Caveat: ‘오바마스럽다’=’쿨하다’

Headline from a Korean news website, an article about how the word “Obama” becomes a synonym for a certain type of “coolness” in the U.S.  The phrase above translates, roughly, “being like Obama = being cool.”  Note the Korean verb for “being cool” is /kulhada/ [literally “to do cool“], borrowed directly from English.

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