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.^[1]

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.