#Lilly's Korean stuff🇰🇷

[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Another contribution to QSMPblr Meme day!

(Text: 안녕히 계세요 여러분~ 전 이 세상의 모든 굴레와 속박을 벗어던지고 제 행복을 찾아 떠납니다~)

(Translation: Farewell everyone~ I am shedding all the restraints and shackles of this world and leaving to find my happiness~)

This meme is from the Japanese anime <Inuyasha>! Koreans use it to joke about leaving a bad workplace, or when someone dips out.

Happy QSMPblr Meme Day! :D

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Hello QSMPblr, may I introduce you to The Meme Ever (In Korea).

BEHOLD.

This meme is from the (EXTREMELY) old TV drama, <야인시대>, which was based on the true story of 김두한(Kim Doo-Han), a guy who went around fighting injustice during one of Korea's most turbulent times- spanning the Japanese Colonial Period(a.k.a. the Illegal Occupation Period) to the Korean War & the political drama(read: sh!tstorm) that followed.

The guy seen above is 심영(Shim Young), played by 김영인(Kim Young-In).

심영 was an actor and a high-up official of the Communist party in North Korea. He got shot by a guy called Shanghai Joe, and, in an original twist of the TV show, the bullet hit.... a very delicate place. (🤦‍♀️) That bullet also ended up making him infertile. (again, 🤦‍♀️)

The TV show had 심영 shout, "내가 고자라니!" when he found out; it roughly translates to: "(What do you mean) I'm an enunuch!"

고자 wasn't a very well-known word back then, but people started using it a LOT after this scene was aired, and memes/edits started to circulate.

Now, '내가 고자라니', as it came to be known, is a classic meme in Korea, one that is used every time someone gets hit anywhere around the general nut-and-sausage area.

Here's a video of the scene!

Happy QSMPblr Meme Day! :D

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Another Korean meme!

This video was the hottest thing in 2022 Korea.

(There are English subtitles btw!)

This video is known for the following:

1) The voiceovers were done by the employees themselves, not professional VAs.

2) The choreography was put together by cobbling together various K-pop dances from over the years.

3) It was the middle of Covid, everyone was going slightly insane, and the whole dance and song routine was WAY too good for a children's TV show.

Happy QSMPblr Meme Day! :D

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Some 설(Seol, name for the Korean lunar new year holiday) greetings in case you want to wish 악어 happy Seol:

새해 복 많이 받으세요! (Sae-hae bok man-ee bad-eu-se-yo)

(Literally translates to "Many blessings for the new year!". It's the customary Korean way to wish soneone a happy new year. It's used on 설 as well, since it IS lunar new year.)

설 연휴 잘 보내세요! (Seol yun-hyoo jal bo-nae-se-yo)

("Have a good Seol holidays!" It's half over now cuz Seol was the 10th, which was yesterday for Koreans, but ehh)

명절 잘 보내셨어요? (Myung-jeol jal bo-nae-shut-suh-yo?)

("Did you have a good holiday?")

(*: There's an official rule for romanized spellings, but I didn't stick to it, cuz some of the rules make the pronunciation seem even more complicated than it actually is. Still looks pretty headachey though, I know😅)

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Modern Hanbok :D

(Ignore the messy backgrounds haha)

Modern hanbok tends to be WAY more decorated than traditional hanbok. Mesh, embroidery, sometimes even lace! The sleeves are often made of a sheer material as well.

I spent so long on the 고름(go-reum, clothesribbon), but I think I tied it a bit wrong anyway, it kept sticking up...😅

This one was taken front of the bathrooms lol. The photo schedule got messed up & everyone was so busy changing that I couldn't find anyone to ask to take my pictures for a while.😅

Bonus!!! Eye reveal (-_👁)✨️

#hanbok #한복 #Lilly's ludicrous life #Lilly's Korean stuff🇰🇷 #eye reveal #(hehe) #(I also had a 댕기(daeng-gi) in my hair but it wasn't visible from the front)

[koreanbibliophilegirl]

TRICK OR TREAT!!

!!!!!!!! MY FIRST TRICK OR TREATER!!!! HELLO!!!! :D

This is 약과(Yakgwa), a traditional Korean snack!

약(yak) means 'medicine', and 과(gwa) means 'biscuit' or 'snack'. So the name Yakgwa means "medicinal snack". This is because Yakgwa needs a lot of honey and oil to make, which were rare & even considered to be medicine back in the days.

