Korean slang profile

ㅈㄱㄴ

The title says it all

An abbreviation meaning that the title already contains everything the post has to say.

This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.

01Examples, with English translations

Example by Julimmal
ㅈㄱㄴ 한 줄로 요약해 줘.
The title says it all—sum it up in one line for me.
Quoted from a source
‘ㅈㄱㄴ(제곧내, ‘제목이 곧 내용’의 줄임말)’이나 ‘ㄱㄷ(‘기다려’의 줄임말)’ 등 마치 암호와 같은 자음 압축형 단어들은 ‘줄임말’에서 한 발 더 나아간 신조어 유형이다.[2]
Consonant-compressed words that are like passwords, such as ‘ㅈㄱㄴ (제곧내, an abbreviation for ‘title is the content’)’ or ‘ㄱㄷ (an abbreviation for ‘wait’)’ are a type of new word that goes one step further from ‘abbreviation’.
English translation by Julimmal.

October 2016Yonhap News: “‘ㅈㄱㄴ’ means ‘the title is the content’ and is similar to ‘cold radish’.”[1]
February 2017Consonant-compressed words that are like passwords, such as ‘ㅈㄱㄴ (제곧내, an abbreviation for ‘title is the content’)’ or ‘ㄱㄷ (an abbreviation for ‘wait’)’ are a type of new word that goes one step further from ‘abbreviation’.[2]

Short for “제목이 곧 내용.” The 2017 source from Kyunghyang Shinmun explicitly gives this explanation. Who first used it and when have not been verified.

Evidence for the origin explanationHigh

The explanation is explicit in the sources, and at least two sources use the same meaning. When it was first used is unknown.

Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.