oneul hwasang hoeuiga isseoyo.

In Korean, 있다 covers both ideas:

• to exist / to be there
• to have

In 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요, it literally means something like:

• As for today, a video meeting exists

But in natural English, we usually translate it as:

• I have a video meeting today
• There is a video meeting today

So yes, 있어요 can often feel like have, even though the Korean structure works a bit differently from English.

가 is a subject marker. Here, it marks 화상 회의 as the thing that exists.

So:

• 화상 회의가 있어요 = There is a video meeting / I have a video meeting

This is different from English, where we would normally say I have... with I as the subject. In Korean, the meeting itself is often treated as the thing that exists.

You may also hear 화상 회의는 있어요 in some contexts, but 가 있어요 is the most basic and natural pattern for saying that something exists or is scheduled.

Korean very often omits the subject when it is obvious from context.

So 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요 can mean:

• I have a video meeting today
• We have a video meeting today
• There is a video meeting today

The exact meaning depends on the situation. If you are talking about your own schedule, listeners will naturally understand it as I have a video meeting today.

오늘 means today. It functions as a time expression.

A useful thing to know is that time expressions in Korean often do not need a particle. So:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요
• literally: Today, there is a video meeting

You could add a particle in some cases, but very often just 오늘 by itself is perfectly natural.

It is written as two words:

• 화상 = image/video screen
• 회의 = meeting

Together, 화상 회의 means video conference, video meeting, or online meeting by video.

Even though it is written with a space, the two words function together as one noun phrase.

Yes. If the fact that it is a video meeting is not important, you can simply say:

• 오늘 회의가 있어요. = I have a meeting today.

Adding 화상 makes it more specific:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요. = I have a video meeting today.

있어요 is the polite informal style, often called -아요/어요 style.

It is appropriate in many everyday situations:

• speaking politely to coworkers
• speaking to someone you do not know well
• general conversation

Other possible styles are:

• 있어 = casual
• 있습니다 = formal polite

So the same sentence could become:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어. casual
• 오늘 화상 회의가 있습니다. formal polite

Yes. 있습니다 is more formal than 있어요.

Compare:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요. = polite, common in everyday speech
• 오늘 화상 회의가 있습니다. = more formal, businesslike, presentation-style

In workplaces, both can appear, but 있습니다 sounds more official.

Korean and English organize sentences differently.

English:

• I have a video meeting today.

Korean:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요.
• literally: Today video meeting exists.

Korean usually places the verb at the end, and information like time often comes earlier in the sentence. This is very normal in Korean.

Yes. That is one of the important things to notice.

Because Korean often leaves out the subject, 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요 can be interpreted in more than one way depending on context:

• I have a video meeting today
• We have a video meeting today
• There is a video meeting today

If you need to make it clear that it is specifically my meeting, context usually does the job, but you could also say something more explicit in a longer sentence.

회의 is often romanized as hoe-ui, but in real speech the pronunciation can sound smoother and less separated than that spelling suggests.

Learners often hear it approximately like:

• 회이
• or a compressed version depending on the speaker

This is normal. Korean vowel combinations often sound a bit different in natural speech than learners expect from the spelling alone.

In casual spoken Korean, people do sometimes drop particles, so you may hear something like:

• 오늘 화상 회의 있어요

However, for learners, the safer standard form is:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 있어요

Using 가 makes the structure clear and grammatically complete.

The negative is:

• 오늘 화상 회의가 없어요.

Here, 없어요 is the polite form of 없다, meaning not exist / not have.

So it means:

• I don’t have a video meeting today
• There isn’t a video meeting today

Again, the exact English translation depends on context.