Learn Real Korean Slang

Learn Real Korean Slang for 인싸, 아싸, 존맛탱, 뇌피셜, 현타

As English has lots of slang, Korean also has lots and as a language, the slang are appeared and disappeared.

So I introduce recent Korean slangs.

1. 인싸(inssa), 아싸(assa)

인싸(in-ssa) is short for 'insider'. The insider means a person who is fashionable, extrovert, friendly. Simply it isn't the person like an outsider.
아싸(a-ssa) is the abbreviation of an outsider. As English dictionary says an outsider is a person who does not belong to a particular group.

And you can see or hear 핵인싸(hack in-ssa). 핵인싸(hack in-ssa) is 핵(hack) + 인싸(in-ssa). 핵(hack) means nuclear. It intends to give a word behind very strong feeling. And the feeling can be positive and negative. It's like 'as fuck'.
So 핵인싸(hack in-ssa) means very great 인싸(in-ssa).

And other use of 핵(hack) is 핵노잼(hack no-jam). 노잼(no-jam) means 'no funny', so 핵노잼(hack no-jam) means 'no funny as fuck'.

2. 존맛탱(jonmastaeng, jon-mat-taeng) or JMT

존맛탱 is kind of a shortened words but I'm not sure where it is from. Anyway, it means 'this is really taste as fuck'.

3. 뇌피셜(noepisyeol)

뇌피셜(neo-pi-syeol) has the meaning of official fact by someone-self. What it means that someone says something that he/she thinks the something is true and logical, but the thought is only from his/her brain. 뇌(neo) from 뇌피셜(noepisyeol) is a brain and 피셜(pi-syeol) means 'official'.

4. 현타(hyeonta), 현자 타임(hyeonja time)

현타(hyeonta) is an abbreviation of 현자 타임(hyeonja time). 현자(Hyeonja) means a wise man(sage), so if someone says 'I have 현자 타임(hyeonja time) or 현타(hyeonta).', it means like I'm like a wise man for now. And this expression comes from kind of sexual activities such as masturbation and being after sexual intercourse. When right after having sex, people usually have feeling or mood of calm or relaxed. So with that mood people may make a good decision like a wise man who is always calm and relaxed.
So when you have the urge of buying something that you cannot afford, and then you realize your situation and give up buying. That moment of the realization is called 현자타임.

119 & 112 Emergency Telephone Numbers of South Korea

119 and 112 are South Korean emergency telephone numbers. Such as emergency numbers around the world, this numbers are intended for use in emergency circumstances only, and using it for any other purpose can be a crime.

119 is for any disaster situation such as injury, fire, flood, landslide and etc. And if you use Korean cell phone, when you make a call for 119, they can trace your location for the emergency purpose. And they will show up to rescue and solve the situation.

112 is for any crime situation such as theft, assault, verbal abuse, trespassing and etc. When you call 112, you need to tell them where you are or where the crime happens at for fast response. The police will come as soon as possible if you call 112 anyway.

And here's a tip for Korean life. Actually 119 and 112 are almost the same. The emergency calling systems are integrated, so 119 can be connected 112 and 112 can be connected 119. But I recommend you to call 119 because as I mentioned they can have your location information from your call.

Yongkkaseu(Pork cutlet) for lunch at Mapo, Seoul

One of the most serious problem of office workers is to decide what to have for lunch.

For people who are near Mapo subway station, I suggest Yongkkaseu(용까쓰) restaurant.

You can find the Yongkkaseu just in front of the Samsung Plaza.

Anyway Yongkkaseu means dragon(Yong) and kkaseu from Donkkaseu(pork cutlet).

You can see Samsung Plaza(삼성프라자)

It has been opened for about over one year here.

And I think this place is a little pricy for lunch but they provide reasonable quality of Japanese style Donkkaseu, therefore it's a good choice sometimes.

Let's look at the menu.

Yongkkaseu Menu & Price

As you can see the photo above, their menu consists single cutlet menu, Udon noodle set menu and Buckwheat(Momil) noodle set menu.

And there is 용까스(Yongkkaseu) menu which has pork and fish cutlets, so you can eat two kinds of a cutlet.

There are three sauces: Worcester sauce, mustard sauce and ponzu sauce. You can eat the kkaseu in three difference tastes with these sauces.

The redish meat is tenderloin kkaseu and the other is fish kkaseu. They are both crispy and a little bit oily. For fish cutlet, there is tartar sauce and it is really good with because it remove oily fish taste.

Location: 8 Dohwa-gil, Dohwa-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Korean Version of this post: [맛집]마포역맛집 직장인 점심은 용까스

[DIY]Daesung Celtic Gas Boiler Room Controller Replacement

[DIY]Daesung Celtic Gas Boiler Room Controller Replacement

Daesung Celtic Gas Boiler is one of the products of the Korean boiler manufactures.

Its temperature controller(room controller) has two kind: Ondol type and Air temperature type.

What is Ondol?
Ondol is traditional Korean heating method that heat the floor and then the heated floor will increase air temperature also like a convection type heater. Actually Korean style boiler is basically following this method. But to control the temperature, there are two ways as the room controller is.

So, about room controller of Daesung Celtic Boiler. Ondol type room controller controls water temperature outputting from boiler. And Air temperature type room controller is checking room air temperature to maintain the air temperature.

And for me, it is not easy to use Ondol type room controller because I have not used and also it is kind of old. So I decided to replace the old one to the new one which has Air temperature controlling function.

My old room controller was 'DSR-110'. And I looked for compatible models to replace by asking its customer center.

Here's the list of the models below.

DSR-100 (not available)

DSR-120(not available), DSR-120B (not available, Back-light)

DSR-130 (not available)

DR-100 (Available, about 50,000 Won)

Not-available models are selling on second-handed shop.

BUT according to the sales policy of Daesung Celtic, it is not possible to sell 'new' room controller on the internet. So I had to go to the official dealer to buy the room controller(DR-100).

The picture below is the old one. It was very uncomfortable for me.

I bought the DR-100. Very simple.

To replace the old one, push it up to separate from the bracket that attached on the wall.

Then you can see two electric wires.

And just cut the wires carefully, be careful not to close the wires.

There are not + and -, it uses AC. Connect the wires to the controller like the picture below.

After the connecting job, check it out if it works right. Then join with the bracket.

This model:DR-100 supports two mode(Ondol and air-temperature). And you can change the mode simply by following the video below.

Link for Korean Version of the Post: [DIY]대성쎌틱 보일러 온도조절기(룸컨트롤러) 교체하기