What Does This Mean?
Korean idiom meaning to be born into a wealthy family, literally 'to be born with a golden spoon in the mouth'. It is the Korean form of the English 'born with a silver spoon' idiom, upgraded from silver to gold. It is the verb phrase; the label 금수저 names the wealthy person or tier in the 수저 class-theory vocabulary (흙수저 at the bottom), whereas this phrase describes a person's starting point in life.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"그 친구는 금수저 물고 태어났다고 다들 부러워했다."
LORE & ORIGIN
English Wikipedia's Spoon class theory article says 수저 계급론 first appeared in 2015, adapted from the English idiom, with spoon materials ranking family wealth; 금수저 is the wealthy tier. The same page notes that the term gained wider attention in 2019. The exact date of the verb phrase itself is not given.
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