Korean slang profile
바닥신호등
badaksinhodeung
Traffic signal on a crosswalk surface
A traffic light installed on a crosswalk surface to show walking and stopping signals with light.
- Expanded form
- 바닥 + 신호등ground + traffic light
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
횡단보도 앞의 바닥신호등에 보행 신호가 들어왔다.
The walking signal lit up on the 바닥신호등 in front of the crosswalk.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “바닥신호등”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Its name indicates the location of installation, and the material describes a method using light-emitting diodes. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 11월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026