Nuance Dictionary / People & Relationships
밉상 Mipsang
A coworker who is technically competent but lacks the social awareness to read the room, making them a persistent source of low-level irritation.
What does 밉상 mean?
밉상 (Mipsang) means: A coworker who is technically competent but lacks the social awareness to read the room, making them a persistent source of low-level irritation.
Speakers use this term to describe individuals who repeatedly engage in frustrating behaviors, such as frequently stepping away during tasks or tasks that require teamwork. It pairs with actions involving work avoidance or unpleasant conduct in shared environments. It appears in casual complaints among colleagues or peers discussing someone's annoying habits.
Can sound like a petty, personalized grievance rather than a professional evaluation, often painting the target as socially inept rather than genuinely malicious.
Can sound like a petty, personalized grievance rather than a professional evaluation, often painting the target as socially inept rather than genuinely malicious.
Other sides of 밉상
◆ The 'Public Figure' Critique — Speakers use this to criticize individuals whose image, presence, or public actions constantly irritate them. It appears in online discussions and casual commentary paired with words like 이미지 to describe a disliked public persona. It can also describe a face or general demeanor that viewers find grating regardless of actual wrongdoing.
In online discourse, the term can carry a persistent, nagging irritation where someone's very presence feels offensive, turning minor habits into major grievances.
◆ The 'Family Black Sheep' — Speakers use this to describe an individual whose actions consistently run counter to group norms and expectations, earning them an enduring negative reputation among peers or elders. It appears in contexts where someone's ongoing conduct, such as failing to follow established routines or talking back to older figures, disrupts the expected harmony of a group. It combines with terms for actions and behavior, such as 행동, and appears when speakers discuss someone who continually causes trouble or goes against accepted standards.
When used by older speakers to describe someone within a shared social circle or extended setting, it can carry the weight of a lasting judgment rather than a passing complaint, signaling that the individual has become a permanent fixture of disapproval.
In online discourse, the term can carry a persistent, nagging irritation where someone's very presence feels offensive, turning minor habits into major grievances.
◆ The 'Family Black Sheep' — Speakers use this to describe an individual whose actions consistently run counter to group norms and expectations, earning them an enduring negative reputation among peers or elders. It appears in contexts where someone's ongoing conduct, such as failing to follow established routines or talking back to older figures, disrupts the expected harmony of a group. It combines with terms for actions and behavior, such as 행동, and appears when speakers discuss someone who continually causes trouble or goes against accepted standards.
When used by older speakers to describe someone within a shared social circle or extended setting, it can carry the weight of a lasting judgment rather than a passing complaint, signaling that the individual has become a permanent fixture of disapproval.
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How it's actually used
- 틈만 나면 자리를 비우는 그는 동료들에게 밉상으로 보였다.
Teum-man namyeon jarireun biuneun geuneun dongryodeul-ege mipsang-euro boyeotda.
Stepping away from his desk at every chance he got, he struck his colleagues as an annoyance.
💡 Describes a coworker whose habit of disappearing makes them a source of irritation. - 유민이는 청소할 때만 되면 어디론가 사라져 버려. 정말 밉상이야.
Yumin-ineun cheongsohal ttaeman doemyeon eodironga sarajyeo beoryeo. Jeongmal mipsang-iya.
Yumin always disappears the moment it is time to clean up. She is such an annoyance.
💡 A speaker complaining to a peer about a coworker avoiding shared responsibilities. - 그는 가는 곳마다 사고만 치는 밉상이라 모두들 싫어했다.
Geuneun ganeun gotmada sagoman chineun mipsang-ira modudeul sil-eohaetda.
He was an annoyance who caused trouble wherever he went, so everyone disliked him.
💡 Describes someone whose constant missteps make them widely disliked.
Related words in People & Relationships
내리사랑 nae-ri-sa-rang내 사람 nae sa-ram내숭 naesung남사친 nam-sa-chin낯을 가리다 Nat-eul gar-i-da