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“TMI” in Korean means the opposite of TMI in English

September 26, 2026September 25, 2026 by mataXinfo
TMI (TMI) word card

Borrowed from English, reassigned within a few years. In Korean it introduces a small personal fact you are volunteering, which is why leaving it untranslated makes the subtitle less accurate.

Categories Slang & Internet Korean Tags fandom, loanwords, slang, tmi Leave a comment

“Hwaiting” (화이팅) — not “fighting”, and not quite “you got this”

September 24, 2026September 20, 2026 by mataXinfo
화이팅 (hwaiting) — what the subtitle says versus what was actually said

It comes from the English word “fighting” and means the opposite of what an English speaker hears. It is a cheer said before the hard thing, and there is a different word for after.

Categories Things They Say Tags encouragement, fighting, himnae, hwaiting, loanwords Leave a comment

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Korean words, honorifics and lines that subtitles cannot carry across. One word per article: what it means, what the subtitle says, and what got dropped.

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