It’s Easter Sunday today and it’s good to know how easter greetings are said in Korean. I am not sure if Christianity is a major religion in South Korea but I read there are Christians there though most do not have specific religion but are following Confucianism.
I asked over at yahoo answers how to say Happy Easter in Korea and this is what I got:
부활절을 잘 보내세요 – Puh-wha-choreul Jal Bo-nae-se-yo
I just realized its not so different to how you say merry christmas you just change 부활절을 to 성탄절 song-tan-chol. 부활절을 (minus 을 which is object marker) means Easter so 부활절을 잘 보내세요 literally means ‘have a well blessed easter’.
I was thinking Christians in English speaking countries uses Happy Easter so probably in Korean this can be said this way too:
부활절 행복해세요 – Pu-wha-chol Heng-bok-hae-se-yo (in honorific polite terms) or drop the 세 so you will have 부활절 행복해요 – Pu-wha-chol Heng-bok-hae-yo in polite casual or again drop the 요 ‘yo’ to make it intimate.
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