For instance, someone would be the Chinese year of the dragon if he or she was born in the year 2000.

There are often ideas, feelings, or situations that are unique to a specific language and untranslatable.

Rather than come up with an English version of them, we simply adapt those words into our language as they are.

This list of 18 beautiful Korean words without an English translation will help illustrate how unique the language is.

And if you want to speak like a local, then youll want to familiarize yourself with them.

Dropping them casually (and correctly) into a conversation will go a long way to illustrate how fluent you are.

Its a cultural phenomenon from the extensive history of attacks and civil wars from other countries in the country.

It denotes the intense sense of duty and responsibility that children must always pay to their parents.

Even if it means making significant sacrifices in the childrens life.

Hyoja () stands for devoted son, and Hyonyeo () is a devoted daughter.

Anyone who has strong noon-chi can read the body language or voice tone of other people to understand their true feelings.

Jeong refers to the psychological and emotional ties that bind Korean society.

It permeates all steps in the process, analyzing the landscape to varying degrees of woo-ri (us versus them).

Dab-jeong-neo implies a circumstance in which someone asks a query, but they have already decided an answer before hearing the reply.

For example, if a wife asks her husband about her appearance, then the husband may think himself in a dab-jeong-neo situation.

It is the inability to speak or act more freely in a situation.

For example, someone whos trapped in sseom-ta-da (defined later in the article) may experience dab-dab-hae.

Eom-chin-a used to describe someone better and more talented than you are.

Eom-chin-a describes a type of a guy who came from a decent family, never caused any troubles.

Many believe that sseom-ta-da came from the English word something.

And it will ta-da or go along until something more serious happens.

Every year in the period, a specific animal symbol defines the year.

Each animal has certain features, and it assumes that someone born in that year has the same traits and attributes.

The word tee-dong-kab refers to the two individuals who share the same Chinese zodiac sign.

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