[A/N: #Happy1kVotes to Key To Korean! Thanks guys for making this possible.♡ Meherher.I'm celebrating this achievement together with Hoshi's bday and BLACKPINK's comeback, even if this achievement was not meant celebrating as those events are. Let me be. Hahaha.One of BP's teaser photo on mm. Kkk. Im out]
As with texting in English, Korean people like to use shortcuts and emoticons
when sending a text message. Shortcuts help to minimize the number of
characters used such as ‘u’ = ‘you’ in English. An emoticon is a character or
collection of characters that show some sort of emotion, and is useful for
replacing some aspect of the communication that would normally be
conveyed through body language. Koreans use them so much that a recent
study showed that when text messages did not include any emoticons, the
recipient thought the sender was angry (>.<)!
EXAMPLES:
(1) 셤 (시험) exam
(2) 샘/쌤 (선생님) teacher
(3) 멜 (메일) mail
(4) 걍 (그냥) no reason; just
(5) 겜 (게임) game
(6) 토욜 (토요일) Saturday
(7) ㅋㅋㅋ (크크크) laughing
(8) ㅎㅎㅎ (흐흐흐) laughing
(9) (^o^) laughing or excited
(10) ^^ happy or smiles
(11) ^-^ happy or smiles
(12) ^__^ happy or smiles
(13) ^ㅡ^ happy or smiles
(14) ㅠㅠ crying
(15) ^^;; feeling sorry or embarrassed
(16) >.< or >_< confused or upset