Korean slang profile
붐감
bumgam
Feeling of an approaching boom
A feeling that something seems about to flourish suddenly or become lively.
- Expanded form
- boom + 감boom + feeling
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
새로운 기술에 대한 붐감이 전시장 곳곳에서 느껴졌다.
I felt a 붐감 around the new technology throughout the exhibition.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “붐감”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It adds 감, indicating a feeling, to the English word boom. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 11월 1주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026