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  2. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Korean has the vocative case markers which grammatically identify a person (animal, object etc.) being addressed so that they eliminate possible grammatical ambiguities. -a or -ya ( Hangul : 아, 야) is a casual title used at the end of names.

  3. Korean profanity - Wikipedia

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    It is a compound of the word 병; 病; byeong, meaning "of disease" or "diseased", and the word 신; 身; sin, a word meaning "body" originating from the Chinese character. This word originally refers to disabled individuals, but in modern Korean is commonly used as an insult with meanings varying contextually from "jerk" to "dumbass" or "dickhead"

  4. Naver Dictionary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver_Dictionary

    By 2022, the platform reportedly had 60 different sub services, [6] and was the most popular online dictionary service in South Korea by 2021. [7] Naver Dictionary contains many definitions of words, a Korean audio pronunciation service, [1] and easy searching and accessibility of words. [8]

  5. 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea - Wikipedia

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    Korea's tidal flat is one of the world's top five tidal flats and is considered the highest peak among Korea's ecological and cultural symbols. 11 Pungsu (풍수) Pungsu (풍수, 風水) is a traditional Korean environmental idea and natural ecology that condenses the wisdom of ancestors' lives. Animals and Plants (4 types) 12 Pine (소나무)

  6. Nunchi - Wikipedia

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    Nunchi, sometimes noonchi (눈치), is a Korean concept signifying the subtle art and ability to listen and gauge others' moods. It first appears in the 17th century as nunch'ŭi (眼勢 in hanja), meaning "eye force/power". [1] In Western culture, nunchi could be described as the concept of emotional intelligence.

  7. Korean speech levels - Wikipedia

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    The names of the seven levels are derived from the non-honorific imperative form of the verb hada (하다; "to do") in each level, plus the suffix che , which means "style". Each Korean speech level can be combined with honorific or non-honorific noun and verb forms. Taken together, there are 14 combinations.

  8. Korean pronouns - Wikipedia

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    For translation and creative writing, there is restrictive use of third-person pronouns"geu"(그) and "geu-nyeo" (그녀). A gender-neutral third person pronoun, geu (그), which was originally a demonstrative, meaning 'that' could mean she or he. The second has been coined in the combination of the demonstrative "geu" (그) [geu] "that" and ...

  9. Boseulachi - Wikipedia

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    Some [according to whom?] say the word originated during the 90s in the early days of Korean internet communities in PC Tongshin. [citation needed] But the word boseulachi is said to be emerged in 2006 on South Korean internet forums as a term South Korean men use to describe vain and egotistical women. [2]