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The cutting board, where is it? — It's above the cupboard.
2020, Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang, William O'Grady, Jejueo : the language of Korea’s Jeju Island, Honolulu, USA: University of Hawai‘i Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 260:
2004 October 10, “구름우에 솟은 《왕》들의 집13개의 분교 [gureumue soseun 《wang》deurui jip-13gae'ui bun'gyo, The House of "Kings", Soaring Above the Clouds]”, in KCNA, archived from the original on 23 June 2009:
Looking down from here, it looks just like the schoolhouse and the village are floating on top of the clouds.
Usage notes
This form is considered standard in North Korea and dialectal in South Korea, despite being common in South Korean dialects as well. The opposite is true for 위(wi).
The second-highest score in the five-point grading system in South Korean schools, ultimately abolished in 2012; equivalent to B in the Roman alphabet grading scheme.