🇰🇷 Korean Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Korean | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| Help! | 도와주세요! | dowajuseyo! |
| Call the police! | 경찰을 불러 주세요! | gyeongchareul bulleo juseyo! |
| Call an ambulance! | 구급차를 불러 주세요! | gugeupchareul bulleo juseyo! |
| I need a doctor | 의사가 필요해요 | uisaga piryohaeyo |
| The pharmacy | 약국 | yakguk |
| The hospital | 병원 | byeongwon |
| I feel sick | 몸이 안 좋아요 | momi an joayo |
| It hurts here | 여기가 아파요 | yeogiga apayo |
| I'm allergic | 알레르기가 있어요 | allereugiga isseoyo |
| I lost my passport | 여권을 잃어버렸어요 | yeogwoneul ireobeoryeosseoyo |
| My phone was stolen | 휴대폰을 도난당했어요 | hyudaeponeul donandanghaesseoyo |
| It's an emergency | 응급 상황이에요 | eunggeup sanghwangieyo |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
More Korean phrases
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