갑분싸 (gapbunssa)

What it means

1. 1.

   The moment a room goes cold — a joke that lands wrong, a subject nobody wanted raised, and the silence that follows.

Examples with translations

• 그 말 하자마자 갑분싸됐어.

  The second he said it, the whole room went quiet.

• 갑분싸 만들지 마.

  Don't kill the mood.

Where it comes from

갑자기 분위기 싸해짐 — 'the atmosphere suddenly turned cold' — reduced to one syllable per word. A clear demonstration of how far Korean abbreviation will compress a sentence.

First attested: around 2018

Other forms

Romanised as:

gapbunssa