Korean grammar · Level 3 · 3급
V-(으)ㄴ/는 김에
While I'm at it, since I'm already …
Taught in Level 3, Unit 7: While I was travelling
travel is full of 'since I'm here anyway' moments — while you are in a city you eat the local speciality, while you are on the way to the shop you buy one more thing. This is the ending for it.
Example
서울에 온 김에 친구도 만났어요.
Since I was in Seoul anyway, I met a friend too.

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While I was travelling
The rule with a table, Sori’s tips, practice that checks itself, a review room and a one-page cheat sheet.
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