Negotiation, Requests, Apologies & Thanks
To sustain business relationships, you need to handle negotiation, requests, apologies, and thanks with formality.
Polite Requests
๋ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ก์ฐ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ถ ๋ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์?
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?
๊ฐ๋ฅํ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ์๋น๊ฒจ ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
ganeunghasidamyeon napgi-reul jogeum apdanggyeo jusigireul butakdeurimnida.
If possible, I would ask you to move the delivery date up slightly.
Negotiation
์๋ก ํ ๋ฐ์ฉ ์๋ณดํ๋ฉด ์ข์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
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 ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒํ ํด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
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.
์ด๋ฒ ์ผ๋ก ๋ถํธ์ ๋ผ์ณ ๋๋ ค ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ณผ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
ibeon illo bulpyeoneul kkichyeo deuryeo jinsimeuro sagwadeurimnida.
I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this matter has caused.
๋ฒ ํ์ด ์ฃผ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ ค์ ๊น์ด ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
bepureo jusin baeryeoe gipi gamsadeurimnida.
I am deeply grateful for the consideration you have shown.
์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ณํจ์๋ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
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.
์๋์ ๋๋ ค ์ฃผ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ๋จ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ ํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
suryangeul neullyeo jusindamyeon dangareul jojeonghae deurigetseumnida.
If you increase the quantity, we will adjust the unit price.
๋ด๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ํ ๋ค ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
naebujeogeuro hyeobuihan dwi dasi yeollakdeurigetseumnida.
I will get back to you after consulting internally.
๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ ์ํด ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
geu bubuneun jeohuiga suyonghagi eoryeoun jeom yanghae baramnida.
Please understand that this part is difficult for us to accept.
| Function | Formal Expression |
|---|---|
| Request | ~ํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค |
| Apology | ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ณผ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค |
| Thanks | ๊น์ด ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค |
| Accept | ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒํ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค |
| Decline | ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์ด๋ ค์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค |
| Compromise | ~ํด ์ฃผ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ~ํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค |
| Defer | ๋ด๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ํ ๋ค ์ฐ๋ฝ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค |
๐ก Tip: For a polite refusal, add a reason and offer an alternative. Framing it as '๋์ ~์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค' (Instead, ~ would be possible) protects the relationship.