요즈음
yojeueum · TOPIK 2
these days, lately
📅 요즈음 = 요 (this) + 즈음 (around the time): around this time
요 is a close-up variant of 이 (this), and 즈음 means about the time of something. Together they say around this time, which is how Korean expresses lately. In everyday speech it contracts to 요즘.