A Formal Announcement (공지사항)

A 공지사항 (official notice) is corporate Korean at its most careful: a company addressing many customers at once, in writing, with no room to read the room. The register is uniformly 합니다체 (the -습니다/-ㅂ니다 deferential level) folded into 문어체 (written style), and it leans on a small kit of formal-only machinery that you will almost never hear in conversation — the honorific dative 께, the prospective -(으)ㄹ 예정이다, agentless passives in -되다, and the elevated courtesy connective -오니. Read this maintenance notice closely and you can recognize (and write) almost any Korean service announcement.

What makes the genre feel formal is not just the endings but the stance: the company states plans without naming who acts (the passive -되다 does this), softens every imposition with deferential connectives, and lowers its own actions with humble verbs (드리다). Below, each sentence of the notice stands alone with its grammar unpacked.

The notice, line by line

Notices open with a bracketed subject header, a noun phrase with no predicate — 서버 점검 안내, literally "server inspection guidance." The square brackets are a genre signal ("here is the topic of this notice"), and the whole thing is a bare noun stack, the same telegraphic style you meet in a job posting.

The formal greeting 안녕하십니까 — the 합니다체 question-shaped greeting, one notch above the conversational 안녕하세요 — sets the register for the entire notice. 여러분 ("everyone / all of you") is the polite mass-address term. (More on this level at 합니다체.)

저희 is the humble "we" (lowering the company relative to the customer). 이용해 주셔서 stacks the benefactive -아/어 주다 with the honorific -(으)시- (주셔서 = "for [your] doing [us] the favor of…") — the customers' using the service is framed as a favor to the company. And 감사드립니다 uses the humble 드리다 ("give, humbly") in place of plain 하다: 감사하다 → 감사드리다. The humble verb is the notice's default posture.

The honorific dative 께 appears on 고객님 ("[esteemed] customer"): 고객님께 = "to the customer," where 께 is the honorific replacement for casual 에게/한테. You raise the recipient of the information. Note the humble frame 안내 말씀 (을) 드리다 — literally "[I] humbly give [you] guiding words," the set formula for "we hereby inform you." (See the honorific dative 께.)

Two formal workhorses here. -(으)로 인해 ("owing to / due to") is the written-register causal — a bookish cousin of the spoken 때문에. And the predicate is doubly formal: 중단될 예정입니다. First, 중단되다 is the passive of 중단하다 ("to suspend") — the service is suspended, with no agent named (the company never says "we will suspend"). Second, -(으)ㄹ 예정이다 means "is scheduled to," attaching the prospective modifier -(으)ㄹ to the noun 예정 ("plan/schedule"): 중단될 예정이다 = "is scheduled to be suspended." (On the passive, see -되다.)

The range particles 부터 … 까지 ("from … to") bracket the window: 2시부터 4시까지 = "from 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock." Notice the number reading the romanization reveals: the hours take native numbers (2시 = 두 시 du si, 4시 = 네 시 ne si), while the date takes Sino numbers (7월 = 칠월 chirwol, 5일 = 오일 oil). (See the range 부터 … 까지.)

The heart of the page: -오니. Here 제한되오니 is 제한되다 (passive, "is restricted") + the courtesy connective -오니. Meaning-wise -오니 is just "since / so" — but it carries a layer of 하오체-flavored deference that has no English equivalent: it is a formal-written way of saying "since [this is the case, and I respectfully bring it to your attention]…". A plain "since" cannot mark that courtesy. 및 is the formal written "and" (joining nouns only: 로그인 및 결제). And the sentence closes with the deferential request -(으)시기 바랍니다 (참고해 주시기 바랍니다, "we ask that you kindly note this"). (The everyday cause connective is -(으)니까 — -오니 is its elevated relative.)

것이므로 ("since it is [a thing] for…") is the written-formal "because": the bound noun 것 + copula + the bookish causal -(으)므로. And 양해 (를) 부탁드립니다 ("we humbly ask for your understanding") is a frozen apology-softener of corporate Korean, again built on the humble 드리다 (부탁하다 → 부탁드리다).

-(으)ㄹ 경우 ("in the case that / if") is the formal conditional (더 formal than 만약 … -(으)면). And another agentless passive: 재개되다 ("to be resumed"), from 재개하다. 예정보다 uses 보다 ("than [schedule]").

공지드리겠습니다 packs three things: the humble 드리다 (공지하다 → 공지드리다, "to announce, humbly"), the volitional/committal -겠- ("[we] will"), and 합니다체 -습니다. The -겠습니다 ending is the formal, committed "we will…" of corporate Korean — a promise of future action delivered deferentially. (On -겠-, see future/intention -겠-.)

The formal apology. 불편을 드려 ("having caused [you] inconvenience") once more uses the humble 드리다 — you humbly give even the inconvenience. 죄송합니다 is the deferential apology verb (more formal than 미안합니다).

A forward-looking close. 앞으로도 ("going forward, too"), and 보답하겠습니다 ("we will repay [your patience]") again in the committal -겠습니다. The notice ends on a promise.

Formal thanks in 합니다체 — the register the notice began and ends on.

What to notice

• The notice keeps a single 합니다체 · 문어체 register throughout — deferential endings (-습니다/-ㅂ니다) in a written, impersonal style.
• 께 raises the recipient (고객님께); the humble 드리다 lowers the company's own actions (안내 말씀 드리다, 감사드리다, 공지드리다, 부탁드리다).
• Plans are stated with the agentless passive -되다 (중단되다, 제한되다, 재개되다) plus the prospective -(으)ㄹ 예정이다 — no actor is ever named.
• -오니 is the signature courtesy connective: a formal-written "since/so" with built-in deference, where speech would use -(으)니까.
• -겠습니다 is the committal formal "we will"; -(으)로 인해 / -(으)므로 / -(으)ㄹ 경우 are the bookish causals and conditionals of notice Korean.

Common Mistakes

1. Using casual -(으)니까 where the notice demands -오니. The everyday cause connective sounds far too colloquial in official copy.

2. Dropping into 해요체 in the middle of the notice. A notice must hold 합니다체; an -아/어요 or -이에요 ending breaks the formal frame.

3. Using 에게/한테 instead of the honorific 께 for the customer. Addressing a customer requires the honorific dative.

4. Naming the company as the agent instead of using the passive. The genre prefers the agentless passive; an active clause with 저희가 sounds blunt.