/ppin-tto/
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The term is used in North Korean social and organizational contexts to criticize someone who does not follow the expected collective direction. It should be understood separately from the South Korean slang phrase ‘삔또가 상하다,’ which has a different everyday meaning and background.
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2beol-jam
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"The lecture was so long that everyone was basically doing beol-jam by the end."
originThe term reflects the fatigue people may feel during compulsory ideological education, lectures, or propaganda screenings in North Korea. Rather than describing comfortable sleep, it captures a tense half-rest done carefully under surveillance.
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"This class is too long. Let’s ditch an hour."
originThe phrase comes from North Korean youth slang around school, group practice, and required daily duties. “뚝거 먹다” is understood as a dialect-like way of saying to cut off or take away time, so the expression became a playful way to say “let’s steal some time and skip out.”
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son-jeol
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"If they keep breaking promises, I’m going to cut ties too."
origin‘Son-jeol’ comes from ‘sonjeolmae,’ a Korean investing term for selling an asset to stop further losses. It later expanded through online communities and everyday speech to mean cutting off a relationship or situation before it drains you further. It is often used for friendships, dating, spending habits, fandoms, and toxic social ties.
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