Korean slang profile
복도피서족
bokdopiseojok
People cooling off in corridors
People leaving poorly air-conditioned offices or other rooms to cool down in building corridors.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 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
실내가 더워지자 직원들이 잠시 복도피서족이 됐다.
When the room got hot, the employees briefly became 복도피서족.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “복도피서족” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection. The collection traces the term to people escaping heat in relatively cool corridors of buildings with reduced cooling. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword and definition in the 2010 collection were checked. The original re-quoted articles were not directly opened, so their dates were not used as firstSeen. The original coinage and path of spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026