Love & Confessions
The confession scene is the heart of every romance drama. Learning these phrases helps you feel the emotion behind them.
Expressing feelings
๋ ๋ ์ข์ํด. ์ฒ์ ๋ณธ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ ๊ณ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฌ์ด.
na neo joahae. cheoeum bon sungan-buteo gyesok saenggaknasseo.
I like you. I've thought about you ever since I first saw you.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ๊ท๋? ๋ด๊ฐ ์ํด ์ค๊ฒ.
uri sagwillae? naega jalhae julge.
Will you go out with me? I'll treat you well.
๋ค ์์ ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ง์์ด ํธํด์ ธ.
ne yeope isseumyeon maeumi pyeonhaejyeo.
When I'm next to you, my heart feels at ease.
์์งํ ๋งํ ๊ฒ. ๋ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์.
soljikhi malhalge. neo eopseumyeon an doel geot gata.
I'll be honest. I don't think I can do without you.
๋๋ง ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ด. ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋ ๋ณด์ง ๋ง๊ณ .
naman barabwa. dareun saram boji malgo.
Look only at me. Don't look at anyone else. (casual)
๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด ์ฃฝ๊ฒ ์ด. ์ง๊ธ ๋น์ฅ ๋ณด๋ฌ ๊ฐ๊น?
bogo sipeo jukgesseo. jigeum dangjang boreo galkka?
I miss you so much I could die. Should I come see you right now? (casual)
๋ค๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ด ํ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ๋ค ๊ด์ฐฎ์์ ธ.
nega useumyeon nae haruga da gwaenchanajyeo.
When you smile, my whole day turns out fine.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ๊ฐ์ด ์์. ๋ ์ง์ฌ์ด์ผ.
uri pyeongsaeng gachi itja. na jinsimiya.
Let's be together forever. I'm serious.
์ธ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๊ทธ๋งํ๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์คํ ํ์.
sseom taneun geo geumanhago, uri hwaksilhi haja.
Let's stop with the wishy-washy flirting and make it official. (casual, slangy)
| Expression | Romanization | Nuance |
|---|---|---|
| ์ข์ํด | joahae | I like you (a light confession) |
| ์ฌ๋ํด | saranghae | I love you (deep feelings) |
| ์ฌ๊ท์ | sagwija | Let's date (proposing a relationship) |
| ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด | bogo sipeo | I miss you |
Dating slang & coined words
| Expression | Origin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ์ธ | something | The flirty 'almost-dating' stage |
| ๋ฐ๋น | ๋ฐ๊ณ ๋น๊ธฐ๊ธฐ | Push-and-pull, playing hard to get |
| ์ฒซ๋์ ๋ฐํ๋ค | (idiom) | To fall in love at first sight |
| ๊ธ์ฌ๋น | ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์ฌ๋์ ๋น ์ง๋ ์ฌ๋ | Someone who falls in love easily |
The path from 'sseom' to confession
In dramas, romance usually moves through three stages: sseom (mutual flirting) to confession to dating. 'Sseom tanda' describes that subtle in-between, when two people aren't dating yet but clearly like each other.
๐ก Tip: 'Joahae' shows a lighter affection, while 'saranghae' is deeper. Confessions usually start with 'joahae'.