Dating and love

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Contents
1 General
2 Terms of endearment
3 Marriage and preparation
4 After marriage

General
<> - boyfriend
<> - shortened form of boyfriend
<> - girlfriend
<> - shortened form of girlfriend
<> - a lover, a sweetheart
<> - one's significant other, boyfriend/girlfriend
- a group blind date (Konglish "meeting")
- blind date (two people only)
- to be not easily satisfied with a person, be picky, have high standards
() - a date, to date
- to go out, to become a couple
- a one night stand
- sex appeal
- sex
- to have sex(formal)
- to have sex
is not usually expressed directly. The following expressions: '' (sleep together)
or ' ' (do it) are instead used.
<> - love, amour, a romance
- to see someone, to start a (romantic) relationship with someone
< / > - a love letter
- kiss, a peck
- kiss (This word is more sexual than )
() - love, to love (someone)
- fall in love with
, , . - I love you.
- one's first love, one's first boyfriend/girlfriend
- secret crush
- to break up
- to cheat on, have an affair
- sitting on the fence, go out with two girls/boys
<> - an adulterous relationship

 <> - love triangle

<> - a period of ennui (while married), stage where the couples get bored of each other
- to enter the stage of ennui
- to dump (someone)
- to make a pass at
/ () <> - to flirt (in a bad way), seduce
- play hard to get
- to get a new boyfriend
In Korea, every young man must serve in the army for about two years. The soldiers' girlfriends
often dump them and get a new boyfriend. In this situation, we use the following
expression.' .' But these days, many soldiers dump
their girlfriends for some reason. In this situation, we use the following expression.'
'. ( means army boots.)
- homosexual love
<> - gay
/ - gay male
- lesbian
- gay (more modern term)

Terms of endearment
<> - One meaning is you, but often used by married couples to mean darling. (becoming
outdated?)
- baby, honey
- darling, honey (for married couples only?)
- "older brother", but means "honey", etc. (girl says this to her older boyfriend)

Marriage and preparation

() <> / () - a proposal of marriage
<> - an engagement ceremony
() <]]> - engagement, to be engaged
<> - fianc (male)
<> - fiance (female)
I've seen a soap opera about engagement of American couple. The man asked her "Will you
marry me?" and the woman answered "Yes". Immediately after that, the woman said "
!". Not in Korea. We have an engagement ceremony. After engagement ceremony, we use
" ".
() <> - break off an engagement
<> - wedding ceremony
<> - wedding hall
Hall - wedding hall (Konglish)
() <> - get married
- get married (for a woman - "going to the husband's house")
<> - a wedding reception
- a best man
- a bridesmaid
- serve as a best man/bridesmaid

In Korea, We don't need s at the wedding ceremony. However some couples want
s at the wedding. (Maybe it's a Western-style wedding.) But most couples don't need or have
s.
() <> - give congratulatory money to aid in a marriage
<> - congratulatory money
We give some money instead of gift at a wedding. So we don't have a bridal shower or resister
list. In general, we give 30,000 won to acquaintance, 50,000 won to close friend/co-worker. And
we can give over 100,000won to the best friend. Sometimes Koreans chip in and buy an
expensive gift such as a washing machine, a refrigerator, TV, things like that.
- wife (Konglish version)
<> - honeymoon
<> - bridegroom
<> - bride
<> - the husband's home
<> - the wife's parents' home
- mother-in-law (mother of bride) - usually you just call her ""
- mother-in-law (mother of groom)

After marriage
See Babies and childbirth
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