๐ขํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ๋จ์ด! Words of workplace ② ์๊ธ๋ฃจํก?๋ฒ์นด? ์ธ?
ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค ํ์ ์ฌ๋ญ②
Mastering Korean Office Slang
์ค์ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ ๊ต๊ณผ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์ํ ํํ์์ ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Real-world business Korean starts with vivid expressions found outside of textbooks.
1. ์๊ธ๋ฃจํก (Salary Lupin)
"๊ทธ๋ ์
๋ฌด ์๊ฐ์๋ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ ํ๋ง ํ๋ ์ง์ ํ ์๊ธ๋ฃจํก์ด๋ค."
"He is a true 'salary thief' who only makes personal calls during work hours."
Vocab & Grammar Insight
**์ด์(Etymology):** ์๊ธ(Salary) + ๋ฃจํก(Lupin). ๊ดด๋ ์๋ฅด์ผ ๋ฃจํก์ฒ๋ผ '์๊ธ์ ๋ชฐ๋ ํ์ณ๊ฐ๋ค'๋ ์ ๋จธ๋ฌ์คํ ๋น์ ์
๋๋ค.
**Etymology:** A combination of 'Salary' and 'Lupin' (the fictional thief). It's a humorous metaphor for someone who 'steals' their paycheck by not working.
**๋ฌธ๋ฒ ํ์ฉ(Grammar):** '~(์ด)๋ค'๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ฌ๋์ ์์ฑ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ ์๋๋ค. (์: ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ธ๋ฃจํก์ด๋ค)
**Usage:** Used with the 'be' verb '-(i)da' to define a person's characteristic. (e.g., He is a salary thief.)
2. ์ธ ํ๋ค (Sseom Tada)
"๋ ๋ถ, ์์ฆ ๊ฐ์ด ์ ์ฌ ๋จน์ผ๋ฌ ์์ฃผ ๊ฐ์๋๋ฐ ํน์ ์ธ ํ๋ ์ค์ธ๊ฐ์?"
"You two go to lunch together often lately; are you perhaps in the 'something' stage?"
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**์ดํ(Vocabulary):** '์ธ'์ 'Something'์ ์๊ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ด ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก, ๋จ๋
์ฌ์ด์ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๊ฐ ํ๋ฅด๋ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ปํฉ๋๋ค.
**Vocab:** 'Sseom' comes from the English word 'Something', referring to the subtle romantic tension between two people.
**๊ด์ฉํํ(Idiom):** 'ํ๋ค'๋ ๋ณดํต ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค(ride)๋ผ๊ณ ์ฐ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ '๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๋ผํ๋ค' ํน์ 'ํ๋ฆ์ ์ ์งํ๋ค'๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ก ํ์ฅ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
**Idiom:** While 'tada' usually means 'to ride' (a bike), here it is used to mean 'to ride the vibe' or 'to maintain a certain flow of atmosphere'.
๐ข ์ต์ ํ์ต ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ
๋๋ผ๋ง 'Perfect Crown(๋๊ตฐ๋ถ์ธ)'์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ์ต์ ํ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ์ธํ์ธ์!
[์ ๊ท] Perfect Crown(๋๊ตฐ๋ถ์ธ) 17ํ: ์ค์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ฐ TOPIK ์ดํ ํ์ต3. ๋ฒ์นด (Beop-ka)
"ํ์ฅ๋์ด ์ค๋ ํ์์ ๋ฒ์นด ์ฐฌ์ค๋ผ๊ณ ํ์
จ์ด์!"
"The team leader said today's dinner is a 'Beop-ka chance' (on the corporate card)!"
Cultural Note
**์ค์๋ง(Abbreviation):** '๋ฒ์ธ์นด๋'์ ์ค์๋ง๋ก ํ๊ตญ์ ์ง์ฅ์ธ๋ค์ ์ผ์ ๋ํ์์ ๊ธด ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ธ์๋ก ์ค์ฌ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
**Abbreviation:** Short for 'Beopin Card'. Korean office workers strongly tend to shorten long words into two-syllable abbreviations.
**ํ(Tip):** '๋ฒ์นด ์ฐฌ์ค'๋ผ๋ ํํ์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ผ๋ก ์์ฌ๋ ๋ณต์ง๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋์์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์จ์ ํํํ๋ ๊ด์ฉ๊ตฌ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐ์
๋๋ค.
**Tip:** The phrase 'Beop-ka chance' is used like an idiom to express joy when getting a meal or benefit paid for by company funds.
**์ฌํ ํ์ต์ ์ํ ์ถ์ฒ ๋งํฌ**
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