Grammar

사람이 어디 있어요

who would do such a thing?

Form

V-는 사람이 어디 있다? — rhetorical question: “what kind of person would do that?”.

Function

Rhetorical question with 어디 있다 implying that such a person is hardly conceivable.

Why this form?

누가 그러겠어요? — “who would do that?” also expresses disbelief, without framing a type of person.

How to build it

V-는 사람(이) 어디 있어요? uses a present noun-modifying verb form. Here 어디 does not ask for an actual location.

Forms not to confuse

누가 그러겠어요?

누가 그런 짓을 하겠어요? — Who would do such a thing?

Examples

남이 자는 걸 지켜보는 사람이 어디 있어요??! — What kind of person watches others sleep?!

그런 말을 하는 사람이 어디 있어요? — What kind of person would say that?

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