🪗하모니카집

/ha-mo-ni-ka-jip/

A North Korean slang term for a single-story multi-household dwelling where small homes or rooms are lined up side by side, resembling the holes of a harmonica.

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The term comes from the visual similarity between a row of small attached housing units and the holes of a harmonica. It is used to describe modest, side-by-side single-story housing seen in North Korean everyday life.

ex)

"That neighborhood has a lot of harmonica houses, with each family living in a tiny unit lined up next to the others."
"My new place is basically a harmonica house, so you can hear the neighbors pretty easily."

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sip-il-ho-cha

A North Korean slang term that jokingly refers to a person’s own two legs as their ‘number 11 vehicle,’ meaning walking instead of taking transport.

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"No bus today, so I guess I’m taking the number 11 vehicle."

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originThe term is listed in South Korea’s Ministry of Unification North Korea slang resources as meaning ‘two legs.’ It is understood as a humorous everyday metaphor in North Korean speech, especially when walking replaces scarce or inconvenient transportation.

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