Korean slang profile
아캉스족
akangseujok
People who escape the summer heat by viewing art at city museums or exhibition spaces during vacation.
People who escape the summer heat by viewing art at city museums or exhibition spaces during vacation.
- Expanded form
- art + vacance + 족art + vacance + 족 (group)
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Nov 9, 2010
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
멀리 떠나는 대신 전시회를 찾는 아캉스족이 됐어.
Instead of traveling far, I became one of the 아캉스족 visiting exhibitions.
02Documented history
- November 9, 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” included the expression and its definition in the new-word section.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” directly defines the expression in its new-word section. It gives its components as “art + vacance + 족”. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The entry and definition in one collection were directly checked. The older articles cited in the collection were not separately checked, so their dates were not used as the earliest verified date.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2010년 신어 자료집 — PDF 45쪽 (국립국어원)Published Nov 9, 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026