Spacing — one space per “word + particle” chunk
Korean uses spaces, but not where English does. The chunk is the unit: a word together with its particle. Four rules cover every sentence on this site.
- Particles attach to the word before them. 저는 / 커피를 / 학교에 — never 저 는.
- One space between chunks. 저는⎵커피를⎵마셔요.
- -고 싶어요 splits before 싶어요. 배우고⎵싶어요 — two words.
- 안 stands apart from the verb. 안⎵마셔요. With separable noun + 하다 activities it goes between the noun and 하다: 공부⎵안⎵해요 (but 안 좋아해요 — 좋아하다 is not separable).
On manuscript paper (원고지)
One syllable per square, one empty square per space, and the full stop gets its own square. A space never starts a line — punctuation that would fall at the start shares the last square of the previous line. The print page lays your sentences out this way automatically.