South Korea치맥 (chimaek)
noun · Colloquial · CHEE-mek
Fried chicken and beer, taken as a single item. A national institution: eaten in parks, outside convenience stores, at football, and delivered anywhere including the riverbank.
South Korea
Korean Slang for Going Out & Partying
5 Korean slang terms for going out & partying, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Nights out, drinking, dancing and the aftermath. A category where slang renews itself every few years as each generation renames the same activities.
혼술 (honsul)
noun · Colloquial · HON-sool
Drinking alone, by choice and usually at home — a beer with a film rather than a problem.
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이차 (icha)
noun · Colloquial · EE-cha
The second venue of a night out, moved to as a group: barbecue first, then a bar, then very often karaoke for 삼차.
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소맥 (somaek)
noun · Colloquial · SOH-mek
Soju dropped into beer — Korea's boilermaker. Mixed at the table, often theatrically, and drunk in one.
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술고래 (sulgorae)
noun · Informal · SOOL-go-reh
Someone who can drink enormous amounts — a fish, in the English idiom, though Korean scales it up to a whale.