Negotiation, Requests, Apologies & Thanks

To sustain business relationships, you need to handle negotiation, requests, apologies, and thanks with formality.

Polite Requests

๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ถ€ ๋” ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
beongeoroeusigetjiman jaryo-reul han bu deo bonae jusil su isseulkkayo?
I know it is a bother, but could you send one more copy of the document?
๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‚ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•ž๋‹น๊ฒจ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ganeunghasidamyeon napgi-reul jogeum apdanggyeo jusigireul butakdeurimnida.
If possible, I would ask you to move the delivery date up slightly.

Negotiation

์„œ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์”ฉ ์–‘๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
seoro han balssik yangbohamyeon joeun gyeolgwa-ga isseul geot gatseumnida.
If we each make a concession, I believe we can reach a good outcome.
๊ทธ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
geu jogeoniramyeon geungjeongjeogeuro geomtohae bogetseumnida.
If those are the terms, I will review it favorably.

Apologies & Thanks

When a mistake happens, acknowledge responsibility and apologize politely.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ผ๋กœ ๋ถˆํŽธ์„ ๋ผ์ณ ๋“œ๋ ค ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ibeon illo bulpyeoneul kkichyeo deuryeo jinsimeuro sagwadeurimnida.
I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this matter has caused.
๋ฒ ํ’€์–ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ฐฐ๋ ค์— ๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
bepureo jusin baeryeoe gipi gamsadeurimnida.
I am deeply grateful for the consideration you have shown.
์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
apeurodo byeonhameomneun hyeomnyeogeul butakdeurimnida.
I ask for your steadfast cooperation going forward.

Proposing Terms & Compromise

In a negotiation, make the terms clear and put forward a compromise.

์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ ค ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
suryangeul neullyeo jusindamyeon dangareul jojeonghae deurigetseumnida.
If you increase the quantity, we will adjust the unit price.
๋‚ด๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘์˜ํ•œ ๋’ค ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๋ฝ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
naebujeogeuro hyeobuihan dwi dasi yeollakdeurigetseumnida.
I will get back to you after consulting internally.
๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์  ์–‘ํ•ด ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
geu bubuneun jeohuiga suyonghagi eoryeoun jeom yanghae baramnida.
Please understand that this part is difficult for us to accept.
FunctionFormal Expression
Request~ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Apology์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Thanks๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Accept๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Decline์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Compromise~ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ~ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Defer๋‚ด๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘์˜ํ•œ ๋’ค ์—ฐ๋ฝ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: For a polite refusal, add a reason and offer an alternative. Framing it as '๋Œ€์‹  ~์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค' (Instead, ~ would be possible) protects the relationship.
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