Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Newbie]

I guess this is a product of being married to a Korean, but I find myself often making up Korean words. They're all quite lame, but it's pretty funny when we use them out in public and people react like we're nuts.

Our favorite has to be "gochu-meori" ("dickhead", more or less literally translated). It's so bad now that apparently my wife will let it out when she's talking to her Korean friends. Walking around E-Mart and saying to my wife "stop being a gochu-meori" gets some pretty interesting reactions.

I'm on a mission to brutalize the Korean language just like they do to English and all their crappy "fighting" "Charisma" "b-we line" crap.

[jajdude]

A response to Konglish might be interesting. I think I've made up a few for humorous effect in classes before.

[normalcyispasse]

고추머리? Pepper-head?

The only Korean word I've made up was "Man-bok," to describe the Korean traditional dress worn by males.

[manlyboy]

sonsaengnimrod

[Newbie]

[eamo]

I don't call my wife yeobo. I call her yeobongo. I just think it sounds better. Now she calls me yeobongo too. Even in front of her family. Which confuses them no end.

I reckon we foreigners have every right to purposefully mangle Korean as revenge for what Koreans have done to English. Difference being, we know its wrong when we say it.

[drkalbi]

I like to take the literal translation of part of the Korean word and add it to the rest of the word. For example:

1. Five deang
2. three dog tang
3. five san

I know they're really lame, but the students seem to like them

[Qinella]

I was thinking 거시기동 might be an alternative to Butt Fvck Egypt when you are lost.. I asked an agassi about it and she didn't get it, so I think it may work.

[uberscheisse]

i call one of my students "clayhead" (찰흙머리). he gets it.

i also invented "엑스큐즈미다" (excuse-me-da) for when people get in the way.

[Saxiif]

Let's see
Ddongdaegari (note daegari means animal head and its more insulting to call someone a somethingdaegari than a somethingmori)
Yoby (rhymes with Toby) instead of Yobo
Haraboji-ed As in "the chili I made last week is all haraboji-ed, you'd better throw it out"

I do like Manbok, I will have to start using that

[BuHaoChi]

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[uberscheisse]

how about yeo-ja-nam to describe anyone who even remotely looks like a male korean pop star?

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Kim Jong Jordan]

I had a d*ck of a boss my first gig here and he spoke no English, was a real knob. Whenever he'd do something stupid I'd say co*ksuckmida very quickly instead of komsamnida, and he would always smile thinking I was being grateful but in reality I was expressing my distaste for his sometimes criminal behaviours.

[maximreality]

Jakeum as in between with jaju(often) and kakeum(rarely) as there is no word for "sometimes". And "Louis Bottong"(Bottong=common, standard) as in reference to those millions carrying identical (fake) Louis Vuitton bags.