Name: [Emerging Voices Forum] 'K-Slang: The Echoes of Our Lives'
Start: 2025-12-09T19:20:00+09:00
End: 2025-12-09T20:50:00+09:00
Location: 서울시공익활동지원센터

[Emerging Voices Forum] 'K-Slang: The Echoes of Our Lives'

TITLE: 'K-Slang: The Echoes of Our Lives'
SPEAKERS: Kim Surin, Yoon Seong-on, and Jang Seojin

DATE: Tuesday. December 9, 2025. 7:20PM (Seoul)
VENUE: Seoul Public Activities Center (SPAC, 서울시공익활동지원센터). ‘다목적홀’
(ADDRESS: Basement Floor, 40 Baekbeomro 99-gil, Yongsan Verdium Friends(용산베르디움프렌즈) #101, Yongsan-gu, Seoul), 2-3 minutes walking from Exit 8 of Samgakji-Station (Line 6 & Line 4)

ADMISSION (Online & In-person): Free for RAS Korea Lifetime and Annual Members; W10,000 for Non-members; W5,000 for Non-member students (Student ID requested)
If you would like to attend online Zoom,
RSVP by November 8 (Monday).
Zoom Link Request ☞ https://forms.gle/oeG3KLE8HYkMAbEG7
We will email you the link on the morning of the lecture day.
For Non-member, payment to be remitted to the following account:
SHINHAN BANK ACCOUNT # 100-026-383501 (RAS-KB)
To attend in-person, RSVP is not required.

SUMMARY:
Our world is language. Our voices create meaning. Expressions define us. And slang, the thing created anew by each generation, both joins and separates us. In this talk, we will explore what specific words and slang mean to women in South Korea. How it defines their lives and reveals their hidden and unconscious emotions. Through explorations of music, transcultural love, and the country’s well-documented outrageous beauty standards, this talk will provide insight into a world that may otherwise remain hidden. Building on this, the first section turns the mirror on beauty standards, cosmetic procedures, and what it means to be a Korean woman looking at her reflection while the rest of the world fetishizes stick thin idols and unachievable beauty standards. But women’s lives and identities in Korea aren’t defined by beauty alone. There is another side: one that is loud, expressive, and rebellious. K-pop dominates much of the world’s headlines and reporting about Korea, but there is a vibrant underground music scene here, filled with dyed hair, leather, spikes, and, perhaps most importantly, women. The second section of our talk will bring that culture to life and teach you the words and emotions that drive the movement. The third section of our talk will turn to love, dating, the warning signs that shape our relationships, and the heartbreak that sometimes follows. It will share how Korean women understand both local and intercultural romance, and how they navigate the realities of relationships that so often run into barriers, distance, circumstance, and the quiet inevitabilities that life places in their way. But this is more than just stories. It’s learning. It’s education. Understanding the realities of life through the expressions and phrases people choose to adopt. So, with that framework in mind, those who attend this talk, will be given a glossary to take home with them. A dictionary of terms. A collection of K-Slang. The echoes of our lives.
BIO:
This talk has been created and produced by students of Seoul Women’s University. A team of 11 women has worked on this, and three of them will speak at the event: Kim Surin, Yoon Seong-on, and Jang Seojin. Behind them stands a team of designers, producers, and supporters.
VENUE:
The Seoul Public Activities Center(SPAC, 서울시공익활동지원센터) is located at Yongsan Verdium Friends #101 (용산베르디움프렌즈 101동) B1, 40 Baekbeomro 99-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Walk 2-3 minutes from ‘Exit 8’ of Samgakji Station (LINE 6 & 4) and take the elevator down to the B1 Floor.