eojjaessdeun jigeum gati chulbalhaja.

어쨌든 means anyway, in any case, or regardless.

It often signals that the speaker is moving on from earlier discussion, uncertainty, or disagreement and focusing on what to do next.

In this sentence, it gives the feeling of:

• Whatever the situation is,
• after all that,
• let’s just do this now.

So it adds a practical, move-forward tone.

Both can mean something like let’s go, but they are not exactly the same.

• 가자 = let’s go
• 출발하자 = let’s depart / let’s set off

출발하다 focuses more on the act of starting a trip or leaving from a starting point. It can sound a little more deliberate than 가다.

So 출발하자 fits well when people are about to begin moving, traveling, or setting off together.

-자 is the casual ending for suggesting an action together: let’s ...

So:

• 출발하다 = to depart
• 출발하자 = let’s depart / let’s set off

This ending is used when speaking casually to someone close in age or younger, or in an informal situation.

A more polite version would be:

• 출발합시다 = let’s depart

That is very common in Korean.

Many Korean verbs are made from:

• a noun-like base, plus
• 하다

So:

• 출발 = departure
• 출발하다 = to depart / to set off

When conjugated:

• 출발하다 → 출발하자

This pattern is very productive in Korean, so learning it is useful.

Here, 같이 means together.

It shows that the speaker wants both people, or the whole group, to leave together.

So the idea is not just let’s leave now, but let’s leave together now.

A very similar word is 함께, which also means together.
Compared with 함께, 같이 usually sounds more everyday and conversational.

Not exactly, though they are related in meaning.

같이 is usually an adverb meaning together.

• 같이 출발하자 = let’s leave together

If you want to say with someone, Korean often uses -와/과, -하고, or -랑.

For example:

• 친구랑 출발하자 = let’s leave with a friend

But in real speech, 같이 can also help express a similar idea of doing something together with someone, so the meanings can overlap.

지금 means now, and 같이 means together. Both are adverb-like elements describing the action 출발하자.

So the structure is basically:

• 어쨌든 = anyway
• 지금 = now
• 같이 = together
• 출발하자 = let’s depart

Korean often allows some flexibility in adverb order, but this order sounds natural. The speaker is saying:

• Anyway, now, together, let’s leave.

In smoother English, that becomes something like Anyway, let’s leave together now.

The subject is omitted, which is very normal in Korean.

Because the sentence ends with -자, the meaning naturally includes the speaker and the listener:

• let’s ...
• effectively we should ...

So even though we is not stated, it is understood.

It is casual, not polite.

The clue is -자 in 출발하자.

This form is fine when speaking:

• to a friend
• to someone younger
• in an informal setting

If you want to say the same thing politely, you could say:

• 어쨌든 지금 같이 출발합시다.

That sounds more appropriate in formal or respectful situations.

Yes. If you remove 어쨌든, the sentence becomes:

• 지금 같이 출발하자.

That simply means let’s leave together now.

Adding 어쨌든 gives extra context and tone. It suggests something like:

• there may have been discussion before,
• maybe there were delays or complications,
• but the speaker wants to move on and leave now anyway.

So it is not required for grammar, but it changes the nuance.

Yes, because 같이 can be confusing in Korean for a few reasons.

In this sentence, 같이 clearly means together.
But learners may have seen 같이 in other contexts connected to the idea of like or as if, especially in spoken language or in forms related to 같다.

Here, though, the structure is straightforward:

• 지금 = now
• 같이 = together
• 출발하자 = let’s leave

So 지금 같이 출발하자 means let’s leave together now, not let’s leave like now or anything like that.

They are very similar in meaning.

• 같이 출발하자 = let’s leave together
• 함께 출발하자 = let’s leave together

The difference is mostly in tone:

• 같이 sounds more everyday and conversational
• 함께 can sound a bit more formal, written, or polished

In normal conversation, 같이 is very common and natural here.

It sounds like a practical, casual suggestion with a slight sense of let’s stop discussing and just go.

The feeling comes from the combination of:

• 어쨌든 = anyway
• 지금 = now
• 같이 = together
• -자 = let’s

So the overall tone is something like:

• Anyway, let’s head out together now.

It is natural, direct, and conversational.