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Today we're going to learn the Korean English.
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Konglish.
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You should know.
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Hey, what up guys.
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Welcome back to Sibongtv.
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Okay. In this episode, what we are going to learn is Konglish.
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Konglish stands for Koreanized English.
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In each country, they have their own way to speak English, right?
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So yeah, in Korea, we have some specific English words that only Koreans use.
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The reason I make this video is when you travel to Korea, or if you have any Korean friends, you know.
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To avoid the misunderstandings.
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So you can anticipate for those misunderstanding through this stupid Konglish lesson.
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All right then, let's get to know one by one.
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Number one. Skinship.
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I'll give you three seconds that you can guess.
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Okay. 1...2...3...
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Skinship actually means a touch, you know.
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It's like physical interaction or like, physical relationship.
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Any touch. Like human's doing.
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But if you say "touch" in Korea, that doesn't mean like, physical interaction.
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That's only means like, just high-five, or you know, touch.
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So if you just say touch, I think Koreans might not understand.
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But if you say skinship, most of them will understand.
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So in case, if you don't like to be touched from someone else,
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if you say "Don't touch." Sometimes Koreans think that's kind of rude.
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You know, it's too strong to say that.
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But if you say like, "No skinship please." Then they will be more happier to stop doing it.
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I know it's broken English, but if you are traveling in Korea, the word you should know.
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Skinship.
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This is skinship.
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Okay next one is A/S.
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After service.
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I give you three seconds, you can guess.
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1, 2, 3!
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Yeah, if you thought of something adult or porn,
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I think you're just a pervert.
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Nah, I'm just joking.
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After service means Warranty.
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So if you shop around in Seoul, or I mean, in Korea,
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you know, if you shop around,
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you know like, most mobile devices, or electronic devices
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from Samsung or Apple or big major companies in the world,
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they provide international warranties right?
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You know if you ask the staff of the store,
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is the warranty available, then you can ask them like
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"After service ok?"
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Then they will say ok or no.
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Easy to ask right? After service.
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Number 3. Meeting.
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I'll give you three seconds, you can guess.
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1, 2, 3.
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In Australia, when people saying meeting,
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it's mostly about business meeting right?
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But in Korea, when we causally say meeting,
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it means "blind date".
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Boy and girl, they don't know each other, but they got introduced from their friends,
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so they do a blind date.
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Which means meeting.
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If there's, you know, young Korean, one of your friends,
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if they say, "oh I'm going out to meeting."
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Which means they're going to blind date.
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Or you can ask to your friend you know,
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"I need some meeting." You know.
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Which means you want a boy, a girl, who can do a blind date with you.
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It's a simple word. Meeting. It's not a business meeting.
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Blind date.
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Health.
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1, 2, 3.
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Health actually means "gym".
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So if you are traveling in Korea, and if you want to work out.
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And if that's your hobby, you can go to hotel reception, and then ask them.
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"Where's the health?"
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Sometimes they might not understand what "gym" means.
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Then you can ask them "I need health", "health".
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They will understand that you need a gym to work out.
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Super.
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Can you guess what super means in Korea?
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I give you three seconds.
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1, 2, 3.
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When you say "I'm going to super" in Korea,
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which means you're going to supermarket.
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It doesn't matter whether it's a big market or small market.
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But when you say super, it means you're going to the supermarket.
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To avoid your misunderstanding, I'm telling you.
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Fighting.
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This is one of the famous words you can hear from Korea.
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When we do like World Cup, you know,
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like international football league or something.
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Heaps of Koreans they always keep saying "fighting, fighting, fighting!"
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This doesn't mean you actually want to fight, this means "cheer up, hurray!" you know.
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When your friends say "you're fighting" to you,
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which means they want to cheer you up.
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They want to give you more power.
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Be cheering for you, you know.
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So Koreans, they love to say fighting!
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To give you more power. Fighting!
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Okay. Last one. Hunting.
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Hunting actually means that you're shooting a gun to get the wildlife animals right?
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But in Korea, when you say hunting, because it's illegal to carry guns on the street,
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it means "picking up girls".
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If you're a boy, and if you're traveling in Korea,
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and if your friends say "let's go hunting", which means let's go out to pick up girls to drink with.
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Okay so far, those were Koreanized English.
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I know that they're broken English.
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But you know, language are getting developed, so one day this could be the real English in the future right?
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Yeah this would help if you're traveling in Korea.
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Actually you got to know those.
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So you won't misunderstand what Koreans are saying and then you can communicate better with them.
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So if you got any questions, regard to Korean English, or something you are uncomfortable with,
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please leave a comment.
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So me and our family will help you out soon.
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Alright then, I'll see you guys. Stay tuned.