A Dog That Receives Greetings? Seol In-ah’s Viral Trick

Sit, lie down and offer a paw: the Korean poster describes a smooth routine. But the greeting looks, to that poster, like the dog is being greeted rather than doing the greeting. One playful line turns a short trick video into a comedy of reversed roles.

The original 43-second Short was uploaded October 26 by dog trainer Kang Hyung-wook's Bodeum TV channel. An October 28 Korean thread describes sitting, lying down, paw tricks and standing, followed by a puzzling 'Hello...?' The sequence comes from the poster; complete independent video playback was not possible.

At 8 p.m. KST October 30, TubeTen ranked the clip No. 14 in its Korean YouTube trend list, with about 71,000 observed additional views over four hours. Socialcounts showed roughly 3.39 million views, 35,000 likes and 503 comments. These are third-party snapshots, not authoritative live YouTube metrics.

The directly observed reaction is the Korean poster's own wording: several tricks are called 'perfect', but the last one becomes 'greeting someone (X), being greeted (O)', followed by laughter. This is humor, not a diagnosis of failed training. The thread's 37 comments and the video's roughly 503 comments were not individually read; they cannot be portrayed as a consensus.

Bodeum TV also posted a longer October 24 episode featuring actor Seol In-ah and her Jindo dog Julie. Finding a short clip funny is not the same as proving an animal was trained incorrectly. The comedy depends on applying human greeting etiquette to a dog's behavior.

Verified: the indexed official Bodeum TV upload and URL; an October 26, 2026 posting date and 43-second duration; the October 28 Korean thread; and third-party view counts above 3 million on October 30. Full training context, exact commands and individual comments were not independently verified.

Watch the official Short and judge the greeting scene yourself. If the actual training outcome matters, more context from the full program and its goals is needed.