BANG (KOREAN)

'Bang' is a romanization of the Korean word 방, meaning 'room'. In a traditional Korean house a sarangbang (Hangeul: 사랑방; Hanja: 舍廊房) is the man's study or drawing room, for example.
In modern Korea (especially in the South), the concept of a ''bang'' has expanded and diversified from being merely a walled segment in a domestic space, to including buildings or enterprises in commercial, urban, space, such as a PC bang (an internet café), a noraebang (a karaoke room), sojubang (a soju room, i.e. a pub), and a jjimjilbang (elaborate Korean public bathhouse). This can be compared with the similar expansion of the concept of a 'house' to include upper houses, opera houses, coffee houses, and publishing houses.
Phonetically more tensed word ppang(빵) is used as an abbreviation of a noun ''gambang''^[2] (Hangul: 감방; Hanja: 監房; McCune-Reischauer: kambang), meaning 'jail'.

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1. The former is transcribed when the consonant ㅂ is voiceless phonetically, and the latter is transcibed when it is voiced.
2. Generally it is pronounced as ''kkamppang'' (Hangeul: 깜빵).

References

★ City of the Bang

★ "Bang" Culture

★ Sarangbang (Sarang-bang, Sarang Chae, Anchae) Korean Men's and women's quarters Roman and Daniela Jost

★ Korean Housing

See also

★ List of Korea-related topics

★ Contemporary culture of South Korea