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๐Ÿ‰ Learn Korean Through RED VELVET - "Red Flavor" ๐Ÿ‰

by Korean Mentor(K-Pop) 2025. 2. 26.
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1๏ธโƒฃ About the Song: What is "Red Flavor"?

RED VELVET’s "Red Flavor" is a vibrant and refreshing summer song that captures the excitement and sweetness of love. The lyrics describe falling in love, constantly thinking about someone, and wanting to know their thoughts.

๐Ÿ“Œ In this lesson, you’ll learn:
โœ… How to use "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜" (I keep thinking about you) to express being on someone’s mind
โœ… The meaning of "๋‚  ๋ด ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ" (Look at me, what are you thinking?) to ask about someone’s thoughts
โœ… Cultural insights on expressing love and curiosity in Korean


2๏ธโƒฃ Key Korean Expressions from the Song

๐Ÿ“ "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜" (Nega jakkuman saenggangna) ๐Ÿ’ญ

๐ŸŽง Key Korean Expressions Start At:

  • "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜"  0:53

โžก Meaning: "I keep thinking about you."
โžก Pronunciation: Ne-ga jak-ku-man saeng-gak-na

  • ๋„ค๊ฐ€ (nega) = "you"
  • ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ (jakkuman) = "repeatedly" / "constantly"
  • ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜๋‹ค (saenggak-nada) = "to come to mind" / "to think of"

๐Ÿ“ข How to use it in real life:
โœ… "์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜!" – "I’ve been thinking about you all day!"
โœ… "์š”์ฆ˜ ์™œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜์ง€?" – "Why do I keep thinking about you these days?"

๐Ÿ”ฅ This phrase is used when someone is frequently on your mind, often in a romantic way.


๐Ÿ“ "๋‚  ๋ด ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ" (Nal bwa neon mwol saenggakhaneunde) ๐Ÿ‘€

๐ŸŽง Key Korean Expressions Start At:

  • "๋‚  ๋ด ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ"  1:41

โžก Meaning: "Look at me, what are you thinking?"
โžก Pronunciation: Nal bwa neon mwol saeng-gak-ha-neun-de

  • ๋‚  (nal) = "me" (short for "๋‚˜๋ฅผ")
  • ๋ด (bwa) = "look"
  • ๋„Œ (neon) = "you" (casual form of "๋„ˆ๋Š”")
  • ๋ญ˜ (mwol) = "what"
  • ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค (saenggak-hada) = "to think"

๐Ÿ“ข How to use it in real life:
โœ… "๋‚  ๋ด, ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ? ๋‚˜ํ•œํ…Œ ํ•  ๋ง ์žˆ์–ด?" – "Look at me, what are you thinking? Do you have something to say to me?"
โœ… "๋‚  ๋ด! ๋„ˆ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‚˜๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ?" – "Look at me! Aren’t you thinking the same thing as me?"

๐Ÿ’ก This phrase is often used to check what someone is thinking, especially in a flirty or playful way.


3๏ธโƒฃ Cultural Insight: Expressing Love & Curiosity in Korean

๐Ÿ‰ "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜" → Expresses constantly thinking about someone you like
๐Ÿ‰ "๋‚  ๋ด ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ" → Playfully asks someone what they’re thinking about

๐Ÿ“ข Did you know?
In Korean culture, love is often expressed subtly through curiosity and indirect questions rather than direct statements. Asking "๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ?" can be a cute way to flirt or show interest in a conversation!

โœ” Other similar expressions:

  • "๋„ˆ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ž ๋„ ๋ชป ์ž!" → "I can’t even sleep because of you!"
  • "์ž๊พธ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ผ!" → "You keep popping into my head!"

4๏ธโƒฃ Practice & Challenge!

๐Ÿ“ Try using these expressions in real life!
1๏ธโƒฃ Say "๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜" when someone is constantly on your mind.
2๏ธโƒฃ Use "๋‚  ๋ด ๋„Œ ๋ญ˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ" when playfully asking about someone’s thoughts.

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