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efeel

efeel  n.— «A new name “Efeel” was chosen to replace the English word condom in a bid to shake off the negative image of condoms and help make them more friendly to the traditionally-conservative Koreans, the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation announced...

1.5 generation

1.5 generation  n.— «We who sat huddled in that E.S.L. class grew up to represent the so-called 1.5 generation. Many of us came to America in our teens, already rooted in Korean ways and language. We often clashed with the first generation, whose...

P-turn

P-turn  n.— «learned a new (Konglish) term: P-turn.…A P-turn is when you can’t turn left at an intersection (like near 광화문/gwanghwamoon) and you need to go straight through the intersection, then take a right…then take another right, then (you...

happening

happening  n.— «“If there was a big explosion around September 9, we would have found some evidence of it,” he said. “It’s highly likely that this explosion will turn out to be a ‘happening,’” he concluded. The English word “happening” is used in...

386 generation

386 generation  n.— «Mr. Lee said in a speech to the Korean Businesswomen’s Federation that an insufficient understanding of economics by Koreans in their late 30s and early 40s—the “386 generation”—was limiting the nation’s economic growth...