BEG 17 | How to Order and Buy
If you want to learn 이, 그, 저: Watch the Instagram lesson here!
EXAMPLE DIALOGUE
For more about this honorific and humble forms you use in service encounters,
see the lesson about Korean honorifics and politeness!
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