대

Casual 'they say, apparently'

Passes on what someone else said, casually: they say the first professional job for women in Korea was diving, they say there's a lot of food there. It is a squeeze of 다고 해, so it always flags the information as second-hand. It also fires off an astonished question about something right in front of you, as in the line asking how on earth it stuck. 대요 is the polite version, and 래 does the same job for sentences built on 'to be'.

Register: casual, plain speech