The Korean phrase "eat gm!" Is a gross expletive, the equivalent of "went to ..."



Em are Korean traditional sweets. Em are both solid and liquid, as well as fillings. Em prepared with steam rice, glutinous rice, glutinous sorghum, maize, sweet potatoes, or mixtures of these grains.

In modern Korean phrase "eat gm!" Has a vulgar meaning something like Russian, the phrase "I went to the Well ...". This value appeared after the scandal at the entrance examinations in 1964. One of the questions with multiple choice answers was: "Which of the following ingredients can be used instead of barley malt for making gm?" The correct answer -diastaza, but many people felt version of "daikon juice" as the correct answer. Those parents whose children receive lower marks, came to protest in front of offices of the Ministry of Education, holding a "gm" daikon cooked in the juice, shouting: "Eat Em!».

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