Korean slang profile
부메랑효과
bumeranghyogwa
Overseas production returning as competition
A phenomenon in which aid or investment abroad increases local production and those products return to compete with the donor country’s industry.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 1999
- 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
경제 수업에서 해외 투자와 부메랑효과를 함께 다뤘다.
We covered overseas investment and 부메랑효과 together in economics class.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
Gyeonggi Province’s November 1999 지식행정 용어해설집 explains this expression as a separate entry. This is the checked source’s publication period; first use and the coiner were not verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The November 1999 revised edition was compared on PDF page 150. This is a glossary of everyday, current-affairs, and specialist terms of the time rather than a new-word survey. Only inclusion was checked; the birth year or period of popular use was not verified. Only the international-economic usage explained by the source is covered. The everyday backfire sense was not verified in this evidence.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 지식행정 용어해설집 (경기도, 1999년 11월 수정판)Published Nov 1999Original source checked Nov 15, 2026