Korean slang profile
아트웨어
ateuweeo
Emotion-oriented product design
Products made with consumers’ emotions and impressions prioritized alongside function.
- Expanded form
- artwareartware
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
전시는 디자인과 감성을 강조한 아트웨어를 선보였다.
The exhibition presented 아트웨어 emphasizing design and emotion.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “아트웨어”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Introduced in contrast with hardware and software to emphasize a product’s emotional value. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 42쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026