선술집

Korean[edit]

서— (seo-, “to stand”) + −ㄴ (-n, realis adnominalizer) + 술집 (suljip, “bar, pub”). Literally "pub where one stands".

The meaning of "tavern" appears to stem from an early mistranslation of English tavern, a common setting in Western medieval-setting genre fiction.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	seonsuljip
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	seonsuljib
McCune–Reischauer^?	sŏnsulchip
Yale Romanization^?	senswulqcip

선술집 • (seonsuljip)

(dated) a stand-up bar, a pub with no seats, a roadside alcohol stall
- 1965, Kim Seung'ok, 서울 1964년 겨울 [seoul 1964nyeon gyeoul, Seoul, Winter 1964]:
  1964년 겨울 을 서울 에서 지냈던 사람 이라면 누구 나 알 수 있겠지만, 밤 이 되면 거리 에 나타나는 선술집—오뎅 과 군참새 와 세 가지 종류 의 술 등 을 팔 고 있 고 […]
  1964nyeon gyeour-eul seour-eseo jinaetdeon saram-iramyeon nuguna al su itgetjiman, bam-i doemyeon geori-e natananeun seonsuljib-odeng-gwa gunchamsae-wa se gaji jongnyu-ui sul deung-eul palgo itgo [ … ]
  It was in an liquor stall—one of those that anyone who had passed the winter of 1964 in Seoul would know, the stalls that emerge on the roadsides when night sets in, offering oden and roast sparrows and about three different kinds of alcohol […]
(fantasy) tavern