KONGLE
My Bias
Read and say the words every fan profile uses — 최애, 멤버, 막내, 리더 — and ask another fan 최애가 누구예요?
Two syllables, 최 + 애. Fans use it as a plain noun: 'my 최애'.
A loanword from English 'member'. The final 'r' disappears — Korean ends it on the vowel ㅓ.
Written 막내, said [망내]. Every group has one, and fans have a soft spot for them. It's also the everyday word for the youngest child in a family.
Another loanword. ㄹ at the start of a word sounds close to a light 'r'.
누구 means 'who'. The pattern is the one you know from 이름이 뭐예요? — just swap the question word.
제 ('my', polite) you already know from 제 전화번호. 막내 ends in a vowel, so it takes 예요.
Episode 1 of 3 — two fans meet in the line outside a concert hall (original scene)
Say it out loud
Listen, then repeat aloud. Matching the rhythm matters more than perfection.
Why? The words under every fan post
Open the comments under any K-pop video and the same handful of words appears again and again. They aren't slang you have to be careful with — they're ordinary nouns, and you can use them in polite 해요체 with anyone. This unit teaches the words; every example is written by us. No real artist names, no lyrics — you bring your own favorite.
Why? 최애: the one word you need first
최애 is short for 'most loved' — your number-one favorite member. English-speaking fans say 'bias'; Korean fans say 최애. It works beyond music too: your 최애 drama, your 최애 snack. Notice the spelling of 막내. It's written 막 + 내, but it's pronounced [망내] — the ㄱ softens into an ㅇ sound before ㄴ. You met this kind of sound change in Level 0; here it is in a word you'll actually see every day.
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