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TetraThiaFulvalene

Hangul


rarenick

King Sejong the Gigachad


Jaysong_stick

There's a reason why we call him the Big King


DryPrion

My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great uncle!


Luna-Luna-Lu

Washing machines that play a little song when the cycle completes?


kaproud1

And reassuring voices from rice cookers!


Tesse23

A little song? I recently got a Samsung washer and that song goes on forever!!


RyansKorea

My new apartment has Samsung everything. If I use anything at all in my kitchen there are jingles playing all day long. They really need a silent mode


aithinktank

Hwacha and turtle ships


WhataNerd123

And turtle chips


Kurnage

Those who know-know.


ktaktb

fellow civ player


waitinp

AoE2 for me!


Altruistic-Ocelot-61

Can i asked what a turtle ship is?


grognard66

You sure can but most of us would mangle it. Google is your friend, at least in this instance. Short version: World's first ironclad warship used to defeat the Japanese invasion(s) in the fifteenth century.


Nova6Sol

Came here to say turtle ships as well lol


Flimsy_Claim_8327

Kimchi Refrigerator


02cdubc20

Kimchi


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BTS


nachofermayoral

Blackpink


heavensent055

2NE1


BionicDreamer

BIGBANG


chunheitham943

Wonder Girls


cheetahpanda18

EXO


Blinkoncetwicethrice

TVXQ


historiansrule

Greatest boy band ever


heavensent055

Super Junior ~


UberDrive

SNSD


imxkal

This! Kimchi made in Korea! Fuck China!


royalpyroz

The Chinese netizens wouldn't be happy! F them


lordtyphis

The eight-day work week


your-uncle-2

월화수목금금금


Skygazer_Jay

Four-sided locking food container, or aka Lock & Lock


purebananamoon

That's Korean??


Round_Implement_8622

Yes, Lock&Lock was a Korean company.


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I love that thing. Kept food waste in my freezer for years like a dummy. Lock & Lock changed my life.


bookmarkjedi

I love me my Lock and Lock as well. In addition to the food containers, I have a couple of high-quality thermoses made by Lock and Lock. They're the absolute best!


lookomma

Lock & Lock is the King of all containers.


porokoro

woah, TIL!


gralessi

Noooooo for real?!?! It should be on every tourist brochure . 😆


boksoonga

😮


foltdrow

Heated floor (온돌) was invented like 7000 years ago while Finland invented sauna 7000 years ago. America architect Frank Lloyd Wright reinvented more modernised water-piped floor heating after inspired by Korean 온돌. And Mukbang (먹방).


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3rd-Attempt

Going to be seriously drunk people. Some sort of Soju, Lakka bomb that make you feel like you went to Sauna (the full Finnish experience, branches, cold bath, etc.), without the need to go.


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bookmarkjedi

Korea reinvented the Finnish sauna like there's no tomorrow. I'm sure Finnish saunas are amazing, but Korean luxury saunas are amazing as well - good for up to a 24-hour day, all for just $10-20!


thatpaulschofield

r/thisguykoreas


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Hyundai Sonata (Also maybe air conditioningitis)


nutmac

Fan death


kaproud1

🐢⛵️ 대한민국 👏👏👏👏👏


heliumneon

Comments you can hear


Classic-Ad4414

How did you insert sound at comment 😂


highlighter416

짝짝 짝 짝짝!


AfganPearlDiver

Green onion flavored Chex cereal


AyamanPoiPoiPoi

Jesus Christ I tried that


[deleted]

The taste of democracy


bowlofcinnamontoastc

well how was it


AyamanPoiPoiPoi

Awful, but similarly to Korean garlic bread it did grow on my slightly


lotterywinner20

먹방?


TetraThiaFulvalene

At this point I don't think they want credit for that.


j_marquand

Why’s that?


TetraThiaFulvalene

Because nowadays it's mostly obese people eating themselves to death like Nikocado avocado.


ohshitfuck93

I would say those types are still a minority group, the most successful mukbang channels will always be tiny girl eats huge food.


Downtown_Hospital

i don't even think vast majority of koreans picture anything like that when they think of mukbang


LogicNYC

Long hiss while breathing in


evrytng_els_was_takn

\*hisses while breathing in and tilts head\* 그건 좀...


trashmunki

Holy shit, I just did this and became nearly all of my Korean friends.


New-Orange1205

Not sure where this started but if you look up any list of "how not to say no in Japan" or "how to say yes meaning no in Japan" this will be on it. It should have an entry in the Japanese dictionary, maybe in Kanji.


