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Getting Things Done in Korea
The seven counters you stand at — and what is said at each, in order
You can order food and find the station. What stops people next is the counter: the till, the clinic desk, the bank ticket machine, the courier on the phone, the landlord, the public office. Seven daily lessons for those seven places, and no new grammar in any of them — everything is built from the endings you already have. What is new is the vocabulary and the order: which question comes first at a Korean checkout, what a pharmacist tells you, which word decides a phone contract, and what to say when something is genuinely wrong. Prices and rules are deliberately absent, because they change; the sentence for asking them does not.
- Lessons
- 7
- Days
- 7
- Minutes
- 118
- Quiz items
- 49
- To pass
- 80%
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
Week 1 · The counters of everyday life
- 1The counter you stand at every dayConvenience stores and supermarkets — bags, points, and swapping something backGet through a checkout without guessing what was just asked.
- Saying where it hurtsThe clinic and the pharmacy — the one place you cannot mime your way throughDescribe a symptom, get registered, and understand the pharmacist.
- Banks, phones and the card you need firstThe three counters that decide whether everything else worksOpen an account, get a phone line, and ask what a form needs.
- Everything arrives at your doorParcels and food — addresses, front doors and the missed-delivery slipGive a Korean address out loud and handle a delivery that went wrong.
- Finding a place and living in itViewings, monthly costs, and telling someone the boiler is brokenAsk the four questions that decide a flat, and report a fault.
- Government offices without dreadNumbers, documents, appointments — and the two words that get you helpTake the right ticket, ask for the right window, and book a slot.
- When something actually goes wrongLosing things, emergencies, and asking a stranger for helpGet help fast, in the right order, from the right number.
Languages this course is written in
The lessons are explained in one language. Where a translation exists your screen uses it; where it does not, you see the original rather than a blank.