revealing the secrets of Korean texting slang 🤫

2025. 5. 20.

❤️ Hello Everyone !!!! ❤️

How are all of you doing!!? Can you believe it's almost June already...? I don't know if it's just me but 2025 has been going by waaaay too fast...

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Let's get right into this week's issue of Teugether! ☺️

What's the trending meme in Korea this week?! 🇰🇷

OK I know we already talked about Earth Arcade's new season a couple of weeks ago BUT watching it reminded me of a hilarious meme that I wanted to share with you all! ❤️

The meme is "전남친 토스트" and it originated in 2019! For those of you who are up to date with our slang - can you guess what this means???

If you guessed ex-boyfriend toast, dingdingding - 전남친 (ex boyfriend) 토스트 (toast) 🍞

It all started when this girl broke up with her boyfriend in 2018 but couldn't stop thinking about a toast that he made for her at his house...

She was craving it so bad that she actually decided to contact her ex boyfriend and ask for the recipe - she told this story on her blog (linked below) and even shared the recipe LOL

The blog post

This was the text conversation with her ex (which I did my best to translate hahahah

And FINALLY after all that thought, she ended up getting the recipe! 😆😆😆😆

This was such a legendary meme back in the day that that recipe still lives on and it's called "Ex-boyfriend toast"

Fast forward to 2025, Lee Youngji was given the toast on a quiz and she was asked to name it - her reaction made the meme start trending again and here we are now LOL

Check out the video below (p.s. I've made it and it's actually good)

Korean Slang of the Week 🇰🇷

잼얘

(jem-ye)

Y'all already know that we LOVE to shorten every single word possible... can you guess what this one means?? 🤩

Let's break it down:

잼: stands for 재미있는 which means "something fun"
얘: stands for 애기 which means story or discussion

This slang literally means "fun story" but if we're looking for an English equivilent I would say it's the closest to how we use "tea" as in spill the tea 🍵

Here is an example of someone using it in context:

A: 야! 나 잼애 해줄까??? (hey, should i tell you a fun story?!)

B: 응!! 뭔데 뭔데~ (yes!! what is it what is it~~)

Can you try using 잼얘 in your own situation?!

Ask Me Anything! 💘

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Let's learn some Korean text slangs~

ㅋㅋㅋ - lolol
ㅎㅎㅎ - hehehe
ㅇㅇ - 응응 which is yes yes
ㅇㅋ - 오키 which is "okay"

And for some new onesss...

ㅠㅠ - crying (sad) because it looks like a sad face
ㄷㄷ - 덜덜 which is "shivering" - used when you're scared/shocked
ㄱㄱ - 고고 (which is gogo) - used when you wanna say "let's go"
ㄴㄴ - 노노 (which is nono) - used when you wanna say no

Let me know if you want to learn more of these hehe these are fun~

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