옛날
Romanisation: yennal
old days; long ago
Example sentence
옛날에 여기에 학교가 있었어요.
Yennare yeogie hakgyoga isseosseoyo.
Long ago there was a school here.
What 옛날 means
옛날 (yennal) is an Korean word meaning “old days; long ago”. It belongs to the Time & Nature topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.