Slang, explained by the people who actually use it.
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Short for "new-build even if I freeze to death" — insisting on newly built apartments no matter the price; modeled on 얼죽아.
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"Silicon collar" — modeled on white/blue collar, it refers to chipmaker employees whose huge bonuses have made them a new affluent class.
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Short for "heart wound" — a light, often joking way to say your feelings got hurt, as in 마상 입었다 ("I got hurt").
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- #Work & school
Adds "Ha" (for SK hynix) to the classic list of elite majors — medicine, dentistry, Korean medicine, pharmacy, vet school — joking that chip jobs now rank with becoming a doctor.
- #Photos & SNS
A face-filling close-up shot — a photo or video where someone's face takes up the whole frame.
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Short for "90% of humanities grads are unemployed" — a self-mocking pun on Malthus's "Essay on Population" about the humanities job crunch.
