뭐 그렇게

why so

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why so Often used rhetorically to question why something is so much or so difficult, as in “What’s so hard about it?”
KO: 뭐 그렇게 걱정해?
EN: Why are you so worried?

뭐 그렇게 비싸?

Why is it so expensive?

— 택시운전사 (2017)

방금 왔어 뭐 그렇게 사왔어?

You just got here. What did you buy?

— Christmas in August (1998)