The site's Korean is Seoul's, with the mergers that Seoul has made since the standard was written down: ㅐ and ㅔ are one vowel, ㅚ ㅙ ㅞ are all /we/, and vowel length is gone. The one habit the reference does not carry is the casual raising of a final ㅗ to ㅜ — 하고 as 하구, 나도 as 나두 — which every Seoul speaker does among friends and nobody writes.
Où: the capital and the standard; most of the country's media
La porte d’entrée: Say 뭐 하구 있어? with the 하구 — that final 우 is the sound of casual Seoul.
Essayez un mot
Tout ce que le moteur d’orthographe sait transcrire, l’accent sait le déplacer. Ralentissez pour entendre la forme.
Pitch belongs to the phrase, not the word: each phrase rises over its first syllables and falls at the end, and the very first syllable starts high after an aspirated or tense consonant. Even, unhurried, and lower in the mouth than the southern dialects.
Ce qui bouge, règle par règle
Dans l’ordre où la bouche les applique. Chaque avant/après est écoutable — cliquez sur l’API. Le motif est la règle telle que le moteur l’exécute, pour les curieux.
Voyelles
a final ㅗ becomes ㅜ in casual speech
o(?=$| ) → u
Quand: at the end of a word, in relaxed conversation — particles and verb endings above all
Comment: Round the lips a little more and let the tongue rise: o towards u, only on the last syllable.
The particle 도, the connective 고, the endings -고/-도 and 하고 all drift up to 두, 구, 하구 in casual Seoul speech. It is stigmatised in writing and universal in the street.