📘 Intermediate Day 16: Talking About Purpose – ~(으)러 가다 / ~(으)려고 Welcome to Day 16 of the Intermediate Korean series! 🧭 Today’s lesson will help you express purpose in Korean, especially when you're talking about where you go and why. We’ll learn two useful and natural Korean expressions that sound very similar, but have slightly different usages: ~(으)러 가다 – "to go in order to..." (action-purpose) ~(으)려고 – "in order to / intending to..." (general purpose) Both are essential to express goals or intentions behind your actions. Let’s dive in! 📘 1. ~(으)러 가다 – “To Go in Order To…” This expression is used when you go somewhere to do something. It combines a verb with ~(으)러 and then a verb of movement like 가다 (to go) , 오다 (to come) , or 다니다 (to attend) . 🔧 Pattern: Action Verb stem + ~(으)러 + 가다/오다/다니다 ✔️ 받침 있는 동사 → 으러 ✔️ 받침 없는 동사 → 러 📌 Examples: 책을 사 러 서점에 갔어요 . chae-geul sa-reo seo-jeom-e gat-seo-yo 👉 I w...