Kroot · Street Talk 🇰🇷
yeong-kkeul · literally “soul-scraping”
Borrowing every last won you can to buy something big
영끌해서 집 샀대.
They scraped together every penny to buy a place.
Where it comes from
영혼까지 끌어모으다 — 'gathering it up down to your soul'.
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