About this site

Numbers in Korean is a reference and a classroom tool for the two Korean number systems: what each word is, how it sounds, which system a sentence calls for, and printable practice for both.

Who it is for

Teachers of Korean in schools and Saturday schools, adult learners working through a course, and anyone who has met 세 시 삼십 분 and wondered why one time uses two kinds of number. The chart and the worksheets are free to print and photocopy for classroom use.

Who publishes it

The site is published by Digital Signet, an independent publisher in the United Kingdom. It is not affiliated with the National Institute of Korean Language, the Korean government, or any school, course or textbook. It carries no advertising.

Where the Korean comes from

Every Korean number on the site is produced by one engine and checked against a separately written program over every value it can produce. Rules and forms are taken from published sources, named at the foot of each page: the National Institute of Korean Language’s spelling and standard-language rules and dictionary, the official romanization, and published grammars. The checking page lists the decisions and their sources.

Corrections

If a form here differs from the one your course uses, the course is the one to follow in class; several of the choices on this site have accepted alternatives, and the answer keys say so. Contact details for the publisher are on the Digital Signet site.