My learning goals for this week are to learn some popular slangs, expressions, and idioms in Korean. Sometimes I pick up some Korean slangs through Korean dramas and tv shows, but many language expressions are changing and evolving in Korea, especially words used by younger generations. I plan to accomplish this goal by looking up popular Korean slangs and expressions that are commonly used today in Korea. I found many YouTube videos with popular Korean phrases as well as websites with Korean idioms and their meanings. When I first moved to the U.S., I was not familiar with American idioms until I was in high school. Sayings like "it's raining cats and dogs," "stop beating around the bush," etc. did not make sense to me at all. I had a hard time understanding and using English expressions, but I hope I can learn some popular expressions in Korean.
This website had a lot of modern Korean slang words, but not many expressions. I've read through all 101 of them and found some of them pretty funny and creative, because many of them are just shortened versions of the actual word or phrase (similar to acronyms like Y.O.L.O).
https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-slang/
I've also learned some through YouTube videos:
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