[Ask Hyojin] Shorthand Texting in Korean

When texting, people tend to shorten words to make the message shorter and/or to type faster. In Korean, too, people use lots of 'shorthand' Korean when texting. In this Ask Hyojin Episode, Hyunwoo, Keith and Hyojin go over some widely used shorthand Korean phrases and talk about how they are used, and how people feel about them. Enjoy!
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[@Shleoss]

Oh Hyojin is SO cute ...

[@mydoggylives]

Coming from an American perspective, I thought that ㅈㅅ was short hand for "Just Saying" and at first I mistook ㅊㅋ for ㅈㅋ, which I thought was for "Just Kidding". I enjoyed the video, very interesting! You guys are funny, too!

[@chilibeanzpootybutts]

Shorthand texting in Korean - this will definitely come in handy.

[@CitadarkIsle]

I personally like: *캬아~* Kyaah~ (English: Very Excited Laughing Somewhat Uncontrollably) *ㅋㅋㅇㅋ* Keke_oke (English: A different way for me to write ㅋㅋ or ㅋㅋㅋ) *진짜아!* Jinjjaa! (English: Oh my god that happened are you serious!?) *ㅇㅁ* Omo (English: Excited; usually to express congratulations towards someone) *ㅅㅈ!?* Simjang!? (English: Seriously? WTF? How? Wha---?) *애배* AeBae (English: Hello honey / Hey friend / Wanna talk friend?) *:ㄷ* :( (English: Another emoticon for the frowning face) _To be honest using a Colon+AnyConsonant is an emoticon to me lol_

[@annabellex1024]

LOL Keith at the end "I'm late..."

[@tillythemango]

i LOVE keith so much!! his being in it always adds so much to any given video, so hilarious oh my god :)

[@elenna_alexia]

I've used ㅋㅋ a lot already when texting with Koreans. So useful. I want to use it when texting with anyone now if there's anything funny. Much better than using lol.

[@HazewinDog]

+Podimann especially because "lol" has kinda gotten a negative feeling to it. I like using ㅋㅋㅋㅋ as well^^

[@elenna_alexia]

HazewinDog Exactly. People that use 'lol' all the time have given it a bad name. And 'ㅋㅋ' has a more natural feel to it to me. It feels more like as actual laugh.

[@snehamodyy]

very very informative. my friends always used this shorthand but i never really understood. now i know what they are trying to express. thanks to you

[@jordycboy]

I know next to no Korean but i still find these videos really entertaining.

[@TheNunakun]

Another great episode!!! Many thanks~

[@DLis7]

This was so funny! ㅎㅎㅎ Please do part 2 with Hyunwoo and Keith again! ^^

[@KettiexD]

I really like your emoticons though. You guys use ^^ for smiles and OTL for a man in distress. Very creative.

[@TiaChii]

Loved this one!!

[@Corbadda]

I really enjoyed this video! I had always been curious about what some of the Korean shorthand texts meant.

[@ericat2184]

The beginning was too funny 😂

[@tvtoms]

I liked this one a lot. Very helpful.

[@sweetxheart18x]

This was very informative thank you.

[@JenniferKim319]

yay, I love this since I have some Korean friends who I can't quite understand all their shorthand texts^^ This helped a lot, plus I can use it too ㅋㅋㅋ Thank you~

[@kimniova6141]

wow really helpful ..jomal .gomawo......all the best guys

[@blinddatereject]

thanks for this video! I was hoping you'd make a video about texting in shorthand korean ^^

[@AluneluEu]

you guys are amazing, enough said!

[@ellekvideos2599]

im like ㅠ just like ㅠ

[@MissOrangeSocks]

I have no idea why I know most of these I have too much trivial information in my brain ㅠㅠ

[@jezzy178]

This was really helpful, I've been sitting in the dark wondering what all of these meant! lol

[@meamused]

guys you are so nice and funny... I love the three of you because you complement each other so well :))

[@FreshhSushii]

Thanks for the video guys! This video helped me a lot :dd

[@Kaneki6386]

I see ㄷㄷㄷ and ㅎㄷㄷ all the time. I'm 21 and my friends are usually between the 18-23 range, so maybe age makes a difference.

[@chibip6]

Keith and Hyunwoo in the same vid :D. You guys are so cute and funny!

[@samkim9786]

I want keith in the videos again!!!

[@StrifeRaider]

I always enjoy this show ;)

[@anyname13579]

i LOVE the way hyojin says pig. it's so cute

[@leaniki]

사랑이 비디오 감사합니다

[@magickittenz]

앗! I have never texted another Korean, but I have messaged online... Without the use of text language, I am grateful, but for the sake of this video, ㄱㅅ!

