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Hello everyone! Welcome to the first week and first day of FlyIntoBooks.com‘s Korean core 6k. This is the start of the Korean vocabulary series of our Korean Language Walkthrough. This vocabulary series will help you learn the most frequent words in the Korean language.
This vocabulary series is for Korean learners who are Upper Beginner to Lower Intermediate. (NOTE: you need to be able to read Hangeul. If you don’t know how to read Hangeul yet then go here to go through our FREE Hangeul Master course -> to be completed).
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A few months ago, FlyIntoBooks.com successfully pulled out a Korean core frequency list from the KAIST corpus. From that corpus, we developed our own Korean Core 6k which includes the most frequently used Korean words in the order of most frequent to least frequent.
The Korean frequency list we pulled out goes up well above 10k words. However, we will first start with the Korean core 6k. Later if there is demand for the Korean core 10k we will produce that too.
Notice in our Korean core 6k list that we don’t focus on simple L1->L2 word meanings. Instead we use L2 sentences that include the L2 target word, as well as the L1 translation of the L2 sentence.
This helps you to learn the most frequent Korean words in context, and also helps you start reading Korean sentences from the get-go.
Here is the codes used in the last column of the table:
(>>): The usual structure of the sentence
(X): The antonym of the word.
(=): The synonym of the word.
(R): The respectful form of the word.
If you have finished studying Week 1 Day 1 of our Korean core 6k, then go to this page (To be completed) to check your understanding and usage of the words.
Korean Core 6k – Week 1 Day 1
| 1 | ํ๋ค | ์ด๋์ ํ๋ค. | to do exercise | |
| 2 | ์๋ค | ์ฌ๋์ด ์๋ค. | There is a person. | |
| 3 | ์๋ค | ๊ทธ๋ ์ง๊ธ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๋ค. | He is not in Korea now. | |
| 4 | ๋๋ค | ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ค. | to become an actor | |
| 5 | ์ฌ๋ | ์ ์ฌ๋ | that person (over there) | (=) ์ธ๊ฐ (human) |
| 6 | ๊ฐ๋ค |
๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ | the same dictionary |
(=) ๋์ผํ๋ค
(identical) (X) ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค (different) |
| 7 | ๋ณด๋ค | ๊ด๊ฒฝ์ ๋ณด๋ค | To see the scenary | |
| 8 | ๊ด๊ณ(้ไฟ) | ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋ค | Be related (to) | |
| 9 | ์๋๋ค | ์ด ๊ฒ์ ๋ด ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ค | This is not mine. | (>>) 1์ด 2๊ฐ ์๋๋ค |
| 10 |
๋ํ๋ค (ๅฐโ ) | ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋ํด | About this problem | (>>) 1์ด 2์ ๋ํ๋ค (=) ๊ดํ๋ค (concerning) |
| 11 | ๋ | ์ฒ์ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋ | The first time we met | |
| 12 | ๊ฐ๋ค | ๊ณตํญ์ ๊ฐ๋ค | To go to the airport | (X) ์ค๋ค (to come) |
| 13 | ๋ค๋ค | ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ค๋ค | To come into a room | (>>) 1์ด 2์/๋ก ๋ค๋ค |
| 14 | ๋ง | ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ธ | Speech and writing |
(=) ์๋ฆฌ
(words) (=) ์๋ฆฌ (sound/noise) |
| 15 | ๋ค | ๋์ ๋ค | Wide fields | |
| 16 |
์ํ๋ค (็ฒโ ) | ํ์๋ค์ ์ํ ๋์๋ค | A library for students | (>>) 1์ด 2๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ค |
| 17 | ์ค๋ค | ๋ถ์์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ค | To come to the kitchen |
(>>) 1์ด
2์ ์ค๋ค
(X) ๊ฐ๋ค (to go) |
| 18 | ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค | ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ | Different feeling |
(>>) 1์ด
(2์)
๋ค๋ฅด๋ค (X) ๊ฐ๋ค (same) |
| 19 | ๋ง๋ค | ๊ทธ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค | He has a lot of friends |
(>>) 1์ด
๋ง๋ค (X) ์ ๋ค (little amount) |
| 20 | ๋ฐ๋ค | ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ค | To get a present. |
(R) ๋ฐ์ก๋ค
(X) ์ฃผ๋ค (to give) |
| 21 | ์ผ | ์ผ์ด ๋ง๋ค | Have a lot of work to do | |
| 22 |
๊ฒฝ์ฐ (ๅข้ ) | ๋ด ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ | In my case | |
| 23 | ๋งํ๋ค | ์งง๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค | Say a few words |
(>>) 1์ด
2์ 3๋ฅผ
๋งํ๋ค (>>) 1์ด 2์ 3-๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค (=) ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ค |
| 24 | ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค | ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค | To follow her | (>>) 1์ด 2๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ค |
| 25 | ์๋ค | ์ฌ์ค์ ์๋ค | To know the fact | (>>) 1์ด 2๋ฅผ ์๋ค |
| 26 |
์ผ๋ณธ (ๆฅๆฌ ) | ์ผ๋ณธ์ฌ๋๋ค | Japanese people | |
| 27 | ํฌ๋ค | ๋์ด ํฌ๋ค | To have big eyes |
(>>) 1์ด
ํฌ๋ค (X) ์๋ค (small/little) |
| 28 |
๊ตฌ์ฑ (ๆงๆ ) | ๋ฌธ์ฅ ๊ตฌ์ฑ | The sentence organization | |
| 29 |
๊ตฌ์กฐ (ๆง้ ) | ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ | Economic structure | |
| 30 | ์ | ์ฑ ์ ์ | In front of the desk | |
| 31 | ๋ค์ | ๋ค์ ๋ | The next day | |
| 32 | ์ข๋ค | ์ข์ ํ๊ต | Good school |
(>>) 1์ด
์ข๋ค (X) ๋์๋ค (bad) |
Don’t forget to go to the Korean core 6k Week 1 Day 1 Practice section to test your knowledge of the above words! (To be completed soon).
What did you think of today’s words? Too difficult? Too easy? Just right?
Let us know in the comments section below!
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A.J. McMahon
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