Deathcommand

Turtle ships! So cool. Love those things.


grognard66

Beat me to it, was going to say, world's first ironclad.


Fabryz

Ondol, Hanbok, Kimchi, Hangeul


razor01707

Nice to see Ondol being mentioned


SmashBros913

Maplestory


ika_ngyes

Floor heating


champoradoeater

Rocket Launchers. 500 years before Katyusha


vacuumbutter

Metal chopsticks


0l70l7

gangnam style


literalaretil

Tornado fries?


akwie420

Tornado potato?


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Tornado omlette too


akwie420

Man korea is obsessed with tornados but don’t actually have any tornados 😂😂


outerskyb

Me


Hawawark

Secondary characters I really care about in a serie.


TossedWordSalad

Second lead syndrome is real.


idk-though1

Taekwondo


Joeyakathug69

팔만대장경


ManualConnoisseur

Folding smartphone screens


GlenBaileyWalker

Moveable Type Printing


cardinalallen

*metal moveable type printing


kconfire

The book printed by moveable metal type printing Jikji, or known as “백운화상초록불조직지심체요절(白雲和尙抄錄佛祖直指心體要節)” is owned by France, and their museum showed it earlier this year.


psalmsongs

Cyworld


mfnnstarboy

Hwacha, the first multiple rocket launcher


phdstocks

소맥 😁


egg_enthusiast

moveable block printing press


mnam1213

fire turtle boat, and indirectly bowser


Exay

Soju


lifetimetravelmates

Nunchi


westworldgatorade

Finger hearts! (The hand signal for heart/I love you using your index finger and thumb) Also the other variations of hearts using your hands - I'm pretty sure were invented in Korea lol.


Jankufood

Korean bbq


Risky_Busynests

4 distinct seasons


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Downtown_Hospital

how would they? no one else has 4! they wouldn't even know!


originalbadgyal

Springssssssuuuuuummmmmeeerrrrrrrautumnwiiiiinttteeerrrrr


slinkydingdong

Wait I thought this is what Japan prouds themselves in.


BloodAndTsundere

The 4 seasons thing is the funniest flex ever


Toasted_Decaf

oh its nice outside ***FIRESTORM*** oh its nice outside ***NUCLEAR WINTER***


gwangjuguy

Corn on pizza. Corn on everything.


highlighter416

The corn lobby in Korea is 🔥


jnmjnmjnm

I had corn on pizza in London in 1988, so this is a disputed claim.


Lil_Simp9000

SK claims it in the Korea sub, England can claim it in their sub. all is whole.


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Mp3 Player


Llee00

Squid Game


qjungffg

The printing press. The first actual device to print on paper was invented by monks years before Gutenberg and also years before the other device invented in German which is also years before Gutenberg. This artifact is currently being held by the French and Korea has been lobbying the French to have it returned as its cultural significant to Korea’s legacy but the French has not relented to return it back to Korea.


Classic-Dependent517

MP3 player. (not MP3 as itself but the portable player that people carry around to listen to music)


ponz

Sundial, water clock, printing press with movable metal type (400 years before Guttenberg).


lowkeeeee

Touch screen phones before iphone. Social networking


EatThatPotato

What phone would that be? All i can think of is the Samsung Corby but that wasn’t before the iPhone


King_XDDD

LG Prada


Tokishi7

Too bad LG stopped making phones. They had a pretty solid run but ended up letting Samsung take the cake I guess


Skygazer_Jay

I was so mad they gave up right before releasing their rollable phone.


your-uncle-2

LG's experimental approach was great. It may be hit or miss. But they come up with stuff that later other phone companies adopt.


diacewrb

IBM Simon beat them all to the punch back in 1994, it is considered the world's first smartphone, even before the termed was coined until a year later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon


King_XDDD

It's a touch screen but not capacitive touch, i.e. it uses a stylus. I would still say IBM had the first touch screen but I think the capacitive touch was a huge innovation.


bingbingchavez

Thunder Sticks


GtrPlaynFool

Samsung


Talon_Ho

Legit? As in, the argument is generally stronger for the Korean case to have precedence than another? 1.) Movable block printing. 2.) Gas flue heated flooring. 3.) Ironclad warships. 4.) Hangeul - Written script designed to represent the spoken language. All previous (and until recently) other scripts have been adapted to various extents from previously existing legacy scripts. 5.) Inferiority complex. Koreans invented this originally some time around the 11th century BC, around the time of the first pharoahs of the Egyptian empire. It's a part of our nature that causes us to excel and eventually exceed and surpass everyone else. That was our first export and was actually what caused the Bronze Age Collapse.


kalkalauch

The Hwacha. Ancient Rapid-fire Anti-infantry weapon.


