MEMORIZING 13 NUMBERS IN KOREAN is key of money trading in Korea, which are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 100, 1000, 10000
He also got gun to head to memorize a spell like... Your SHIP carries a BAG of CHUNKS of ROMANO cheese
He can survive only when he solved these 9 questions below..
KOREAN NUMBER MEMORIZATIONQUIZ
1. Which fish is number 1? [ ] fish 2. Opposite side of WEST? [ ] 3. Name of Indian triangular dumpling? [ ] 4. Name of Grain Storage in farms? [ ] 5. How do you call your God? [ ] my God! 6. Which country once united 6 countries in east Europe? [ ] 7. The spicy red/green ingredients ? [ ] 8. The service of money transfer? [ ] 9. How's your running nose feel like? [ ]
Are you able to help him to go home?
(Please...)
PROLOGUE
Knowing about official currency unit shapes early experiences in foreign countries. For those planning to travel/live in South Korea, googling Korean currency might have been included in travel preparation.
As you might know, currency of South Korean is called "won" in real life. The ISO 4217 international standardized currency code is KRW, and the abbreviation symbol is ₩.
Unfortunately, Korea does not useDOLLAR. This would let you to checkbill(&coin)type firstbefore moving on to the real game.
As mentioned above,Korean money unit isWONinstead of DOLLAR.Let’s begin at this point. You would like to know total 8 types of Korean money. There are 4 banknotes as well as 4 coins you will handle in your Korean life. Those are like below.
10 won 50 won 100 won 500 won 1000 won 5000 won 10000 won 50000 won
Based on these fact,the ways of reading Korean moneywould be discussed in following chapters.
Your SHIP carries a BAG of CHUNKS of ROMANO cheese (ah?)
Your ship will carry a bag of chunks of romano cheese soon. Why? Because your ship carries a bag of chunks of Romano cheese! This phrase is just my suggestion which could ease the first meeting with number 10, 100, 1000 and 10000. Because these numbers pronounce like written in the box below.
10 pronounced as SIB for SHIP 100pronounced as BAEG for BAG 1000pronounced as CHEON for CHUNK 10000pronounced as MAHN for ROMANO
10, 100, 1000, 10000 are used as currency unit like you noticed. Also they accompany middling coin/bills in between, for example, 50, 500 and so on. Once you remember "OH MY GOD!", you could complete reading 8 types of all Korean money. Remember, 5 sounds OH my god!!!
5 ...... OH my god!!!!
50 is combined sound of “oh” and “sib”, OH-SIB 500 is combined sound of “oh” and “baek”, OH-BAEG 5000 is combined sound of “oh” and “cheon”, OH-CHEON 50000 is combined sound of “oh” and “mahn”, OH-MAHN
Now you knew names of all Korean bills, as well as coins. As a kind of reviewing, let's see visual figures of each money and their name together!
KOREAN MONEY, 8 Types
1,000 won CHEON + WON 천 원
Do you remember “cheon” for “chunk”? This is “cheon won” bill. 1000 won banknote is blue color one. In south Korea, 1000 won bill appears to be at pretty similar position with 1 US dollar. Although it’s currency exchange rate is about 85% of USD as of 2022 March, I prefer to make it simple saying 1000won equals to 1dollar.
5,000won OH + CHEON + WON 오천 원
Do you rememner “oh” for “oh my god”? “oh cheon won” is signifying 5 of “cheon won”, at the same time, is how to call light brown 5000 won Korean banknote. If you agree to my simplified money concept, you would like to remember that 5000won plays role of 5dollar.
10,000won MAHN + WON 만 원
“mahn” from “romano” combined with “won”. “Mahn won” refers a green colored banknote with King Sejong on it, which values 10 dollar approximately. 10,000 won and 1,000 won banknotes feel like the most frequantly used types of money in South Korea.
50,000won OH + MAHN + WON 오만 원
Then, how would you call five “mahn won”s? “Oh mahn won” must have springed in your mind I guess. This beautiful yellow color Korean banknote is newely published in 2016, to indicate about 50 dollar value in South Korea.
10won SIB + WON 십 원
“sib” for “ship”. This tiny 1.22g coin is “sib won”. This is made from copper and alumium alloy, and value at about 1 cent in USD.
50won OH + SIB + WON 오십 원
“oh” for “oh my god”, and “sib” for “ship”. You can call this coin “oh sib won”. 50 won coin is a bit bigger than 10 won physically. Rice plant is printed on the front side. This is around 5 cents in USD.
100won BAEG + WON 백 원
Do you carry “baeg won” in your “bag”? 100 won has once been released as a precious paper type banknote originally. As time went, it transformed itself to a coin now. Admiral General Yi(or Lee) on the front side reflect how valuable “beag won” was in the past. (10 cents for now)
500won OH + BAEG + WON 오백 원
This crane coin values same to five “baeg won”s. “oh baeg won”, so to say, is about half one dollar.
