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흑역사

heuk-yeok-sa · literally “black history”

An embarrassing past you'd rather delete

중학교 사진은 내 흑역사야.

My middle school photos are my dark era.

Where it comes from

From a Gundam anime term, now everyday Korean.

More slang like this

  • 대박 dae-bak — Awesome / no way! (good or bad shock)
  • 짱 jjang — The best, awesome
  • 불금 bul-geum — Fire Friday — the night the week ignites
  • 치맥 chi-maek — Fried chicken with beer, the national combo
  • 인싸 in-ssa — A social butterfly, always in the middle of things
  • 아싸 a-ssa — A happy loner who skips the group stuff

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