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🇰🇷 Korean · Advanced Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Deposit or rent

A cafe with Min-jun and the two ways to rent in Korea: full deposit or monthly rent, explain the full deposit again, a big deposit only and no rent, you get it all back after two years, a villa in Mangwon is three hundred million, as much as three hundred million, or fifty million deposit and nine hundred thousand rent, we have thirty million and the rest is a loan, monthly rent then with the deposit as big as we can.

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THE STORY

A cafe near Hongdae on a Saturday morning, Min-jun explaining Korean renting to Eli and Su-a over coffee. Eli and Su-a speak casually with Min-jun and with each other.

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전세야, 월세야?jeon-se-ya, wol-se-ya?Full deposit or monthly rent?
전세를 다시 설명해 줘.jeon-se-reul da-si seol-myeong-hae jwo.Explain the full deposit again.
보증금만 크고 월세는 없어.bo-jeung-geum-man keu-go wol-se-neun eop-sseo.A big deposit only, and no rent.
이 년 후에 다 돌려받아.i nyeon hu-e da dol-lyeo-ba-da.You get it all back after two years.
삼억이야sa-meo-gi-yait's three hundred million: three, the word for a hundred million, then it is
망원 빌라는 전세가 삼억이야.mang-won bil-la-neun jeon-se-ga sa-meo-gi-ya.A villa in Mangwon is three hundred million as a full deposit.
삼억이나? 너무 비싸.sa-meo-gi-na? neo-mu bi-ssa.As much as three hundred million? Too expensive.
아니면 보증금 오천만에 월세 구십만.a-ni-myeon bo-jeung-geum o-cheon-ma-ne wol-se gu-sim-man.Or fifty million deposit and nine hundred thousand rent.
우리는 삼천만 있어. 나머지는 대출이야.u-ri-neun sam-cheon-man i-sseo. na-meo-ji-neun dae-chu-ri-ya.We have thirty million. The rest is a loan.
그럼 월세로, 보증금은 최대한 크게.geu-reom wol-se-ro, bo-jeung-geu-meun choe-dae-han keu-ge.Monthly rent then, the deposit as big as we can.