To make it, you sift flour with a sieve and add a little salt and pepper, sesame oil/perilla oil, ginger juice, honey, and a bit of alcohol to make the dough. (The alcohol disappears after you cook it, of course.) Then you oil the Yakgwa Board(the stamp for the flower design), fill the prints with dough, poke some holes in it, and fry it! After that, you leave it to steep in 조청(jo-chung, grain syrup). This takes a while, but the end result is worth it. :)

I'm not quite sure how to describe the flavor, but I'd say Yakgwa kind of tastes like churros?? Churros, but instead of crunchy it's soft and slightly sticky, like the churros is steeped in honey.

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(I have no idea how to wrap this post up.)

WELP, THAT'S YAKGWA!!!! 😀

Haha😅, happy Halloween!!!! 🎃💖🎃💖🎃💖🎃💖

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Trick or Treat! -@antimony-medusa

OMG HIIIIIII :D

곶감(pronounced got-gam, dried persimmon)!!

곶감 is a traditional snack, and it's most notably used for 제사(jesa). 제사 is a ritual for honoring ancestors, usually done on the day of the ancestor's passing or on 추석(Chuseok, basically Korean Thanksgiving).

To make 곶감, we peel unripe persimmons and hang them up to dry. After they're about one-thirds dry, we put them in a sealed box for the rest of their drying. The white powder you see in the picture above is glucose/fructose, it forms naturally during the process!

Since persimmons are harvested in autumn, 곶감 has been a popular winter snack for ages. Especially since, in folklore, 곶감 was believed to ward off tigers! (Apparently, tigers actually do hate 곶감, since dry food isn't fresh, and therefore perceived as bad. Plus, tigers can't taste sweetness, so to tigers, 곶감 is just extremely old fruit.)

곶감 tastes like, well, dried persimmons! The powder on the outside kind of feels like a sugar coating, so there's that too. It's very sweet, and it's healthy as well, since 곶감 doesn't really need any sort of processing except drying.

Happy Halloween🎃👻💕 Here are a few Korean songs I like, as a lil extra!

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

trick or treat!!! 👻

ANOTHER ONE!!!! :DDDD

달고나(dalgona)!!! You probably recognize it from Squid Game.

Dalgona is a contemporary Korean snack that's made with sugar and baking soda. It first appeared in the 1950s during the Korean War, when American army rations brought a whole lot of sugar into Busan Harbor.

The recipe went through a lot of changes over the years, but currently, you pour some sugar into a ladle, hold it over a fire/heat source and stir it with a chopstick. When the sugar turns light brownish, dip the chopstick into baking soda and stir the sugar some more. The sugar will start to puff up. Then you pour out the melted sugar onto a board sprinkled with sugar. (Make sure to pour it in a round shape!) Then you take a special dalgona pressing tool and flatten it. You can use cookie cutters/dalgona cutters with sticks attached to it to make shapes as well!

The dalgona is difficult to make if you're a beginner, it's hard to tell when the sugar is done cooking, and if the chopstick gets too much baking soda on it the sugar will puff up too much and spill. But it's easy once you get the hang of it!

...Apparently. I've never tried it, idk.

Koreans have little competitions and bets to see who can cut the shapes out perfectly. You can use your hands or needles, but we usually use needles these days.

(Squid Game got a detail wrong though, licking the dalgona is considered cheating in most regions! Heating the needle, on the other hand, is sometimes allowed.)

And that's dalgona for you!

Happy Halloween🎃👻💕

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[koreanbibliophilegirl]

trick or treat

HELLO!!! :D

This is 식혜(Sikhye)!!

Sikhye is a traditional beverage made of rice. It's made by pouring malt & water on (cooked) white rice! You pour just enough that you can see the rice grains above the water. Then you leave it so the carbs can turn into maltose. When the rice grains start to float up, pour it into a pot and boil. Add some honey/sugar/ginger/etc. according to preference, then you leave it to cool!

Sikhye helps with digestion, and contains fibers, antioxidants, etc. It also helps with hangovers, according to research. Which is nice I think.

Sikhye is apparently pretty easy to find, places that sell Korean food(like H-Mart) should almost certainly have some.

And here are some Korean songs I like!

Happy Halloween🎃👻💕

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