Running Meetings & Expressing Opinions

In meetings, it is important to convey your opinions clearly yet politely.

Opening & Facilitating

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
geureom jigeumbuteo hoeui-reul sijakhagetseumnida.
Then, let us begin the meeting now.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ์•ˆ๊ฑด์€ ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
oneul nonui-hal angeoneun se gajiimnida.
There are three agenda items to discuss today.

Presenting Opinions

Learn expressions that introduce your view gently.

์ œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์—๋Š” ์ผ์ •์„ ํ•œ ์ฃผ ์•ž๋‹น๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์„ ๋“ฏํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
je saenggageneun iljeong-eul han ju apdanggineun geosi joeul deuthamnida.
In my opinion, it would be good to move the schedule up by a week.
ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
han gaji jeaneul deuryeodo doelkkayo?
May I make a suggestion?

Agreement & Disagreement

Disagreement is expressed indirectly, with respect for the other party.

๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋™์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
malsseumhasin bubune jeonjeogeuro dongui-hamnida.
I fully agree with the point you made.
์ข‹์€ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋น„์šฉ ์ธก๋ฉด๋„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
joeun uigyeon-imnidaman, biyong cheungmyeondo goryeohaeya hal geot gatseumnida.
That is a good point, but I think we should also consider the cost side.
์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?
i bubuneun dasi hanbeon geomtohae bomyeon eotteolkkayo?
How about we review this part once more?

Managing the Floor

Learn expressions for wrapping up remarks and moving on to the next item.

์ž ์‹œ ๋ผ์–ด๋“ค์–ด ํ•œ ๋ง์”€ ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
jamsi kkieodeureo han malsseum deuryeodo doelkkayo?
May I interrupt briefly and add a word?
์ด ์•ˆ๊ฑด์€ ์ด์ฏค์—์„œ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
i angeoneun ijjeumeseo jeongnihago daeumeuro neomeogagetseumnida.
Let us wrap up this item here and move on to the next.
๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
geu saaneun daeum hoeuieseo dasi nonuihagetseumnida.
We will discuss that matter again at the next meeting.
FunctionExpression
Agree๋™์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค / ๊ณต๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Partial agreement์ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ (illi-ga itseumnidaman)
Soft objection๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด (dareun gwanjeomeseo bomyeon)
Hold์ข€ ๋” ๊ฒ€ํ† ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋“ฏํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Take the floorํ•œ ๋ง์”€ ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
Move on๋‹ค์Œ ์•ˆ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: When disagreeing, soften your wording with endings like '~ใ„น ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค' or '~๋“ฏํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค' instead of a flat '์•„๋‹ˆ์š”' (aniyo, no). This conveys both formality and consideration at once.
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