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A YouTube comment praised an idol for studying while famous. The top reply is one line.
Screenshot circulating on Korean communities · original poster unknown · Trended
The gist
Someone marveled that a celebrity keeps up their studies; a stranger replied with their own résumé.
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YouTube· Posted by Anonymous
Wow… keeping up with school while being a celebrity, that's seriously impressive.와...연예인하면서 공부 안놓는거 진짜 대단하다
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Anon
Wow, I dropped studying while studying lmao fuck
와 난 공부하면서 공부 놨는데 ㅋㅋ ㅅㅂ
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💡 Why does that phrasing land so hard?
공부 놓다 literally means "let go of studying" — the standard Korean way to say you gave up on school. The reply keeps the exact grammar of the compliment and just deletes the celebrity part, leaving pure self-drag.vs. the US: "She works two jobs and still studies." "I have zero jobs and don't."
💡 What's ㅅㅂ doing at the end?
It's 시발 stripped to initial consonants — the way Koreans type a swear when it's aimed at themselves, not at you. Here it reads as a defeated laugh, not aggression.vs. English: typing "fk" at the end of a joke about your own life.
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