Hatdogeu핫도그

In Korea, the word hatdogeu (핫도그, "hot dog") usually brings to mind not a sausage in a bun but a sausage on a stick, dipped in batter and fried: what English speakers call a corn dog. Many Koreans assume the bun version is American and the stick version Korean, but the battered dog on a stick began in the United States too. Cooking devices and a patent for it appeared there in the 1920s, and several places across the country claim to have invented it between the late 1930s and the 1940s.

In Korea it developed its own look, most famously the potato hot dog, coated in diced potato before frying. Abroad, this version picked up the nickname "Kogo." The most widely accepted explanation is that it adds "Korean" to the name of a well-known Canadian corn dog product, and the potato hot dog is said to have been called this in Montreal. The name spread after photos of Korean potato hot dogs went viral on English-language internet forums, yet few people in Korea have ever heard it.