How to Avoid Using Pronoun You in the Korean Speech I was busy in the morning today. I chatted with a language exchange partner online first thing in the morning. She lives in Qīngdǎo in China. I’ve been helping her with Korean. She’s been helping me with Mandarin Chinese in return. We couldn’t chat for the past two weeks due to her busy schoolwork. She’s watched Korean TV dramas over the years and speaks an intermediate level Korean. It’s amazing to see how she communicates with me in Korean when she helps me with my Chinese. Today, she asked a thoughtful question for the Korean language and I was impressed with the question she made. In my native language we usually remove pronouns in most cases. So she asked me how she could indicate a grownup without saying “you” without not being informed of his or her name. It's a tricky question if I had the same situation. As a matter of fact, I answered that I would use call that person indicating where he or she is located in the place. She also asked if there was an alternative title to address her student's parent instead of using a pronoun, you. In this case, most Korean people would call the parent by using the student's name and his or her relation. For example, if the child's name is Kim, you can call his or her mother by saying "Kim's mom, hello!"