While back in America, I ended up playing a lot of online games with my brother. For those of you outside of Korea (or the world of online gamming) a great deal of Koreans are fans of these games. A lot of them also don’t like to get killed in the games. They do, however, like to use “profanity” after their defeat.
While we were playing, one word kept popping up again and again. So for all online gamers outside of Korea, I’m going to unlock the mystery that is:
Now this is not really Konglish per say, but this is my webpage, I’ll do what I want to do. Allow me to explain, “KIN.” In Korean there is a word, 즐 (jeul), which to the best of my knowledge is a low level insult. It is used in the same way a kid in middle school might call someone, “fag” or “asshole.”
But how do they get “KIN” from a word that is pronounced as “jeul?” Look at 즐 and rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise. ㅈ becomes a K, ㅡ becomes I, and ㄹ becomes an N. So you have “KIN,” which shares the same meaning with it’s real pronunciation. However for non-Koreans this word is completely meaningless (aside from talking about family or ancestors), so here is a note for any Koreans that happen to be reading.
한국여러분, 외국사람들 “KIN” 이해못하면 “KIN”대신에 “sun of betch*” 말하세요.
(Korean, since foreigners don’t understand “Kin” use “sun of betch” instead.)
* Someone actually called me this in a game, the person might have actually been European though.
