Korean slang profile
바캉스 스트레스
bakangseu seuteureseu
Summer-vacation stress
Stress caused by a summer vacation.
- Expanded form
- vacance + stressvacance + stress
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
일정을 너무 빡빡하게 잡았더니 바캉스 스트레스가 쌓였다.
Packing the schedule too tightly left me with 바캉스 스트레스.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “바캉스 스트레스” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection defines it as stress arising from summer vacation. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026