사이다 (saida)

What it means

1. 1.

   A moment of clean, fizzing satisfaction: the character who finally says the thing, the complaint that gets answered properly, the villain who gets what is coming.

2. 2.

   사이다 발언 is a remark that cuts straight through a situation everyone else was tiptoeing around.

Literally: Lemon-lime fizzy drink (not alcoholic cider).

Examples with translations

• 그 장면 진짜 사이다였어.

  That scene was so satisfying.

• 사이다 발언에 박수쳤다.

  I applauded — someone finally said it.

Where it comes from

The drink, understood as the thing that clears a blocked chest. It exists entirely as the opposite of 고구마, and the pair is one of the neatest metaphors in Korean slang.

Other forms

Romanised as:

saida