[Korean grammar] -도록 하다 Giving Recommendations and Advice

가: 감기에 걸려서 열이 나고 머리도 아파요.
I have a fever and (resulting) headache because I caught a cold.
나: 약을 먹고 나서 며칠 동안 푹 쉬도록 하세요.
Please take some medicine, and then get some good rest for a few days.

가: 약속 시간이 언제라고 하셨지요?
When did you say the appointment was?
나: 다음 주 금요일 2시예요. 중요한 약속이니까 잊지 말도록 하세요.
Next Friday at 2 o’clock. It’s an important appointment, so please don’t forget about it.

This expression is used to instruct or suggest a course of action to someone. It is stronger than -아/어보세요 and is used when a person wants to give advice or make a suggestion a bit more softly than what can be expressed using the form -(으)세요.

• 건강에 안 좋으니까 담배를 끊도록 하세요.
Please stop smoking because it’s not good for your health.

• 그럼 내일 10시에 회의하도록 합시다.
So let’s have the meeting tomorrow at 10 o’clock.

• 내일부터 학교에 지각하지 말도록 하세요.
Starting tomorrow, please don’t be late to school.

1. This expression is only used in imperative and propositive sentences. Thus, it cannot be preceded by -아/어서 to express a reason in the same sentence.
• 기침이 심해서 약을 먹도록 하세요. (X)
->기침이 심하니까 약을 먹도록 하세요. (〇)

2. When instructed to do something in this form, the hearer can answer using the similar form -도록 하겠습니다 meaning that he or she will do the action being requested.
가: 기말시험을 잘 봐야 진급할 수 있으니까 열심히 공부하도록 하세요.
You have to do well on your final exams to advance to the next grade, so please study hard.
나: 네, 열심히 공부하도록 하겠습니다.
Okay, I will study hard.

>> You can click on the title of each grammar below to learn about the other grammar which also expresses ‘Recommendations and Advice’:
01 -(으)ㄹ 만하다
02 -도록 하다
03 -지 그래요?

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