During Eat Your Kimchi's Interview with uBeat + Kevin (don't ask me to link it since there are two parts + bloopers, not sure which at this moment), Martina mentioned that they can't say the number 18 in Korean (sino-korean) cos they end up mispronouncing it and making it sound like a bad word. So they count 18 in English instead. I wondered about it, and now I chanced upon the bad word that they were trying to avoid saying.
Number 18 in korean can be a korean slang word which equals to 씨발 which would mean “damn it” [or f*ck or sh*t]. The word for no. 18 in korean is 십팔, and it nearly has the same pronunciation as 씨발.credit
On a G-Dragon note, his birth date is 1988 08 18. No one can have more 8s in their birthdate than him. ;)
Romanisation
씨발: sshipal
십팔: shipp'al
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