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A Washington Post reporter’s doctor in Seoul had a question — how to translate “chicken out” into Korean?

April 9, 2026 at 10:07 a.m. EDT5 minutes ago

President Donald Trump leaves a Cabinet meeting at the White House in December. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)

SEOUL — I arrived at my health checkup on Wednesday morning with a list of questions. It turned out my doctor, who knows I’m an American journalist, had a question too: “What is the Korean translation for ‘chicken out’ — as in ‘Trump always chickens out’?”

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