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Radio Romance (4) 조심히 가세요.

2018-10-15

Expression of the Week

Song Geu-rin:그래서 카메라를 벗어나 마이크 앞에서 

자신의 이야기를 솔직하게 들려줄 수 있는 환상의 기회에 

지수호씨를 초대하는 바입니다.

That is why we are inviting you, Ji Soo-ho,

to an opportunity of a lifetime where you can escape the camera 

and tell us your real story in front of the mic. 

Ji Soo-ho:안 해요. 

자, 그럼 조심히 가세요. 

I’m not doing it.

Good bye and be safe.




조심히 가세요. (Good bye and be safe)


조심히 – carefully, cautiously; in a manner of being careful in speech, behavior, etc., not 

  to get in trouble 

가세요 -  polite form of ‘가다’ which means ‘to go’


Casual – 조심히 가

Semi-polite – 조심히 가요

Polite – 조심히 가세요


>>[조심히 가세요] is a set phrase that is used as much as [안녕히 가세요] when saying good bye. It literally is a combination of ‘carefully’ and ‘go’ which means ‘go carefully (back home)’, or ‘be careful as you go (back home),’ so in other words, ‘take care’.


>>[조심히 들어가세요] is very similar to [조심히 가세요] as it literally means ‘be careful as you go in’. ‘Go in’ in this case means to go back inside one’s home. 


>>[살펴가세요] is another way to say ‘good bye’ as ‘살피다’ means to ‘examine or check,’ so it is telling the other person to be careful and take care as they leave. 



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