🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧
KrootStart learning

Kroot · Street Talk 🇰🇷

🌐 Internet

열정페이

yeol-jeong-pei · literally “passion pay”

Being underpaid and told to be grateful for the experience

그 인턴십 완전 열정페이야.

That internship pays in 'experience' and nothing else.

Where it comes from

열정 (passion) + pay — a bitter coinage from the 2010s job market.

More slang like this

  • 멘붕 men-bung — Brain meltdown, totally overwhelmed
  • 최애 choe-ae — Your absolute favourite (bias)
  • JMT jei-em-ti — Ridiculously delicious
  • TMI ti-em-ai — More detail than anyone asked for
  • 갑분싸 gap-bun-ssa — That awkward silence after a bad joke
  • 존맛 jon-mat — Insanely tasty (a little crude)

106 more slang words like 열정페이, free

Flip through them all, hear how they sound, and start learning the Korean that's actually spoken today — not just textbook Korean.

Start free →