What does yeongkkeul mean in Korean?
영끌 Yeongkkeul
Also written: 영혼까지 끌어모으다
Meaning
Scraping together every loan and won to buy a home or asset.
- When
- Appeared around 2020, peaked around 2021
- Heard in
- investing, society, real estate
- Feels
- emphatic, self-deprecation
- Politeness
- Casual. Fine with friends and online; skip it in formal writing or with people you should be polite to.
How Koreans use Yeongkkeul
영끌해서 집 샀다.
Bought a house with yeongkkeul.
영끌 후회.
Yeongkkeul regrets.