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Old lover : 야, 최지훈! 

Hey, Choi Ji-hoon! 

Jung Hae-ra：아 어떻게. 

Oh, no. 

Old lover : 야 네가 어떻게 나한테 이럴 수 있어？

내가 널 얼마나 사랑했는데. 내 돈 8천 내놔. 이 나쁜 새끼야. 아 왜 이래요. 진짜.

How could you do this to me? I loved you so much. Give me back my money you bastard. Let go of me!

Jung Hae-ra：자기야. 이게 다 무슨 일이야.

Honey, what’s going on?

Old lover :  뭐야? 이렇게 빈티 나는 여자 돈까지 뜯은 거야?

이 사람 백수예요. 검사 아니라고.

What, you took money from this poor looking girl, too?

This guy’s jobless. He’s not a prosecutor. 

Expression of the Week

백수예요 (He’s jobless)

백수 – n. jobless or unemployed; A person who idles away at home without making money because he/she is jobless.

Casual – 백수야

Semi-polite – 백수예요

Polite – 백수입니다 

>>[백수] is a word derived from the Chinese characters “white” and “hand”. The literal meaning of the word is to have “white hands” meaning bare or empty hands. 

>>The expression has developed to describe someone who is jobless as bare or empty hands show that a person has not used their hands, or hold nothing in their hands.