Welcome back to our regularly scheduled weekly newsletter~ It's great to have you here!
Whoโs watching the world cup right now?! As some of you may know, Koreans take the world cup very seriously! Stay tuned to learn some Korean, learn about a hot guy..๐คซ, and learn about a Korean tradition during the world cup!
Okay FIRST OF ALL, I gotta talk about him because the whole internet is talking about him already but...Cho. Gyu. Sung. GUYS netizens are actually crazy! (and by crazy I mean impressive) Did you know that he started the world cup with 20k followers and now has over 1.3 MILLION followers. Honestly, at this rate heโs going to become an influencer!
Seriously just take a look at how many posts were made about him haha โฌ๏ธ
True to netizen fashion, this man has gone viral and the internet is flooded with his pictures and thirst trap videos which are so hilarious. But on top of everything this man really scored two goals back to back against Ghana! Unfortunately, Ghana scored again and we lost 3-2 but Cho GyuSung will probably remain a celebrity for a while haha
Okay now that I got your attention, let's learn some Korean~ Since we lost, let me teach you what Koreans say when we lose a game ๐ญ
โฝ๏ธ World Cup Korean Lesson โฝ๏ธ
1. ์ก์ง๋ง ์ ์ธ์ ๋ค!
(jeot-ji-man jal ssa-wot-da)
์ก์ง๋ง means โeven though we lostโ ์ means โwellโ and ์ธ์ ๋ค means โwe foughtโ
Put it all together and it means โEven though we lost, we fought well!โ
There is a way to make this sentence sound even more native though! Remember last week when we talked about how we Koreans love to abbreviate things?! This sentence is often abbreviated as well! Just take the first character of each sentence:
2. ์ก์์ธ!
(jeot-jal-ssa)
This is the slang that we use to say โEven though we lost, we fought well!โ You can use this slang during the world cup or even when youโre playing an online game too! Check out Yejiโs video below to see how to pronounce the slang โฌ๏ธ
โฝ๏ธ Korean World Cup Tradition โฝ๏ธ
Okay, so there is something that Koreans take very seriously when it comes to the
world cup. Can you guys guess what it is?! . . .
If you guessed food, youโre right!!! We have a food tradition attached to the world cup!
When watching the world cup, it is a tradition in Korea to order fried chicken! It's to the point that we have to order our chicken up to 2-3 hours earlier for it to come in time. Another shocker? Chicken places even take reservations on these days...
Check out this picture of a fried chicken restaurant circulating in Korean media โฌ๏ธ
Yep, those are the receipts for all the online orders coming in!
Tbh, I ordered my chicken at 4pm even though the game started at 10pm haha :) it was definitely a good plan since some of my friends got theirs after the game ended...
That's it for this weeks newsletter! Hope you learned something new and make sure to root for Korea this world cup!!!!!! <3
(your reason is Cho GyuSung hehe... jk... or am i?)
Bye Guys!!! Have a great day~!
What do you want to hear about? ๐
Before ending this newsletter, I'd like to hear from you guys what you'd like to read about in these weekly newsletters! Since everyone has different requests for the newsletter, I've decided to create this form to keep track of them all ๐ Please fill this out if you'd like to hear about something specific โค๏ธ
