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gojip[고집]Intermediate · TOPIK IIPersonality

persistence; stubbornness; obstinacy

NounSino-Korean: 固執

  1. 1

    persistence; stubbornness; obstinacy

    An attitude of insisting on an idea or opinion.

    Korean definition: 자기의 생각이나 주장을 굽히지 않고 버팀.

    • I was late for work because my child had been stubbornly refusing to go to kindergarten since morning.

    • I had a hard time overcoming my mother's stubborn insistence on living alone in the country house, but I brought her to Seoul.