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The 세 inside polite 세요 requests

In every line printed here this piece appears as part of 세요, the everyday polite way to tell or invite someone to do something: please use it, come to the front, check out the channel, go somewhere else quickly. It carries the respect toward the listener, and the 요 on the end carries the politeness, which is why dropping the 요 changes the tone completely. One line stretches it into the regional 세유, and one line breaks it up hesitantly, but both are the same ending.

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- 가 요 수고하셨어요! - 어 잠시만!