을씨년스럽다

Etymology
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Eulsa years were 1905, 1845, 1785, 1725, and so forth. A pervasive folk etymology says that this is from the in which Korea effectively became a colony of Japan. However, the word is attested indirectly since the mid-1800s. According to James Scarth Gale's A Korean-English dictionary (1897), the word was coined after a famine in 1785.

Adjective

 * 1) to be shabby, to be dreary, to be wretched