Text messaging

This article will teach you how to text message on Korean phones.

Standard style

A typical Korean phone keypad

The standard style uses • and ㅣ to create vowels.

Standard Phone Input

Vowels	How to create	Keys pressed
ㅏ	ㅣ•	12
ㅐ	ㅣ•ㅣ	121
ㅑ	ㅣ••	122
ㅒ	••|	1221
ㅓ	•ㅣ	21
ㅔ	•ㅣㅣ	211
ㅕ	••ㅣ	221
ㅖ	••ㅣㅣ	2211
ㅗ	•ㅡ	23
ㅘ	•ㅡㅣ•	2312
ㅙ	•ㅡㅣ•ㅣ	23121
ㅚ	•ㅡㅣ	231
ㅛ	••ㅡ	223
ㅜ	ㅡ•	32
ㅝ	ㅡ••ㅣ	3221
ㅠ	ㅡ••	322
ㅡ	ㅡ	3
ㅢ	ㅡㅣ	31
ㅣ	ㅣ	1

Sky™ Phones

Sky™ (brand) phones have a different style of text messaging. Unlike the standard way, you don't use • and ㅣ to create vowels.

A Sky™ phone keypad

The consonants are self explanatory, so the table below shows how to create all the Korean vowels.

Sky™ Phone Input

Vowels	How to create	Keys pressed
ㅏ	ㅏ	3
ㅐ	ㅏㅣ	3 2
ㅑ	ㅑ	3 3
ㅒ	ㅑㅣ	33 2
ㅓ	ㅓ	6
ㅔ	ㅓㅣ	6 2
ㅕ	ㅕ	66
ㅖ	ㅕㅣ	62
ㅗ	ㅗ	9
ㅘ	ㅗㅏ	9 3
ㅙ	ㅗㅏㅣ	9 3 2
ㅚ	ㅗㅣ	9 2
ㅛ	ㅛ	99
ㅜ	ㅜ	#
ㅝ	ㅜㅓ	# 6
ㅠ	ㅠ	##
ㅡ	ㅡ	22
ㅢ	ㅡㅣ	222
ㅣ	ㅣ	2

Practice

Text messaging simulation coming soon.

See Also

• How to type in Korean
• Internet and text messaging