Korean honorifics

The Korean language has a system of linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situational context.

One basic rule of Korean honorifics is "making oneself lower"; i.e., the speaker uses honorific forms and also humble forms to make themselves lower.

The honorific system is reflected in honorific particles, verbs with special honorific forms or honorific markers and special honorific forms of nouns that includes terms of address.