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Soft World · Literacy
Glossary
Words that unlock both rooms. Korea, China, Japan — then the shared craft.
Terms are explained so you can watch legally and talk clearly. Not a license to pirate novels or video.
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- Korea chaebol
- Large family-controlled conglomerate culture often used as romance scaffolding in Korean stories.
- Craft contract-relationship
- Fake or paper bond used to unlock real intimacy plots.
- China danmei
- Chinese genre centered on romance between men; discuss as literacy, never pirate text.
- Japan dorama
- Japanese TV drama; often shorter and quieter than K-drama rom-coms.
- Japan en
- Japanese idea of fateful connection; cousin to red-thread thinking.
- China face-slapping
- Public status reversal / humiliation of a bully — catharsis engine.
- Korea makjang
- Heightened melodrama mode — secrets, revenge, volume turned up.
- Korea noona
- Korean address for older woman; as romance texture it signals care + age dynamics.
- Korea OST
- Original soundtrack; in K-romance especially, emotional architecture.
- China palace-intrigue
- Succession and surveillance as romance climate.
- Craft reincarnation-arc
- Second life used to correct regret and rediscover love.
- Korea sageuk
- Korean historical drama setting; fusion sageuk mixes modern tone or fantasy into period dress.
- Craft second-lead
- The love interest who isn’t chosen — sometimes the audience favorite.
- Japan shokuba
- Japanese workplace drama setting.
- Craft slow-burn
- Delay as craft — intimacy earned by attention.
- Korea sunbae
- Senior at work or school; hierarchy flavor in romance.
- China transmigration
- Waking into another body/story with prior knowledge.
- Japan tsundere
- Harsh-then-soft affection style — more anime-coded, echoes in some J romance.
- China wuxia
- Martial-chivalry tradition; romance under codes of honor.
- China xianxia
- Chinese fantasy cultivation romance worlds — destiny, sects, immortality politics.
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