[@lisalili2440]

Hahha Keith here is really good! Makes it really jolly hahha. Make more with him

[@lulylulyanka2676]

OO sounds like KK in english its instead of going K or OK it's just KK

[@elliew315]

ㅈㅅ is like soz

[@jennyphan1096]

Ellie W or like sr

[@KTTYC4T]

this was very informative : D now i can understand all these tweets better :)

[@addicted2anime123]

Great work! :D

[@ElizabethMartinezOfficial]

I have used ㅋㅋㅋ in my text all the time with friends... I have also used ㅇㅇ with my 오빠 he said ㅇㅇ is cuter then 응 ^^ this was a very interesting video... I knew about half of the shorthand ... time to use the new ones I learned

[@Sirramiss]

Keith cracked me up XD Great video! Very useful :)

[@tak178]

"Older brother". It's a sign of affection between a younger woman to an older man (or girl to boy).

[@glampition]

I actally use ㅠ.ㅠ in both arabic and english conversations. ^ ^ Good topic, thank you.

[@DaniBriskin]

you should do a part 2 with more shorthand messaging stuff :D

[@ItsMeRhaine]

I feel like same thing goes in English if you are really sorry type the whole word

[@KettiexD]

Same with anything meant to be taken seriously, I think. I personally hate it when people say "ily" or "hbd" instead of "I love you" and "Happy birthday". But maybe I'm just picky lol

[@Thevegajays]

Omgeee you guys are soooo funny!!! I really enjoyed this video, thanks ㄱㅅ ㅋㅋㅋ

[@ngsherpa7841]

가르쳐서 감사합니다

[@Nitro1000]

Thank you for this information. Sohyun from 4minute uses some of these a lot but google translate never translates these correctly.

[@faridafare297]

really helpfulllll......thx alot ^^

[@NHARVdotcom]

i really enjoyed this video...now i know what my former korean students are saying when they text me. :-)

[@kkumhae9268]

Wow I love it This video is so helpful I was wondering when I read ㄱㅅ or ㅇㅋ before So now I know what mean Thank you so much

[@user-jv4ir8nj1v]

ㅋㅋ ㅎㅎ 는 인터넷상이나 예전 통신의 경우나 지금도 그렇지만 보통 네모칸이나 아래 줄이그어져 있는경우가 많았고특히 커서의 경우 _ 아래서 깜빡이는 경우가 초창기에 많아서 ㅡ 가 있다고 가정하고 잼있는 표현으로 쓴걸로 알고 있어요

[@golovastik.mp3]

In the description it says that this video was uploaded in 2566 bc

[@whatchingpaintdry]

HYOJIN IS SO CUUTTEE!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevenmcl1]

Were people using flip phones in korea in the older days? In Canada the reason why short-hand texting came into play is because it look like 30 minutes to write out a single sentence because you had to tap the number 1 three times in order to swap over the letters on the pad. So 1 would be associated to ABC, 2 would be DEF, etc. The whole alphabet was set up that way. I'm thinking maybe the mentality was the same when texting culture came about in Korean technology?

[@BrandonGuanoquiza]

Nice!

[@MTheKing09]

Really good video!! :) ㄱㅅ

[@MultiINinja]

Thank you for the video. I have had some sms:ing with some korean girls and the ''kkkk'' confused me at some point, where I didn't know if it was laughing or rater ''Ok, whatever''. I didn't ask because I thought it would have been rude so I had to figure out myself which didn't take long but still, it was at the cost of being confused at alot of sms:s. This will help some people so thank you xD

[@PeanutThePhantom]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 이비디오 재미 있네요! ㅎㄷㄷ 진짜 좋아요. ㄱㅅ! ㅎㅎ

[@AnnaLovesJbJw]

I always thought that "ㅇㅇ" was "오 오" It still means yes though

[@Deyedai]

"I'm late ㅋ" LOLOL I kept replaying that part!

[@zmireles3220]

I agree with Keith as well with the ㅋㅋㅋ 😂

[@magickittenz]

So what does those mean?

[@AnaTheKitten]

I have a korean American friend that does ㅇㅇㅇㅇ!!! When they're excited kinda like saying YESSSSS!!!! In English

[@Dangershoes]

Is Keith still making videos on his channel? I haven't seen a new video alert for awhile. :(

[@animeluv4eva1998]

This is so funny!!

[@kpopisawesome123]

where does she say that?

