Note: This preserves both the literal “gluing” concept and the idiomatic meaning of “keeping someone fed/supporting them financially.”
풀칠 (Pulchil)
- [Noun] The act of applying paste to paper or similar materials to attach something.
- [Noun] Barely scraping by to make ends meet; barely managing to put food on the table.
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Lee Heewoo was so desperately poor that even scraping by to feed himself was a struggle.
One day, while living a life with no future, aliens called Espers fell to Earth.
“Are you a Guide?”
“What?”
Due to the Espers who came barging onto Earth searching for Guides,
Lee Heewoo discovered that he himself was a Guide…
“Y-your hand, why is it injured?”
“Ah, didn’t my hand upset you yesterday?”
“…So?”
“So I broke it.”
This man, who is gentle only toward Lee Heewoo, is strange somehow.
“Does it bother you to look at?”
“What?”
“It will heal soon. Don’t worry.”
That alien’s gentleness is twisted in some way.
Gluing ; Feeding My Guide 60