Do you know ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ which means a beautiful thigh? You might hear it on the internet or television. The ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ is one of the recent compound words in Korea. The ¡®ggul¡¯ means sweet honey and the ¡®beokji¡¯ means the thigh. It is a word of praise to a woman with shapely legs.
Tiffany, a member of ¡®the Girls Generation¡¯, has been cited as ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ by netizens and reporters of yellow journalism. Recently, Yui, a member of ¡®After School¡¯, succeed to Tiffany¡¯s fame with ¡®ggul beokji¡¯. Even though some people don¡¯t know Yui, they know ¡®ggul beokji¡¯.
A few days ago, a girl appealed to Ministry of Gender Equality and Family about ¡®ggul beokji¡¯. She said ¡°Men want to lick the honey off girl¡¯s thigh. The ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ is a sexual harassment and an expression of women belittlement. I felt ashamed by using ¡®ggul beokji¡¯. I hope Ministry of Gender Equality and Family takes the lead in banning the use of ¡®ggul beokji¡¯.¡± Another woman maintained, ¡°some people had used ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ for fun at first, but they use ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ as a marketing strategy. I¡¯m afraid of the advent of an expression of sexual harassment.¡±
On the contrary, a man argued that ¡°Although ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ caused misunderstanding involuntarily, true meaning is a smooth and beautiful thigh. It¡¯s not an expression of sexual harassment but a praise. In the same manner, ¡®chocolate abdominal muscle¡¯ and ¡®beast idol¡¯ used by girls are also the expression of sexual harassment. The ¡®chocolate abdominal muscle¡¯ means muscular and great abdominal muscle. A chocolate is equal to a honey and an abdominal muscle equals to a thigh. The ¡®beast idol¡¯ means pop idol who has masculine beauty. If Ministry of Gender Equality and Family prohibits the use of ¡®ggul beokji¡¯, the ministry have to forbid the use of ¡®chocolate abdominal muscle¡¯ and ¡®beast idol¡¯.
Yui concerned in controversy announced that ¡°I feel good. The ¡®ggul beokji¡¯ is a good chance to publicize myself. I want many people to remember me as a celebrity.¡±
Ahn Seong-Bin ahnbin1205@changwon.ac.kr
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