[Korean Culture & Language] Response to So What TV

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Do you recall 어쩔TV from the other article? It means “So what? Stop talking and just watch the TV.”


Because it can be extremely annoying to those who hear it, many people came up with ideas to retaliate or defeat them. 


The following website outlines ‘어쩔티비 이기는법 (how to silence someone who says’어쩔TV’) .

https://loanscredit.tistory.com/entry/어쩔티비-뜻-저쩔티비-뜻-어쩔티비-이기는법반박-대사 


It claims that one of the best ways to respond to someone who says ‘어쩔 TV’ is to make them speechless by bombarding them with meaningless phrases like “어쩔 어쩔 저쩔 저쩔 안물티비 안궁티비 뇌절 티비 우짤래미 저쩔래미 쿠쿠루삥뽕 지금 화났쥬? 킹받쥬? 또 빡치쥬? 아무것도 못하쥬? 그냥 화나쥬? 냬냬냬냬 앨걧샙냬떄~ 아무도 안물 안궁~ 어? 물어본 사람? 궁금한 사람? 응 근데 어쩔 티비 쥬? 약 올르쥬? 응~ 어쩔 저쩔 안물 안궁 슉 슈슉 슉 (So what, so what? I didn’t ask TV, I’m not curious TV, Did I go too far TV? What will you do? What can you do? yada yada, Are you upset? Are you mad? Are you getting angry? You can’t say anything right now, right? You’re just getting annoyed, right? Okay, okay, I got it. No one asked. No one cares what you say. Who asked? So 어쩔 TV? Are you getting annoyed? So what? So what? No one asked. yada yada yada” 

What do you think? Did she win?

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