AKMU · Korean · 12 words

SUMMER EPISODE

SUMMER EPISODE (2017) is a two-track single album and the last release to carry the credit 악동뮤지션 before the duo became AKMU. 「DINOSAUR」 sets a childhood nightmare in a semi-basement flat the family was too poor to leave, and 「MY DARLING」 is unguarded devotion with a wedding-song grin. This is a short bonus set: home and childhood nouns from one track, affection idioms from the other.

Vocabulary

Word	Meaning	Example
반지하	a semi-basement flat — half below street level, cheap and damp, a fixture of Korean city housing	옛날 동네 반지하 빌라엔In a semi-basement flat in the old neighborhood
오순도순	cozily and warmly together, getting along (reduplicated 의태어; the lyric spaces it as 오순 도순)	오순 도순 잘 살고 있었네They were living happily together
뒤척거리다	to toss and turn, unable to sleep	매일 밤 뒤척거리시던 아버지Father, who tossed and turned every night
생생하다	to be vivid; still fresh in the memory	아직도 그때가 생생해That time is still vivid to me
이부자리	bedding — the mat and quilt laid out on the floor to sleep on	이부자리 두 발로 걷어찼지I kicked the warm bedding off with both feet
포효하다	to roar (of a beast)	내 가족에게 포효하던the one that roared at my family
앵두	a Korean bush cherry — the standard comparison for small red lips	앵두 같은 입술이 달린set with cherry-red lips
어여쁘다	to be lovely — an older, more poetic form of 예쁘다	어여쁜 그대 얼굴이your lovely face
집어삼키다	to swallow whole; to devour	내 두 눈을 집어삼켜 버리곤It swallowed both my eyes whole
실감이 안 나다	for something not to feel real yet (fixed expression)	실감이 안 나는 걸It still doesn't feel real
샘솟다	to well up like water from a spring (of feelings, energy, tears)	행복한 기분이 샘솟아Happiness wells up in me
배가 아프다	to be eaten up with envy — literally "my stomach hurts" (idiom)	현실은 배 아플 거니까because really, they'll just be jealous