구두

gudu · TOPIK 1

dress shoes, formal shoes

구두 — dress shoes, formal shoes

👞 gudu sounds like good shoe: the good shoes you save for formal days

Gudu is close to saying good shoe quickly, which fits: these are the good leather pair, not sneakers (운동화). The word is thought to be borrowed from Japanese kutsu (shoe), so the k-ts sounds softened into g-d.

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