What Does This Mean?
Korean slang from "outsider": a person who does not mix much with a group and tends to stay on their own, the counterpart of 인싸. Variants such as 자발적 아싸 (a voluntary outsider) and 반아싸 are used on campuses. Note that 아싸! is also a separate interjection meaning "yes!" when something good happens.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"In freshman year he skipped every club event and happily called himself a 자발적 아싸."
LORE & ORIGIN
From the English loanword 아웃사이더 (outsider). Namuwiki says 아싸 arose around 2004 after the DC Inside "Outsider Gallery" board opened, that 인싸 was made later as its counterpart, and that through the early-to-mid 2010s 아싸 was the more used of the two, with derived forms common at universities.
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