Korean slang profile
북스루
bukseuru
A library lending service where users reserve books in advance and visit to pick them up without face-to-face contact.
A library lending service where users reserve books in advance and visit to pick them up without face-to-face contact.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Apr 8, 2020
- 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
도서관 홈페이지에서 예약한 책을 북스루로 받아 왔다.
I picked up books I had reserved on the library website through 북스루.
02Documented history
- April 2020뉴시스 introduced Gapyeong County libraries’ service for collecting reserved books during closure.[1]
03Origin & word formation
뉴시스 introduces Gapyeong County libraries’ reservation lending service alongside ‘Book-drive-thru’, explaining collection of books reserved in advance. The first user of the service name or a nationwide starting point could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation in the body of the source was checked, but the first user could not be identified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 가평군, 도서대출도 비대면으로…'북스루' 호응↑ (뉴시스)Published Apr 8, 2020Original source checked Nov 13, 2026