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30 Useful Korean Transitional Phrases For Essay Writing

by Linda McKenna // March 29 // 0 Comments

Are you studying for an upcoming exam in your Korean class or the TOPIK exam that includes essay writing? 

If you are at an intermediate to advanced level, you should become familiar with some Korean transitional phrases to make your paragraphs more interesting to read. A transitional phrase can be used to make your message transition smoothly from one sentence to the next.  

If you just write a string of sentences without any transitional phrases, your essay can end up sounding awkward and robotic without a natural flow.

In this article, I have compiled a list of 30 Korean transitional phrases that will prove very useful for you to have in your writing arsenal.

Useful Korean Essay Phrases

Korean Transitional Phrases

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œAnd
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜But
๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒBut
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒBut
๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„Even so,
์ด์ฒ˜๋ŸผAs such, like this, to this extent
๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์—On the other hand,
์˜คํžˆ๋ คOn the contrary,
๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œTherefore, accordingly,
ํŠนํžˆEspecially, in particular
๋˜ํ•œAdditionally,
๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€In addition to that,
๊ทธ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผNot only that,
๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋„Besides that,
๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผAs a result,
๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด์„œIn other words,
๋งŒ์•ฝIf for any reason
๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉดIf that is the case,
๊ทธ๋•ŒAt that time,
๊ทธ ๋‹น์‹œAround that time,
๊ทธ ํ›„์—Thereafter,
๊ทธ ์ „์—Before that, previous to that,
์šฐ์„ First (before anything else),
์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ดAs an example,
๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„Above all else,
๋ฌผ๋ก Of course,
๋‹น์—ฐํžˆNaturally,
๋”ฐ์ง€๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉดAfter all, logically speaking, arguably,
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋ฉดDepending on how you look at it,
๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ In spite of that, nonetheless,

Below are some examples of these phrases I have found in recent articles that appeared in Woman Sense, a womenโ€™s magazine in Korea. 

I have underlined and highlighted where transitional phrases are used, but you can use the links provided to read through the rest of the articles to find more on your own:

Examples:

์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ ์ฑ„์‹์ด ๋ณดํŽธํ™”๋œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ข…๊ต์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ผ๋ฅ˜ ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ์ฑ„์‹ ์ผ€์ดํ„ฐ๋ง์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ์ž„์–ธ๋ณด ์”จ๋Š” โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฑ„์‹์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ข…๊ต ๋•Œ๋ฌธโ€์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ฑ„์‹ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ฑ„์‹์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—๋Š” 70%์˜ ๋„๊ต ๋ฐ ๋ถˆ๊ต ์‹ ์ž๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ฑ„์‹ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ์ •๋ฆฝ๋ผ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ฑ„์‹์ด ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ Š์€ ์ธต ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฑ„์‹์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์›€์ง์ž„ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ ์ฑ„์‹์ด ๋ณดํŽธํ™”๋œ ์ด์œ ๋Š”...
The reason the vegetarian diet has become widespread to this extent is...

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ฑ„์‹ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ์ •๋ฆฝ๋ผ ์žˆ๊ณ ...
Therefore, the vegetarian culture is well established...

๋”ฐ์ง€๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ํฅํ–‰ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์™€ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ์†์—์„œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ์‹ค๋ง์‹œํ‚จ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค. <ํŒŒ์ˆ˜๊พผ>(2010), <๋™์ฃผ>(2015), <๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด ๋‚ด ์„ธ์ƒ>(2018), <์‚ฌ๋ฐ”ํ•˜>(2019)๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋…ธ๋ž‘๋จธ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์˜ํ™” <์‹œ๋™>๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Š˜ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ <์‹œ๋™>์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ „๋งคํŠนํ—ˆ์ธ ์ƒํ™œ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , ํฅํ–‰๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‘ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ํ† ๋ผ๋ฅผ ์žก์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐ•์ •๋ฏผ์˜ ์˜ํ™” ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค. 

๋”ฐ์ง€๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ํฅํ–‰ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์™€ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ์†์—์„œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ์‹ค๋ง์‹œํ‚จ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค.

It can be argued that he has never disappointed his audience on screen regardless of his filmsโ€™ blockbuster status. 

ํŠนํžˆ <์‹œ๋™> ์€โ€ฆ

In particular, โ€œStart-Upโ€ (movie) is...

์ด๋“ค์ด ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ตฌ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์ถ”์ด๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ชซํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ. ์ถœ์‚ฐ์œจ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์ Š์€ ์ธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  50~60๋Œ€๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์ธ๊ตฌ์˜ 30%์— ์œก๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ IT ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ธต์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค.

๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ IT ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ...

In addition to that, as they started to become more skilled in the latest information technology...

์•„์นจ์„ ์ž˜ ์ฑ™๊ฒจ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทœ์น™์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง„๋‹ค. ์˜ค์ „์— ํ™œ๋™๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋งŽ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์•„์นจ์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์–ป์–ด ํ™œ๋™์ ์ธ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋Š” ์ฒด์˜จ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ข‹๋‹ค. ์•„์นจ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ชธ์€ ํ™œ๋™์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฒด๋‚ด ์ง€๋ฐฉ์„ ๋ถ„ํ•ดํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋•Œ ํฌ๋„๋‹น๊ณผ ์ –์‚ฐ์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ –์‚ฐ์€ ๋ชธ์˜ ํ”ผ๋กœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ๋ฉด์—ญ๋ ฅ์„ ๋–จ์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„์นจ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹์„๊นŒ?

ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋Š”โ€ฆ

Especially in winterโ€ฆ

์ด๋•Œ ํฌ๋„๋‹น๊ณผ ์ –์‚ฐ์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค.

At this time, glucose and lactic acid are created.

This is when glucose and lactic acid are created.

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„์นจ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹์„๊นŒ?

If that is the case, what would be the best food to eat for breakfast?

Other useful Korean words and phrases you could check out:

Basic Korean Phrases for Travelers and Beginners

Korean Words and Phrases For Food Issues

Conclusion

In order to become more familiar with the above Korean transitional phrases, you should practice writing a variety of different sentences using the words/phrases listed.

I also want to emphasize how important it is for you to read other peopleโ€™s writing as much as possible. As with any language, the more you read, the better you will become at writing. Try to find Korean books, magazines, newspapers, or any other types of written material that are appropriate for your level.

์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!  ํ™”์ดํŒ…!!

About the Author Linda McKenna

Linda was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the U.S. as a teen. She previously taught at a Korean language school. She is a language enthusiast and loves learning about different languages and cultures