Kroot · Street Talk 🇰🇷
jeong-saek · literally “straight face”
Dropping the smile and going dead serious
농담인데 왜 정색해?
It was a joke — why so serious all of a sudden?
Where it comes from
A standard word that became slang for over-reacting to a joke.
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