빨리

빨리 - Faster, hurry.  It's a word used so incredibly often in Korea.  Kids say it to each other all the time.  Adults say it to kids, adults say it to adults.  One would think they are always hurrying and at times that is the case.  It quickly becomes clear that Koreans have to do things quickly because they do them inefficiently.  Yet even as people tell each other to eat quickly, they will have meals together and spen 3-4 hours at the table.  There are so many bizarre contradictions, but it's just this word.  It comes up so freaking often it can get irritating.