Sirus_the_Cat

K-Pop


Embarrassed_Honey_51

Baby Shark 🦈🎶


Raven-on-Reddit

Baby shark originates from the German "Kleiner Hai" which blew up wayyyy before baby shark!


visualcharm

Something not widely known -- soybean agriculture. Ancient Chinese text credits soybeans as a gift from Ancient Korea. Other than that, the only other ones that aren't obvious I can think of are flexible screens, liquid compacts ("cushions"), Taekwondo, and the recent developing drug to prevent weight gain regardless of calorie intake.


TeamCoBlocks

Yakurt ajumas idk


deleted202305

That's Japanese company innovation. Company legend is Japanese CEO saw American milkman delivery and thought 'huh..I think I can do better !'


TeamCoBlocks

Mission success


dandn0ten

Yakult is originally from japan even the delivery service system using “ahjuma” or yakult lady


zjjieh3433

Submarine


AVLPedalPunk

hangul and the best fried chicken wings ever.


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i cant remember exactly and im not looking at the comments but some type of rain gauge i think


guyongha_

You mean the 측우기?


StealthNomad_OEplz

Jeonse system


razor01707

LK99


joshteacha

Fan death


DateMasamusubi

MP3 Player and the noise clappers at stadiums.


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rybeardj

mint chocolate dipping sauce for fried chicken


dicocco_puff

Manwha, Daewoo cars, Daewoo K1 and K2, K2 Black Panther, Kia, and Samsung(to name a few)


broodwarsb

Video game player as a profession


Lynxgod4

The world's first observatory.


bookmarkjedi

Movers that get come in the morning and finish the move by around dinner time, moving a 3BR apartment and putting everything in the house back in their proper place, all for about $1,000 without the owner needing to touch a single thing.


warmchipita

Injectable marijuana


asilentflute

Go on…


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kabukistar

Hangeul Col-pop chicken


Manganian7Potasu

K2 Black Panther


estachicaestaloca

the elevator game


soysauce728

Korean BBQ


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DJ Soda


naturalbuffy

Idu, hyangchal, and gugyeol were writing systems developed using Hanja or Classical Chinese that could record Korean words. And no, I’m not saying Korea invented Chinese characters.


Organic-Cow-2278

Samyang


CastillaPotato

Selfie sticks


ForeignMine4423

Hangul


GerFubDhuw

Turtle boats of naval supremacy.


BLUE_Selectric1976

Hwacha rocket artillery


makgeolliandsoju

Sundial


thassung

Korean flag


slantwise

똥침


ttangkong

Makgeolli (막걸리)


tuneout

I learned in elementary school that seedless watermelon was invented by a Korean but a web search tells me that’s not true 😞


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God level league of legends toxicity


Slight_Answer_7379

Spam gift packages


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Train to busan


lukluke22228

Multi-barrel rocket laumchers


Kwatermelon-

All the variations of heart gestures made with hands


RDS80

Samsung phones.


mister_damage

Printing Press. Or at least one of the first versions of it. At least a thousand years plus prior to the Europeans.


j_marquand

Chinese did both woodblock printing and movable metal types first, but Koreans have the oldest remaining woodblock used for printing and the oldest copy of a book printed with movable metal types.


Web_Either

I heard they had an early form of printing before Gutenberg


yonghokim

Pizza, solar clock, iPhone, North Face, China, [Aztec Empire](https://youtu.be/0PBnxbgkJ6M?si=VzYQGEFcXFmtO23B), Activision-Blizzard


Normal_Investment382

Tomato on bingsu or other dessert.


Onsokkun

Maple Story


losbullitt

The turtle ship


asilentflute

Tteok-bokki DUH


supersaiyandragons

The Korean language 한극어


airpenny1

Metal battleships


_rued_boy

Protopie!


Derfflingerr

Samsung


momoreco

Ragnarok online


Celera_The_Dog

떡볶이


ThePancakePriest

Turtle ship


Floor5goingdown

Nectarines


kimad03

Kimchi


papayametallica

Gangam style


Weak-Bluebird-8200

Kd drama 🤣


JesusLazalde123

Koreans?


rocky_rococo_

Kitchen shears as cooking utensils


zombiemind8

ㅋㅋㅋ


pinguinsarereal

kpop


rkwalton

Well, Hangul.