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두근두근: The Korean Word for a Heart That Can’t Stay Still

두근두근: What Koreans Say When Their Heart Forgets How to Be Calm Your body knows before your brain does. Before you’ve consciously registered that something important is happening — before the thought has finished forming — your heart has already responded. It picks up speed. It knocks against your ribs. It does that thing where