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Korean
Etymology 1
First attested in the Bang'eon yuseok(방언유석 / 方言類釋), 1778, as Early Modern Korean고동 (Yale: kwotwong).
고동(godong), which is also the etymologically older form, is more common in actual speech than 고둥(godung). However, the latter is the Standard Korean form found in prescriptive dictionaries.
When the train turned its lever and began to move, I wept as I saw how the platforms, and the countless people who came to say goodbye, were withdrawing, taking backward steps on and off.
I was pretending to doze off, but my heart was beating as if you were there. If the young man came to me, having heard the sound of that pounding of my heart, I would have begged for forgiveness in spite of myself.