köken: The first element is traditionally taken to be 흥청 (興淸, heungcheong), a group of thousands of courtesans who were gathered in 1504 from all over the country by the infamously hedonistic and tyrannical king Yeonsangun, who was later deposed for his crimes. The connection between the first syllable of the ideophone and the Chinese character 興 (heung, “to flourish”) is certain, although the…