Everyday Korean Vol. 1 — 6 Korean Words You'll Use Every Day | SingSay Korean
고마워 · 보고 싶어
배고파 · 미안해
Six words for
a whole day.
Hello, love, thanks, missing someone,
hunger, and making things right.
That is most of a day in six words.
Our first album was reactions: the sounds you make at a screen.
This one is the lines you say to people.
That is Everyday Korean, Vol. 1. Six songs, six words.
Here they are side by side, with the one pattern
that runs through every song on the album.
All six at a glance
Which one do I use?
Each song teaches one word.
The confusion starts with the word right next to it.
‘좋아해’ comes first. It is the confession,
the line a drama character blurts out on a bench in the snow.
‘사랑해’ comes later, once it is real.
They mean the same thing. They come from two different word families.
‘고마워’ is native Korean. It sounds warm and personal.
‘감사합니다’ comes from Chinese characters.
It sounds fixed and formal, the way a shop or a speech says it.
only one?
Make it ‘감사합니다’.
You will hear it every time you pay for something in Korea.
It is the one thank you that is never wrong.
English says “Sorry” for a real mistake
and also to squeeze past someone on the bus.
Korean splits them.
One more trap hides inside ‘안녕’.
The polite goodbye splits in two, depending on who leaves.
The other two rarely get mixed up.
‘보고 싶어’ is for a person who is far away.
‘배고파’ is for an empty stomach.
The formality ladder
Every word on this album is casual. This is how friends talk.
The moment you speak to a teacher, a coworker, or a stranger,
you need the polite version. Here is the whole set in one place.
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Four of the six keep the same word.
They just take a polite ending:
‘안녕하세요’, ‘사랑해요’, ‘보고 싶어요’, ‘배고파요’.
‘고마워’ and ‘미안해’ are different.
‘고마워요’ and ‘미안해요’ exist, but the safest polite form
is a whole new word: ‘감사합니다’ and ‘죄송합니다’.
Not sure which level to use? Go one step more polite.
Too polite is invisible. Too casual is not.
Three words that work on all six
The songs keep reusing the same few words to turn the feeling up.
Learn these three and every word on the album gets stronger.
And one rule you have now seen six times: no “I,” no “You.”
Korean drops whoever is obvious, and the feeling becomes the whole sentence.
Listen to the whole album
Every song teaches one expression, and repeats it until it sticks.
Start here
If you are new, go in order. Each lesson builds on the last.
Want to keep all six handy?
Save the word cards on Instagram @singsaykorean.
Watch the full songs on YouTube @SingSayKorean
and sing them until they stick.
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