You might like to repeat reading names of Korean currency several times more, then would move on to the next step. Oh wait, how do you say 5,000won in Korean?
REVIEW: KOREAN MONEY, 8 TYPES
10 pronounced as [ ] for [ ] 100 pronounced as [ ] for [ ] 1000 pronounced as [ ] for [ ] 10000 pronounced as [ ] for [ ] ----------------------- 5pronounced as [ ] ----------------------- 50pronounced as [ ] 500pronounced as [ ] 5000pronounced as [ ] 50000pronounced as [ ]
SECOND MEETING with KOREAN MONEY
Forget about 5 bills at this moment. You will need to remember 10, 100, 1000, 10000 in Korean for now. It might sound a right time to bring up the phrase, "Your SHIP carries a BAG of CHUNKS of ROMANO cheese".
REVIEW
Your SHIPcarries a BAG of CHUNKS of ROMANO cheese (Aha!)
10sib십 100baeg백 1000cheon천 10000mahn만
FROM1 TO9 in KOREAN
What else do we can make fun of? That's numbers from 1 to 9. You already know one of them though (Don’t you remember? OH my god! o0o). Eight numbers. This is the last thing you need to remember to finish this money reading study.
SOUND of NUMBERS 1~9
1 일 pronounced as EELfor EEL fish 2 이 pronounced as EEfor EAST 3삼 pronounced as SAMfor SAMOSA 4사 pronounced as SAfor SILO 5오 pronounced as OHfor ( you fill this ) 6육 pronounced as YUGfor YUGOSLAVIA 7칠 pronounced as CHILfor CHILLI 8팔 pronounced as PALfor PAYPAL 9구 pronounced as GOO for GOOEY
FYI,number 1 has a its own sound only for bigger money than 100,000,000 won, when it comes first in the figure. A number with eight of zeros - X00,000,000 - is called "eog" which is a bigger unit than "mahn". In application, 100,000,000 is spoken as "eel eog(일 억)" in practical reading.
KOREAN NUMBER MEMORIZATIONQUIZ
1. Which fish is number 1? [ ] fish 2. Opposite side of WEST? [ ] 3. Name of Indian triangular dumpling? [ ] 4. Name of Grain Storage in farms? [ ] 5. How do you call your God? [ ] my God! 6. Which country once united 6 countries ineast Europe? [ ] 7. The spicy red/green ingredients ? [ ] 8. The service of money transfer? [ ] 9. How's your running nose feel like? [ ]
Are you used to the pronounciations of Korean numbers from 1 to 9 now? To summarize it up, the numbers pronounced as Eel, Ee, Sam, Sa, Oh, Yug, Chil, Pal, Goo, which reminds us eel fish, east, samosa, silo, oh my god, Yugoslavia, chilli, Paypal, gooey respectively.
Are these confusing a little yet? No worries. We will repeat these 9 numbers 4 times very soon, for applying on 10, 100, 1000, 10000 won units.
I'm not a smoker though, I need a smoko break..
APPLICATIONS
Prioritising. That matters for efficient study as you know. Among 4 units of 10, 100, 1000, 10000, which one deserves coming first?
Do you care coins when you pay? When buying a thing for $59.85, paying 60 dollar sounds quite common. In the same context, for example, a Korean express train(KTX) ticket from Seoul to Busan costs 59,800won as of April 2022. The biggest money unit of this price is "MAHN" (for Romano), while the second biggest is "CHEON" (for chunk). Like you pay in dollar, you might deem this 6 mahn won approximately.
On the other hand, the price of Starbucks Americano(Tall size) is 4,500won at the moment in Korea. In this case, which unit do you care the most? Perhapse, the first digit "4" gets your attention at first, which is at "CHEON" position. [Click this to see an article for $10 budget plan in Starbucks Korea]
Hence, the most efficient way of studying Korean money for practical use is, in my suggestion, aclimatizing with MAHN WON unit and CHEON WON unit first. Only when you spare more time, practicing coin units sounds absolutely fitting.
MULTIPLE10,000 WONREADING
Forget about eel fish quiz thing now. You will verbally repeat these numbers 100 times each for 3 days in a row, if so, a native speakers' mind would synchronize to your tongue, no doubt. Open your mind, open your heart. Let's speak!
