South Korea대충 (daechung)
adverb · Colloquial · DEH-choong
Roughly; approximately; good enough. Of an estimate, and of work done to the minimum standard that will pass.
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South Korea
Korean Slang for Everyday Things
9 Korean slang terms for everyday things, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Informal names for ordinary things and ordinary activities — the domestic layer of slang that rarely makes phrasebooks but comes up constantly.
힐링 (hilling)
noun · Colloquial · HEE-ling
Restorative rest: a quiet café, a walk, a slow television programme. The English word borrowed and narrowed to mean recovering from ordinary exhaustion rather than from illness.
혼밥 (honbap)
noun · Colloquial · HON-bap
Eating a meal alone. Once faintly shameful in a culture built on shared dishes, now ordinary — restaurants advertise single-seat counters for it.
카톡 (katok)
noun, verb · Colloquial · KA-tok
KakaoTalk, and by extension any message sent on it — which in Korea means essentially all messages. 카톡해 is 'message me'.
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먹방 (meokbang)
noun · Colloquial · MUK-bang
A broadcast of someone eating a very large meal while talking to the audience. Korean in origin and now a global streaming genre under its Korean name.
눈치 (nunchi)
noun · Colloquial · NOON-chee
The ability to read a room and judge what people actually want without being told. Having it is a compliment; 눈치가 없다, lacking it, is a real criticism.
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눈팅 (nunting)
noun, verb · Informal · NOON-ting
Lurking: reading a forum or a group chat regularly without ever posting.
셀카 (selka)
noun · Colloquial · SEL-ka
A selfie. Korean coined its own word years before English settled on one, and kept it.
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열공 (yeolgong)
noun, verb · Colloquial · YUL-gong
Studying flat out. Said of exam season, and used as an encouragement — 열공해 is 'work hard'.
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