술

sul · TOPIK 1

alcohol, liquor

술 — alcohol, liquor

🍶🍺 sul sounds like sool: one more sul and you will drool

술 (sul) rhymes with English pool and drool. It is the native Korean word for any alcoholic drink, so it shows up in 술집 (suljip, bar = alcohol + house) and 술고래 (sulgorae, heavy drinker = alcohol + whale).

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