Korean age: why everyone had two of them, and what changed in 2023
Born at one, everyone ageing together on New Year’s Day, and a legal change in 2023 that everyday speech has not finished catching up with.
hierarchy
“Nunchi” (눈치) — subtitles say “reading the room,” and still miss it
Reading the room is a talent in English. In Korean it is a duty, lacking it is an insult, and the same word also describes the exhaustion of monitoring someone more powerful than you.