[@ruthmatida8529]

Hie guys can you make a video of military service in korea and by the way does the only son of the family have to do it too

[@miosotygonzalez7710]

What about ㅇㅅㅇ ? Thanks for this video! Super helpful!! =D

[@GingerLadies]

My friend uses ㅇㅇ ALL THE TIME! (He's 28 btw...) And I never understood him so I just ignored it... I should use it with him now! lol

[@violinfire24]

비디오 주셔서 감사합니다. ^^

[@djdz0]

you guys are so funny ^^

[@shoemire]

I front paged /r/ korean with a list of these, there's some in the list they don't mention reddit com/r/Korean/comments/1iqtdg/korean_internet_slang/

[@ChinaPrincessDoll]

What does oppa mean?

[@ashleymarietube]

KEEEITHH where you been? :)

[@hyun6587]

I thought that ㅇㅇ stands for 응응?

[@carbonate6176]

Someone wrote ㄷㅁㄱㄱㅅㄷ what does that mean?

[@katkaat]

I agree with the sorry. It's not like in English, we put "i/s" I would be mad too.

[@filisaurio]

"I'm late ㅋ" that made me lol so hard

[@zahradz]

me tooo !!!!

[@ferrutheavocado7983]

@7.45 *sees ddd* *starts singing ddd by exid like crazy* *is judged by mom* *stops singing and continues watching the video*

[@LycaWolfyre]

Keith 오빠를 좋아해요~

[@oscar80731]

Hi!! you can say me what is just ㅇㄷ ..... thanks

[@iiiiianholic]

ㅊㅋis considered more of a cute/excited version of 축하 usually it goes like ㅊㅋㅊㅋbut for ㅈㅅ..u never say 죄송to your friends..if you think about who do you say 죄송to..it's so obvious why they find it insincere/rude.

[@SakuyaLuigi]

I listen to a Korean radio station, and one of the female mc's laughs like ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. xD

[@MimiYueey]

Nope. It's more like darn. For example if a teacher assigns homework and then asks students to do extra for a higher grade, then says it's due the next day and that it's actually mandatory. The student(s) would say "헐" which is equivalent to "why?", "what?," "huh?!", "unbelievable"(also 말도 안돼). It's an expression of surprise, or mild shock when you aren't expecting something to happen. I think I'm mostly correct about this. Not sure though.

[@teenagefirework1]

lol everyone is so colorful today. xD

[@jasonfishy]

like this video ^^. 오키 sounds like okie dokie to me ㅋㅋㅋ.

[@schederpetel]

np ;)

[@Kizi001]

What about numbers,like 555?^^

[@brod2man]

I'm learning Chinese and planning to move to China. Hope this video prepares me

[@KettiexD]

This is korean...

[@saikatsune2085]

Wait, you're learning Chinese and planing to move to China? How does learning Korean style texting prepare you for moving to China?

[@dest908]

ㅋㅋㅋ

[@vanessayee5040]

+brod2man lol what.

[@kayla4370]

it's been a year, how is china?

[@Ticti91]

OMG Keith's voice is so manly >< He's funny cute too T_T

[@Sirramiss]

Hey guys :D

[@Avinakayjoon]

ㅈㅅ is like saying soz right?

[@ilikechimchimnuggets290]

ㅇㅇ 😂

[@danikasan7308]

lmao pretty much

[@jamiechristie7622]

And soz is never meant as a sincere apology so it works perfectly with how they describe ㅈㅅ here.

[@schederpetel]

Doesn't it just depend on context? Sometimes you just go 먄, ㅈㅅ as a swift apology, where one probably wasn't really necessary anyway. I mean, you can easily say 죄송합니다 and be super rude as well. It just didn't make sense logically that a halfhearted sorry, made him upset, while a halfhearted congratulation didn't.

[@PattonBeowulf]

hmm, she wants a vowel between the OO, how about an English vowel? O. OoO lol

[@erinmarie8660]

ㅇoㅇ

[@jennyphan1096]

Cerulerin why did i laugh

[@ElizaKiss4u]

Funny video....ㅋㅋㅋ

[@karlyn36]

I learned from my Korean ex-girlfriend that ㅇㅇ is used by guys and 응 is used by girls.

[@96KayDee]

ㅋㅋㅋ.. My friend uses these a lot with me.. ㅎㅎ, and I don't like ㅇㅇ either~

[@anwaralkanderi8061]

Wich one express more laughs? ㅋㅋㅋ or ㅎㅎㅎ ?

[@caramelsupreme]

ㅋㅋㅋ