitting the bill amongst Koreans.

It's asking the waitress. It's mostly Americans I'm with and I want to ask the waitress to split the bill evenly. I'm sure she'll get angry, but hey, I'm in Houston!

[Ginormousaurus]

[maeil]

The correct response is something close to "taro taro juseyo."

Where the 'r' in 'taro' is closer to a 'd'.. you know, the sound people make when they're trying to roll their r's but can't seem to manage it.

Sorry, that's the best answer I can come up with after a night in Hongdae.

[kermo]

[Fresh Prince]

What we used to do when going out to eat with coworkers, is just have one of us pay with a credit card to make life easy for the waitress, then have everyone write a check or pay in cash to the person with the credit card, for their share.

The problem with splitting the bill individually for the waitress to process, is that if they don't have a computer system that is designed to process multiple cards at one time, it can take a long time to run each credit card. The waitress likely has other customers to deal with so spending 15 extra minutes (assuming 3 min per card) running credit cards makes her life more difficult as other people will be waiting on food, it also cuts into her tip as the percentage would be a lot higher with one large bill.

[Passions]

[IlIlNine]

[tractor]