에게로: Toward a Person

에게로 aims an action toward a person (or animal) — direction with a personal target, not a place goal.

Dictionary: 에게로 is 에게 + 로. The first half keeps the person/animal lane of 에게, 한테; the second half adds the “toward / in the direction of” feel of 로.

What it does — headed toward someone

아이에게로 공을 굴렸어요.
손님에게로 걸어갔어요.
편지는 동생에게로 보냈어요.
친구에게로 다가갔어요.

Give/tell lines often stay with plain 에게/한테 (친구에게 말했어요). 에게로 earns its keep when movement or sending toward the person is the point — walking over, rolling something, directing a letter’s path.

Beside 에게 / 한테

Not every 에게 sentence wants 로 glued on. If you only mean “I told him,” plain 에게 is enough. If you mean “I walked toward him,” 에게로 matches the path.

Spoken Korean often does the same with 한테로. Classroom spelling on this page is 에게로.

Not place 에 / 에서

Places take 에 / 에서 / 으로 — not the person particle family.

학교에 가요.              place goal
*학교에게로 가요.         wrong — school is not a 에게 target
친구에게로 가요.          toward a person — OK

에서 marks where an action happens or comes from. Direction-toward-a-person is a different particle story.

When to use — simple rule

Use 에게로 when the destination of motion or sending is a person/animal.

Use 에게/한테 when the person is recipient of giving/telling without a path reading.

Use 에/으로 when the goal is a place.

Practice rule: if swapping to a city name makes the sentence absurd (서울에게로), you were in the right person-lane — keep 에게로 only for living targets.