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Here is a list of essential words for Korean places, institutions, businesses, and other words you are likely to see on signboards around the city:

• 한의원 - Chinese medicine pharmacist
• 주유소 - gas station
• 노래방 - singing room
• 분식 - snack food restaurant
• 식당 - restaurant
• 가든 - usually used for meat restaurants
• 전기 - electronics store
• 홒 - beer house
• 부동산 - real estate office
• 치하절 - subway
• 교회 - church
• 치과 - dentist (clinic)
• 은행 - bank
• 안경 - eyeglasses (store)
• 할인마트 - discount store
• 모텔 - motel
• 당구장 - pool hall
• 보신탕 - dog soup (restaurant)
• 자동차 - car (dealership)
• 안마 - massage place
• 약국 - pharmacy
• 여관 - yeogwan (traditional hotel)
• 여인숙 - yeoinsuk (cheapest hotel)
• 사우나 - sauna
• 목욕탕 - bath house
• 수퍼 or 슈퍼 shop or supermarket
• 나이트 - night club
• 학원 - academy
• 매점 - snack shop
• 다방 - coffee shop (locally owned and usually with inferior coffee, older clientele and more smoking)
• 커피숍 - coffee shop (chains and newer espresso-based coffee shops like Starbucks, The Coffee Bean, Ediya and others
• 문구점 - stationary store
• 치킨 - chicken (restaurant)
• 낚지 - bait shop
• 사무소 - office
• 외과 - surgeon (clinic)
• 헬스 - health club
• 포장마차 - street restaurant
• 안과 - eye doctor
• 고시원 - goshiwon dormitory

• 성인 - adult
• 금연 - no smoking
• 흡연 - smoking
• 숯불 - charcoal
• 공항 - airport
• 고향 - hometown