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Collection of Korean Hashtags

If you are an avid Twitter or Instagram user, you must be familiar with the hashtag concept. Sometimes, we could even see a post with hashtags longer than its caption. Such as this one:

오늘은 #인나찡 탄신일? #유치자#자나깨나#치자사랑#유디#울언니#치자꽃#그렇다고치자

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A hashtag is not limited to English. We could find all sorts of hashtag in about every language in the world. When we follow a Korean account, how do you know the meaning of those hashtags? Well, let’s simply copy and paste it to Google Translate and… no results. The possible reason is because they use a slang or abbreviated words.

Want to know some common Korean hashtags? Here you go!

You may realize that some of them are Konglish which means a direct transliteration from English. For such hashtags, I will also write down a similar English hashtags.

 

#팔로우 (pallou) = #follow

To follow.

 

#선팔 (seonpal)

Follow me first.

 

#맛팔 (matpal)

Follow you back.

 

#좋아요 (johayo)

I #likethis.

 

#셀카 (selka) = #selca
#셀피 (selpi) = #selfie
#셀스타그램 (selseutageuraem) = #selfstagram

All basically means the same. Self portrait.

 

#얼스타그램 (eolseutageuraem)

From the word 얼굴 (eolgul) which means face. Basically it’s the same as #selca.

 

#일상 (ilsang)
#일상그램 (ilsanggeuraem)
#데일리룩 (deilliruk) = #dailylook

Everyday life #instadaily #dailylife.

 

#주말 (jumal)
#토요일 (toyoil)
#일요일 (iryoil)

Weekends. #토요일 means Saturday, #일요일 means Sunday.

 

#굿밤 (gutbam)

Mixture of good and (night). Good night.

 

#먹스타그램 (meogseutageuraem)

Mixture of 먹다 (meogda) which means “to eat” and instagram. #foodstagram.

 

#옷스타그램 (otseutageuraem)
#패션 (paesyeon) = #fashion

All about clothings and fashion.

 

#여행 (yeohaeng)

Traveling!

 

#친구 (chin-gu)
#친구랑 (chin-gurang)
#친구스타그램 (chin-guseutageuraem)

Together with friends.

 

#커플 (keopeul) = #couple

Couple. Koreans are really into couple things. From couple tee (#커플티), couple ring (#커플링), couple shoes, couple mobile case, to couple discount sale.

 

#소통 (sotong)

Keep in touch.

 

#개스타그램 (gaeseutageuraem)

개 (gae) means dog. How about cat?

 

#냥스타그램 (nyangseutageuraem)

Here you go! In Korea, cats don’t sound meow but nyang. #meowstagram

 

By the way, do you know that Koreans have a different term for # besides “hashtag”?