볼펜

bolpen · TOPIK 1

ballpoint pen

볼펜 — ballpoint pen

🖊️ 볼펜 = 볼 (ball) + 펜 (pen), borrowed straight from English ball pen

A Konglish loanword: 볼 is English ball and 펜 is English pen, so bolpen is just ball pen said with Korean sounds. Korean has no final L+P cluster issue here, so it stays close to the original: bol-pen.

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