₩ 10,000mahn won만 원 ₩ 20,000ee mahn won이만 원 ₩ 30,000sam mahn won삼만 원 ₩ 40,000sa mahn won사만 원 ₩ 50,000oh mahn won오만 원 ₩ 60,000yug mahn won육만 원 ₩ 70,000chil mahn won칠만 원 ₩ 80,000pal mahn won팔만 원 ₩ 90,000goo mahn won구만 원
GO HIGHER IF YOU CAN
100,000sib mahn won 십 만 원 110,000 sib eel mahn won십 일만 원 120,000 sib ee mahn won십 이만 원 130,000 sib sam mahn won십 삼만 원 140,000 sib sa mahn won십 사만 원 150,000sib oh mahn won십 오만 원 160,000sib yug mahn won십 육만 원 170,000sib chil mahn won십 칠만 원 180,000sib pal mahn won십 팔만 원 190,000sib goo mahn won십 구만 원 200,000ee sib mahn won이십만 원 300,000sam sib mahn won삼십만 원 ... 1,000,000baeg mahn won백만 원 10,000,000cheon mahn won천만 원
MULTIPLE1,000 WON READING
₩ 1,000cheon won천 원 ₩ 2,000ee cheon won이천 원 ₩ 3,000sam cheon won삼천 원 ₩ 4,000sa cheon won사천 원 ₩ 5,000oh cheon won오천 원 ₩ 6,000yug cheon won육천 원 ₩ 7,000chil cheon won칠천 원 ₩ 8,000pal cheon won팔천 원 ₩ 9,000goo cheon won구천 원
MULTIPLE100 WONREADING
₩ 100 baeg won백 원 ₩ 200eebaegwon이백 원 ₩ 300sambaegwon삼백 원 ₩ 400sabaeg won사백 원 ₩ 500oh baegwon오백 원 ₩ 600yug baegwon육백 원 ₩ 700chil baegwon칠백 원 ₩ 800pal baegwon팔백 원 ₩ 900goo baegwon구백 원
MULTIPLE10 WONREADING
₩ 10sib won십 원 ₩ 20eesib won이십 원 ₩ 30samsib won삼십 원 ₩ 40sasib won사십 원 ₩ 50ohsib won오십 원 ₩ 60yugsib won육십 원 ₩ 70chilsib won칠십 원 ₩ 80palsib won팔십 원 ₩ 90goosib won구십 원
READING KOREAN MONEY,inPRACTICAL
COMBINATORIALMONEY READING
Reading combinatorial number is, simply to say, reading a price from left to right in order. Each number in price is combinatorial of one of numbers between 1~9, and one of 10, 100, 1000, 1000 units. Check out 4 examples below.
₩ 12,340
10,000 mahn만
2,000 ee-cheon이천
300sam-baeg삼백
40 sa-sib사십
0(silent)
≫mahn ee-cheon sam-baeg sa-sib won (만 이천 삼백 사십 원)
₩ 67,890
60,000 yug-mahn육만
7,000 chil-cheon칠천
800 pal-baeg팔백
90 gu-sib구십
0 (silent)
≫ yug-mahn chil-cheon pal-baeg gu-sib won
(육만 칠천 팔백 구십 원)
₩ 10,450
10,000 mahn만
0 (silent)
400 sa-baeg사백
50 oh-sib오십
0(silent)
≫ mahn sa-baeg oh-sibwon
(만 사백 오십 원)
₩ 111,110
*** 110,000 sib eel mahn십일 만
1,000 cheon천
100baeg사백
10sib오십
0(silent)
≫sib eelmahn cheon baeg sib won
(십일만 천 백 십 원)
*** Number 1 is spoken only for the case "110,000" won. This is because, if you remove "eel" between "sib" and "mahn", it represents 100,000 won, which is not 110,000. Aside from that, number 1s at the other positions stay silent.
MONEY READING, MATERIALSfor PRACTICE
① AMERICANO
4,500won
② BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE M
5,900won
③ BEEF NOODLE SOUP
11,110 won
④ BBQ PLATE
39,800 won
⑤ TRAIN to Busan
59,800won
⑥ TRAIN to Daejeon
23,700 won
⑦ GUESTHOUSE
15,620 won / night
⑧ [photo slide]
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ANSWERS
① Americano : Sa Cheon Oh Baeg won ② Blueberry smoothie M : Oh Cheon Goo Baeg won ③ Beef noodle soup : Mahn CheonBaeg Sibwon ④ BBQ plate : Sam Mahn Goo Cheon Pal Baeg won ⑤ Train to Busan : Oh Mahn Goo Cheon Pal Baeg won ⑥ Train to Daejeon : Ee Mahn Sam Cheon Chil Baeg won ⑦Guesthouse : Mahn Oh Cheon Yug Baeg Ee Sib won ⑧ from left to right - 1st : Mahn Oh Cheon won - 2nd : Chil Cheon won - 3rd : Oh Mahn Oh Cheon won - 4th : Sam Cheon Yug Baeg won - 5th : Ee Mahn Yug Cheon Pal Baeg Sib won - 6th : Goo Baeg Goo Sib won
PRAYING FOR YOUR SUCCESSFUL LEARNING
Writing this long article was challenging for me. However, I believe learning foreign money counting system is much harder than my writing challenge. I wish my friends and other visitors reading this article could get to the point easy and joyably as soon as possible. In your little journey, hopefully my trivial tricks could be helping... Bye.
Oh my god, I can't believe you've got through this challenge!
Ah.. I forgot about this peach boy by the way... Did he go home? ;)
