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Grammar Points
The focus of this lesson is to say Currency in Korean

Topic 1: How to say prices in Korean currency (KRW)

Sentence from the lesson:

'Number + 원이에요 '

Wonieyo
"It costs Number."

1. In Korea, coins come in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500 won. Bills come
in 1000, 5000, 10000, and recently 50000.
2. Why are these numbers so big? Because a single won isn't worth very much money.
Even if you're just going to pick up a cheap lunch, you'll end up paying thousands of
won!
2 Topic 2: How to say 1,000 and 10,000 in Korean.

Sentence from the lesson:

'천 오백원 '
Cheon obaegwon
"1,500 won"

1. Because the numbers involved in Korean prices are so high, you'll need to be able
to count above 999. The Korean word for "thousand" is 천. Do you know how to say
"one thousand five hundred won"? Of course—it's 천 오백 원! What about something
that costs ten thousand won? You might expect this number to be 십천 원 because it
has ten thousands. But actually, there's no such number as 십천.
2. Like Chinese, Korean has a special unit for ten thousand. That's 만. So "ten
thousand four hundred won" would be "만 사백원." Can you guess how to say
"Twelve thousand won"? Yes, it's 만 이천 원!

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3. What about "one hundred thousand"? Be careful that you don't say 백천. Koreans
don't think of "one hundred thousand" as a hundred thousands; we think of it as ten
"ten-thousands." So we say it 십만. That's 십 "ten" times 만 "ten thousand."

Language Tip!

The word 원(won) takes its name from this Chinese character. So do the Japanese yen and
the Chinese yuan. Those are just different names for the same Chinese character, which
originally means "round."

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