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# Posted: 12 Nov 2006 14:32 KST - Edited by: _joseph_
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Pure Korean Numbers

1 하나
2 둘
3 셋 but 세 시 ( 3 o`clock)
4 넷 but 네시 (4 o`clock)
5 다섯
6 여섯
7 일곱
8 여덟 (the final ㅂ is not pronounced, so it sounds like 여덜) (also, do not confuse this with 여든 which is pure korean for 80 ... as in, 80 years old, e.g. 여든까지)
9 아홉 (나는 열아홉살 - I am 19)
10 열

when we talk about hours, we use 하나, 둘, 셋 etc which are used when counting. See, (Nouns - Numbers and Counting)
하나, 둘, 셋, and 넷 have also been abbreviated to 한, 두, 세 and 네.

* 1시 = 한시 = 1 o`clock
* 2시 = 두시 = 2 o`clock
* 3시 = 세시
* 4시 = 네시
* 5시 = 다섯시
* 6시 = 여섯시
* 7시 = 일곱시
* 8시 = 여덟시
* 9시 = 아홉시
* 10시 = 열시
* 11시 = 열 한시
* 12시 = 열 두시

CONTINUING .......

20 스물 (I am 23 years old --- 나는 스물세살이다)

스무 명

30 서른 (I am 37 -- 나는 서른일곱살이에요)
40 마흔
50 쉰
60 예순
70 일흔
80 여든 !
90 아흔

Sino - Korean Numbers

youtube.com -- watch her fingers and try to do that, that`s harder than learning the numbers
1 일
2 이
3 삼
4 사
5 오
6 육
7 칠
8 팔
9 구
10 십
11 십 일
12 십 이
13 십 삼
14 십사

Unlike for hours, above, when we talk about minutes, we use 일, 이, 삼 etc.

* 1분 = 일분 = 1 minute
* 2분 = 이분 = 2 minute
* 5분 = 오분
* 10분 = 십분
* 20분 = 이십분
* 30분 = 삼십분
* 45분 = 사십 오분
* 50분 = 오십분
* 60분 = 육십분

100 백 one hundred
101 백 일
108 백 팔
130 백 삼십
180 백 팔십
200 이백
300 삼백
322 삼백 이십이
721 칠백 이십 이 (700 칠백, 20 이십, 7 칠)
1,000 천 one thousand
2000 이천
2500 이천 오백
10,000 만 ten-thousand
십만 100,000
백만 1,000,000 one million
천만 10,000,000 ten million
일억(億) 100,000,000 100 million
십억 one billion 1,000,000,000
* 십억 is important because that`s considered 1 million dollars and that is the landmark figure for all of us in terms of personal wealth.
* the exchange rate for WON/USD in the following is 1000 won = 1 dollar
백억 10,000,000,000 ten billion
6백억 sixty billion

순대외채권 사실상 ‘제로’ 작년보다 300억弗 줄어

300억 dollars .... 30 billion dollars
천억 == 100,000,000,000 one hundred billion
7천억 == 700 billion
7천억원 == the GDP of Korea from importing and exporting
9천5백7만억 == 2007 GDP of Korea
일조(兆) == 1,000,000,000,000 one trilllion [ trillion, billion, million, thousands ]
3조 8천억원 == 3.8 trillion won
일조원 == 십억미국달러
one trillion won == 1,000,000,000 USD [ one billion USD ]
4조 6,000억원 == 46억 dollars [ 4 billion 600 million dollars ]
1조9000억달러 == 1,900,000,000,000USD the size of China`s foreign exchange reserves (Dec 23 2008)
포스코 영업이익 1조 넘는다 Posco makes more than 1 trillion won profit
17조원 == 17 trillion won
* 1 경(京) = 1 0000 조 = 1016

reading phone numbers

http://learnkorean.blogsome.com/2007/05/07/number-lesson-6-more-use-with-sino-korean-number/

reading money and big numbers

만원 == 10,000 won ~ 10 USD

Note that we do not say 일만원 just 만원

Recommendation: When talking money in Korea, just make it easy and say 10 to mean both 만원 and 10 USD. You can forget about all those big numbers that way. it works on the street and with foreigners and your Korean friends alike.

the names for thousand, hundred, ten thousand etc already have the #1 in them, so 일백 is just 백 일천 isjust 천 일만 is just 만.

십만: 100,000 ~ 100 USD
백만: one million; 1,000,000 Won ~ 1,000 USD

My monthly salary is 2.2 million ~ 2,300 USD

천만원: 10,000,000 Won ~ 10,000 USD

I can buy this officetel for 육천만원 ~ 60 thousand dollars

1억: 100,000,000 which is hundreds of thousands of dollars
일억: 1억

... yes, for 억 we need the 일

육억: 600,000 USD
10억: one million USD or 1 billion WON.
above the 10억 I really don`t know those very clearly .... but there is 백억, 천억 .... and then ..............
when 노태우 was president of Korea, he wriggled another 1천6백억원 in tax income from Hyundai group. How many dollars is that? 1천6백억
억: 100,000,000
6백억: 60,000,000,000 ten billion
1천백억 is 160 billion won. divide by roughly 1,000 gives 160 million dollars.

mr.naver Posts: 81 native korean # Posted: 11 Nov 2009 20:05 KST - Edited by: mr.naver ... Re-Sideview ... 1명당 is pronounced 한명당 (means, per person) 4배나 is 네배 26명 수믈여섯명
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