{"id":117751,"date":"2026-05-13T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=117751"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:38:25","slug":"young-koreans-use-mental-illness-to-turn-dread-into-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=117751","title":{"rendered":"Young Koreans use \u2018mental illness\u2019 to turn dread into jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI\u2019m about to get hit with \u2018jeongbyeong.\u2019\u201d For Kim, a 23-year-old college student, the phrase is almost always ready to roll off the tongue. The word is short for the Korean term \u201cjeongsinbyeong,\u201d which literally means \u201cmental illness.\u201d But Kim was not making a blunt confession about having a psychiatric disorder. \u201cIt is more of an expression for a sense of helplessness and anxiety \u2014 when the word \u2018stressful\u2019 does not quite capture the feeling,\u201d Kim said. Jung, another 22-year-old college student who said he often uses \u201cjeongbyeong,\u201d described it as a word that conveys a tangled psychological state: anger, anxiety, dread, depression and powerlessness all mixed together. \u201cAbout to get hit with jeongbyeong.\u201d \u201cAppearance jeongbyeong.\u201d \u201cEmployment jeongbyeong.\u201d Among young Koreans, the word mental illness has become a dominant shorthand for psychological strain and everyday stress. It began as an offensive slur and at times drew criticism for being used in ways that demeaned people actually struggling with mental illness, but young people today incre<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m about to get hit with \u2018jeongbyeong.\u2019\u201d For Kim, a 23-year-old college student, the phrase is almost always ready to roll off the tongue. The word is short for the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}