Summary Korean Grammar for K100

Korean Summary Notes for K100

These notes were written as a mixture of the two books: Elementary Korean Second Edition
by Ross King and Jaehoon Yeon and Continuing Korean Second Edition by Ross King,
Jaehoon Yeon and Insun Lee as well as in-class conversations and materials provided by
the professors. This is my write up of what was covered but is the work of those mentioned.
Almost all examples given are from the books mentioned with some changes.

Hangul

South Korean Alphabet Order:

ㄱ, ㄲ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄸ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅃ, ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅉ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ​, ​ㅏ,ㅐ,ㅑ, ㅒ, ㅓ, ㅔ, ㅕ,
ㅖ, ㅗ, ㅘ, ㅙ, ㅚ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅝ, ㅞ, ㅟ, ㅠ, ㅡ, ㅓ, ㅣ

● ㄱ to ㅎ are the Korean Consonants
● ㅏ to ㅣ are the Korean Vowels

● Korean is read right to left & top to bottom
● The construction of Korean sentences is:
○ Subject Object Verb
Example:




Vowel Structure

● You need 1 consonant and 1 vowel to make a syllable

Basic syllable structure:

,In total there are 6 styles of syllable structures:




Pronunciation Rules

● 받침 is the final consonant in a syllable
● When the 받침 is followed by a vowel it is carried over to the next syllable



Final consonant (받침) Followed by (the beginning Pronunciation
of the next syllable)

ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅈ ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㄴ, ㄹ, ㅁ, (으)ㄹ ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ

ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ ㄴ, ㅁ ㅇ, ㄴ, ㅁ

, 받침 Followed or preceded by Pronunciation

ㄴ ㄹ ㄹ

ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅈ ㅎ ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅊ




Final consonant (받침) Pronunciation

ㄱ, ㅋ, ㄲ ㄱ

ㄴ ㄴ

ㄷ, ㅌ, ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅈ, ㅊ ㄷ

ㄹ ㄹ

ㅁ ㅁ

ㅂ, ㅍ ㅂ




받침 Pronunciation

ㄷ,ㅌ before 이 ㅈ, ㅊ




받침 Pronunciation

ㅂ+ㅎ ㅎ is not pronounced + ㅍ

ㄷ+ㅎ ㅎ is not pronounced + ㅌ

ㅈ+ㅎ ㅎ is not pronounced + ㅊ

ㄱ+ㅎ ㅎ is not pronounced + ㅋ




받침 Pronunciation

ㅎ before vowel Not pronounced




받침 Pronunciation

(ㅎ+ㄶ+ㅀ) + ㅅ ㅎ not pronounced + ㅆ