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지름신

ji-reum-sin · literally “the buying god”

The spirit that possesses you into impulse shopping

새벽에 지름신이 강림했어.

The shopping demon got me at 2am.

Where it comes from

지르다 (to splurge) + 신 (god) — it 강림한다 (descends upon you).

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