Korean slang, explained in English · 164
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- 트윈슈머teuwinsyumeoConsumer guided by online user reviewsA consumer who consults other people’s online reviews when buying goods or services.
- 트윗보터teuwitboteoA voter who uses Twitter and participates in elections and voting.A voter who uses Twitter and participates in elections and voting.
- 트윗툰teuwittunA webtoon serialized through social networks such as Twitter.A webtoon serialized through social networks such as Twitter.
- 티브이셀러tibeuiselreoA TV-driven bestsellerThe phenomenon of becoming a bestseller through television’s influence.
- 티처보이ticheoboiA student who depends on academy instructors or private tutors and has trouble studying alone.A student who depends on academy instructors or private tutors and has trouble studying alone.
- 티에프티tiepeutiThin-film transistorAn abbreviation for a thin-film transistor, a transistor made in thin-film form.
- TIFTIFA pension fund designed to allow steady withdrawals of income such as interest and dividends from assets remaining after retirement.A pension fund designed to allow steady withdrawals of income such as interest and dividends from assets remaining after retirement.
- 티이이tiiiTeaching English in EnglishAn abbreviation for classes teaching English through English.
- 티저광고tijeogwanggoTeaser advertisingAdvertising deliberately withholding detailed information about a product or service to arouse curiosity.
- 티키타카tikitakaA state of conversation flowing smoothly because people’s words and reactions fit well together.A state of conversation flowing smoothly because people’s words and reactions fit well together.
- 티메프timepeuA collective shortening for the e-commerce companies TMON and WeMakePrice.A collective shortening for the e-commerce companies TMON and WeMakePrice.
- 팁 피로tip piroConsumers’ burden and fatigue from growing or higher tipping requests.Consumers’ burden and fatigue from growing or higher tipping requests.
- 팁 소름tip soreumAn expression used for the continually increasing burden of tips. The source article pairs it with English ‘creep’.An expression used for the continually increasing burden of tips. The source article pairs it with English ‘creep’.
- 티펙tipekTraffic-information transmission and serviceA standard for transmitting traffic and travel information, and real-time traffic-information services using it.
- 티피에스tipieseuTriple-play serviceA service providing high-speed internet, internet telephone service, and broadcasting through one connection.
- 팁플레이션tippeulleisyeonRising amounts or percentages requested as tips.Rising amounts or percentages requested as tips.
- 티라미수 케이크 챌린지tiramisu keikeu chaellinjiA dance activity drawing circles with the arms and lightly swinging the legs to 티라미수 케이크.A dance activity drawing circles with the arms and lightly swinging the legs to 티라미수 케이크.
- 티슈인턴tisyuinteonAn intern whose contract ends without conversion to regular employment, likened to a disposable tissue.An intern whose contract ends without conversion to regular employment, likened to a disposable tissue.
- 티텐더titendeoSomeone who takes orders and prepares tea at a café or similar place.Someone who takes orders and prepares tea at a café or similar place.
- T커머스tkeomeoseuCommerce through interactive televisionElectronic commerce in which products are ordered and traded using interactive television.
- TMITMIToo much informationUnnecessarily detailed information that someone does not really need to know; short for the English phrase “too much information.”
- TMTTMTAn abbreviation of an English expression for someone who talks a lot.An abbreviation of an English expression for someone who talks a lot.
- 토초세tochoseFormer tax on excess land gainsAn abbreviation for 토지초과이득세, a tax formerly levied on certain gains from rising land prices.
- 퇴출toechulCrisis-era business and job exitsA word widely used during the foreign-exchange crisis for being pushed out of or removed from a company or workplace.
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