이야기
iyagi · TOPIK 1
story, talk
📖 sounds like: ee-YAH, gee! — what you shout when a story gets good
Say it aloud: i-ya-gi. The middle syllable is a little gasp, yah, the sound a listener makes mid-tale. It covers both a told story and plain talk, so 이야기하다 means to talk or to tell. In speech it often shrinks to 얘기 (yaegi).