Korean slang profile
베이비 푸어
beibi pueo
Someone experiencing financial hardship because of the high costs of having a baby.
Someone experiencing financial hardship because of the high costs of having a baby.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- 베이비푸어
- Earliest source found
- Dec 5, 2012
- 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
출산 비용 부담을 다룬 기사에서 베이비 푸어라는 표현을 읽었어.
I read the term 베이비 푸어 in an article about the burden of childbirth costs.
02Documented history
- 2012-12-05“2012년 신어 자료집”, published by the National Institute of Korean Language, included the headword and definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2012년 신어 자료집” lists the expression and explains its meaning. Its original creator and exact date of creation have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and examples of usage on PDF page 34 were directly compared. This is based on a single collection; the older article texts quoted there were not directly checked. The earliest verified date is the collection’s publication date, given on the copyright page on PDF page 70.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2012년 신어 자료집 — PDF 34쪽 (국립국어원)Published Dec 5, 2012Original source checked Nov 14, 2026