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๐Ÿ”ฅ๋Š™ํฌํฌ, the word for sounding old online

7DahyeAm2026.10.12 06:36๐Ÿ‘ 1041๐Ÿ’ฌ 11โ™ฅ 56

New one for me this week. ๋Š™ํฌํฌ (neul-keu-keu) is ๋Š™๋‹ค (to get old) plus ํฌํฌ, an older way of typing a laugh before everyone moved to ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹. So it's a person, or a way of talking, that gives away your age, like using a word that peaked years ago and acting like it's still fresh. The example that made it click is from Lee Hyun-yi's YouTube video with five other models. She introduced them as "๋Œ€์„ธ ์ค‘์˜ ๋Œ€์„ธ", basically the hottest of the hot, and the younger ones jumped on it right away. One said he hadn't heard ๋Œ€์„ธ in ages, and Kim Jin-kyung just called her ๋Š™ํฌํฌ. Lee Hyun-yi asked what people say now instead, and nobody actually had an answer, which is my favorite part. It's been all over Korean news because Hangul Day this year marked 100 years, and outlets kept listing it next to other new words like ๋А์ข‹ (short for "good vibes") and ๋ฐคํ‹ฐ (something that looks kind of off). YTN even put it in a headline. Using it on yourself is cute. Calling a coworker that is a choice.

๐Ÿ”Ž Ref
  • ๐Ÿ”—
    Tenasia โ€” 'S์ „์žโ™ฅ' ์ดํ˜„์ด, ็”ท๋ชจ๋ธ ๋Œ์ง๊ตฌ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค ('์›Œํ‚น๋ง˜')https://www.tenasia.co.kr/article/2026101036364
  • ๐Ÿ”—
    OSEN โ€” ์ดํ˜„์ด, '๋Œ€์„ธ'๋ž€ ๋ง ์ผ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ '๋Š™ํฌํฌ' ๋๋‹คhttp://www.osen.co.kr/article/G1112891006
  • ๐Ÿ”—
    YTN โ€” "๋Š™ํฌํฌ๋“ค์€ ๋…ธ์žผ์ด์•ผ" ํ•œ๊ธ€๋‚  ์ œ์ • 100์ฃผ๋…„...์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์–ธ์–ด๋Š”?https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202610091201592258
  • ๐ŸŽฌ
    VideoYouTube (์›Œํ‚น๋ง˜์ดํ˜„์ด) โ€” ๋ชจ๋ธ 6์ธ์ด ๋ง์•„์ฃผ๋Š” F/W ์†Œ๊ฐœํŒ… ํ•„์Šน ๋ฃฉhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Acu3Urvyy8

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Comments 11

7Nari2026.10.12

A year of 'ha ha' back at ํฌํฌ is diplomatic damage. Send one ํฌํฌ and she'll adopt you.

7Junseo2026.10.12

ใ…‹ใ…‹ vs ํฌํฌ is the real generational line. my mom still types ํฌํฌ

8Taeho2026.10.12

Every generation has a word like this. What I like is that this one is built out of a laugh rather than an age.

8Dabin2026.10.12

no bc i still type kkk sometimes. am i ๋Š™ํฌํฌ at 21

7cloudberry2026.10.12

My mother-in-law's texts are all ํฌํฌ and I thought it was just her style. Apparently it's a whole category.

7Junseo2026.10.12

ใ…‹ใ…‹ vs ํฌํฌ is the real generational line. my mom still types ํฌํฌ

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8Dabin2026.10.12

ok but my mom types jajaja and it's the exact same energy ๐Ÿ˜ญ every language has one

7Gaeun2026.10.12

So it's 'cringe millennial' with one extra layer.

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7DahyeOP2026.10.12

pretty much, but it's way funnier to say out loud

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7Junseo2026.10.12

cringe millennial is more 'trying too hard'. ๋Š™ํฌํฌ is when you didn't notice the word already died. different crime lol

8Taeho2026.10.12

Every generation has a word like this. What I like is that this one is built out of a laugh rather than an age.

8Dabin2026.10.12

no bc i still type kkk sometimes. am i ๋Š™ํฌํฌ at 21

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7Soomin2026.10.12

kkk at 21 is vintage, not old. ๋Š™ starts when you explain the joke after it lands

7cloudberry2026.10.12

My mother-in-law's texts are all ํฌํฌ and I thought it was just her style. Apparently it's a whole category.

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7hanriver.walk2026.10.12

Mine too. I answered her ํฌํฌ with 'ha ha' for a year, so the problem was me.

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