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normalcyispasse · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: mullagara? Quick Korean question.

From this article (http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=3002932) on the NH primary (complete with scary-arse picture of Hillary Clinton) I come to the subheading:

거짓 희망 부추기는 오바마는 물러가라

I am having some trouble "getting" this.
거짓 희망 부추기는 오바마는, sure -- but what is 물러가라? My normal reference (popjisyo.com) translates it as "aroint," which is apparently an obsolete way of saying "begone," but I still don't understand the sentence. Halp?

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

out of context · Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Location: Daejeon

물러가다 means to step back (it can also mean to quit). I think this is a shorthand way of saying 물러가라고 한다, or that Hillary is "telling Obama to step back".

normalcyispasse · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:53 am Post subject:

out of context · Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Location: Daejeon

If I translated it into English newspaper-speak, it'd be something like "Clinton to False Hope Fanning Obama: Stand Down". I'd have to read the article to be sure, which I could presumably do with the link you posted, but it seems like extra work cutting and pasting it and all.