Plus a little on loanwords vs native words & the history of Korean language
Jam-kkureogi 잠꾸러기: I don’t wanna wake up!
Beware, sleepyheads! A life of hard labor awaits you.
haejang 해장: Dealing with a hangover in Korea
If you drink a little too much soju…
One-shot 원샷: Bottoms up, Korea style
Featuring PSY, Snoop Dogg, and me. Oh, and a kitten.
Gochu 고추: Nationalism, food history, and granny slang
The small pepper is spicy.
Oneroom 원룸, where Koreans live alone
7 percent of South Korean households were single-person in 1985 but 24 percent in 2010.
baekma tada 백마 타다: A somewhat NSFW look at a creepy Korean phrase
Yeah, there’s a brothel for that.
hwajangsil 화장실: Talking toilets in Korean
Korean has plenty of current and archaic words for toilet!
Hwait’ŭ 화이트: The many meanings of “white” in Korea
White in Korea, from makeup bag to pencil case
tchaksarang 짝사랑: when love is unrequited
Crushing in Korean