What NOT to Call Your Furniture Store

Found at Flickr user skootter01, who wrote:

In Korea you can see some strange signs, and this is one of the funniest I've seen. This little shop is located along a little street full of furniture stores in Uijeongbu, near Seoul. My guess is that they just pulled something random off of an Internet search engine that somehow related to wood furniture.


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Actually, the name of the company in Korean (the four symbols to the lower right) is pronounced "mo ning woo de." Ahh, thank you Engrish, you've made my day! The nice thing about Korean is that the written language is phoenetic, so a lot of Engrish makes it's way in. :P

The OP should send this to www.Engrish.com, post-haste! Tons of examples of these, which I think are hilarious. Most of them are a result of either mistranslations/mispronunciations (e.g. r's and l's are often exchanged since the equivalent sound in many Asian languages is a hybrid of both), or someone with less than perfect understanding of English put together words which either sound cool/evocative or are from a really bad translation.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that Uijongbu has (or at least had until 2000 when I was there) a significant American population since the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Division is/was located there. Therefore it's safe to assume SOMEBODY in town knew what "morning wood" meant. Either someone decided to mess with the store owner in the event that he/she asked an English-speaking friend what to name the store, or he/she knew exactly what they was doing. Pretty crafty either way, and the store probably gets a fair amount of attention. :P
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The english isn't a translation of a korean name, the hangul letters romanize to 'mo-ning u-deu', which is how they would pronounce the english words 'morning wood.'

Other than the, uh... euphemism in the store's name, the design is really cute and attractive. XD
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That's a lot like the Make Yourself... Fucking Lovely store I saw somewhere around that area.

http://flickr.com/photos/mishamc/2174716455/in/set-72157603575774721/
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