싼 똥조림

There are many verbs in Korean that are easily confused with other verbs, and not for completely incomprehensible reasons: They are exactly the same. We’re not complaining about this by the way, it’s just another source of jokes and gives us handy associations that in turn aid the language learning process.

싸다 means 1) to wrap (종이에 싸다); 2) to be cheap (이 블로그 싸요); 3) to take a dump (똥 싸요).

Remember the Italian artist Manzoni who canned his feces in 1961 selling the cans later for tens of thousands of dollars? 싼 캔에 싼싼 똥 없어요…

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