"이 음식은 맛없으나 싸다."

Translation: Although this food tastes bad, it is cheap.

[tuffguykerouac]

맛없다: lacks flavor/isn't flavorful. While "this food tastes bad" is an adequate translation, "this food doesn't taste good" is a better interpretation of this phrase. However, the latter isn't accepted ㅠㅠ

[wintertriangles]

Agreed, "Although this food doesn't taste good, it is cheap" is the same thing.

[dryanlee]

So... did you flag it?

[LinguistSherry]

I flagged this question because it should accept these answers, but doesn't: "This food is tasteless but cheap" and "This food tastes bad but is cheap" because they are both elided and perfectly grammatical forms of the given answer.

[diana97k]

Same! I flagged them too, but they haven't been accepted yet

[wraith89]

This food is "not delicious" but cheap was wrong. It corrected me saying "tastes bad". Is "not delicious" not good English?

[diana97k]

"not delicious" = "tastes bad"
But in this particular question, 맛없다 literally is "taste-no" therefore "tastes bad" is a bit more accurate

[Chelsie1215]

Do you pronounce it as "eobseu-na" or "eob-na"?

[EmunaVinograd]

The first.

[Igor242724]

This food is not tasty, but cheap

[PaulJones279857]

What's the 나 in the 없으나 construction? What is it's grammar function? I haven't come across this one before

[Igor242724]

You've seen it in 그러나. It's actually 그렇다 + (으)나. For whatever reason, it's not spelled *그렇나