This is the 11028th most frequent Korean word.
기각
"기각" means "dismissal" or "rejection," often used in legal or formal contexts.
Here, '기각' is used in a legal context to indicate the court's action of dismissing an appeal or request.
법원은 피고인의 항소를 기각했습니다.
The court dismissed the defendant's appeal.
In this example, '기각' is applied in a formal decision-making setting like a meeting to denote the rejection or dismissal of a proposal.
그의 제안은 회의에서 기각되었다.
His proposal was dismissed in the meeting.
This sentence demonstrates '기각' in the context of administrative processes, where an application is dismissed because it doesn't meet certain requirements.